Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song) by Oldrottenhead

[Oldrottenhead]

i have been trying to master this one on the guitar all week, but my stubby little fingers are not deft enough  for the chord changes.
so in the meantime i played it on garageband's virtual guitar, but i will continue to try and master it on my real guitar.
so a wee tribute to the master.

Suzanne

W/M
Leonard Cohen
Oldrottenheads
lead vocal
backing vocal
and virtual guitar

[alfstone]

It doesn't matter how much virtual or real, this version is absolutely genuine and true.

I really enjoyed it.

Alfredo

[Groundy]

Great tribute James,
Love this number,
Really well done.....


Alex

[ODH]

I confess that I don't really know the work or Leonard Cohen.  I do know the song a little, though, and your rendition is really nice.  It's one of those where I can hear you staring into middle distance as you sing it, entirely connected only to the song.

[bruno]

virtual or not, you can't argue with the results. This sounds great - super cover Jim. Love the vocals, spot on.
B

[Jean Pierre]

...First thing that I thought of by listening to this cover is: woh good sound of guitar

Later your singing is very pleasant et bonne interpretation

[Diego Ayala]

awesome job with this arrangement ~ and your voice definitely adds the right feel to this song.... will have the vibes all day long ~

[Groundy]

Back for more James, Just loving this one.....


Alex

[Blooby]

I'm loving this rendition, but I can't help but be gobsmacked at how that virtual guitar sounds. What's the dealio with that? Do you just choose "finger picking" and then choose the tempo and chords, or is there a lot more to it?

Nice post. I'm digging the understated vocals.

Blooby

[Oldrottenhead]

The virtual guitar in GarageBand has four different guitars. An acoustic, a jangly semi acoustic, a heavy metal guitar and a roots rock style guitar.

For this I used the acoustic.

The guitar can be set up in a number of different ways. You can set it up as a normal guitar and play the individual strings like a proper guitar bending and muting the strings etc. Or you can set it up to play chords. It comes with preset chords but can be changed to practically any chord. In chord format you can strum and pick the strings for each individual chord or as I have done here use one of four preset strum/arpeggio settings.

Each of the four guitars have four separate patterns or styles if you like. There are also lots of other things you can do in the note mode like choosing different scales etc for playing lead parts. For someone like me with wee fat fingers it's great. Tho I'd much prefer to be able to play this authentically on my guitar.

It's a great writing tool too, I have used it to write chord progressions but then played those progressions on my real guitar. Being careful to pick chords I can play.