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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<taterbugmando%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > -- > 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]<taterbugmando%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > -- 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.
