What Are You Working On Right Now?

[joezlo]

The follow up to Joe Z II. ... & maybe this Darkness song:

 

[DrewJD82]

I started a little contest in a Mastodon FB group after all the recent Brent replacement discussion there. Partially in pursuit of my 'put up or shut up' conquest on the internet after a lot of people talked a lot of shit (myself included to a degree) in the last week. I figured it'd be fun to post up a backing track to Mastodon tune and have everyone post a solo for it, in the context that Mastodon calls you up the day they're playing in your town and want you to guest on that song, if you deliver, you get to join the band. I already made the backing track so I'm gonna noodle a bit over it for my own submission.

 

[norminal]

I started a little contest in a Mastodon FB group after all the recent Brent replacement discussion there. Partially in pursuit of my 'put up or shut up' conquest on the internet after a lot of people talked a lot of shit (myself included to a degree) in the last week. I figured it'd be fun to post up a backing track to Mastodon tune and have everyone post a solo for it, in the context that Mastodon calls you up the day they're playing in your town and want you to guest on that song, if you deliver, you get to join the band. I already made the backing track so I'm gonna noodle a bit over it for my own submission.

That sounds like fun!

 

[la szum]

As someone who listens to a lot of isolated tracks I often notice how much fizz and sizzle guitars have
Something a lot comment on as to being digital fizz and aggressive high frequency swarm of bees
But once in the mix it all works

Truth! Cymbals eat a ton of that up in a mix.... but if it is not there the guitars
can lose all their bite and cut.


It's why I love Marshalls so much. They never don't sit well in a mix, unlike some
of the more scoopy and mid/upper-mid lacking amps and how they are dialed in.

 

[la szum]

I have to play Misirlou this weekend. I hate playing Misirlou…

So that’s what I’m working on right now

I was going to ask for awhile back for your Top 3 of "Kill me already!" songs
you have to play.

 

[la szum]

I have never learned a Loudness song before. Prime 80s material, so shouldn't be too
far from learning a Dokken tune.

 

[Stone]

Akira Takasaki

 

[Stone]

Truth! Cymbals eat a ton of that up in a mix.... but if it is not there the guitars
can lose all their bite and cut.


It's why I love Marshalls so much. They never don't sit well in a mix, unlike some
of the more scoopy and mid/upper-mid lacking amps and how they are dialed in.

Yes and all these amps that sound thin and fizzy on original studio recordings aren't digital, those are those actually vintage coveted tube amps that we all so cherish no? Not digital recreations or modelled amps.

 

[la szum]

Yup. All of those rotten and less than ideal amps that needed to be "modded" to sound better.

 

[metropolis_4]

I was going to ask for awhile back for your Top 3 of "Kill me already!" songs
you have to play.

Haha, Misirlou might make that list for me

 

[Frankencat]

I built this one over the weekend. Dimarzio Norton bridge and Injector neck with some trick wiring under the hood, which includes a series-parallel CTS push-pull switch and a super cool kill switch from Tesi Switches. Featuring a partially scalloped birdseye maple compound radius neck, jumbo stainless frets, and the amazing Vega Trem! Shout out to Andres from Vega Trem for hooking me up with the right stuff. This came out great, sounds and plays killer and is very hard to put down.

 

[TSJMajesty]

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Nope, can't get that stretch consistent. So...., now I think this is the best way...

It changes the hardest stretch from 1/14 - 3/19 to 2/15 - 4/19, which is definitely more do-able for me, and my length-challenged pinky, consistently. Plus, that stretch is now the same 2 notes, all 3 times.

So many of these, wide-note-change riffs get you thinking of all the different ways to play them. Other riffs, where the notes are closer together, not so much.

Now I just need to stick with 1 way, so my brain can settle in to it!

 

[Frankencat]

Ok, ok, here’s some guitar noodling…

 

[FuzzyAce]

Ok, ok, here’s some guitar noodling…

Love the new build dude, well done.

 

[Frankencat]

Thanks bud.

 

[PLX]

Ok, ok, here’s some guitar noodling…

 

[duzie]

Simple is as simple does
Not so simple for me doing this

 

[TSJMajesty]

I just made a connection (that should've been obvious), in that when I feel like I'm falling behind the beat, I flex my bicep, and that transfers directly to the tendonitis in my elbow (the bone on the inside of your elbow.)

I know I need to eliminate tension in general, but this is the first time I could feel it contributing to this pain, directly. That, and I'm pretty sure, dairy. Every time I eat some ice cream, it tends to be worse for a couple days. Fuck me.

What'd DLR say, "Everything I like will make me sick or poor or fat."

 

[norminal]

I just made a connection (that should've been obvious), in that when I feel like I'm falling behind the beat, I flex my bicep, and that transfers directly to the tendonitis in my elbow (the bone on the inside of your elbow.)

Try handing it off to your wrist. A little flick always helps me. I actually try to let my wrist do the majority of the work when picking.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Try handing it off to your wrist. A little flick always helps me. I actually try to let my wrist do the majority of the work when picking.

It's my fretting hand.
But I'm trying to do the same, in being more conscientious about letting my fingers do the work.