"Wind Cries Mary" & "Castles Made of Sand" (Hendrix) and "Ever Since" by @gjones15

I just wanted to make a post of a some recent videos I made for the openmic contest here on steemit.

Though I have been playing guitar for many years, the process of actually recording and preparing a performance for an audience is relatively new for me. The recording of "Wind Cries Mary" took me a long time to get to sound as it did; for one, because I am only working with an old iPhone with a cheap mic I plug into it (you can see the phone, which I had taped to a shirt hanging in the closet, is moving as I move at the end lmao).

It has been a process just working on different mic locations, amp settings, and even "vocal settings" in order to try and get the best possible sound to the listener. Because what I hear isn't necessarily the same as what you do ! And the idea, I think, is to start to try and meld those two factors together to create a "harmony," if you will :)

My hope is I can get some exposure on steem and gain a following who might help support my music--especially on the first video, "Wind Cries Mary," which is still "in-the-running" for this week's contest (Steemit openmic)!!

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Thanks for watching :)