All sounds pretty good to me, oldhat. Ben, of course, would be welcome to join us, but with everything he’s got going on, I’m not sure we should count on him this time.
I searched for a dobro tab, but couldn’t find anything online. I’m not sure if I can come up with a worthwhile break on my own, but I’ll try if it turns out we need it.
I should be able to get up to anything from 150-190 pretty quick. Once it gets up to 200 +, it takes me a while to get really clean. I’m at 69 right now still memorizing my break. We could play it at 69 if you guys want to, that gives you time to get a snack in between chords. 
Just kidding, I’m good with what ever y’all want to do. My main problem is going to be the recording process
For me, too slow is almost a difficult as too fast. I’d probably struggle as much at 69 bpm as I do at 200 bpm.
Well, I’ve got it up to 160 now pretty clean. Finally got it memorized and then out of my head and into my hands. Tried something I’ve never tried before. I turned off the music on tabledit and just played with the metronome. For some reason I played it a lot cleaner and picked up speed faster. Maybe all those notes were confusing my pea brain before.
Question: Do I need to be a member of soundcloud or something to upload to, or can you just upload to kompoz? I think I signed up to kompoz to listen to the other netgrass songs. Free sites would be good.
Sounds like we’re about ready to start recording. Do either of you guys want to lay down a scratch rhythm track?
Shawn, you can upload to Kompoz with your free account. That’s what I do. Free accounts are just limited on file types that are uploadable.
I agree that once a song is in muscle memory, the tab player just clutters things up. I turn off the lead and just play with the backing track sometimes, though.
This one is pretty fun to play rhythm to Larry, but I think I should should keep my recordings to as few as possible on my first go around. Curious how you do that though. Do you just play one time through then loop it, or play the whole thing?
I usually play the whole thing through, just to keep it as organic sounding as possible, but I’ll sometimes loop in (or remove) a section if I need to alter the song after we’ve already started.
I slowed down the first video to about 170 bpm and converted it to mp3.
[attachment=0]Cuckoo’s Nest 170 bpm.mp3[/attachment]
Is this about the speed we want?
I got mine up to 200 bpm so I’m good with that or anything below so far. I have to say I’m not real happy with this break. I think it is way too simple and only has one A and B part. I’ll record it but you guys won’t hurt my feelings if you want to scrap it, there is just no pizzaz. Haha!
My mando break is pretty standard, too, Shawn. I don’t think that’s always a bad thing, though. We can use simpler breaks at the start to define the melody and improvisational breaks later in the song.
You could always spice up your break with a few of Ben’s licks, too. Are you playing out of the D or C position?
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You could always spice up your break with a few of Ben’s licks, too. Are you playing out of the D or C position?
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I haven’t tried to spice it up any. i think I’m going to try and record this one and get it uploaded and figure everything out, then I might try to go back and record a spicier version.
Haha, not sure what you mean about the C or D position. I don’t have any theory knowledge. I’ll post a link to my break.
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I was just wondering if you were playing with no capo like the song is in D (which is how the tab is written) or if you were capoed at the second fret and playing like the song was in C.
That’s an okay tab, I think. It’s got a nice little crosspicking section. And there is space for embellishment if you so desired. The mando tab I have isn’t a whole lot different.
I wonder where oldhat disappeared to?
He’s probably whittling away on a masterpiece that’s gonna put me to shame. 
He may be locked in the woodshed, but he might be out fishing or golfing, too.
I uploaded a scratch rhythm track at 170 bpm to get us started. I kind of followed the video that oldhat uploaded and started the song with the rhythm section broken down -just bass for the first half of the A section and the full rhythm doesn’t kick in until the start of the B section. See what you guys can do with it.
http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/home.project?projectId=35598
I’ve recorded a test version and I’m trying to get it uploaded but don’t know where to start. Looks like it’s an MP4 file. I’ve compressed it and I have it on my desktop. I have tried to upload it to Kompoz on your project Larry, but it doesn’t recognize
my 100gopro file. When I try to download it from my desktop, it tells me I can download two or more files, any more than that and I need to be a member. I’m only trying to download one but can’t get past that message, it’s a vicious circle.
I don’t even know how to go about linking it here. Any help?
I can open and play it with a “Real Player”, but can’t seem to be able to get a link from it.
Looks like mp4 files aren’t listed by Kompoz as an uploadable file type. You probably just need to convert to mp3, then you can upload the track to the project I created.
I’m here…helped a friend with a few projects then been gone the last few days on a road trip (Watch Buckeyes play Indiana) to
Indiana, am back now and can get back in the groove!
Oldhat
Welcome back, oldhat. Shawn was giving you too much credit, thinking you were woodshedding. I figured you were goofing off, I just hadn’t figured it was at a football game.
Yep, was goofing off Larry, had a blast.
Shawn feel free to email me the file if you are still ahving troubles and I can upload it (with the $5 a month Kompoz membership you can upload just about any type of file) email is oldhat40@gmail.com.
I will get busy, although I might end up running late on this one as come Friday evening I will be heading out of town to head to Ohio to Bowhunt for 2 weeks…more goofing off…this is where I rough it in a camper on 600 acres with no electric and such for 2 weeks…chasing that ever elusive trophy caliber whitetail!
I am here, hate to be the one that sidetracks this but I am “on it”…I could record my part sometime this week but i have not work out a “Jesse Improv break” but can throw down what I have so far.
Oldhat