cool story On Apr 21, 4:59 am, mgromkey <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
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