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One Song + One Mic = Substack Sessions SS0026

Mar 27, 2025

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Fingerpicking and melody lines

When I’m performing at different size venues my biggest problem always is that if I perform a song that I pick with my fingers most of the time the song just simply tanks because of all the noise in the place, especially when I play really unplugged.

For several songs in my repertoire I had to find different ways to perform them with a pick and with sometimes different keys to get a more robust sound on my acoustic guitar. Fragile by Sting, Dust In The Wind by Kansas and this week’s Substack Sessions song - Stop This Train - Apple Music | YouTube Music by John Mayer were among them.

Now you can compare this to my more open picking approach.

Here’s the good morning version from my ‘Start Your Day With A Song’-series on my YouTube channel.

Substack Sessions SS0026 - Stop This Train

Stop This Train - will be released on Spotify | YouTube Music and other platforms in June 2025.

Previous Substack Session Songs

SS0001 - Waiting In Vain
SS0002 - Big Yellow Taxi
SS0003 - Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
SS0004 - Testing My Temper
SS0005 - Use Somebody
SS0006 - Walking In Memphis
SS0007 - I Han Es Zündhölzli azündt
SS0008 - Enjoy The Silence
SS0009 - Blue Door
SS0010 - The Way You Make Me Feel
SS0011 - The Ballad Of Jenny Ledge
SS0012 - Tomorrow Never Dies
SS0013 - Casual Conversations
(tomorrow March 28st 2025 - Casual Conversations - will be released on Spotify, YouTube Music and other platforms)
SS0014 - It’s My Life
SS0015 - In Your Eyes
SS0016 - If I Ain’t Got You
SS0017 - Time & Again
SS0018 - Appreciate
SS0019 - Roll To Me
SS0020 - Home
SS0021 - Things Have Changed
SS0022 - Old Time’s Sake
SS0023 - Hand It Over
SS0024 - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
SS0025 - Until You Come Back To Me