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Playing solo is humiliating and I wish I was better at it. So the idea is to post a solo tune in this thread every day for december, first takes, it may not be pretty and I apologize for that but I thought it would be a fun way to push myself to play something solo every day and if anyone else is interested and wants to post feel free hopefully we can make progress together. Today I did "I Can't Get Started"
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12-01-2020 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by DonovanT
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A tune a day is ambitious, but it will really kick your butt into high gear. Great idea. I think you'll get a lot out of this.
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Sounds good for a one day project...a lot better than I could do.
I really like the idea of this but I think a song a week might be more realistic (but still ambitious) if I were to try it.
I'll keep a lookout for this thread. Good luck with the challenge.
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Originally Posted by steve burchfield
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I did a song per week a few years ago. Only made it through half the year, but it taught me a ton.
I keep at the weekly thing now with jam of the week on Facebook, great practice at internalizing things quickly, but im not doing solo guitar every week either...
But I love the idea of weekly challenges. Keeps the blood moving.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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As to rubato playing, you’ll hear the typical guys, Barney, Tal, Joe playing usually one run through of the tune in a rubato mode, treating it much like a classical cadenza. This is not easy as you have to balance where to stray from tempo and how to snap back. Without that contrast, in and out of temp, it becomes mush. To me, at least )))
There’s a quality vs quantity trade off you might consider. It takes a lot of work to pull off chord melody, or really learning any piece of new music jazz or classical. Part of the process is learning how to learn. Isolating what sections are troublesome, identifying different ways to finger to achieve smoothness, and the inevitable boredom of going over something time after time after time till it’s flowing and sounding good.
it really requires complete self awareness and honesty about how you sound, so you begin to recognize what you need to work on.
So from a learning standpoint think about whether you will be a better player knowing 30 songs poorly or a few you’ve really nailed.
Are you using flat wound strings? I don’t know that guitar but it does have a thin sound. Amplifier?
Anyway hope this makes sense/helps.
good luck
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Originally Posted by jazzkritter
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Originally Posted by jazzkritter
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Might want to try Thomastic Infeld Jazz Swing flat wounds. They have a nice mellow but strong sound and feel and are very popular.
Or D’Addaeio flats, they can be a bit brighter and are worth a try.
i get your point about having the freedom, i dont write anything out, i just have fun.
you take care!
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I bet it would be pretty good though a good amp, and maybe a better guitar. It would probably further inspire you, too. Something to look forward to, maybe?
I would be happy to be able to play at your level. I plan to work on my chord melody some day...
Enjoy and good luck.
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that was great ....
it’s a lovely tune , and lyric
i love the Tony Newley version
you’ve got it going on man !
i play it slower and more
scmultzy ....
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Originally Posted by AlsoRan
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Originally Posted by pingu
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Today I play "Gnid" and it kicked my ass, definitely botched a few parts in the melody but it's the nature of this challenge can't say I didn't warn ya.
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Remember, playing the right notes is only part of it. I say it's 25% of what makes music sound good.
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todays tune was "If I should Lose you"
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Hey, cool idea!
I'm big into playing solo and have found that I can make some money busking with it.
That said I'm playing mostly pop tunes but am getting heavily into jazz. I'm working on ATTYA right now and hopefully will have a good jazz repertoire by summer...maybe for a few restaurant gigs etc.
The only way that we can improve it to keep playing and practising.
I'll check out your songs tomorrow when I have some more time.
Keep going dude!!
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Here's a go at "Dedicated To You" This time I plugged in to an apollo twin and used the Luna recording system.
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and monks mood since I skipped yesterday
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