Hi, I labeled it this way because, as far as I did not followed the « proper process » to become a guitar player, I askef myself if I was legitimate to play this
« kind of stuff »!
But I answered myself it was ok!!!
Thanks for listening.
Regards
Olivier
By the way, it was so evident that I forgot to mention it, but it was made with the help of Ardour, which is so easy to use for music and audio production.
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Good job! Thanks for sharing your recording. Keep up the love of music and whatever method of practice you are doing. It is working for you.
Off-topic nonsense:
I have been playing guitar for nearly 30 years and am not sure what you are referring to when you say the “proper process” to become a guitar player. Are you suggesting classical coursework is the most proper? I think there are multiple approaches to guitar that can lead to improvement, and whichever approach you enjoy the most is the best place to start. Maybe that leads to you trying another approach that gets you even further, or maybe that approach is enough for you to be good with where you are and where you are going with the instrument. What matters most is you enjoy the process. Don’t force yourself to do something you don’t enjoy just because someone more skilled than you tells you it is the proper way. Maybe it is for some people, but if you lose interest in the instrument trying to go that route, why do it?
I recall listening to an interview with John Zorn years ago who shared that during childhood he wanted to learn guitar but quit after only a few months because his instructor wouldn’t teach him a Beatles song until he could flawlessly execute the chromatic scale all the way up and back down the neck at a certain BPM. Thankfully, he decided to pick up another instrument after quitting guitar, or the world would have lost out on the 200+ albums’ worth of compositions he has produced since. What was that instructor thinking not tailoring the lesson to the student and fostering a love of learning over technical ability?
I play multiple instruments and people often ask me what is the best instrument for a beginner, and my answer is always the same: “Whatever instrument that beginner is most interested in learning how to play.” If you force your kid who wants to play guitar to learn piano first when they are not interested in piano, they’ll go their whole life not knowing how to play either. Let them learn guitar, and maybe that inspires them to learn piano later in life, like it did for me. Just about every friend of mine who played an instrument of their choosing in high school now plays multiple instruments. The kids whose parents made them start on viola against their preference don’t play viola today, or anything else for that matter. Along that line of thinking, I say practice however you want to practice. You’ll hit a plateau if you don’t mix it up over time, but when I have hit plateaus in the past, a method of practice I didn’t intially enjoy often became enjoyable after I had exhausted my prior method. YMMV 
Side note to casual observers: If you or your kid aren’t sure what instrument you are most interested in learning how to play, then the answer is drums. Hands down, drums is the best instrument to start with if you have no other instrumental preference ahead of it. I didn’t start learning drums until I was almost 30 and wish I had started long before that.
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Well, a big thank for your enlighting comment.
In the same direction, I remember an interview with Par Metheny, and, while the guy asked him
: « Wat would you tell a musician? »
Pat answered: « don’t watch the guy next to you ».
There will always be a ten years old child who plays a way you will never reach…
But, despite some weakness in his playing, Pat Metheny had a great job with his music, and he opened doors!!!
Thanks
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You created a very good recording. So clean and clear. I enjoyed it. Great chord structures too. Thank you.
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Hi @olivmusic
Well, this is some of the nicest improper guitar playing I have ever heard! Beautiful playing and tone, Very nice!!
To add to what @GuntherT is rightly saying, the idiosyncracies make it ‘you’. Sure there are people who play poorly and wrongly believe they are virtuosos but there is also something to be said for the personal voyage of discovery. I have often pondered taking jazz lessons to take my limited blues and roots playing uptown but I also am a bit reluctant to just be told what the next steps are rather than to bump into them in the dark myself as I play more. Especially in blues; the better it is often trades away some of the emotional ballast and gut-level immediacy for empty speed and misplaced perfection. I would guess you have been playing for enough years to know yourself and to be content with your abilities and you certainly sound very much at home even when stretching yourself for a classical piece like this.
Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Jim,
Thanks a lot for your comment.
By the way, I am not sure of anything concernîg the « chord progression », because they all say that in this kind of pieces, you have to « think » in a horizontal manner…. Not sure what it means? But, maybe, chords « happen » in what is said, but it seems that they don’t lead the music?
Anyway, thank you very much
Hello Glenn,
Thank you so much.
( maybe if we were in the same town, we could be friends! I like the way you play)
There is so much « truth » in your sayings.
Yes, the « voyage » makes the whole of it.
It had been, somehow, a journey, for me, to dare to play a music, I imagined that I was not
« allowed » to play…
I like it when you say: « stop telling me what I will be able to play once I …. »
Just dive, wright now in the dark and see what comes out of it.
By the way, you are wright. I’ve got to go back to play uptown !
Thanks again.
Olivier
Now is the link with UTube.
first try with “Da Vinci Resolve” which seems to be quite a cool piece of software, in the same " philosophy" as ARDOUR.
Best