Learning to Fly Tom Petty cover

hi guitarpima this is done realy well good job thanks for sharing eric

Cool, I always liked this song. One of my favorites from Petty.

Are the guitars midi?

Everything else sounds great!

Eric Paul - Thanks for listening and your welcome!

Ben - Thanks, I appreciate it very much!

Sean'O - Thanks for listening. It's one of my favorites also.

RuralRocker - I wouldn't know about loops. I just used the midi file I found and used that. It wasn't right though. I had to repair a lot of it (the music). I just entered the notes in the staff view and worked with that. When I work on my own stuff, I write the parts out as well.

The drums are midi and part of the acoustic guitars. The midi acoustic does not sound quite right. It sounds like an acoustic but the strumming part isn't there. I blended it with my own playing on the acoustic and it worked pretty good. Everything else is me with the exception of Mike who laid the vox down for me.

Lynn - Thanks for checking it out. The acoustic I have is barely passable. Strumming the chords and blending it with the midi track gave it that life. 

Thanks again for checking it out everyone! 

"I started out, down a dirty road"

I didn't know Tom swung that way?

Sorry, that was Petty :-)

I like him and the Heartbreakers. Cool toon.

Daryl - Thanks for the comments. I appreciate your insight and will give it another listen.

BOTR - He was all alone. Sounds more like a vagabond out for the first time. At least that's the impression I got from the lyrics.

Rik - Thanks for listening! I love this song and I'm glad you like it!

I'm not a big TP fan but I do like this song....  and this version.  
 
Nice job all around, everything seems to mesh together pretty well, and it seems like you have quite a few layers to mesh.  
 

I love most everything TP does and you've nailed the vibe totally with this really nice and clearly lovingly crafted cover. Great mix too! This song was written by Jeff Lynne I believe, they did a lot of work together. Anyway, I'd love to see your track list for this. Great work!

Apparently I missed this one when first posted.  I'm glad that I found it.  Great job on this number!!

Thanks to Steve for resurrecting this thread, as I missed this one the first time, too.
 
Takes nerve to cover such a familiar tune (also one of my Heartbreakers favorites) and honor the original as you did. I for one wouldn't have attempted it. Or if I did, it would have come out sounding nothing like the original! 
 
Now, 3.5 years later, I bet you could nail a Petty tune even better, eh? Maybe "Into the Great Wide Open"?

I didn't know this had more comments. Thank you everyone for the kind words. I really appreciate it.
 
I did not sing this. I can't sing. My friend Mike, a paramedic, sang this. He thinks he can't sing but I keep telling his different. What can you do though?