Warmoth Jam #6

[Doughboy]

I thougth it would be cool to try a style we haven't had before in the hopes of changing things up & getting more people involved, so here it is, Warmoth Jam #6 : Country.

The solo section is 48 bars & ends 1:19, although the whole track is twice that lenght so people can practice their solo without having to rewind.

The deadline is in 2 weeks on October 11th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4kaca6w7e3hestw

 

[kboman]

Good lord, country?! Not sure if I can pull this off, but I'll give it a try.

 

[GoDrex]

I think I'll have to use my strat for this...

I kind of know what to do, but I can't really pull of a country sound.  ???

 

[Doughboy]

Believe me guys, I have no idea what to do either. I don't play country & I don't own a tele. I'm going to use my strat & use the bridge & neck pickups together to try & get a tele sound, add some slap delay & since it's a blues, try to twang it up & hope for the best.

I thought it would be cool to try a style we're not familiar with & see how we can interpret it to fit our own playing.

If someone wants to use a Les Paul & step on the distortion, I say go, for it!!!!!

 

[kboman]

Believe me guys, I have no idea what to do either. I don't play country & I don't own a tele. I'm going to use my strat & use the bridge & neck pickups together to try & get a tele sound, add some slap delay & since it's a blues, try to twang it up & hope for the best.

I thought it would be cool to try a style we're not familiar with & see how we can interpret it to fit our own playing.

If someone wants to use a Les Paul & step on the distortion, I say go, for it!!!!!

I can really resonate with that last part, but I'll try something different this time: my very least favourite guitar sound, a bridge pickup through a clean amp. Wish me luck! :sad:

Btw, Trevor really needs to get in on this one!

 

[hachikid]

a bass solo in a country song?........and don't call me Shirley.....

 

[hachikid]

am I the only one hearing nothing but blues from this track?...

 

[GoDrex]

If you solo in a minor pentatonic it's blues... if you solo in a major pentatonic it's country...

 

[Doughboy]

am I the only one hearing nothing but blues from this track?...

It's a country blues in A. You can play minor, major, dominant & it all works.

 

[Panthur]

am I the only one hearing nothing but blues from this track?...

Nope, I am the same. I am sooo blues orientated though that I'm bound to hear blues, it's a nice safe home. That said, the throw down was for country so I'm gonna try my best to be country and not blues. More of a challenge that way (and likely more of a cock up too lol)

 

[GoDrex]

I guess I'll go first.... recorded a bit last night that isn't horrible so I'm going with it. Country just ain't my thang...  but I think I got a nice sound from my strat and amp.

I really need to switch back to 9's on my strat. I really cannot do bends with 10s. Pure nickle is the key for single coils on a strat though.

http://www.wfzr.net/warmoth/Godrex-uwj6mix.mp3

http://www.wfzr.net/warmoth/Godrex-uwj6solo.mp3

the guitar is my strat - with the neck and middle pickups on - my Cyber Deluxe on the clean Blackface amp setting with some fake spring reverb, fast delay and a touch of vibratone.

 

[kboman]

Ooookay, this was not easy. This is the take that sucked the least, I don't think it can get much better...

Mixdown: http://www.mediafire.com/?bi44dhybs3uy9vv

Solo: http://www.mediafire.com/?l55ghs9d7zi178o

I used my Hagström Swede (bridge pickup, ew) into my standard "KB Clean 1" sound in Guitar Rig 4 Pro which goes tube compressor -> Hiwatt -> matching cab -> very light spring reverb. The delay is the WatKat VST someone linked to here on the forum, thanks for that!

 

[GoDrex]

yeeeeee hawwwwwwww sounds like country to me :laughing3:

I think we need someone that knows how to play come in and show us how it's done

 

[bagman67]

Take a lesson from Arlen:  http://www2.gibson.com/Lessons/Arlen-Roth-Lessons/Search.aspx?skill=Intermediate&style=Country

For those of you who bash Gibson incessantly, I gotta agree with you about latter-day guitar cost vs. features/quality, but they sure do supply a hell of a lot of good, free lessons on their site.

Bagman

 

[GoDrex]

Take a lesson from Arlen:  http://www2.gibson.com/Lessons/Arlen-Roth-Lessons/Search.aspx?skill=Intermediate&style=Country

For those of you who bash Gibson incessantly, I gotta agree with you about latter-day guitar cost vs. features/quality, but they sure do supply a hell of a lot of good, free lessons on their site.

Bagman

hmmm wish I had seen that sooner. I think my country playing days ended when I stopped my recording.  :laughing7:

 

[kboman]

Eh, my biggest "problem" with doing a solo this time is that I just don't like country music. That sort of limits my interest in learning the idiom a bit...

 

[djf67]

Eh, my biggest "problem" with doing a solo this time is that I just don't like country music. That sort of limits my interest in learning the idiom a bit...

with you there, kb.
can't say I've ever even noticed a country solo but then country is pretty much a US thing, isn't it?

 

[bagman67]

Albert Lee's English.  He's also one of the top 10 country pickers on the planet.

 

[Doughboy]

I'm not a fan of country music, but there are some incredible country players out there. Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Danny Gaton, Steve Morse, Greg Kotch, Scotty Anderson, Vince Gill etc. You just can't be a guitar fan & not at least like a little bit of what they do.

Plus, you don't have to play country over the track. If someone wants to mic up their Marshall, step on a tube screamer & take a solo, that would be cool too.  :headbang:

I'm working on twanging my playing up & will post my solo mid week. It's amazing what a strat, 300ms delay, compression & a clean setting will do for bringing out your inner twang. :hello2:

 

[GoDrex]

Oh yeah when I was trying to do my part I was thinking, how in the hell do those guys play that stuff so damn well? There are some really amazing players that I really respect. I just don't listen to them very often. I hear enough of it to sort of fake it, but the really top notch guys are in a whole other universe.

I tried to get a tone that would help me get in the spirit of the thing. I didn't want to do a distorted tone. I wanted it to fit as much as possible.