New and Improved Blues Improv

[guitar_kid]

I posted a short little improv a while back and I was givin some idea's to make it better so i did. Click HERE (http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=19259) and then listen to my "Blues Riff". It is only about 45 seconds long but I think I improved on it. I used a program called kristal to record and mix it. It had some built in effects so I used a slow chorus for the lead riff and a light reverb for the backround chords. All input will be appreciated and helpful. I will take all comments on tone, style, phrasing, anything... :D

[atelecasterpimp]

I posted a short little improv a while back and I was givin some idea's to make it better so i did. Click HERE (http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=19259) and then listen to my "Blues Riff". It is only about 45 seconds long but I think I improved on it. I used a program called kristal to record and mix it. It had some built in effects so I used a slow chorus for the lead riff and a light reverb for the backround chords. All input will be appreciated and helpful. I will take all comments on tone, style, phrasing, anything... :D


1. learn the root notes for the scale you are playing
2. learn theory (Question & Answer)
3. learn new scale patterns
4. learn more techniques
5. practice, practice and more practice

[guitar_kid]

1. learn the root notes for the scale you are playing
2. learn theory (Question & Answer)
3. learn new scale patterns
4. learn more techniques
5. practice, practice and more practice
I am sorry to say I really have no experience in music theory. I do know the root notes of that scale I used. I know that lack in the techniques department:(. I will be able to practice more this summer now that school is out. Thank you for the input. Anyone else who would like to give me some advice I would appreciate it:D.

[60'sguitarrocks]

Your playing is a little, stiff. It sounds like your playing needs a little more feeling, a little more flow. Try sliding into your leads, bending with more emotion, and "feel" the music (make weird faces when you bend notes lol). The blues is about expression. I hope this helped. Keep on jammin'.

[guitar_kid]

Your playing is a little, stiff. It sounds like your playing needs a little more feeling, a little more flow. Try sliding into your leads, bending with more emotion, and "feel" the music (make weird faces when you bend notes lol). The blues is about expression. I hope this helped. Keep on jammin'.
Thank you for the advice:).

[Hawk]

Sounds a lot like All Along the Watch Tower in the rythem.

BEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hold on... I'm gonna work this into you...

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/caseymarquis_music.htm

Click the top one.

Do you hear the first bend in that?

It's from the fourth note in the pentatonic to the fifth. That should be the first one you shoud try and get.

Work on just that bend for ten minutes. Use your index, middle, and ring fingers to push the string toward the center of the neck, with your thumb as an anchor.

Worry mainly about matching the pitch of the next note, vibrato can be worked out after you have the basics done.

[BrandyCreekG]

it sounds good! but remember, blues is all about feeling. i know you enjoy guitar, otherwise you wouldn't go through the effort of learning what you have, posting on forums, and getting an Audiostreet file... but if i didn't know that about you already, i wouldn't have been able to tell from this clip :o

it reminded me of Final Fantasy Six, musically. it had the notes, but it sounded like they were played on a synthesizer...

[guitar_kid]

I see what both of you points are. I see that I realy need to work on some of my techniques. I can bend and all that stuff I just have trouble incorperating it.

[guitar_kid]

it reminded me of Final Fantasy Six, musically. it had the notes, but it sounded like they were played on a synthesizer...
Do you mean I made a bad choice of tone? I used chorus for the lead and reverb for the rythem and that was it.

[BrandyCreekG]

Do you mean I made a bad choice of tone? I used chorus for the lead and reverb for the rythem and that was it.
meh. tough to say. i don't know what your equipment is, and a lot can go wrong, exponetially more so with every connection. i'm not really talking about your tone though. see, blues is typically done with NO effects, usually it's on a good tube amp. when ever you hear dirty, mean blues its the tubes being saturated with juice. a general rule of thumb, by which i alway evaluate my own music, is to play with NO effects first. i write clean, usually on my acoustic. if i can write music i like on an acoustic, then i can sit back and say, "Ok, what effects will make this sound good? Some distortion? No, but maybe some of this... or this..."

that way you're adding fx to make the music sound better, to pull out certain qualities that you what highlighted, or to create a mood, or an atmosphere. otherwise it can come off like you're adding fx just to have them.

[guitar_kid]

I always write my songs clean first. This Improv was recorded clean in 1 take and then some digital effects were added that were on my program.

[BrandyCreekG]

I always write my songs clean first. This Improv was recorded clean in 1 take and then some digital effects were added that were on my program.
do you have a copy saved w/o the fx added in?