The Fretboard Guitarist Collective - Task 1 August 2013

Fretwired · August 2013

I'd thought we'd start gently with a blues backing track in A. The task is to record over the backing track with the aim of adding some emotion into your playing with vibrato, bends, slides, hammer-ons, slide guitar etc. Add additional instruments and chop up the backing track .. feel free to be creative.

If we have a few beginners I've setup a page with a couple of basic scale choices and the chord pattern ... download the track at: http://www.fretwired.com/task.html

Post your efforts on here .. if you don't have any web space then I can host your files .. just send me a PM. Alternatively, join Soundcloud or one of the other music sharing sites.

Phil_aka_Pip · August 2013

I'm not sure how to go about this. I have a PC running XP and I'm sure I can download the MP3. My workstation is a Yamaha AW16G, it can read a red book audio CD or a CD with a WAV file on it but I'm not sure about anything else. The XP machine also has a free copy of Audacity which can make an MP3 out of a WAV but I'm not sure of the other way round. Anyway the big issue is getting the backing track into my AW16. The rest should be straightforward procedure after that. BTW going the other way would be me burning a WAV onto a CD then toddlng downstairs with it to import the WAV into Audacity then converting to MP3 before uploading to soundcloud.

Fretwired · August 2013

I can supply a wav file if that helps - can you burn a CD?

clare_bear · August 2013

Thanks @Fretwired I've just picked up my guitar for the first time in months, to play along to this! I decided to seize the time I had and just have a quick blast. It sounded crap but felt good :-)

TTony · August 2013

Excellent - thanks for setting this up. I shall play

dindude · August 2013

Yeah, I had first pass tonight, not good. Will have a few more blasts and will post if at all bearable.

Phil_aka_Pip · August 2013

Fretwired said:

I can supply a wav file if that helps - can you burn a CD?

Yes I can burn a CD. Any chance of putting the file on dropbox for me to download?

ourmaninthenorth · August 2013

Nice one. :-\"

Fretwired · August 2013

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Fretwired said:

I can supply a wav file if that helps - can you burn a CD?

Yes I can burn a CD. Any chance of putting the file on dropbox for me to download?

No problem. PM me an email address to send it to.

littlegreenman · August 2013

Downloaded. Will have a noodle at the weekend.

clare_bear · August 2013

As I have a day off from the little one and had a few spare minutes, I've recorded an extremely rough and ready 'lead' part. It's warts and all (well, mostly warts!), but I'm quite proud of my effort as it was one take and only the second time I've played any kind of lead guitar for a couple of years. I've done no 'mixing' or anything, it's just as it was/is.

Here it is....endure

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12442890

TTony · August 2013

clare_bear said:

I've recorded an extremely rough and ready 'lead' part.

Sorry.

That was "rough and ready" ???

Fretwired · August 2013

clare_bear - I liked that. Some nice phrasing and slides ... if that's what you can do in a few minutes think what you can do if you spent a whole week ... :-)

Have a wow ...

clare_bear · August 2013

Awww thanks guys. I'd forgotten how supportive you all are. Maybe I can squeeze some more playing time into my schedule and finally improve my lead playing.

RedRabbit · August 2013

Hope I can get my head around linking SoundCloud on here

Had a quick play over the backing, not 100% and may try a more polished version at the weekend but for now it's this

Edit - sorted it.

mudslide73 · August 2013

I had about 20 cracks through this today but I run out of ideas after a couple of mins. I'll try again tomorrow!

dindude · August 2013

Had another blast through last night, not sure I'm gonna get another chance this week so this will have to do for now, so it's a bit raw and loose. You'll be pleased to know I cut it short after the 3rd cycle, no one needs to hear a full 5 minutes of my white-boy wailing.

bigjon · August 2013

My first collective entry since 2009 :-) I'll try and listen to the entries from everyone else tonight & offer constructive comments :-)

I'm into jamming rather than recording, so in a spare 10 minutes yesterday evening I got my daughter to record a one-take vid of me playing over Fret's backing track, using an instrumental version of a blues song I wrote called 'Jumping The Gun' :-)

Danny1969 · August 2013

I had a quick blast today, it's here :

http://www.2020studios.co.uk/dan-jam.mp3

Not a great tone, just a Les Paul into GT5 into desk

@Clare : You have come on a long way, just shake it a bit more and play with more confidence, will sound great.

