Singing and playing "RvM"...

All_Five_Horizons
All_Five_Horizons Posts: 15
edited June 2005 in Musicians and Gearheads
So I'm trying to play eddie's part on guitar for rearviewmirror and sing it too, and it is fricken hard! Anyone here able to do this well (or try at least)? I've seen video of eddie doing this live, and whereas most of his parts on guitar are managable while singing, this one is pretty involved.
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  • armanHammer
    armanHammer Posts: 471
    Practice.

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  • dont_go_on_me
    dont_go_on_me Posts: 877
    keep practicing the guitar part until you can play it in your sleep.


    then try singing...
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    That one is tricky..

    try it slow then gradually speed up.
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    i thought it was impossible to and then it came to me, the reason it gets easy is cuz the notes are nonstop, so you get the rhythm...

    HOWEVER, the one thats impossible for me after all these years is betterman, because there are pauses in the notes, which don't match up with the words
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  • Milhouse VanHouten
    Milhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    i like to play along with the 2000 bootleg versions, joining in on the noisy improv section. i've got a dm-3 delay, a wah and an ebow. i love just following jeff's bass line and messing around until the chorus starts back up, then i just start going nuts and trying to keep up during the 'strobe light' section at the end.
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  • Nothingbetter
    Nothingbetter Wichita, KS Posts: 570
    It's pretty tough to hit the speed they are at. I've been practicing it some, and I can tell it's going to be a while.
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  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Mad syncopation right there...hand not even trying to follow the vocal. Not a "hard" song technically, but one that will make you a better performer, and stretch your right and left brain :)
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    HOWEVER, the one thats impossible for me after all these years is betterman, because there are pauses in the notes, which don't match up with the words
    really? man... do you play drunk or something? that one is easssssssssssssy. ;)
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    i do alot of things drunk, but i've never been able to sing over the betterman opening riff
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