It feels right

Hey not bad man. I thought it picked up nicely at the end. A couple critiques okay? 🙂

I’d probably use a bit less delay feedback. It’s a little distracting from what you’re playing.

Also, maybe try developing a memorable melody that you can resolve to in between your improvising. That would give your piece a bit more of a thematic feel, and would feel more complete, rather than just straight improvising all the way through. A popular example could be Steve Vai’s “For the Love of God”. Listen for the strong melody that the song wraps around. There are places where he goes off soloing, but he then resolves back to the thematic melody, which gives the song meaning. Just something to think about. 😉

Keep it up bro!
Sean

You definately understood what I was trying to say before. You flow with the rhythm much better in this improvisation.

I agree with sean about the delay. I’d turn the effect volume down (delay volume) and turn up the trail/repeat of the effect.

Guys like “The Edge” get away with so much delay because they use it so well. You have to keep the delay in time with the song if you’re going to use tons of it, and you have to know how to balance the feedback and volume of the pedal. You can’t have too much of either, or both. Generally though, you can run feedback levels a lot higher than effect volume, but as you start using more and more repeats to need to turn the effect volume down.

And generally if you’re going to keep an effect LOUD then it needs to be used as an stylistic piece, not something just creating air. Buckethead’s Big Sur Moon is a good example:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lkeXE6FOf6s

In my experience high volume delay settings like you’re using work best when you’ve got a strum happy rhythm going and the delay creates this very U2 like feel. When playing leads I turn the volume down a taste and turn the feedback way up so there’s always that cloud of delay behind me, but not overpowering me.

What sean said about a melody can help definately! Though you shouldn’t feel like it’s something you have to establish with the lead guitar. You’re using backing tracks, so play around with them. It’s amazing how often in classic rock the melody the guitarist keeps comming back to is being kepy by the bass! Yes, the bass CAN be a melody instrument and it’s amazing how our ears preceive melody in the lower frequencies. Classical composers played around with this alot where the rhythm would be played down low and the melody up high, and then later in the song they’d come back to the them but reversed, and it sounded compeletely different yet familiar! It’s an amazing dynamic.

So try writing some catchy melodies on guitar and transfering them to a backing track in a creative way. Then when you play over it you can pick up some key notes to come back to every now and then.