Another Country song Question

After a slowish Jan/Feb, our bookings are picking back up and we're going to a favorite gig this Saturday. Well received and fairly active dance floor.

We're trotting out 6 new covers, one of which is TK's Red Solo Cup. (Yes its new only to us). Does anyone here do this song and how do you work the out of time "spoken" section towards the end. My inclination is to try and phrase the lines in some sort of time (everyone is dropped out 'cept the vocal) in the hope that I can come back in on tempo, hopefully on a "1" (ha)

Other tunes are Made in America (which works fine), Save a Horse, Drink in my Hand, She's Country, and Alone with You.

Looking forward to the gigs.

Dez

Dezmoduo, How's it going? I don't know Red Sol Cup but I have a couple videos on youtube that cover the (simulated) banjo parts for Save a Horse & She's Country. Of course you can use your Tele because they were demonstrated in standard tuning. You may or may not find them useful. Good luck at the gig. :smile:

http://youtu.be/Vcm6c_p3Q-8

http://youtu.be/5pH1v2MNGDE

Vinnie,
I'm going to check the Vids. I grabbed a little hammer-on banjo roll thing on the G-B-E strings to add flavor at the beginning and the second half of the solo section where the drums double time it.
We're a 4 piece, 6 string and a steel so we have to pick who's doing what when. Rehearsal would be great but we're very spread out.

Vinnie,
I'm going to check the Vids. I grabbed a little hammer-on banjo roll thing on the G-B-E strings to add flavor at the beginning and the second half of the solo section where the drums double time it.
We're a 4 piece, 6 string and a steel so we have to pick who's doing what when. Rehearsal would be great but we're very spread out.

Good luck & Have Fun!!!!

If you drop it out to just the vocals, maybe you can all come back in with a bass walk up. You just give the bass player a nod when you're ready and he does the couple of note walk up and then you all come in together

I find on the handful of songs that we do where you go off time, it's best to keep it real simple. Unless you're very well rehearsed, it's sometimes hard to come back in together unless you have a good trigger. We do some where I use it to ad lib to the crowd, so there's no way we can time it, so I just turn towards the band (off mic) and give them a 2-3-4 and away we go.

In situations like this, I think KISS - keep it simple. As long as you come in together it doesn't really matter how you got there. Most of the time the audience will never know (unless there's a guitar player in the crowd :lol:)

Cheers,
Doug