Please comment my playing!!

[mowcheeba]

This is my first serious try as far as "lead" guitar playing goes....learned
the A minor pentatonic scale 1 year ago.
I've been playing bass, drums and writing songs for many years.
This is basic improvisation over 4 chords and it gets a bit boring but
bear with me and comment my playing.....

USACG Tele with Hamel pickups straight into a Mbox/Amplitube.


http://www.speedyshare.com/399269146.html

[Mark Wein]

Good stuff!

I'd love to hear you make some bigger jumps here and there positionally...moving from one octave to another might add some "drama" to your solo....do you know an E Harmonic Minor scale? That might work pretty nice over this, too!

How do you like your Mbox? I am thinking of getting one after I get my new computer in a couple of months...

[mowcheeba]

Originally Posted by Mark Wein

Good stuff!

I'd love to hear you make some bigger jumps here and there positionally...moving from one octave to another might add some "drama" to your solo....do you know an E Harmonic Minor scale? That might work pretty nice over this, too!

How do you like your Mbox? I am thinking of getting one after I get my new computer in a couple of months...

Thank you Mark. Great advice I must say....just checked out the
E Harmonic Minor scale and it really adds another flavor. Have been
curious about harmonic minor scales but never learned them....
Bigger jumps definitely makes it a bit more interesting and I'll try
to do that some more.

I like the Mbox/Pro Tools setup....very user friendly and not too expensive.

[Mark Wein]

Originally Posted by mowcheeba

Thank you Mark. Great advice I must say....just checked out the E Harmonic Minor scale and it really adds another flavor. Have been curious about
harmonic minor scales but never learned them....
Bigger jumps definitely makes it a bit more interesting and I'll try
to do that some more.

I like the Mbox/Pro Tools setup....very user friendly and not too expensive.

Anytime!

I've always like Protools but I've never had an Mbox....

[mowcheeba]

No one else? It's just 2 minutes long....

[outbreak]

playing is really nice but i kinda agree over 2 minutes it gets a tad boring, needs afew changes thrown in but still sounds alot nicer then my leads!

[mowcheeba]

Originally Posted by outbreak

playing is really nice but i kinda agree over 2 minutes it gets a tad boring, needs afew changes thrown in but still sounds alot nicer then my leads!

Thank you for listening. I agree, it gets a bit boring. Here is a shorter solo
over a more up tempo tune.
http://www.speedyshare.com/618708760.html

[superbadj]

Sounds a bit like my lead playing. Mainly, I think it needs some overall structure. A beginning, a middle, and end. Some build of energy, or just something, rather than just being a bit of piddling around (which is what I usually sound like, and why I generally stick to rhythm playing).