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Musicians please, choose your favourite, most difficult Amy Winehouse song to play.


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#1 Yousaymyname

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 01:01 PM

I play Piano by trade, but picked up my guitar today to see if Amy could speak to me thru her instrument... I was pleasantly surprised, but still struggle with more difficult arrangements... What do you guys think, do you play an instrument, sing? I would love to know....:afro::heart:

#2 TBR

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 03:17 PM

I sing, play piano and guitar and find most of the tracks of Frank are generally more difficult to play. Most of the tracks on BTB are pretty conventional in their chord structures and approach whereas Amy was a little more diverse and creative with her writing on Frank. My favourite song to sing is Love Is A Losing Game just because, while it's pretty circular, you can do a lot with it and favourite track to play is probably I Heard Love Is Blind, or maybe even Fuck Me Pumps even though it's pretty circular too. Love Stronger Than Me too for both. So yeah, i'm pretty indecisive haha.

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 06:26 PM

I never play Amy's songs (well, almost never), but I like to make some improvisations based on her songs. For example, there's a quick and really rough draft: https://soundcloud.c...of-anything-aup - it has some chords from Back to Black, but, of course, it's not Back to Black at all... =)

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 06:42 PM

I have a difficult time with "Addicted". There is a lot of instrumental needed. Truth is the vocals aren't hard but during the break I have to keep myself occupied performing it. If I have a bandmate who is sick or can't make a gig and I'm short a flute player it just doesn't sound right. Valerie is a tough one too. So much going on everything has to be dialed in perfectly before playing it.

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Posted 29 July 2013 - 10:16 AM

TRB I found that too, with frank and b2b. I heard love is blind is one of my favourites too. I really enjoyed playing you know I'm no good on the guitar, like the version on the bbc audio cd where it's really stripped back, and I'm finding the slower version of tears dry from lioness easier to play in the song's emotion, plus the slower tempo for chord changes is easier! BeehiveQueen I love that song addicted, would imagine it is hard to play, will have to check out the music!

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Posted 29 July 2013 - 12:42 PM

Drums, guitar, keys and bass. Currently with a jazz group doing mostly standards. I've worked with some really good female vocalists but can't say that I've heard anyone trying to cover Amy. I know there are some folks out there doing it but I haven't heard anyone that really does justice to her. For lack of a better term, there's a lot of magic in what Amy does. It starts with the first note and never quits. Truly amazing singer / musician.

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Posted 30 July 2013 - 01:08 AM

[MENTION=3171]v_melnik[/MENTION] I like your improv, it's got some beautiful harmonies in it, very sad, I am a better piano player than guitar, you are quite good! @dykehaze god, she was brilliant, I'm not a singer myself, but I could never imagine anyone doing it like Amy did :)

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Posted 03 August 2013 - 10:56 PM

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#9 LiamSullivan

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:07 AM

I play guitar, and for me personally, I've had problems with Tears Dry On Their Own in the past.

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#10 ToKnowHerIsToLoveHer

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:47 AM

I played saxophone, and now I'm learning by myself (since a few days) to play guitar, and I like singing too.

Btw does anyone know a song by Amy that I can play with the chords G-major, e-minor, C-major, a-minor and D-major?

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 11:06 AM

Greetings from Ukraine, Maike! I'm learning to play by myself too (since the ending of the previous year) and I'd advice you to become familiar with the barre: it will widen your range of chords (and tunes you can play) very much! The sooner you start to use it - the better for ya. :-)

Good luck!

Edited by v_melnik, 04 August 2013 - 11:11 AM.

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#12 ToKnowHerIsToLoveHer

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 12:03 PM

Thanks for your advices, will try it :)

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:20 PM

I'm sure you'd try that even without those Captain Obvious' advices :-)

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:48 PM

Haha, yes there is a truth in it :D

#15 LiamSullivan

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Posted 05 August 2013 - 09:44 PM

Definitely agree with [MENTION=3171]v_melnik[/MENTION]
Get used to barre chords and from that point on, guitar playing seems a lot easier. (In my opinion, at least.) Learn some scales, too.

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