Waiting for my real life to begin

[awinxa]

what's the strumming pattern? is it D D U U D U (down down up up down up)?? Love the version!

[rpashoukos]

You did this song real justice... thanks.



[PinkFreshClover]

Love your voice! This song is wonderful. Keep on this way, you're very good.

[Cherryash123]

really well done! your voice is lovely :) what chords did you use?

[LegibleScribbles]

This is my favorite cover of this song. It's amazing.

[eliTEBEATS93]

please post the chords! i want to play this on the piano not guitar

[CatchingPieces]

oh my.

the original artist butchers this song compared to you.

i first heard it on scrubs, and i was devastated to hear how AWFUL the original guy's voice is!!

thank you for existing. seriously.

[sslacan]

Nice job dude ...

[TheWol4ara]

класно)

(cool)

[dustydaddyd]

u have a great voice just i think this song is somewhat out of your range

[farsajjj]

Nice - man..real nice...you kept it simple...like it should be...and made it true for you...thank you...

[rrrruuuuddddyyyy]

very nice rendition

[sebasmontenegro]

hey my friend, mi name is SEBASTIAN, argentina...i dont spek english very well, you see this jajaja...do you pass this song, the musical notes, chords? please

[RemyCoolX]

Pretty good, mate.

[mrschriswalken]

cute cute cute. cute x

[ckraat]

Awesome Job!!!! Like yours better than Colin Hay's- brilliant!

[dancinbear015]

His guitar sounds cleaner cause its soft stringed and Colin uses a 12 string. Beautifuly Done, mate

[okayilied]

Great job! I love this song, too. What are the chords you're playing?

[eldomello]

Great job - as good as Colin's version but in your's guitar sounds more clean :D I enjoyed it!

[darkharlezucreek]

You are beautiful! I love it.

[SelfProtection95]

wow!! amazeig!

Colin Hay would be impressed.

excellent!!!!

5stars

[meenatheman]

please please, make a video on how to play this amazing song! :D

[GhostOfTheAvalon]

Hey, I just heard this song on "Scrubs" and I did a little search for it. I found this post and I thank you for sharing it. I loved it. The soul in the performance is beautiful. Thanks again for sharing!

[Luneiro]

Hey man, please, post some tabs or do the short little snippetish video. I really want to learn to play this song and I haven't been available to do it good

[CrazedMachine]

wow dude that was awesome! I think its better than colin is singing it. Made me want to learn it. It doesn't seem too difficult either. The voculs seem pretty are to sing cuase its kinda choppy, I think I'll try smoothing it out.

[rayking05]

good job, man. you make an already relaxing song even more so

[3990DIRECTnDESIGN]

I think I actually like your rendition more than Colin Hay's, Mike!

Really good work - guitar and vocals both spot on to me :]

[tribfighter]

man tabs would be great if you could get them. Good job BTW GREAT SONG.

[cameron91101]

Great job man great guitar plyn ur all set with the high notes though LOL AWESOME song.

[milfchannel]

yea tabs would be great .)

[david12741]

Brillant guitar playing, =]

Have you a tab for this?

[ontheritz]

I used one I found online. If I get more requests I might make a short little snippet-ish video showing the chords to make this song happen. Keep in mind I totally avoided the instrumental outro at the end haha.

[Hendude100]

DO i can't find a good one anywhere and yours is brilliant mate :) easy five stars

[dustydaddyd]

@ontheritz heres my request for that!

[BurtonzBest]

you just got another request

[dloud2002]

Great Job Buddy!!!!

[LoanCougar]

Pret-ty good!! I love the song, too!

[sirdrake76]

more of this fine stuff, and

OWN Songs would be welcomed!!

GREAT GREAT GREAT

Greets from Upperaustria (Vöcklabruck).

You`ve got a lot of fans in our town!! Keep up playin!!

CU

Hanspeter

[sirdrake76]

Plz more songs! you`re welcome.

wonderful voice and guitarplay. Some own songs??

A BIG fan of your style!!!

cu

SD from Austria

[ianwilson2007]

Fantastic cover. I love this song and have been trying to learn it for ages with limited success. Colin Hay does it on 12 string (which I don't have!). Great job!

[camshaft78]

Beautiful, and thanks for showing the guitar, I am playing now..........cheers

[dominator68]

Great rendition of a great song written by a great songwriter\performer. All great really. What sort of acoustic is that?

[sunnyupadhyay]

this song gives me the goosebumps aye! it's so beautiful! great cover mate! cheers!

[mccauleydawg]

anyway you have time to post a lesson on colin hay"s song waiting for my real life to begin. and great job either way. nice all around. peace and love.

[bunso86]

top effort brosef.. great cover :)

[QFIhawkman]

Cracking effort.

[donaldorob]

hey pal, ur really good!!!! please say you are british! you would defo go far if u go for the X factor

[ontheritz]

Whats the X factor? And I'm sorry I'm a hamburger eating American. I have a cousin in school over there, I wish I could visit.

