My footprints take.

allthumbs · #1 January 28th, 2006

I did a take of this tune quite a while ago. It has clams in it too which is the nature of doing improv,making it up as you go along. The idea is you don't fix anything. One recording all the way through. I posted this mainly to point out a few things being talked about in a thread on soloing. Like Sid,I thought in terms of chords not scales. That is why our approach melodicaly sounds so different. If we were playing this with scales our takes would sound much more alike. I love the freedom and melodic choices this way of thinking provides me. Playing boxes and scale patterns is like being in a musical prison for me.
BTW I used my Allykat semi hollow axe for this.

chuckswood2001 · #2 January 28th, 2006

don't sound like all thumbs to me, sounds real good, what did u use for background, is that part of a program, i have music creator pro24, but havnt learned how to use it yet

chuck

allthumbs · #3 January 28th, 2006

It is a Backtrack of a famous jazz piece I found on the net. It was on The Gear Page forum I believe. Jazz purists are not amused by us putting our own melodies over it, but that is where the fun is, puting your own spin on a tune. They went nuts when Kirk played slide over it. Har.

chuckswood2001 · #4 January 28th, 2006

thanks allthumbs

can u google for backtracks and find them or do u have to get into a forum to find them??

chuck

allthumbs · #5 January 28th, 2006

You can do both. Googling for bts will take you to bt forums for the most part. I like jazzy oddball bts so I need to look a little harder,but if you want hard rock,blues or metal bts then bt forums are the way to go.
http://wholenote.com/
WholeNote - The On-Line Guitar Community - with guitar lessons OLGA guitar tab music chords scales and other goodies...http://www.thegearpage.net/board/
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Theres two that have some fun bts if you dig for them.

nowhere-man · #6 January 28th, 2006

Fabulous footprints allthumbs. You must have been playing for years. Are you a professional musician?

allthumbs · #7 January 28th, 2006

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Originally Posted by nowhere-man

Fabulous footprints allthumbs. You must have been playing for years. Are you a professional musician?

Not at all. I went from being basicly a tab player to being able to improv in less than a year thanks to Kirks' Plane Talk materials. I think Sid would say the same thing.

nowhere-man · #8 January 28th, 2006

There's hope for me yet then. Thanks for the reply

allthumbs · #9 January 28th, 2006

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Originally Posted by nowhere-man

There's hope for me yet then. Thanks for the reply

When your ready to buy Kirks' stuff you will see why one of the most common reactions is laughing with delight for months as you start to be able to do things musicaly that you thought were beyond you.

chuckswood2001 · #10 January 28th, 2006

thanks allthumbs

im not into hard rock, i like 30's 40's 50's 60's and country stuff, ill try the google search and see what i come up with

chuck

allthumbs · #11 January 28th, 2006

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Originally Posted by chuckswood2001

thanks allthumbs

im not into hard rock, i like 30's 40's 50's 60's and country stuff, ill try the google search and see what i come up with

chuck

Try powertab sites and guitarpro sites. Those would be your best bets

Sidney Schwartz · #12 January 28th, 2006

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Originally Posted by allthumbs

Not at all. I went from being basicly a tab player to being able to improv in less than a year thanks to Kirks' Plane Talk materials. I think Sid would say the same thing.

Absolutely. I wasn't even very good at reading tab.

Sid

nagukush · #13 January 29th, 2006

Hey Allthumbs

That was greattttttttttt

so proud of our mod here !!! I wish i would also be able to improvise and make some good music all by myself. When do i know that i'm ready to buy Kirks Materials???

Regds

Kush

allthumbs · #14 January 29th, 2006

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Originally Posted by nagukush

Hey Allthumbs

That was greattttttttttt

so proud of our mod here !!! I wish i would also be able to improvise and make some good music all by myself. When do i know that i'm ready to buy Kirks Materials???

Regds

Kush

When you can do all the things I listed in another post to you about P.T. Bar chords,tunes and fretboard comfort are needed first. Not for beginners. When you have that, your ready.

nowhere-man · #15 January 29th, 2006

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Originally Posted by allthumbs

When your ready to buy Kirks' stuff you will see why one of the most common reactions is laughing with delight for months as you start to be able to do things musicaly that you thought were beyond you.

Thanks allthumbs.
I have already bought Kirk's PT book and have really enjoyed reading through it. Even though I'm not ready yet, I got the general picture, and even that quick preview has helped me start understanding the bigger picture.
Bit of feedback for you, Kirk, if you happen to read this, I really like the way you presented it.