Originally posted by Rolex
Well, finally listened to Nuke's "music."
You put yourself out here as being talented and great, so here it is: you couldn't carry a tune in two buckets.
You're not much of a picker, not even a good amateur, so don't get too carried away with your fantasies. If you had an ounce of humility, as you should, I would have said something encouraging.
Gosh where to start.
Let's start w/ the guitar work.
1. Tune that sucker. It sounded terrible. Plenty of free easy tuners out there.
2. Learn to pick. You picking was horrible. I am guessing you are holding the pick totally wrong. It's up down, up down btw, not down, down, up, down or how ever you were doing it.
the pick should be at @ 45 degree angle ish to the string. It sounded like you are resting the pick flat on the strings and were using too much of the pick when you were strumming.
3. Hand position. This is a huge one. I hear so many screwed up notes while you were playing, and 99% I attribute to you have no clue how to properly hold your left hand while you are playing.
This what I picture you are doing.
Now, this very well might be an "ok" way to hold your hand if you are playing rock and roll, but unfort. you are playing on an accoustic, and it's 100% wrong.
Your thumb should be in the back of the neck, and helping produce the pressure on the strings.
I could almost not stand listening to you song from all the buzzing of poorly held strings and all the dead notes because you are obviously not doing it correctly.
THIS is how it should sound.
THIS , if you add some buzzing noise from not holding the string's correctly, is how you sound. (it's actually better than how you sound)
Wow, I could go on and on.
Now I am not saying you totally suck. Far from it. BUT you REALLY REALLY REALLY need some lessons. Both vocal and guitar.
I won't even touch the vocals. Let's just say I didn't really even hear a single note that was in tune. It might have STARTED, or ENDED, or at some point was in tune, but not one note STAYED in tune as you were singing.
Keep practicing, get some lessons, practice lot's, and let's hear what you sound like in say six months.