[donaldorob]

x-factor is like a singing competition i think its like american idol! with simon cowell (Y) but ur awesome pal i keep watchin ur vids theyre pretty slick

[ontheritz]

thanks man... my first solo performance is tomorrow night (wednesday)... so hopefully i'll have some more video clips to post soon

[LeonWolfNo1]

wow!!! goodjob dude! you say your still learnin? geeze, some guys have all the luck!!

[TeenixReloaded]

well done... but you should better keep the original melody and phrasings... this is just a great song by a great musician...

[moalisiddiqui]

Wow! This is one hell of a cover for a great song. You've got one heck of a voice! 5 instant stars! :)

[LordofStrangness]

wow, your rly good, man. U should make some of your own songs, that'd be awesome.

[ontheritz]

thanks man... i have like 150 original copyrighted songs... maybe i should start posting them...

[usedtobe803]

this is my Life song. and I thank you for this great version. I really want to sing it to a tune but I can't find the Instrumental and I can't play guitar lol Anywhere you know or any chance you could play it without singing for me? thanks!

[ontheritz]

try downloading... er uhm, "purchasing" the original mp3 from colin hay's album... then go to winamp dot calm and use one of those vocal remover plugins.

[aoife92]

beautiful. you have a great voice!

[thesephers]

good god, u sound just like him!!

[aribasultan]

A bit shaky at times, like wit hthe high pitch but that doesn't change the fact that you have a fantastic voice. Had so much fun listening to you, really brightened my day - plus you've given me an idea on how I need to sing that song for my next performance. Way to go, look forward to seeing more and thanks ever so much!!!

[sqed123]

ur voice is quite like colins, good work

[pele28]

great song, fantastic version, good work, well done

[blox0531]

any friend of colin is a friend of mine... well done.

[veritasaequitas67]

you should tab this and put it on that ultimate guitar archive... but yeah, job well done.

[Jpratt39]

hey man this is a great song can you tab it the tabs that are out there now suck

[Vatreno77]

WOW!

just wow

you are amazing man

[89Isobel89]

This is great...beautiful use of dynamics.

[faquino101]

Dude, you've got a great voice. Nice work on the axe too. If you have tabs, that'd be rad. I'd like to sing this song to a girl I like.

[bloodmonk74]

your voice is so similar to my mine..it's amazing ! we shoul do duett

[Tex1984]

Amazing work!

[sadaist]

I love this song. Nice job on it. Colin Hay is a great songwriter.

[ontheritz]

oh yeah one more thing - I also am a HUGE loser when it comes to practicing in general.. I only do it like once ever week or two and sometimes we'll have 2 or 3 gigs in a row without a single practice... so if you work hard you'll pass me up in no time!

[MrBoum]

Same here! lol! :)

[ontheritz]

The one major thing I try to keep in mind when I'm practicing is I never let my strumming hand stop just because my chord hand lags behind... so you know, when i'm learning something, I practice to keep the song moving, rather than practicing to start and stop and start again... People who let themselves stop too often when they practice usually find out they can't play well in front of a crowd.

[MrBoum]

Cheers for the advice :)

[MrBoum]

How do you go from chord G to C then to G so quickly any tips onn how to do that??

[qrrbrbirbel2]

he doent go to a c its a Cadd9(032033)which is similar to a G chord(320033)...it also sounds better than the C

[MrBoum]

Yeah a just realised that when I asked my uncle who's been playing for years now and he told me the exact same thing! lol! Cheers for your help! :)

[qrrbrbirbel2]

no probs

[aaliyahsparkle]

Love it! Keep doing ur thing, Colin would be proud :)

[aoife92]

hey that is AMAZING! really good guitar and voice! do you know where i can get the mp to that?

[prelan]

scrubs... scrubs... scrubs... scrubs... scrubs... scrubs... well sungered :)

[HazzyJee]

You have a great voice :). Really nice. xx

[bloodmonk74]

nice job man! Pretty good voice, i liked it ! I'm playing guitar myself and i do singing, so i know what i am talking about! :-)

[Silvem000]

solid work. you have a great tone! just one suggestion: if you improved your breathing you could have a bit more smoothness & ease of transition from note to note w/o sliding :)

[slllake]

Awesome job.

[jgristy]

Loved it. Great song, great rendition. I always loved the song, but i could never find tabs to do it justice. How did you learn it?

[shortdude42004]

Solid

[Snim1]

nice work, luv dis song

[ontheritz]

Hey guys, we just tried playing this song at our last gig in long beach. I got a little better but john is still learning and he still improved it live. Check it out (its  in the video responses)

[lordwonder]

excellent

[queensarah123]

wow well done!

[ontheritz]

Dude you guys are awesome, thank you so much. I was half expecting to get a bunch of comments saying, "YOU ARE TEH SUX !!!1111111"

[jesexton9906]

I love this song!  You really do it justice. Just beautiful!

[patzy46]

Killer rendition man. I wish I could sing this song in the original key, but it's a bit high for my range :(. Well done!

[Deanread]

Well done mate. youn did the song real justice. Great !!! Colin would be proud

[mooondog]

Nice work! Great song.

[MrRabbit]

I love your talent AND your taste in music. Awesome.

[lucass1]

Nice, very good!

[vakster]

this is awesome..