The Fretboard Guitarist Collective - Task 1 August 2013

Fretwired

Wow new contributions ... I'm still at work so I will listen later or tomorrow morning. Keep 'em rolling.

bigjon

@Clare : Really like the tone on this one:warm and welcoming, sounds like it was recorded by a blazing fire on a winter's evening in a log cabin :-bd

@RedRabbit : breathes nicely, shows confidence to leave big gaps between the phrases. The tone varies well depending on how aggressive the pick-strokes are. The lead guitar is panned quite a long way left, which sounded slightly odd in my headphones (or maybe it's my duff headphones)

@dindude : Sounds John Mayer-ish. This is a very good thing. And a marvellous Beck-ism at 1:30. Like the pentatonic-up-a-tone scale choice.

@Danny1969 : Great use of different registers within a lick, also like the strong major 3rd chord-tones and moving 6ths. The nod to EVH at 2:16 did stick out sore-thumb-like a bit, though, ditto 2:35. Fantastic phrasing at 3:45!

RedRabbit

Not sure what's going on with the panning. I thought I'd left it going straight down the middle but will give it a listen with headphones to get a better idea.

bigjon

RedRabbit said:

Not sure what's going on with the panning. I thought I'd left it going straight down the middle but will give it a listen with headphones to get a better idea.

Now listening to general youtube stuff through headphones & they've started crackling and hissing. I think it's much more likely to have been my headphones than your production

TTony

bigjon said:

@Danny1969 : Great use of different registers within a lick, also like the strong major 3rd chord-tones and moving 6ths. The nod to EVH at 2:16 did stick out sore-thumb-like a bit, though, ditto 2:35. Fantastic phrasing at 3:45!

That's a concise summary of how little I know.  "Different registers"?  "strong major 3rd"? "moving 6ths"?

bigjon

TTony said:

bigjon said:

@Danny1969 : Great use of different registers within a lick, also like the strong major 3rd chord-tones and moving 6ths. The nod to EVH at 2:16 did stick out sore-thumb-like a bit, though, ditto 2:35. Fantastic phrasing at 3:45!

That's a concise summary of how little I know.  "Different registers"?  "strong major 3rd"? "moving 6ths"?

"Different registers" = "Low notes and high notes next to each other" ;-)

TTony

bigjon said
"Different registers" = "Low notes and high notes next to each other" ;-)

Thanks BJ.

I should explain that I'm more of a rhythm player, can't read music, would be guessing at notes other than EADGBE and have never spent more than a minute studying "theory".  I think my last "proper" lesson was in 1973. 

Ish. 

Might have been '72.

Can't really swim too well either, so I know all about out-of-my-depth

But I'll still have a go at playing over the backing track (bet you're so looking foward to that now!!)

redrighthand

My own little attempt, recorded sometime during an hour or so of jamming around with it.

dindude

@Danny1969 sounds quite Jeff Beck in places, I approve. B-)

RedRabbit

Just listening to a few now.  I'm being fairly haphazard in choosing which to go for but I will get to them all in time

@dindude - great phrasing and tone I, for one, wouldn't of objected at all to being subjected to the full five minutes plus

@clare_bear - nice use of dynamics, the whole thing moves along nicely.  There's a touch hesitance in some of the licks but I'm sure that'll vanish in a few tasks.  Otherwise there's not much to suggest that you've not played much recently.

Barney

thanks for the backer Fretwired...its nice to have the jams back..:)......just had a play over it now..its the first take ...i might have another go though...great stuff ..i love the blues..:)

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12447073

dindude

@Barney very nice indeed, enjoyed that, have a wow on me.

Danny1969

dindude said:

@Danny1969 sounds quite Jeff Beck in places, I approve. B-)

Thanks dude, played that with fingers rather than pick cos I'm a big Beck fan

@Barney : That's superb mate, loved it

Barney

just having a listen to some of the others

@Clare_bear...sounding good ...some nice ideas..

@Redrabbit....nice playing ...the only thing i would work on more is the phrasing to make it great playing

@Dindude ...nice phrasing ....some great ideas..and tone

@Bigjon...i struggled hearing the backing track but you play well...nice phrasing

@Danny1969....great playing as usual....what more can i say..loved it

@redrighthand...lovley tone and playing ...i like the clean tone in blues a lot and you nailed it ..

PolarityMan

So I had 3 takes and this was my favourite, not overly happy with it but there's prob 45 secs or so of decent enough stuff in there somewhere.

https://soundcloud.com/polarityman/guitar-collective-task-1-jam

Now Im gonna go listen to some of you guys ones.

monquixote

Barney said:

thanks for the backer Fretwired...its nice to have the jams back..:)......just had a play over it now..its the first take ...i might have another go though...great stuff ..i love the blues..:)

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12447073

@Barney that's ace. 

I find that I very rapidly fall back on cliche and start boring myself with blues, but that really develops and stays interesting all the way through. 

PolarityMan

dindude said:

Had another blast through last night, 

Im working my way through. I don't feel Im qualified to give advice to everyone but this has track been the stand out for me so far. Really nice work.

dindude

PolarityMan said:

dindude said:

Had another blast through last night, 

Im working my way through. I don't feel Im qualified to give advice to everyone but this has track been the stand out for me so far. Really nice work.

Ah, you obviously haven't got to Barney's effort yet then but appreciate it anyhows.

monquixote

I've had a go at this as well. 

I'm proper rubbish at blues so I did three takes pick, fingerstyle, and with OD and dropped in a couple of bars of each. 

stickyfiddle

Only just seen this- will have a good listen and play and (hopefully) post in a bit!