Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song) by Oldrottenhead

[Blooby]

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.

Imagine a new liquor store that has recently opened. It has 8,000 different wines, 3,000 spirits, and 2,500 kinds of beer all in stock. Imagine you went there yesterday. Now imagine you just read your post...

What I' saying is your post totally hurt my head.

Blooby

[Oldrottenhead]

Your description/analogy of GarageBand is better than mine.

[Oldrottenhead]

some links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH67P4Rx6LI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBM7WQUdbY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSJk63Kw7X8

[thetworegs]

A wounderful job on this Jim ... keep going you'll be playing it live real soon... gotta check out garage band again sounds like there's a lot more going with it than there used to be

[Oldrottenhead]

bump still cant play this fecker on the guitar, i will keep trying

[Jean Pierre]

new listening, excellent

[Redler]

I don't visit very often on the Cover songs, so I've totally missed this gem. Excellent version of a classic!

[tonyc]

love this song you do a cover of it love it . there was a problem that only about 30 seconds played , this has happened on other recordings I have listened to .I don't know what the problem is but i'm sure its something to do at my end , would have loved to have listened to more of you song but it just kept stopping ,great sound though , cheers tonyc

[T.C. Elliott]

Regardless of how you got there, this sounds very good to my ears. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the GB hints. I have it on my phone but haven't even opened it (after a couple of years of carrying it around.) Maybe this will get me moving on it. A great songwriting too, indeed.

[Tootler]

Virtual guitar or not, this really works. The key is the vocals which are perfect for the song. The arrangement nicely complements your voice and is clearly there but not at all obtrusive.