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ozboomer · June 11th, 2008

'lo all..

Have been recording some of my practice sessions since I started playing again last year... so I'll post some small samples... and I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Fanx!

Omaima · #31 June 18th, 2009

that was really nice .. .I liked it

O.o ... it was awsome ..

fradge23 · #32 June 18th, 2009

hi all, new to the site and the gutair have problems remembering strumming patterns while singing is this common?would apreciate any advice.

CHEERS!!!!

Omaima · #33 June 20th, 2009

I have this issue too .. but I think with alot of training .. u would be able to do it both .. sturmming and singing ! ...

__tsidewinder__ · #34 June 20th, 2009

Strumming and singing is tough at first. Start SLOW, and with a song where you find the guitar part very easy. After you can play and sing your first song, the others don't take long to come.

While practicing, I found that it helps to pay attention to how the strum pattern and vocal melody is related. So, while playing you think, ok and when I strum here, I sing this word.

For me, it came sort of instinctively, my hands were so used to playing chords by that time that adding singing on top wasn't terribly tough. My hands pretty much play by themself, leaving me free to do whatever else I want (on simple tunes only! I still have trouble with some songs!). Trying to sing on top of a guitar part you have trouble playing just by itself is obviously going to end badly.

Anyway, there's my amateur advice. Try searching the threads here, I'm sure it's been covered extensively. Also, google it. You'll get it soon.

Noodler · #35 July 22nd, 2009

Very tidy and nice, man. Well done.

Good recording too.

ozboomer · #36 July 27th, 2009

'lo again...

I'm currently playing about with some standard 12-bar progressions (as usual!)... but this time I'm doing those chords on the strings 4-6 with a dampened string... and using tritones.

Here's a slow (80 bpm) experiment in G Major (with dom. 7th chords), as well as some simple chord tone soloing.

Apologies for the noisy recording but my gear layout is kinda poor at present... and the new Audacity doesn't do as good a job as earlier versions in removing noise without leaving horrid artefacts...

As always, would appreciate any thoughts on technique, dynamics, notes, "musicality", etc

Fanx! folks...

ozboomer · #37 August 7th, 2009

Another lil' experiment with some chord tone -style of things in a Major feel again...

090807.mp3 - Is a take on a simple I-IV-V -style chord progression... Observation: I played the chords in each of the inversions in the same area of the neck for a little while (10 mins) before playing any solo figures... and when it came to the solo, I just used a thought pattern like "...we're playing an A Maj.. so that's THIS inversion or THAT inversion on strings 1-3... da-de-dum... now, we have the D Maj coming-up..." and so on.. I wonder if this "worked"!?

090807a.mp3 - Same as above BUT! I tried adding a 2nd "solo" voice... and it was interesting to realize how as the number of parts increase, the complexity of what is played in the new parts is (probably/generally) simpler... at least, in what I'm playing here... and it gets to be a harder job, as some of the note choices are "gone" (sort of) as they've been taken(?) by the 1st solo voice..

Anyway, I'd be keen to hear any thoughts on these or any previous postings

Fanx!

Kirk Lorange · #38 August 22nd, 2009

It worked fine, ozboomer. That's the best and easiest way to create melody that's always locked into the chord progression, in my opinion. Keep doing that and soon enough you'll get the fluency and fluidity happening, and also see ways of connecting the chord tones up using non chord tones. The breakthrough after that will be seeing the lines on the fretboard and hearing them in your head before you even play them.

The blues in G is neat, too. Good to see you're using those tritones to keep it all nice and bluesy ... they're the ones to zero in on.

You're doing great. You're using bends, slides, you have a nice lilt to your lines ... just keep on doing it. Listen to as many players as you can and incorporate some of what you like in their playing into yours. I don't mean actual lines so much as attack and feel.

ozboomer · #39 2 Weeks Ago

Another very short sampling of an experiment...

For those of you familiar with the standard sounds of a Stratocaster, I think you'll hear/recognize the 2nd pos/bridge+middle -sound in the 2nd solo; although, coming through the amplifier, I seem to get more "quack" than you can hear in this recording from the guitar straight into the UCA 202 audio interface. Getting this sort of sound (and similar) is my current 'holy grail', as I'm playing about with different tone controls, on-board active filters and things in the ol' Bullet Strat...

Back to the track sample... I started with an old backing track from ages ago (transposed from C# down to G -- and it suffered in that transposition - it's a mite ugly-sounding)... and I tried to play some of the different 7th inversions which I'm currently working on (my fingers still don't move fast enough for the changes)... and a couple of solo bitz'n'pieces, in both a major and minor sounding vein.

Mongrel is my music PC is struggling with the recordings nowadays... I gotta work out some sort of upgrade, I think, 'coz going through only a few tracks makes the poor ol' thing drag its feet

Anyway, just wanted to keep this thread alive

John

Kirk Lorange · #40 8 Hours Ago

Nice pinched notes there, ozboomer, nice feel, nice backing track ... good to know that you're still twangin' away.