Alan L Cole
Friend of Leo's
@bullfrogblues (#2) - Sweet tone, emotive melody and that great tremolo.
@bullfrogblues (#1) - Nice bluesy riffin' and tone BF.
@bullfrogblues (#1) - Nice bluesy riffin' and tone BF.
I think all my tracks are starting to sound alike!!
Tele neck pickup straight into Garageband
I seem to be getting a little burned out for some reason. #1 here. At first I thought it was too slow for me, so a raised the tempo quite a bit but it seemed to ruin the flow of the song (at least for me).
So back to the original and mistakes and all.
Maybe I misled you instead of you misreading. I rarely play the tele neck pickup, and don't play the tele often at all. I was more referring to my seemingly more limited vocabulary of guitar licks. Old age is taking a toll in more ways than one!Are you also saying that you play all or most of your tracks with the tele neck pickup? That tone sounds perfectly fine to me, if anything it sounds a little more present or biting than most neck pickups-which is totally cool but is that holding you back from using the rear pickup, which I'm only guessing would sound more present and biting, but possibly more than you would like? Is that what you were getting at or did I completely misread that.
I seem to be getting a little burned out for some reason. #1 here. At first I thought it was too slow for me, so a raised the tempo quite a bit but it seemed to ruin the flow of the song (at least for me).
So back to the original and mistakes and all.
turn the long bt into a song, with different sections like 8 bar AABA with a solo section in the form, or 12 bar, or whatever.
What you are doing sounds like you are playing a wonderful solo to a tune that doesn't exist. My suggestion is to write the missing tune. It fills up four minutes very quickly and, it's great for exploring writing.
Apparently some of the guys are beautiful too because a kid transferred into my junior high school from there and he had that last name, and all the girls found him super handsome. We became buddies and I was quickly introduced inEdit-I never finished that-but I was quickly introduced into the world of being the buddy of the guy that all the girls wanted to get with. It was definitely a step up from where I was, heck it was a couple steps up!Right off story like lines, I'm in. It takes me to Norway, not the Fjords, a moderately small but hip little college village/town. And the women are as beautiful as women are beautiful. Nice
OK I hear you now. So what about some effects. Sometimes on slower songs (i’m just using that same song as an example) a delay can help, like one that you could bounce notes off of, sort of help think of new ideas rhythmically, or there’s that chicken pick’n thing that uses one repeat at about 280 or 300 ms? You don’t have to play fast with that one, you actually just play slowly and let the repeats bounce. You don’t have the chicken pick, I am weak at that, but I use it in other types of music as a rhythmic change. That was just a quick thinking out loud but for all I know you might not even want to play with FX?Maybe I misled you instead of you misreading. I rarely play the tele neck pickup, and don't play the tele often at all. I was more referring to my seemingly more limited vocabulary of guitar licks. Old age is taking a toll in more ways than one!
My goto pickup is always the bridge of any of my guitars.
You're a very good player, saying you get burned out is interesting, I got thinking about it and here's my thought, this is a long bt, perhaps it's too long to sound fresh, and I mean playing as well as your tone. After a couple minutes of soloing I feel my ears are satiated and ready for new stimulus.
I'm well aware of this jam situation and I have for the most part, two ways to keep interest up. First is to fade out after 2:30ish.
The second way is to turn the long bt into a song, with different sections like 8 bar AABA with a solo section in the form, or 12 bar, or whatever.
What you are doing sounds like you are playing a wonderful solo to a tune that doesn't exist. My suggestion is to write the missing tune. It fills up four minutes very quickly and, it's great for exploring writing.
4 minutes is a long time to solo and feel like you're not repeating some things. I can almost guarantee you hear your mistakes a lot more than other people do, I know I do. I constantly play things that I think are really bad mistakes and when I go back and listen to them in context I find it's much easier to leave them than to do the whole track over, as I record into a two track looper and I don't have any overdub capabilities. I remember very well some iconic killer live recordings where my guitar heroes were in the middle of a solo and whacked and a or an e string and you knew it was a mistake because it was the same mistake that we make. I think this conversation is directing a little outward as you've already admitted to including mistakes, and I usually record two or three passes and just include my favorite no matter if there's mistakes or not. It makes us stronger eh? When I do slow ones like this I usually throw in some verb and delay or one or the other. What am I talking about I usually drench everything in a bunch of effects, I'm waiting for somebody to tell me it's too much...hahaha!
I guess I'll kick it off (#1):
Hey did you just get out of jail-this track sounds like you’re playing with more conviction! Ahahaha… but seriously it sounds like you’re tearing into it more…Assured maybe is the word? Or more abandon or something? Maybe you were mad, that used to work for me, But I can’t remember the last time I got mad at anything.
Yeah I remember Clint Eastwood played accordion, It helped him ‘escape’ the doldrums of being in that prison on the island in the San Francisco Bay.No, unfortunately I'm still in lock up Lawrence. The prison rec's music program is cool though.
Yeah I remember Clint Eastwood played accordion, It helped him ‘escape’ the doldrums of being in that prison on the island in the San Francisco Bay.
Hey, folks. This is the first one of these I've done so go easy on me!
Welcome @Direwolf. Nothing to go easy on - beautiful tone and phrasing. A really nice first submission! Keep 'em coming and have fun.
Thanks, Alan. I've been on TDPRI for over a decade. I just never had the time to post anything. I retired last year so now I have some spare time!