Playing the intro of Guthrie Govan’s Waves

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    • April 5, 2010 at 8:03 am
    arc_of_descent
    Member

    Hey Guys,

    Hope you all had a great Easter. I had some Jack Daniels Whiskey after a long time, so I really enjoyed! šŸ™‚

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8Nj_Z8n9Y

    I’ve been practicing this song for about a week (just the intro section). Let me know how it sounds. Learning the entire song is a bit too ambitious I feel, but what the hell, I’m going to try anyway. šŸ˜€

    Have fun.

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    • April 5, 2010 at 8:40 am
    rubislaw
    Member

    Great job man! Have a go at the next bit, you might surprise youself šŸ˜‰

    • April 5, 2010 at 2:38 pm
    billmeedog
    Member

    Hey Ro, šŸ™‚

    Great job man! šŸ˜Ž I’ve been thinking about having a go at “Waves” too (I agree about the prospect of learning the whole song – I think my head might explode if I actually tried that – LOL! šŸ˜® šŸ˜® ) Anyways, I’m still trying to get “Fives” more “up-to-tempo” before I try another Guthrie tune – right now I only have the non-solo sections of “Fives” up to about 3/4 or 75% speed (If it weren’t for that “recurring 16th-note lick that starts as wide-intervals and ends mostly chromatic” I’d be able to play it at full-speed! But I am determined to work that damn lick up to full-speed – LOL!) Anyways, I digress… šŸ˜® šŸ˜‰

    Excellent job Rohan, you seem to have really captured the guitar part’s essence with the right tone and all of the requisite “slides” involved! Great job remembering all of those positions – Damn! šŸ˜Ž

    ~Bill Meehan~ šŸ˜€

    • April 5, 2010 at 2:58 pm
    arc_of_descent
    Member

    Thanks for the comments guys.

    Bill, I know that lick you’re talking about. And unfortunately, it doesn’t sound that good played slow, right? You just have to play it fast to get that sound right. In fact I think a lot of Guthrie’s sound comes from paying chromatic-type licks super fast and clean as a …. help me out here … baby’s bum? lol

    Bill, since you have heard me playing, do you recommend I try out Fives first? I consider it important in choosing the right songs to cover (purely as a learning exercise), so your thoughts would be great. Waves is indeed a very difficult song for me to cover right now.

    Regards to my performance, practicing it really really slow and repeating it many many times before increasing the tempo is really working out for me. May not work for others, but I find its doing wonders for me. So I practice at tempo 60 bpm, repeat it many many times. And I find I can play it at a much higher tempo, for example, 100 bpm pretty comfortably. I guess its the muscle memory thing.

    • April 5, 2010 at 3:59 pm
    billmeedog
    Member

    Rohan, šŸ™‚

    I would say that “Fives” and “Waves” are very different, although “Fives” does have some position-slides in it, but not nearly as many as “Waves!” “Fives” has a good amount of arpeggiated string-crossing melodies in it, which I don’t hear as much of in “Waves.” I’d have to dig into “Waves” to give you a full comparison, but I think they both have there own challenges in them! šŸ˜‰

    BTW, the BluesJamTracks transcription/TAB I got is excellent, but I did elect to change a few fingerings from what they had. BTW, for what it’s worth, I prefer to duplicate Guthrie’s live BluesJamTracks/YouTube version over the Erotic Cakes’ studio-version! He plays the verse-sections way more aggressively with more gain too! šŸ˜Ž Also, the solo is much different (although I’m not even thinking about tackling that monster yet!) šŸ˜®

    I Hope that helps! šŸ˜‰

    ~Bill Meehan~ šŸ˜€

    • April 7, 2010 at 4:49 pm
    Steve Hubbard
    Steve Hubbard
    Member

    Awesome, bro! I need to take the time to learn this.. Great job

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