Second version of My Sweet Lord, by George Harrison, with added backing vocals, Yamaha acoustic guitar (smoother than the others), parts of bass on a midi controller, hand clapping and a tambourine.

My Sweet Lord-version2

There’s a rock’n’roll soul inside of my quiet self. And it’s loud!

I’m a bedroom musician, doing the whole recording by myself in GarageBand since November 2020 (when I was 59, talk about a late bloomer…) with a digital piano, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, ukulele, bass, harmonica, tambourine, atabaque and even a bottle of vitamins (!) once, as a shaker. 

New mini-album coming in the first half or March, 2025, available on all platforms. You can buy my latest songs if you want them permanently on your device (as opposed to streaming and needing to pay for a subscription to be able to do it), at https://renatojacobsen.com. I like to have all my music available at all times without the risk of disappearing for some reason, you may be one of those.

I started recording with Garageband after I played a song I made right after watching a documentary about John Lennon's death, on its 40th anniversary, adding Yoko's supposed words when she reached the hospital as the title: "Don't tell me it's true". In my keyboard left in the basement, as I barely played it. I wanted to record it so badly that I had to learn how. I never stopped since, I did over 60 recordings from then on, and except for some that were created in the early 2000’s when my kids were little and the eventual covers, all are new songs.

I never played live, it’s not my thing, especially when I’m the whole band… Having my songs heard and hopefully, enjoyed, are the motivation that keeps me creating.

Recording for me is a total thrill, I love when I listen to the results and go building the layers until I’m satisfied that I did what I had in mind. Then it’s like I had an epiphany, it must be an adrenaline high. Sometimes I wake up with the song in my head and have to quickly register it on my phone. I lost a bunch of those because I was too lazy to wake up, then never remembered them! Some were truly a dream…

I was born in Brazil, lived there for the first 35 years of my life before moving to the US. 

Thanks to all who listen, spend the time to write a comment and hit the like button. You make all the difference.

My Sweet Lord-version2

Renato Jacobsen