Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Video Yourself

This is something I've just started doing, and I've been surprised at how much I can learn from watching back what I play - all my mistakes become glaringly obvious. Of course, this can be painful at first, but the thing about mistakes is that once I've seen them, it's usually easy to fix them. Here's an example, with plenty of mistakes:



I made this as part of the Mandolin Cafe song a week project.

1 comment:

  1. Very nice indeed...yeah it is funny how many mistakes you hear and see when you hear and see yourself. I have been working up the gumption to record a video of me playing a song on guitar...but I can never get it the way I want it...Recording yourself really gives you a glimpse (tiny one) into what it takes to record an album.

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