Stella By Starlight (guitar duo with myself)

[Adam C.]

Hope you enjoy it and thanks for listening.

[Mick-7]

I'm guessing you recorded the video on the left first? (and that you do not have an identical twin brother).

[AdroitMage]

I'm guessing you recorded the video on the left first? (and that you do not have an identical twin brother).

LOL. You should check out the 'evenouttwins' on Instagram. You have a good sense of humor, so I know you'll get a kick out of it.

[Adam C.]

I'm guessing you recorded the video on the left first? (and that you do not have an identical twin brother).

Correct, the left one was first.
Haha, unfortunately. Let's hope they find a way to make clones.

[AdroitMage]

You already know this, but even though it's counterintuitive cloned humans would probably not look "identical" like the clones in Star Wars, or other movies; they would look quite similar but probably not identical. There is, though, a 'possibility,' that the clones would look very, very close like identical,"identical twins." So if you hatched enough clones you would probably get a small minority of them that could pass the 'identical twin' muster.

The thing is, if you look close, even "identical twins" don't look "identical," meaning if you look close you can tell them apart. Look at Tia and Tamara Mowry, for example, "identical twins," but you can easily tell who is who. Mary-Kate and Ashley are closer in looks, but if you look close, you can tell the difference too.

Hey, the clones looking and behaving identically makes for some good movie storylines though.

On another note, I hear a really hip, sophisticated melodic voice developing in your playing, Adam. You're definitely going in the right direction with your improv. Good luck with your music.

[ragman1]

Playing the melody then trying to fit the chords to it doesn't really work and I don't know why you did it that way. Get the chords down then solo to it, much better and much easier.

Nice guitar tone, though. Very good.

[AdroitMage]

Playing the melody then trying to fit the chords to it doesn't really work and I don't know why you did it that way. Get the chords down then solo to it, much better and much easier.

Nice guitar tone, though. Very good.

That is more like what you'll experience in the bandstand. You can hear the chords going on while you solo, and the chord sub choices of the piano player, for example, might influence what you play.

[Adam C.]

Playing the melody then trying to fit the chords to it doesn't really work and I don't know why you did it that way. Get the chords down then solo to it, much better and much easier.

Nice guitar tone, though. Very good.

Hey, thanks for the advice. I tried to mimic a duo situation, listening and reacting to eachother (well, yes…me). In my view harmony and melody it’s the same thing: improvising.
But then, the right guitar (second solo and last theme), was playing over while listening to the chords of the left take, so I have kind of both situations here.

Thanks man!

[ragman1]

Hey, thanks for the advice. I tried to mimic a duo situation, listening and reacting to eachother (well, yes…me). In my view harmony and melody it’s the same thing: improvising.
But then, the right guitar (second solo and last theme), was playing over while listening to the chords of the left take, so I have kind of both situations here.

I'm not sure it quite works like that. I used to duo with a good player. Thing is, I'd known him a long time so a lot of it was tuning into him rather than trying to follow what he was doing.

But I've also tried what you were doing, recording the melody/solos first, and there was no way I could ever really guess where the right points to stick in the chords were. Approximately, obviously, but not properly.

I think what you were playing was good. Put the chords down first and let's hear it at its best. If you're only doing intermittent comping then keep a beat of some kind going (then quietly remove it later :-)).

[MinToyTot]

In a perfect world there would be no difference between chords first vs melody first because you'd have a complete vision of both parts as you were playing the first one which you could then just remember when it came time to play part 2... since everyone seems to agree that chords first is easier, maybe it's more productive to do it the other way around?

[Adam C.]

In a perfect world there would be no difference between chords first vs melody first because you'd have a complete vision of both parts as you were playing the first one which you could then just remember when it came time to play part 2... since everyone seems to agree that chords first is easier, maybe it's more productive to do it the other way around?

Agree 100%. And even if one don’t remember the melody that he/she played, it’s already recorded so one can listen to it a bunch of times before recording the second part.
Which was kind of my case, the first part was not hard to record, but the second part requested a lot of takes before this one, comping being the hardest part.

My take it’s far from perfect, but hey, that’s why we’re here. To learn and get better.