Solo of the Month (SotM) #77 - Challenge

stratman3142 · December 2021

Bellycaster said:

Managed to send mine last night.

It's in the playlist.

DrCornelius · December 2021

Bellycaster said:

Managed to send mine last night.

Love it !

Bennyboy-UK · December 2021

OMG - this is going to be a bloodbath - fantastic entries - loads of harmony stuff - all the toanz, and whammy stuff.

I'd better get the Hamer Ukulele out...

How long have I got to do this thing?? - not long enough by half, thats how long!

maharg101 · December 2021

Niiiice @Bellycaster

Bellycaster · December 2021

Cheers, lads. I blush with modesty

Bloody fingers hurt after doing that one.

Springywheel · December 2021

Sent mine in. Great backing track maharg, I had fun with this.

fastonebaz said:
I even broke a string getting into the "feels". Doh.

You and me both....you'll probably hear on mine the moment I switched from Jag to Strat towards the end

stratman3142 · December 2021

Springywheel said:

Sent mine in. Great backing track maharg, I had fun with this.

fastonebaz said:
I even broke a string getting into the "feels". Doh.

You and me both....you'll probably hear on mine the moment I switched from Jag to Strat towards the end

It's in the playlist.

I can't remember when I last broke a string. It must be years ago. I obviously need to put a bit more effort in.

fastonebaz · December 2021

stratman3142 said:

Done mine. Trying to play slowly this time (hence the spin on the backing track title)

Here's a warts and all video.

That geetar has such a juicy tone I love it.

fastonebaz · December 2021

Sent one in.

My approach:

I wanted to focus on riding the volume with as least gain as poss, playing as cleanly as I could, and initially pinching the string between pick and thumb to twang it and build up the intensity across the track

Once I'd worked out the structure of my piece I decided to start with neck pup volume on about 1.5.

As I got to half way through I nudged neck volume up to 5 and flipped to the mid position hastily but incrementally upping the neck volume to 10 with the playing getting more frantic until I reached the end at which point I wanted to select the neck pup again and wind the volume down to 1.5 for the final E major chord strum but in the excitement I only made it down to about 3 so the final chord isn't quite as clean as I was aiming for.

Practised it loads but this was the first and only recording I took.

Overall quite pleased with the feel of it but there are a couple of bits that could've been a bit neater.

fastonebaz · December 2021

stratman3142 said:

Springywheel said:

Sent mine in. Great backing track maharg, I had fun with this.

fastonebaz said:
I even broke a string getting into the "feels". Doh.

You and me both....you'll probably hear on mine the moment I switched from Jag to Strat towards the end

It's in the playlist.

I can't remember when I last broke a string. It must be years ago. I obviously need to put a bit more effort in.

My high E unwound at the bridge, I reckon it must've been a faulty one.

Springywheel · December 2021

Jaguar / Stratocaster
Kingsley Constable
Laney L5 > Torpedo Cab
Valhalla VV in FL Studio

The idea behind mine was to keep it pretty minimalist.

stratman3142 · December 2021

fastonebaz said:

Sent one in.

It's in the playlist. That makes 6 entries.

stratman3142 · December 2021

And one from @Bennyboy-UK in the playlist.

That makes 7.

Bennyboy-UK · December 2021

My entry is on the way

That was a tricky one for me - and I'd tried a totally rich effected clean tone previously to try and use that - but I was killing myself with rerecording it, so I banged this out this morning instead - and I'm happier with it all round - phew - glad thats done!

1991 Hamer Centaura Custom Order (Solid figured Maple Body and SD Parallel Axis set (PATB-1, and 2x PATB STK) - Fractal FM3 on a Boosted Bogner Blue Model, with two IRs - one 4x12 GB, one 2x12 JC Combo), CE-2 Chorus Model, in to parallel stereo Tape Delay and Dual Detune Pitch - panned Land R hard across all of them, then finished off with Medium Plate reverb Model.

Bridge HB with about 30% treble rolled off on the guitar.

One thing on the track that was really hard in my brain is that it ends before resolving to the E.

so I decided to try something to imply the resolution at the end using the three note motif from earlier but with natural harmonics and slowly dive-bombshell the second one to point to the E and just decay….. you can hear the trem springs creaking - poor old thing

The FM3 IRs even on standard quality are great for the length of cab decay. This was a test of that and I was really impressed.

Happy to share any licks anyone is interested in

stratman3142 · December 2021

Bennyboy-UK said:

My entry is on the way

In the playlist.

Very nice guitar, but did you have to prop it up on the sofa with your underpants under the headstock?

Bennyboy-UK · December 2021

I had considered using pants!

that’s actually my jumper

a bit less grippy !

stratman3142 said:

Bennyboy-UK said:

My entry is on the way

In the playlist.

Very nice guitar, but did you have to prop it up on the sofa with your underpants under the headstock?

Habanero · December 2021

fastonebaz said:

My high E unwound at the bridge, I reckon it must've been a faulty one.

I once had a wound D-string snap. It went with such a bang that initially I thought the bridge had broken.

maharg101 · December 2021

This is gonna be a hard choice on the voting !

MagicPigDetective · December 2021

I really like the backing track but I've been struggling with this, must have made about a hundred recordings so far, trying different approaches, but getting very frustrated with my timing and phrasing, the slower pace really highlighting my errors. Trying now a more textural approach, will keep at it.

Springywheel · December 2021

That was epic @Bennyboy-UK I like how it ends with the whammy down to the root note.

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