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K, I'm not a shredder at all. I'm not knocking it its just not the style of playing I find interesting. My idols are guys like Adam Jones, James Black, and Mike Einziger, none of whom to my knowledge has ever recorded your typical rock'n'roll guitar solo.
So.. about a year ago in my band with my Wife (we play covers) our lead guitarist quit which left me to fill in all the holes. which I thought was great because it let me be more creative which I can't do very often playing with her because we just play whats on the radio pretty much. and not to mention he would often show up for practice either stoned or half drunk so thats a headache we dont have anymore.
But we needed to play this song and it just doesn't work withotu a guitar solo. SO i worked Really hard for about 3 days to get it down and I had it.
It didn't translate much live because the sound guy woudln't turn me up and kept turning me down after I turned myself up... jerk. And the sun was shining on stage and I couldn't see any of my readouts on my pedal board. So i didn't realize my EQ was on for most of the set (including this song) and in transit it got bumped around and the sliders started to go from no change on the bass freqencies steadily going in a straight line down towards the treble side and then the level slider was down by about a half. SO it was like i had my tone knob allthe way off and my volume knob half way off nearly the whole set. and I couldn't figure out what the problems was because i coudln't see that my pedal was on when i didn't need it.
add that to the fact that I play with .11's it makes it difficult to do pinch harmonics, bends and pulloffs especially when you can't hear yourself very well.
man I'd love to just play a show without problems so i can just... go and play you know?
Anyway despite all these setbacks I think I did pretty swell for my first solo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekEUPMSlss
So.. about a year ago in my band with my Wife (we play covers) our lead guitarist quit which left me to fill in all the holes. which I thought was great because it let me be more creative which I can't do very often playing with her because we just play whats on the radio pretty much. and not to mention he would often show up for practice either stoned or half drunk so thats a headache we dont have anymore.
But we needed to play this song and it just doesn't work withotu a guitar solo. SO i worked Really hard for about 3 days to get it down and I had it.
It didn't translate much live because the sound guy woudln't turn me up and kept turning me down after I turned myself up... jerk. And the sun was shining on stage and I couldn't see any of my readouts on my pedal board. So i didn't realize my EQ was on for most of the set (including this song) and in transit it got bumped around and the sliders started to go from no change on the bass freqencies steadily going in a straight line down towards the treble side and then the level slider was down by about a half. SO it was like i had my tone knob allthe way off and my volume knob half way off nearly the whole set. and I couldn't figure out what the problems was because i coudln't see that my pedal was on when i didn't need it.
add that to the fact that I play with .11's it makes it difficult to do pinch harmonics, bends and pulloffs especially when you can't hear yourself very well.
man I'd love to just play a show without problems so i can just... go and play you know?
Anyway despite all these setbacks I think I did pretty swell for my first solo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekEUPMSlss
