Inspired by Briang's writing/recording project and the monthly challenges, I've decided to start my own personal challenge. Having not been in a band for years now, I haven't really needed to exercise any creativity as far as lead guitar work goes. I've gotten lazy with that stuff.
The guitar players I always looked up to weren't necessarily the ones who were setting their fretboards on fire with speed and technicality, but rather the guys like Marty Friedman, Joe Satriani (more his earlier stuff) and even Jeff Beck who were/are great at making their guitars sing while throwing blistering runs mostly to enhance the melodies.
I like solos that tell stories of their own. Little songs within the songs. So, I've decided to exercise creativity and force myself to sit down and write stuff to go over pretty basic riffs, partly just to see how rad a solo can be over something short and repetitive. I'm going to attempt to pump these out as regularly as possible, keeping the tunes fairly brief.
Here are three from this past week. My favourite is It Squeeks ?
I've been using the Van Halen Eruption guitar tone for the lead stuff.
Please let me know what you think and also if the volume and clarity is ok. It sounds fine in my headphones but I have a feeling it could be shite from a speaker set. So far I've been recording on Audacity and with these three tunes I've compressed each track. I guess that does something...
The guitar players I always looked up to weren't necessarily the ones who were setting their fretboards on fire with speed and technicality, but rather the guys like Marty Friedman, Joe Satriani (more his earlier stuff) and even Jeff Beck who were/are great at making their guitars sing while throwing blistering runs mostly to enhance the melodies.
I like solos that tell stories of their own. Little songs within the songs. So, I've decided to exercise creativity and force myself to sit down and write stuff to go over pretty basic riffs, partly just to see how rad a solo can be over something short and repetitive. I'm going to attempt to pump these out as regularly as possible, keeping the tunes fairly brief.
Here are three from this past week. My favourite is It Squeeks ?
I've been using the Van Halen Eruption guitar tone for the lead stuff.
Please let me know what you think and also if the volume and clarity is ok. It sounds fine in my headphones but I have a feeling it could be shite from a speaker set. So far I've been recording on Audacity and with these three tunes I've compressed each track. I guess that does something...