Funny.
I had a similar thing last night whilst trying to play a solo that made any
sense at all on a song I had written. In the end I went back to playing a
shuffle on the chords and it sounded just much better: tone and rhythm are
enough to do it
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Linda lj...@intas.net.au wrote:
cool story
On Apr 21, 4:59 am, mgromkey mgrom...@gmail.com wrote:
Just had another an object lesson in all of this, including how
soloing intersects with adding mandolin to a contemporary, non-
bluegrass tune.
I was asked to record a solo for a local artist's tune. It's an
acoustic guitar tracked about four times with some delay and reverb
added, electric bass, some tasteful drumming and percussion, and the
vocal. I don't know what to compare it to but a female version of Dave
Matthews. Lots of driving rhythm guitar. The engineer emailed me an
mp3 to rehearse with. I imported it into Logic the laptop recording
software I use, and had at it the night before going in to do my
take.
First, I just tried pure improv -- just jamming along. It was really
nice to record myself, because I was able to play it back and see how
badly it sucked. Nice to see that I can play fast, but not a solo that
went anywhere. No, not good at all.
Then I fell back on The Manifesto. I cycled through the tune playing
rhythm enough time to get the chords down. Then I thought: Time to
learn the melody. And guess what? There really wasn't much melody! The
lyrics are mostly sung on the same note as the chords. And then I
realized -- again -- that the reason rock guitar solos don't follow
the melody is they often have to invent a melody to play, so they're
not going (single note) G-G-G-G C-C-C-C G-G-G-G.
So instead of improvising (which I really like to do), I made up my
own little melody over the chords, including some good old fashioned
bluegrassy tremolo. It sounded a lot better.
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