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Solo of the Month (SotM) #90 - Challenge
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This is the 90th solo of the Month (SotM) Challenge.
The challenge is now open and ends at midnight 24th January 2023
Discussion:
You can download backing track from Soundcloud below: It ends suddenly, so add a fade if you wish.
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sotm90-fastonebaz-wheres-the-f-king-beat?si=5d8f547a45e74af7b03e2d8bc4177d7c&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: Where's The F_king Beat
Tempo: 145 bpm
Chords: (Not sure if this is dead right, but here's the gist of it. Those with better ears, feel free to correct it)
Em (for 16 bars) (edit possibly E7#9)
Fma7#11 F#m11 G6 Am11
Am (for 16 bars)
E7 E7/G# E7/B E7/D E7 E7 E7/B E7/D
Am to sudden ending
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:
It's not a competition.
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Comments
How are others hearing the tonality of that first section?
Definitely an Athens, GA alt/indie pop vibe to it. I'm immediately drawn to a call and response guitar with a baritone male and 2 part harmony female vocal singing about a psychedelic shrimp
Setting sail in a car as big as a whale...."
I've got one brewing, just reviewing my mixing.
I don't have enough musical grounding to describe in formal terms, but for me it has a lot of unresolved tension, like it's pulling in different directions - you think it's going to release after the climb, but it doesn't really. I've got something which I think fits for the initial section. It's great fun !
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Same here and for the same reason.
A fat 320 kbps.
My approach was to use a totally new patch in my Bias FX2 to try to make me play and sound different to normal, but it ended up sounded exactly like me anyway
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I think this is the strangest SotM we've had
Not sure if you meant my entry in particular, but either way, I concur !
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No. They're all weird. But interesting.
Then again the backing track is weird, so I'm not sure whether it's possible to be not weird.
That's 4 already.
I decided to keep it strange so I didn't use the D or G string at all. I'm sure nobody famous for psychedelic surf/indie guitar playing has ever done that...
I think it's Em blues, chromatic, A dorian and A harmonic minor along with some chordal and dissonant double stops. And a bitrate of 320.
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