Sorry, Honky Tonk Blues, not Rock Road blues.. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Robin Gravina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
