This first is just pretty straight, with a low-gain tone, played fingerstyle:

I was going to do a high-gain semi-fusiony thing (ok ok, I was just going to noodle faster ), but sliced the middle finger of my left hand on a fence – not all that badly, but definitely enough that I couldn’t fret with it. I decided therefore to do a video just using my right hand. It was rather fumbling, until I started using my left hand and doing some of my usual odd tapping. I managed to avoid using the cut finger until almost the end – take a look:

In another attempt to keep the finger off the fretboard (though it was healing rapidly) I bought a slide. Now, i havent even touched a guitar slide in a good 20 years, and have never done any more than the main melody to Free Bird Badly So I also did some odd tapping:

After that I thought I’d have another go with the slide, but with less gain, and without the delay – and with no tapping. Being a fool, however, I went and had a go at playing with the slide over the body between the pickups – a la Jeff Beck in Angel (Footsteps):

Finally (well, no it’s almost certainly not final ) I saw the wonderful entry by Mark McGuigan (will find and add link; till then just go look on Youtube). After that I felt inspired to just play more in my natural style, and with a pick (for the first time in this competition) – cut finger be damned. First time through the backing track it hurt, but by the end it had almost stopped so I had anither run-through, and was quite happy with the result:

Jon has told me he doesn’t mind how many entries I do, so watch this space, as I just can’t leave a C minor blues alone
(note: I’m posting this on my iPhone, so all I can do is hope I’ve embedded the videos correctly. If not, I’ll correct it this evening.)

Since he has now decided he’s spending the rest of the night (morning) in our bed with his mummmmmmmmyyyyyy, it’s too hot to have all three of us in the bed, and I’m 100% sure that he’s going to be up for the day around 1/4 past 5 I don’t know what to do.

Maybe I should play guitar.

Righto – guitar been played. Tasteless/mindless shred over Laurie Monk’s Shred ThisThis Too competition. About to upload

Here’s my first (proper) entry from a few days back:

Then maybe I should go lie down somewhere …

Edit/update: my vid from this morning refuses to upload, for some reason. Well, iMovie says it’s uploaded, but nothing visible in any way on youtube. It was kind of crap anyway, so I deleted it. Never mind …

Sooo … you write me some lyrics, and the best, by December 1st (probably longer if nothing’s in by then :-p ) wins the dvd.

An alternative to the Satch dvd might be available: The Last Samurai, as I cannot watch Tom Cruise in anything again >_<

It’s a bit scruffy … kind of like me, yes :-p … but fun as well.