Dirty old blues

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    • May 24, 2008 at 1:31 pm
    pekki
    Member

    line6 toneport arrived this morning so I tried to record something
    all improvised, some mistakes made along the way, but what the hack : )

    tell me if it’s any good

    http://www.box.net/shared/v0upo2y04s

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    • May 24, 2008 at 4:28 pm
    Epilogue
    Member

    Very nice mate šŸ˜€
    You have great feel and tone. I like the Pink Floyd vibe you got there.. hehe
    At some points you kinda lost it for a couple of seconds.. In other words, until the drums came in your playing was very fluid and it flowed well. When the drums came they gave you a backing rythm. This can be really good sometimes, but in cases like these it’s not necessary to have a stable backing rhythm, I think it’s better to just improvise even if it’s out of time, when you do that the music is much more interesting (In my opinion at least).

    But again, it was awesome, sound quality was very good too, your precision and note choice were great and the overall feel was amazing. šŸ™‚ And I guess I was a little too critical as it was only an improvisation! Sorry about that, but don’t worry, it’s really hard to produce such great melodies in an improvised.. improvisation like you did. So great work!

    Good luck in the future

    • May 24, 2008 at 7:46 pm
    pekki
    Member

    no mate, I read your comment about going ”out of the flow”
    bluesy feeling is my favorite one for sure, but I still have to practice the overall feeling, bends especcially, and some better phrasing

    thanx for the reply!

    • May 25, 2008 at 12:24 am
    Sean Conklin
    Sean Conklin
    Member

    Hey good job Pekki! And congrats on the new Line 6 Toneport. You’re going to have a lot of fun with that. šŸ˜‰ Those things are awesome.

    Keep it up!

    • May 25, 2008 at 1:15 pm
    Mike Edwin
    Mike Edwin
    Member

    Nice Tone. Tastefull note choices. Dynamics. All the important factors of an enjoyable solo.

    Your recording had none of these!

    :p just kidding. I thought it was beautifull. The backing and your playing style gave me a real Pink Floyd vibe, and I love the Floyd. Bring on some more when you record again.

    • May 25, 2008 at 4:03 pm
    pekki
    Member

    glad you feel the vibe mike, floyd are probably one of my favorite bands of all time

    thanx for the comments

    I’m doing some funky stuff today, I’ll upload something later probably

    peace

    • May 27, 2008 at 9:45 pm
    Gollum
    Member

    Definately getting the floyd feel like the others mentioned.

    Good note selection and improved melody.

    But I’m going to give you a complaint, because I think you’ll understand and be able to use what I say to help, not hurt you.

    I would have liked to hear you travel the fret board a bit more. It felt as though you were only playing out of a couple of positions, not really using the entire fretboard. My only other comment, is that I would have like to hear you play around the backing chords a little more, to give the listener a sense of direction. Just simple walk ups or downs when the chord is changing helps a ton. For example, in this video of jimi paige playing a solo, though he’s not using very many notes you can hear him following the progression at times.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yw7wqoaio

    I’m not ragging on you, don’t take it like that. It’s a very hard skill to learn, let alone master and I’m far from. But I know as a listener that I almost feel rewarded when I hear a solo tie into the progression and when it’s done well it can even give me goose bumps. Just randomly playing notes in a scale isn’t very musical. You’re recording was MUCH better than just random notes, but it left me waiting for something. Maybe you’re stuff you write is much better, and the imrpov aspect is lacking.

    Just take this as an encouragement to learn your chord intervals. It’ll pay off dividens in the long run. If you feel you already understand everything I’ve said and I’ve offended you I’m sorry. If that’s the case I’m sorry and keep playing man. It still sounded good.

    • May 27, 2008 at 9:58 pm
    Gollum
    Member

    Would have edited, but I just realised it too late. I misspelled the legend’s name. It’s Jimmy Page, not paige.

    • May 27, 2008 at 10:43 pm
    pekki
    Member

    stop apologizing mate:)

    great comment, I completely understand what you are trying to say, you are not hurting, you are doing the exactly opposite!

    as for usage of the fretboard, you are probably right, I don’t know much positions for g minor (pentatonic), except for the root being on 3rd fret of 6th string, 10th fret of the 5th string, and 15th fret on the 6th string(same as previous position, but I mostly go pentatonic there) …tho, I think it’s enough what I have learned in a short amount of time of my playing…also, in this song there were some single, and double string melodies on g and b string…also, on my level of playing

    but I agree, a ”more modes approach” is something I am yearning for in the future

    as for my low sense of direction, I also agree, I don’t know to outline the chords very well, I can’t picture all the triads in my head when I’m playing…I mostly go for the feel, which is sometimes not good, and I completley miss the note that I’m targeting for

    and no, you didn’t offend me at all man, these are the comments that I really want and which we’ll make me push the envelope even more

    thanx for the comment man

    • May 28, 2008 at 4:13 pm
    Gollum
    Member

    For learning your triads it really helped me to study the “CAGED” system that’s all about the fact that ALL chords are based off of those 5 main patterns. If you play your root and pick another octave you want to play in a chord I can automatically tell you what “pattern” you’re playing, C-A-G-E-or D.

    I personally feel like I’m running out of scales to learn that are usible for me on a day to day basis, so I work hard at learning my “chord scales”. Basically just learning the scales to all the different triads, there’s lots of them to learn. This really helps you to be able to find good notes to choose from while playing lead, and also lets you develop appregios naturally, instead of learning them in peices and trying to piece them all together.

    Hope that all makes sense and helps.

    • May 28, 2008 at 10:57 pm
    pekki
    Member

    offcourse it makes sense…I found some stuff explaining the CAGED system and I will definitely look into it these days

    thanx again mate!

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