[fly135]

Here's a take of HORS that Ginny and I did this morning. This is the most I've been able to play this song without messing up bad, so I figured I'd post it. A single mix on the vocals and guitar, so no way to adjust mix post play.

[Rockerbob]

Sounds good. The vocal is a little low on this, but it sounds like you didn't have the guitar and vocals on separate tracks.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by fly135

Here's a take of HORS that Ginny and I did this morning. This is the most I've been able to play this song without messing up bad, so I figured I'd post it. A single mix on the vocals and guitar, so no way to adjust mix post play.

Sounds good. I like playing this and halfway into it rockin' it up. why dont you sing this?

[macmoondoggie]

Very nice and mellow rendition!

[Jim]

Nice playing fly!!!

And thank your wife for singing - I think her voice with your playing worked, and I am really impressed by your playing, and as far as I could hear you really didn't mess up - you did good!

Thanks for a cool rendition of one of my favorite songs!

Jim

[joe_strummer]

Nice playing Fly, well done keep up the great work

[seagull]

Ok Fly, your both ready for open mic night, so bring the guitar thursday.

[737blues]

Another husband and wife team, good stuff. Keep it up guys.

I had to learn that one when i heard a girl i knows mother play it for us years ago. Man she played it to a tee ! i've lost contact with them over the years after i got married. I said to myself '' man i gotta learn that song ''. the song also came out in my birth year of 1964, i knew there was a connection somehow. I'd watch Eric Burdon and the boys play it over and over again off a VH1 video i managed to record. Hilton Valentine could play it blind folded ! I got an original transcription of the song sent to me from Eric Burdon himself and it goes : Am C D F - Am C E E7 - Am C D F - Am C E E7 - Am C D F - Am E Am c d f - Am E Am E7. When i first played it i didn't use the E7 i doubled the E instead, but later i realized that the transitioning between the E and the Am sounded not nearly as good as the E7 to the Am did. It sounds to close to one another the way i was first doing it without the E7. The E7 to the Am does not sound close. And thats the way you want it to be. Did any of this make sense to anybody ? I hope so because man the only other way i could better explane would have to be over the dog gone phone ! peace all ! John

[fly135]

I didn't know about the E7 instead of the E. I'll have to give that a try. Other than the E7, this is the way it sounds when I listen to the Animals.

Am, C, D, F
Am, C, E, E(7?)
*Am, C, D, F, Am, E
Am, C, D, F
Am, E, Am, E(7)

* Left out of mine. I did it a bit different so that the vocals come back quicker and I don't draw it out too much.

For the way you had to record yours, you done did a good job. It's a beast to play until you get real good with trasitioning between some a them chords. I enjoyed hearin ya Fly135 ! Thanks for the great effort. John

[tomg123]

That was good fly, I was just trying to do a fingerpicked version of this just before I saw this thread. You palyed like the original recording

[GuitarJim]

Good Job Fly. Sounded great.

JC

[scotty_b]

Great job!

[fly135]

Thanx for all the comments guys. I initially learned this in one of my many previous attempts to learn to play the guitar. It's simple, but deceptive in that I've always found it to be incredibly hard to play clean and very humbling.

I played it on my Epi Dot, which is the easiest to fret guitar I own. To actually get through 2 1/2 minutes of it without falling apart is a landmark moment in my progression.

RB, I recorded this as a single track so I couldn't adjust the vocals. I tend to record myself alot, so it wasn't like I was expecting get any down that I was intending to share.