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Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
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Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 3280 |
Total number of notes: | 61432 |
2660.0. "Ramble alert" by GIDDAY::KNIGHTP (I'll get you with my disentigrating pistol) Tue Jan 12 1993 18:25
I have a probl/question and couldn't really find a topic to put it
into.
I am approaching a very big hole in guitar playing, I am out
playing live approx 1-2 nights a week in a duo and we cover everything.
Now what I have always done when covering solos is to sit down and rope
learn the basic skeleton of the solo (intro and exit) and all the bits
I could play and then impro the rest, this used to work fine as most
of the songs were fairly straight forward and I was really at the low
end of the musician/gig scale of things.
I recently started working with a singer who is really well known
this city and has been playing in GB bands for years ,all of a sudden
work starts piling in and we are playing better gigs, I start to feel
that my ability is not really up to it so I got to practice and do thin
gs a bit better/more professionally. (given that I also have to program
the sequences, learn harmonies and lead vocals, chase agencies.,venues
etc).
Now for the first time ever I slowed down a solo to learn it
(Early Warning by the Baby Animals) now also I had programmed this
sequence , now this might sound weird to some people who really know
their theory but I do not know what key this song is in, I have sat
down and sequenced the bass, a backing guitar part and strings learn
the rythmn guitar part and all that I don't know what key it is in.
When I do my solo my brain works like this 1st part of solo sort
of Bbm pentatonic, then muted G#major scale back to Bbm pentatonic
then up to the Bb above the 12th fret on the G string then 2 fret
bend on the 1st string up to Bb to finish.
Now, what is my question, I need some advice on practice theories
of different scales,modes riffs etc but for me to understand use them
they would have to be applied over a known song/progression
eg ; Over the chords G Em C D I use this pattern on this part of the
neck etc
I am also interested in the dreaded mixolydian mode but would need
a box pattern or something like that to apply it to hear it
oh yeah does anyone know what key Early Warning is in.?
P.K.
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2660.1 | ramble Rx suggestion | GJO001::REITER | | Tue Jan 12 1993 23:03 | 8 |
| go get a copy of The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick
i would post the ISBN, but i just lent my copy to my guitar coach, who
i just spoke to last night, and he is freaking out over the book, and
he is a berklee graduate, plays lead in a working blues band, and is no
lightweight mentally or musically
\Gary
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2660.2 | morambles | GJO001::REITER | | Tue Jan 12 1993 23:07 | 8 |
| the reason i bring up mick goodrick is because he addresses your exact
situation, not only from the technical standpoint, but also from the
point of view of the person who has advanced technically and yearns to
do nothing but play out, then starts to gig heavily, and now wishes
they had time to work on things like they used to (kind of a yin and
yang - wow!), and how to use those phases in your musical life to
complement each other
\Gary
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2660.3 | Good book | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Big cheese, MAKE me! | Wed Jan 13 1993 12:49 | 8 |
| Steve Jensen (fellow DECcie, occasional noter, outstanding guitarist)
also highly recommended this book to me. He said it was one of the
best he'd seen in years.
I tried to order it a few months back and it was backordered and I
didn't end up getting it.
Greg
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2660.4 | and more rambling.. | STRAT::JENSEN | Tone == touch | Wed Jan 13 1993 13:56 | 6 |
| And I'd recommend it again - I've had my copy for quite some time now,
and find it to be the most useful teaching/learning aid that I have.
There's a Mick Goodrick note in here somewhere and I'm pretty sure I
gave the ISBN number for the book in that note.
steve
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2660.5 | Ramblin guy | GIDDAY::KNIGHTP | I'll get you with my disentigrating pistol | Wed Jan 13 1993 17:30 | 4 |
| thanks for the info
I will have to see if I can get it over here.
P.K.
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