hey guys, what do you think of this?

[drunkenmosquito]

It's the first decent lick I've ever come up with!! It's just some 7th chord sweep arepeggios...I have to finish it, but I have to get my guitar first!! ...stupid acoustic...I need my high notes!!! :(

http://www.geocities.com/your_ritual_misery/firstlick.zip

[The Fury]

I like it, I changed the instrument to a Violin and it sounded great, very Classical.

I'm off to learn it (hope you don't mind) :)

[BenBray]

it looks alright, but i cant get the damn thing to play! lol

any suggestions? i tell it to play in power tab amd it doesnt actually make any sound heh

thanks

[The Fury]

I had the same problem when I first got powertab as well. You'll need to select another MIDI device.

Go to 'MIDI' in the top menu, then 'setup' then choose a diferent devce from the list.

I think that should work.

[drunkenmosquito]

there...I finished it, hope you like the rest :D

[Black Star]

that is cool, i will play it today :)

[drunkenmosquito]

Now I have a question...the arpeggios of that lick are

Emin7 - Amin - D7 - Cmaj7 - Ddim - Emin7 - D7

If I'm using power chords on the backing guitar, what should I use over that dimished arpeggio? Everything I put there sounds way too disonant :confused:

[The Fury]

I'll be honest with you, I changed the arpeggio in the 3rd bar to a Dm.

So the first arpeggio in bar 3 goes:

e¦--------------------12---10---8---etc...
B¦-12-p-10-----------------------------------
G¦---------10-----10-----------------------
D¦------------12----------------------------
A¦-------------------------------------------
E¦-------------------------------------------


So to your question, you could use a D5 or Dm. I don't know what would go
with the diminished arp' though.

[BenBray]

thanks fury, that worked

it sounds pretty damn cool to me :cool:

[drunkenmosquito]

I tried using a Dm arpeggio there too. But, I prefer Ddim though :)

it's just a matter of tastes :)

[JiMi=GoD]

Originally posted by drunkenmosquito
I tried using a Dm arpeggio there too. But, I prefer Ddim though :)

it's just a matter of tastes :)

That sounds cool, what i dont get is how you come up with things like that!

I only just started learning proper theory in the last month after 3 years of playing!

Are you using scales, and then relative scales, etc?

thanks.

rob

[BenBray]

ROFL!

*points out that rob should learn his name before he learns advanced theory :p*

[JiMi=GoD]

Shut it!

I didnt do anything wrong!

Rob


*Hee hee no-one will ever no i edited the message!
Sh*t did i say that out loud!

[drunkenmosquito]

Originally posted by JiMi=GoD


That sounds cool, what i dont get is how you come up with things like that!

I only just started learning proper theory in the last month after 3 years of playing!

Are you using scales, and then relative scales, etc?

thanks.

rib

I just started learning theory too (after almost two years of playing), and I really don't know how I came up with that. It even has clashing tones and stuff!

Well here's the story

I was bored to death...So I started messing around with the G major scale (E minor relative). Then, I came up with the first arpeggio (I just started with sweep picking and I wanted to created my own exercises). Then I harmonized the Scale in 7ths. Went to wholenote.com looked for some major minor and dominant 7th arpeggios and started using them!

And about that Ddim arpeggio...I don't know, Dm didn't sound JUST right :D

[JiMi=GoD]

Hmmm oook, What is Harmonizing the scale in 7ths, i understood it up to there!

rob

[drunkenmosquito]

I really don't know if that's how it's called in english

But it's something like this

G major scale:

G A B C D E F# G - Roots
B C D E F# G A B - Thirds
D E F# G A B C D - Fifths
F# G A B C D E F# - Sevenths

Doing this you get the following chords:

Gmaj7 - G B D F#
Amin7 - A C E G
Bmin7 - B D F# A
Cmaj7 - C E G B
D7 - D F# A C
Emin7 - E G B D
F#min7(5b) - F# A C E


That's where I got the arpeggio shapes from :p

Hope I cleared that out

[geffen]

try maybe a dim chord or a 7b9 or 7#9

[drunkenmosquito]

Since I'm only using Power chords for the backtrack I decided to use a D5- chord with that dimished arpeggio

D5-



E||------||
B||------||
G||--7---||
D||--6---||
A||--5---||
E||------||

[drunkenmosquito]

Sorry to bug you guys, but I have one last question. Where can I use this?? I mean in which style. You know blues, jazz, rock, whatever..