@RedRabbit : That's pretty good for a quick attempt, bit more expression though maybe ?

@dindude : Your ideas sound pretty similar to mine, nicely done

@bigjon : Terrible recording, understandably but you play really well, nice control of bends and vibrato

Nice to stuff like this again

RedRabbit · August 2013

@Danny1969 - cheers for the feedback. I know expression is a bit of a vague topic but could you expand a bit please?

I'll have a listen to everyone else's as soon as I can, probably tomorrow night.

Danny1969 · August 2013

RedRabbit said:

@Danny1969 - cheers for the feedback. I know expression is a bit of a vague topic but could you expand a bit please?

I'll have a listen to everyone else's as soon as I can, probably tomorrow night.

Just meant maybe more of the expression that's already there, like wider vibrato on the bends and such. Mainly I spose cos it's blues and they say it's not the notes but how you play them that counts in this gene. I'm not much of a blues player but I think that's the idea. You got the note knowledge just need to attack it with a little more aggression

Fretwired · August 2013

Wow new contributions ... I'm still at work so I will listen later or tomorrow morning. Keep 'em rolling.

bigjon · August 2013

@Clare : Really like the tone on this one:warm and welcoming, sounds like it was recorded by a blazing fire on a winter's evening in a log cabin :-bd

@RedRabbit : breathes nicely, shows confidence to leave big gaps between the phrases. The tone varies well depending on how aggressive the pick-strokes are. The lead guitar is panned quite a long way left, which sounded slightly odd in my headphones (or maybe it's my duff headphones)

@dindude : Sounds John Mayer-ish. This is a very good thing. And a marvellous Beck-ism at 1:30. Like the pentatonic-up-a-tone scale choice.

@Danny1969 : Great use of different registers within a lick, also like the strong major 3rd chord-tones and moving 6ths. The nod to EVH at 2:16 did stick out sore-thumb-like a bit, though, ditto 2:35. Fantastic phrasing at 3:45!

RedRabbit · August 2013

Not sure what's going on with the panning. I thought I'd left it going straight down the middle but will give it a listen with headphones to get a better idea.

bigjon · August 2013

RedRabbit said:

Not sure what's going on with the panning. I thought I'd left it going straight down the middle but will give it a listen with headphones to get a better idea.

Now listening to general youtube stuff through headphones & they've started crackling and hissing. I think it's much more likely to have been my headphones than your production

TTony · August 2013

bigjon said:
@Danny1969 : Great use of different registers within a lick, also like the strong major 3rd chord-tones and moving 6ths. The nod to EVH at 2:16 did stick out sore-thumb-like a bit, though, ditto 2:35. Fantastic phrasing at 3:45!

That's a concise summary of how little I know. "Different registers"? "strong major 3rd"? "moving 6ths"?

bigjon · August 2013

TTony said:

bigjon said:
@Danny1969 : Great use of different registers within a lick, also like the strong major 3rd chord-tones and moving 6ths. The nod to EVH at 2:16 did stick out sore-thumb-like a bit, though, ditto 2:35. Fantastic phrasing at 3:45!

That's a concise summary of how little I know. "Different registers"? "strong major 3rd"? "moving 6ths"?

"Different registers" = "Low notes and high notes next to each other" ;-)

TTony · August 2013

bigjon said
"Different registers" = "Low notes and high notes next to each other" ;-)

Thanks BJ.

I should explain that I'm more of a rhythm player, can't read music, would be guessing at notes other than EADGBE and have never spent more than a minute studying "theory". I think my last "proper" lesson was in 1973.

Ish.

Might have been '72.

Can't really swim too well either, so I know all about out-of-my-depth

But I'll still have a go at playing over the backing track (bet you're so looking foward to that now!!)

redrighthand · August 2013

My own little attempt, recorded sometime during an hour or so of jamming around with it.

dindude · August 2013

@Danny1969 sounds quite Jeff Beck in places, I approve. B-)

RedRabbit · August 2013

Just listening to a few now. I'm being fairly haphazard in choosing which to go for but I will get to them all in time

@dindude - great phrasing and tone I, for one, wouldn't of objected at all to being subjected to the full five minutes plus

@clare_bear - nice use of dynamics, the whole thing moves along nicely. There's a touch hesitance in some of the licks but I'm sure that'll vanish in a few tasks. Otherwise there's not much to suggest that you've not played much recently.

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