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This is kinda the point to this- I spend most of my time working on jazz/fusion/prog type stuff- I'm a 'technical' type of player, I guess.
I can play the Mahavishnu song above (learned it when I was 18) but I've not learned something simple like 'Always on the Run'.
I'm not saying don't learn complex music- but having a vocabulary of a few good, fun but not too technical songs under your belt is a good thing to have.
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at some point Mississippi queen has to be in there too.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Ok, I'm feeling like I'm going to do the 30 songs just to prove that it is doable and it isn't that tough.
Re the Kravitz song above ^^^ I haven't actually worked it out yet but I've just had a listen through to it with music analysis brain plugged in.
It essentially two riffs- both are being played at once for a lot of the song.
One riff is 4 notes and slide into a chord.
The other riff is about 10 notes and most of them are E.
Then you have two chords that sound like G and A.
Then a bridge type thing that sounds like A7 E7 B7 (so IV, I, V).
Then back to the riffage.
This is about 30 mins work- it doesn't have to be exact but it does have to be in the general ballpark so it doesn't sound out of key and weird.
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I've just sat down and worked out the Lenny Kravitz tune just to show it can be done.
After 5 mins of figuring out the riff I turned on the video camera and you can watch my aimless noodling pissing around with it should you wish to.
I know the song pretty well just from having heard it loads but I've never sat down and figured out any of it until now.
I know not everyone can figure out stuff as quickly by ear but Im sure there are loads of play through lessons on youtube and such- I'll try to dig one out.
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
*Get the sand out of your vaginas. It's a joke.
For those that are struggling with time - like I would be, I'm sure that between us we could come up with a list of very simple songs to help each other out.
Off the top of my head a couple of interesting tunes that are quick to learn and have a couple of riffs rather than just strumming chords:
The Amazing Snake Heads - Where is my Knife
Imelda May - Jonny Got a Boom Boom
Fleetwood Mac - Long Grey Mare
After watching @octatonic doing his "aimless noodling pissing around" - which to me seems like playing the song pretty much perfectly within nanoseconds - and contemplating the very notion of learning a song a day for a month, I'm getting the feeling I should finally abandon the pretense that "one day I'll get my playing sorted out"... and just pack it in altogether.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Would it help if I showed a video showing my exact process, from the first listen to breaking the riff down note by note, to building it up to the right speed?
I'm happy to do it with a song you want to work on- just nominate one and I'll do it.
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