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you guys have any tips on this. we've been doing lodi by CCR and i must admit that i'm having a little trouble with it. the problem i think is that i've been listening to these guys since i was 8 or so, so john fogerty's vocals are pretty ingrained in my head. and i am in no way as good a singer as him. it's not that i want to change the whole song, it's just that i need to sing it like me, not fogerty. any thoughts?
Yeah, change the key! That does it every time. Make it your own.
Try transposing it to a different key. That can help you reinvent it.
Might I suggest changing the key? :%
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Dumbasses!
I guess change the key, but that song is a loser for gigs. Unless you have someone who can REALLY sing it and sell it it just takes up space.
How did T-B's post get ahead of mine?
Ya gotta be quick 'round here Kap'n!
it's been going over well with the crowds we've been playing for, we've been doing a lot more country. weird how that has happened.
it's not that i feel like i'm singing it poorly, i just feel like i need to get inside it a little more. does that make sense? i think i'll try the key change, i guess that's the answer since all you :daes say so...:D
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uh...............change ............the..................................
I believe the word you're looking for, Frank, is "key"
there's a "key" word in here somewhere! :D
Yeah, but unless you go higher via a capo it's a tough one to change. The lick on the modulation is built around the open notes in the chords, and the sliding chords in the verse as well.
One of the standard tenents of a CCR/Fogarty tune is the unmistakeable guitar hook. I'd be leary of messing with it. YMMV.
Change "Lodi" to Turlock. Get it? ;)Quote:
i just feel like i need to get inside it a little more
Do the Freddie King Version. 'Lowdown in Lodi'
...or just change the key.
Inhale helium while singing it, Chuck. I guarantee your version of the song will be unique.
Or nitrous.:wowQuote:
Originally Posted by curtisstetka
i'm kinda in the same boat, chuck. i've sang harmony on "swinging doors" for 15 years, so when i try to sing the chorus i always pop up. it's taking a LOT of practice to break that habit.
as for lodi, i asgree with OA, capo's the only way to change keys w/out spending some serious time reworking the part.
maybe try to track down some live recordings of fogarty doing it. i'd bet he doesn't do it like the recorded version after this many years.
uh........change the......
guitar. :yay
it works for me [but then again, I'm shallow that way.]
.....or play it acoustically. That will change it dramatically.
so Charles, did you shoot that blue-flake paint yet?
mmmmmmmm...............blue-flake
Change the song to....
Wait for it......
"Commotion"
Ignore the masses of dumbasses above! Forget the key. Try a change of rhythm and/or tempo. Also dynamics. Sing it softer, sing it louder, more legato here, more staccato there. (This is beginning to sound like "Old MacDonald" meets Neil Diamond). See if the words make any sense at all to you after you've been hearing it all these years. And so on.
-Mark
I've been trying to unlearn the Animals version of "House of the Rising Sun" So that I can learn the traditional lyrics, with more of a bluegrass style backing ala: Rambling Jack Elliott and others. I just can't keep from singing it the Animals way. I guess I just have this mental block about singing words that were written from the female prospective.