nice playing.. But I played it side by side with Fleetwood Mac and it doesn't sound to me like the same tune. I assume that you are playing the same notes so that must mean that the different instrument's harmonics or something changes the sound of the melody [or it is missing the harmonies of the backing instruments?] I don't know.
as I said, nice playing and nice sound, but if you take away the video and title would an unknown listener recognise it as Albatross?
[get your albatross here... What flavour is it?] ---------- "Come on Brackett let's get changed"
@Lumpy Thanks for listening and taking time to compare with the original (which I did not do after recording). I have taken the notes from the tabs under this video (press show more under the video when watching in Youtube):
I will check the notes later in library from Fleetwood Mac song book.
Anyway, I tried not to imitate guitar and played accents differently (tried not just to copy the original), played a low key harmonica and the backing track has different rhythm and orchestration. And guitar plays the melody in many places using more than one note at a time. These all may make the melody sound different. It sounds a bit different to my own ears, too, but I think there are so much similarities with the original that I could not say that this is my own composition. I have heard some (jazz) bands playing very well known melodies, but I did not recocnize the melody until they said what it was...
@Frosty Others may remember that I have made similar comments in the past and I agree with you about jazz bands making well known tunes completely unrecognisable. I think with this it may be the nuances of the bends on the guitar that are different to yours and probably very difficult to transcribe accurately. I only went back to the original as I was doubting myself as to if I was remembering it properly. I have listened again and temper my comments, there are lots of similarities, but there are marked differences it is difficult to say which notes as you won't know when I say 'that one' while I am listening and the youtube timer isn't that accurate.
Hey, I couldn't play it anywhere near as good. If you have seen any of my vid's you'll know that.
Oh heck, don't worry about the original. You gave a really nice rolling lilting flying feel, like I was flying happily to southern climes for the winter.
