So I experienced a few moments over the last weekend relating to the
subject of "writing" a solo and also with some of the nifty quotes
Tater's been posting on Facebook.

We started playing a brand new song that we've already recorded for
release. I haven't really worked up a solo, although I "wung" it just
fine in the studio and am happy. The basic script of the recorded solo
is flashy scale climb into quoting vocal melody of second line into
big tremelo double stop.

While trying to play this script Thursday night my fingers traffic
jammed and I wound up losing it, so I kinda did some "angry" slide up
and downs, double-stopped but not really, a really inarticulate
"whoop, whoop," sort of like a wolf whistle. This got some whoos from
the folks in the front row and made me think of what someone wrote on
Mike's Facebook page, taht if you play a wrong note a few more times
it doesn't sound wrong, so I played some sloppy flash and the "whoop
whoop" again and this time the whole place went "yeah." Interesting.
(And I thought of that wrong note thing on the fly--this is what
Grisman means by fast composing, methinks).

So the next night I tried to do it again. Felt good. Cleaned up the
slop a little.

By Saturday night I'd gotten it figured out, including playing the
climb a little less flashy and more tremelo-y, but into the
intentionally sloppy "whoop whoops". Big cheer, big smiles from the
bandmates. And that's how I write my solos, I guess.

Anyhoo, there you go. I thought of this thread and have been wanting
to share this since I got home. Thanks,

erik


On Nov 20, 2:09 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> The Voice Capo looks just like a nut cracker.
>
> Clyde Clevenger
> Just My Opinion, But It's Right
> Salem, Oregon
> Old Circle
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> From: "Pat Murphree" <[email protected]>
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> Now when are they going to develop a voice capo so I can sing high harmony?
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