Nick Drake - River Man cover

I started learning this a few days ago on request of Joe Burton, a notorious cover-er of Nick's songs. Check him out at:

http://au.youtube.com/user/joeburton77

For those of you playing at home, the trick to this song is combining the different timings of the vocals and the guitar parts. I'm still learning...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• nick
• drake
• river
• man
• cover
• acoustic
• folk
• five
• leaves
• left

[therealKINDLE]

You Speed up. This is most likely because you are performing it with no introspection; in the Style of Blues Jazz -only.

This song was meant to have a careful balance between pensiveness, solace, serenity, with a macabre twist. But you are playing it with none of those qualities.

Yes, all the notes are correct, & it's in the quintuple meter. But that's not what music is about.

[berondi]

@therealKINDLE I may speed up but that is BECAUSE I play with feeling and I am interpreting a song the way I want to play it. Not duplicating the original. Get your head out of your arse.

[riverface123]

Yeah man,excellent!!!******

[berondi]

thanks riverface - glad you enjoyed it!

[eldukeez]

Sounds really great and very "natural". Like it.

[berondi]

thanks! it takes practice to sound natural!

[rubbersole79]

Lilac time signature!

[sunshinekoelnberlin]

I like your interpretation.....

[galsandlagher]

well done mate, best cover of this great song on youtube in my opinion, really helped me learn the song on guitar! thanks

[MiomirPk]

Very good!

[TimothyLeary]

Beautiful

[svensson91]

Great ! It's not easy to sing with this rhythm (5/4) ! I'm trying it and... wow ... I'm going slightly mad !

[frozenwhitebear]

I liked your cover a lot!! awesome piece!! ;o)

[zoeplankton]

wow, great cover!