I also have to produce solos for public consumption, without having the art or technique, but my theory and it is absolutely not guaranteed, is to play blues licks from the chords with loads of strings going- e.g. for your tune in C, when I was working on a solo for 'Sweet love aint around' in C, I took the Taterbug solo for 'Rocky Road Blues' which is on mandozine and tried to just use the positions while bearing in mind the tune of the song. If nothing else, it lets you hit some of the tune notes while playing with a load of sound rather than fiddling around with clever melody lines, which I have to say I cannot do, and if you do it badly it sounds really weak. You could also try the Monroe and Bush versions of 'Walls of time' which are both on the mandozine website and give you rocking things to play in the C and G chords... The Bush one just has to be moved over one string downwards.
Anyway, those ideas have made my soloing at least sound acceptable, when I hit it right, even though the last thing it is is original! Best Robin On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Mark Seale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas - > > For new tunes, I typically stick around the melody and the chord > progression. Then I focus on interesting transitions from one change to the > next. Usually that will get you there in an old-time style. > > Mark > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Jonas Mattebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> Dear All, >> >> How do you people approach designing tasteful mandolin breaks for >> songs? Start with the melody, or play out of chord positions, or just >> opening the box o' tricks & licks? I'm trying to play in the Monroe/ >> Compton vein of mandolin playing, and I find it hard to come up with >> new stuff still within this style. How do I approach it? >> >> For example, I'm now trying to come up with a break to the Townes Van >> Zandt song 'White Freightliner Blues', and it's not really coming >> along. (The problem is I'm supposed to play this song in front of a >> 'trusting audience' this friday, so I'm running out of time!) >> >> Anyway, the song is kind of fast (for me) and the chords are: >> C/C/G/G/(X2) >> D/C/G/G >> >> How would you approach this? >> >> Thanks, >> Jonas >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
