Rufus Wainwright - Going to a Town - Cover

[keltbrat]

WONDERFUL!!

[sonicanansi]

@keltbrat Thanks and apologies for the late reply, your comment is much appreciated.

[Tanyaenp]

Wow wow wow - that was amazing! What talent!!!

[sonicanansi]

Thanks very much, your comment is really appreciated, I'm sorry I did not reply earlier, I'm finding it difficult to get the time to log in at the moment.

[transpod]

Hey! you got much closer than half way to rufus. Stellar job !!

[zlougy]

love this cover... great! congratulations from France...

[sonicanansi]

Thanks, much appreciated

[keltbrat]

touches of elvis costello which is always a good thing.

please check out the videos i make and comment. thanks

[keltbrat]

love this version. great voice. keep it up. gonna play it again.

[sonicanansi]

Thanks, much appreciated, the songs I pick always seem to have been sung by exquisite voices originally, so to even get half way to Rufus would be a result!

[GeeWayIero]

This is really great. Ur voice is amazing =)

do you have the chords ???

[sonicanansi]

Hi, sorry for not replying I must have missed it at the time. I will send you a message with the chords I used. I learnt it by ear and as has been pointed out in the comments, I have simplified the chords somewhat.

[chickendefrango]

Rufus has one of the best voices around (in my opinion) and it is perhaps a silly thing to try and cover him - You are completely right, but your cover is amazing and your voice is way too good, so keep it up.

[sonicanansi]

Thanks, you are too kind, I'm glad you like it. Keep watching as I may have another in a week or two.....if I can nail the vocals...

[goldnight]

i like the tempo, this is an excellent cover, better than alot of them on here.

[sonicanansi]

Thanks, most appreciated.

[liavav]

very nice, slow... but nice!!!

[sonicanansi]

Thanks, as you may have read, you are not the first to mention the tempo! I'm glad you liked it anyway. It really didn't feel slow when I was playing it :-)

[Krackerjac]

That was really friggin awesome!! You nailed it..Such a great song and you did it justice!!

Thanks for sharing. Check out my covers let me know what you think?

[sonicanansi]

Thanks Krackerjac, always nice to get positive feedback, much appreciated.  I'll definitely check out your channel.

[hungryfathippo]

well it´s a little slow but i really like it. you have a good voice! keep it up!

[sonicanansi]

You know I hadn't really noticed that. I always think of this song as being really melancholy and this just seemed the right pace for the way I was playing it. Thanks for the comment.

[trevor001]

Well done!

I'm having a hard time trying to play in the original key... That Gm7b5 is a pain to play since I'm not really a guitarist (yet).

What have you done of those Maj7 chords??? That's blasphemy ;)

[sonicanansi]

:~} I know, the original is much more complex and to be fair I just picked this up by ear, I've never seen a tab for it and this is how it sounded best to me. I have played it with a Gmaj7 instead of G at times. My intention was to keep it simple without dumbing it down too much and let the vocal line lead it......also I'm crap at naming chords, I just put my fingers where it sounds right to me......perhaps I went too far?

[trevor001]

Well, the vocal line is very good, I guess I'm just too picky about how the instruments are played! ;)

[sergiopierrot]

Well Done! Could you help me with the chords?

Cheers!

[sonicanansi]

No problem: I have transposed it down a semi-tone to make it easier to play on the guitar (should be in Bbm/Db) basically it goes something like this: Verse: Am D G C Am7 B7 Em (X2) Chorus: Am Em Am Em Am F# B7 The long I've got a life to live is Am first time round the it falls in to the long outro part which is G Dm E F B E (first time then) G Dm E F F# B7 and Em to finish. This is all my own interpretation, so I'm not sure how correct it really is.

[sergiopierrot]

Thanks mate!