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    Monthly Recording Challenge 57 - "Summer Time Fun"

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

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    On 6/22/2018 at 4:35 AM, WATSON43 said:

    @UncleHammy, @Oldjock, @Wim VD, @Nutty1 and @Texaspackerfan: Thank you all for your words of encouragement.

    By the way @Wim VD, you did a really nice job on "Albatross".  I must admit I didn't know anything about early Fleetwood Mac, but after hearing your song I listened to some of their stuff online.  I particularly like the blues tune "Need Your Love So Bad".  Peter Green's solos on that song are so tasteful; he plays with beautiful tone and feeling.

    @WATSON43 "Need your love so bad" is definitely on my list of songs I want to learn some time soon. Learning guitar also makes me discover great songs and players from the past.

    Wim.

    Not at the Guitar Gathering? What are you doing (while wishing you were there)?

    in Past Guitar Gathering Conferences

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    Yes, I wish I was at the Gathering. I would love to meet Steve and the members of the gang in person.

    I am working on several things these days:

    - Diatonic Minor Progressions an Minor Scales (resource "Chord-Tone Soloing" by Barrett Tagliarino)

    - Session 20 Bonus Materials (All the chords you need to know). I plan to finish the course somewhere in August.

    - "Don't know why" by Norah Jones. Last song from The Song Hits. Great fingerstyle song.

    It's good to work on different things in parallel, if you have enough time to spend.

    Wim.

     

     

    Starting Session 20

    in Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar

    Posted · Edited by Wim VD

    Tonight I had a final go at "Stevie's Groove" and finished Session 19.

    I am very happy with the progress made on soloing over the last 5 months, although I am far from done with this.

    Besides knowledge of scales, it is the concept of Chord Tone Soloing that is giving me the necessary fundament for soloing (when playing a solo over a chord progression, the chord tones of the underlying chord are the safe notes to land on in your solo).

    To put Chord Tone Soloing into practice however, the only way I find working for me is to learn chord arpeggios and to build the muscle memory.

    Now this is a big task. Following the CAGED system, this means learning 5 moveable patterns for major and 5 for minor triads, and extend that to also cover 7th chords (major, minor, (half-) diminished etc.). 

    But it is worth the effort! To be able to instantly make the connection between the chord, the chord tones and the related scale or mode is a very important skill and is a breakthrough in my development as a guitar player. This is where it all comes together.

    I will continue to work to improve my soloing, but now it is time to start the last session of the main course and to also learn the last song of the Song Hits. "Don't know why" by Norah Jones. I can't think of any better way to complete this journey.

    Wim.

     

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    New Original - "Come and Be Blessed"

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

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    On 5/15/2018 at 3:50 PM, CapM said:

    There's SO many variables, and I've recorded so much that I've had the opportunity of trial and error.  But in this song, the full guitar sound comes from two rhythm tracks played the same way, one panned left and the other right.  That gives the rhythm guitar a stereo field as well as leaves room in the middle for vocals.  If you're recording just one guitar track, try putting a reverb or stereo delay on it to expand the stereo field. 

    @CapM, Thanks for the advice on recording rythm tracks.

    In a recent post from @mark_h, he suggested this technique as well.

    I will try this out on my recordings.

    Wim.

    Monthly Recording Challenge 56 - "Feeling Good"

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

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    7 hours ago, mark_h said:

    Well, this is about as raw as it gets. ? Dean Martin was always signing this song in my house when I was a kid. It still makes me smile. My sister had me play it at her wedding last year, so it’s a definite a “feel good” song to me. It was a bit cramped in the car, but I was on my way to a wedding and thought I’d give it a whirl before packing the guitar. 

    Mark

     

    Vita bella, @mark_h.

    Thanks for sharing this beautiful feel good song. It would also fit well in last month's theme "To the movies" ?

    Wim.

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