The Angels - Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again? (fingerstyle guitar)

A "culturally significant" 70's Aussie Pub Rock, it kinda goes without saying I had to cover this. Drop D tuning, with a capo at 2...yes, gets it back to an E...it makes sense, trust me :-)
I first arranged this more than a year ago, and have tried to record it a few times and never been happy with the result. I wasn't happy with this result either, but I never am. I took me maybe 7 takes, in two separate sessions over the weekend, and even then this is 3/4 of one take and 1/4 of another joined together.
The problem is it's fast and loose and I can never hold it together for one single take. I have a few "interesting" techniques in my fingerstyle toolkit and this employs one quite extensively. Fingerstylers know all about "thumb independence" - I can transfer that to "ring finger independence". It's like fingerstylers can separate out two channels; normally one channel for the thumb and another channel for the other fingers; I can pair up thumb, index and middle in one channel and ring finger in the other. Well, kinda - my middle finger kinda stops functioning when I separate off my ring finger :-)
So what you may or may not notice is while my thumb and index/middle is belting out the riff for the verse, my ring finer is playing the melody. The trick is to be singing the song in your head so that you get the melody rhythm right. The more I play fingerstyle the more I realise getting the melody rhythm accurate to the words is important. Since the lyrics vary between verses, the rhythms are not the same, the icing on the cake of fingerstyle is to nail those rhythms. Which requires finger independence. (Which isn't true independence, but I digress).
Anyway, enjoy, I talked about this once before over at www.jawmunji.co... - and find more stuff from me at jawmunji.com!
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