Keira WitherKay wrote:
you obviously cracking the whip there....
Not at all. They do tend to defer to me, which actually makes me a little uncomfortable as I'm the relative young'un and musically relatively uneducated compared to the other guitarist or the keyboardist.
@alan what kinda music you guys/gals playing, what genre, i know you personally tend towards some unique /experimental type techniques in your playing so are we due to see something exciting with this band ?
It's actually basically a pick-up band I put together out of the local talent, specifically for the upcoming "Patatfees". Playing outdoors to a beer garden audience, so it's mostly standard crowd-pleasers that we can pull together with a couple of practices. I'm planning a solo, original show sometime this year (one of the venues is nagging me), but need some time to get it up to snuff...
There is one thing keeping this gig interesting - we don't have a bassist, so I am often covering the bass (with my Roland GR-55) on the lower two or three strings and sometimes a lot of the keyboard stuff too, which keeps me on my toes. For instance, we do
Nights in White Satin and I have cello on low three strings at the same time as doing electric and (modelled) acoustic 12-string fingerpicking parts, and fade in a full string section on all six strings with the footpedal when needed for the chorus. With the keyboardist playing piano and the other guitarist faking bass with an octaver, it's a very full sound. Another fun one is Joe Jackson's
Is She Really Going Out With Him?, where I cover bass (modelled) on the bottom two strings and Rhodes on the upper four, all over the electric guitar sound. There is a nice counterpoint between the parts and some very interesting chord sequences for a pop song...
