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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Very Pink Floydish. If you don't mind some constructive criticism, I'd put a lot more vibrato on those longer notes.
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Rick, here's the re-take with a little more bendy action, an accidental harmonic, and a feedback at 0:33.
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I can't get a whole lot more vibrato that this, without bending strings halfway across the neck. The gauge here is fairly light, so I may re-string with a heavier gauge and see what happens. When I started, playing, I started on .13's. I've moved down over the years due to fatigue and old hand injuries. I think it's a little further along on this take, too...
It was recorded with Amplitube, right into Adobe Audition. After I figure out the entire thing, it will be re-recorded using a VHT Sig-X amp and our pedal for a similar "singing" tone (with a LOT more dynamics)
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Originally Posted by LWJ
Wolfe,
I like it. I am a bass player who has migrated into a guitar hobby. I suck on guitar pretty bad so I know how you feel. Here is what I think.
First, you are not a bad player at all. You however are not a brilliant player, yet. Overall, pretty good. I like the above comments about dynamics and mixing up some complexity into the sustained notes. Also, there is a comment about less is more above. I agree. I think a goal is story telling on solos. Build on the melody. Build the tension. Release....... style is very David Gilmoure
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The Gilmoure thing was sort of natural, considering the Floyish nature of the backing track. A couple people have commented that it sort of moves from Gilmoure to Santana to Gary Moore and back again...
In fact, I consider myself a mediocre player, at best. Brilliant, probably will never obtain that level of playing skill. In the last 13 years or so, I probably have less than 100 or 150 hours of playing time under my belt. I've been waaay too busy building pickups to play much. I'll go weeks without picking up a guitar, which is sad.
A big step is to re-do the crap-quality backing track I found on Youtube. I'll get a friend to re-do it using some VSTi stuff he's got, and make a high quality version of it, or a local band I know that could do a live version of it easily enough.
Here's that backing track, if anyone is interested.
g minor blues - YouTube