Heart of Gold (Neil Young Cover)

[Mike_S]

Heart of Gold by Neil Young

Drums programmed in Garageband
Bass programmed in Garageband
Acoustic Guitar recorded with a cheap mic
2 Electric guitar tracks
1 Vocal track

My first ever successful recording of an acoustic guitar!... I don't know why but i have never been able to figure out recording an acoustic guitar before... so a milestone for me, haha... it kinda worked ok

[cuthbert]

Nicely done, Mike - I like how you added your own stamp to the old classic. The acoustic guitar sounds great - you should record with it more!

[Jean Pierre]

Well done Mike!
...you did it well; and it's true that it's difficult to make an acoustic guitar work well with an external microphone, (especially when often like us, we don't have high-end microphones

I also like the 2 electric guitar takes, and the adaptation of the vocals is very good ( Neil Young's voice with its rather high pitch is not easy...)

one of these days, I'd like to do a song with you.

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[Pete C]

Great cover Mike - I've been playing about with this song myself recently but you beat me to it ! I don't know many Neil Young songs but I do remember this from when I was about 11 and have always liked the song "and now I'm getting old".

Enjoyed your arrangement with the electrics and acoustic and the way you replaced the harmonica sections with guitar - great job !

Pete

[SE]

Well done Mike excellent cover of the old classic, got the guitar's down great then given it your own wee spin, great stuff!

[Mike_S]

Great cover Mike - I've been playing about with this song myself recently but you beat me to it ! I don't know many Neil Young songs but I do remember this from when I was about 11 and have always liked the song "and now I'm getting old".

Enjoyed your arrangement with the electrics and acoustic and the way you replaced the harmonica sections with guitar - great job !

Pete

Thank you for listening guys... Pete... PLEASE post your version of Heart of Gold too. As far as I know there can be as many versions of a cover as members that want to cover it (unless I am wrong!) It would be great to hear it... I did try to get down one or two other Neil Young songs too but had to give up on them because as JP was saying the vocals were difficult with the high pitch and I have zero range!

[alfstone]

Sounds really great, Mike, many congrats!

Alfredo

[Oldrottenhead]

Great version Mike, have latest songs player going on in background, thought for a moment that this was hook singing LOL. Magic.

[Hook]

One of the 1st tunes I learned to play and sing. A buddy of mine use to do this with some harmony vocals. This is a great cover, I love the way you dropped the vocal down, sounds great. well done brother!!
Rock oN!

[Farrell Jackson]

A fine cover Mike ! You made it your own without losing the vibe of the original song. Nice work!

Farrell