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UNPLANNED DOWNTIME: 12th Oct 23:45
Solo of the Month (SotM) #79 - Challenge
stratman3142
Frets: 2072
This is the 79th solo of the Month (SotM) Challenge.
The challenge is now open and ends at midnight 21st February 2022.
Discussion:
You can download backing track from Soundcloud below:
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sotm79-2022-02-dr-hungry-make-your-mark?si=18189058a8c44aa1a64cd38a976df0dc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
There should be headroom to record your solo. Try to set a level without excessive master limiting, because we want to avoid loudness wars.
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sotm79-2022-02-dr-hungry-make-your-mark?si=18189058a8c44aa1a64cd38a976df0dc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Record your solo over the top of it and then submit it (ideally in mp3 format) to solos@theFB.co.uk
Also, feel free to comment on how you approached the solo, which will add a bit more interest and maybe we can learn something from each other.
Title: Make Your Mark
Tempo: 80 bpm
Chords:
Intro: |D / / Em |
A section
(|Cma7 / / / |D / / / |Cma7 / / / |D / / Em |) x2
B section
(|Em9 / / / |D6sus2 / / / | Ama7 / / / |Gma7 / / / |) x2
| Em9 / / /|
C part (same as A section)
(|Cma7 / / / |D / / / |Cma7 / / / |D / / Em |) x2
There should be headroom to record your solo. Try to set a level without excessive master limiting, because we want to avoid loudness wars.
Voting will start soon after the submission deadline, with each voter selecting their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice.
First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point
The order and scores of the top three entries will be announced soon after the voting ends.
No prizes. It's just for fun.
As people submit their entries, I'll post them below to hopefully promote some discussion on approaches used for the solo:
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/sotm79-2022-02?si=51fb78ac6b0e4bdaba043a1504ee0520&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/sotm79-2022-02?si=51fb78ac6b0e4bdaba043a1504ee0520&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
It's not a competition.
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I think that 'B section' wants to be...
| Em9 / / / |
Kind of modern mixed with 80's.
I got carried away in jamming along with this one and recorded a solo with about 20min of getting it from @DrHungry. I was going to replace it. But listening back I'll go with it.
I'll just wait for a couple of entries first before I submit mine, because I don't want to jump the queue by starting before the official start
It's in the playlist.
Nice one!
At the moment I'm looking for Watson, SS2, Vintage S, T62, Vanguard.
Please drop me a message.
It's in the playlist.
It was originally to test the levels, so it's basically a compliation of all of my cliches, which is what happens when I don't plan things out a bit. It was actually three takes stitched together because I didn't really look at the chords properly and was 'hunting around' in the middle bit, but hunting in the wrong forest during the first pass
Bit of USA Tele Neck Pick Up fun. Slightly adjusted tone for the 3 sections.
In the playlist. That makes 4 entries.
I put in a couple of octaves and ended up doubling most bits because it was too stop start with the guitar coming in and out.
This is the first thing I've ever put out publicly in about 35 years so hope it goes down well
Same guitar used on all parts - PRS SE Holcomb 6 tuned drop C which actually helped out as I could include a lot of open strings that were otherwise not possible in E standard.
I used Neural DSP Petrucci plugin for everything. The lead tones were "Stereo Lead" factory preset and the warmer jazzy guitar preset was Tom Quayle's "Huge Stereo - Clean Amp".
Guitar was straight into a DI box into Fireface UCX interface.
It's in the playlist. Good to have another new contributor.
The backing has 3 wildly varying sections so I wanted to be able to reflect those differences but at the same time keep some kind of consistency through it. My signal chain is therefore pretty much the same throughout with just a change of pickup, volume pot and picking attack, although I did add a bit of doubling effect to the A section and the panning and reverb levels vary.
The A section was meant to be a Mark Lettieri style modern 80s pop/funk (the riff is adapted from one of the lessons from his excellent Jam Play course that I have yet to complete) so I tried to keep the phrases short with a lot of staccato. The Q&A bit was all recorded in one go and I just adjusted the panning and switched the doubler on and off to give some contrast. The B section was a chord sequence adapted from an Erykah Badu track, so I used all of my cliched neo soulisms on the neck pickup for a bit of mellow distinction from the other sections. The C section shuffle reminded me of something by Toto so I rolled up the volume, flipped to the bridge, dug in and...used the one Lukather lick that I can actually play. The one from Rosanna where he does a whole tone bend and then adds the pinky on top. And that was that!
Signal chain was my trusty tele with the usual gain stacking - Jan Ray --> Benson fuzz with the gain backed off --> Humboldt Simplifier set for a British EL34 sound --> interface. Compression, delay, reverb and sometimes doubling added in Studio One. It was recorded as a complete solo in "one take"...but about 5 times and I nabbed the bits from each that I didn't fluff.
There you go - more information than anyone needed on Sunday morning about my 80 seconds of solo. Everyone's efforts this month have been top notch by the way, some really innovative ideas but also lots of similar themes coming through. It's great to hear some people running with the ideas I had in my head but with the technical chops to pull it off! I promise I didn't listen to any before I recorded mine - except @stratman3142 ; who'd sent me his solo in January within about an hour of me sending him the track!
It's in the playlist.
Feedback thread: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/3575378