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Okay that’s a lot of words for the title.
But! I recently noticed that I get lost in simple 12 bar blues if I don’t have the drummer and bass letting me know of the upcoming chord changes. I’ve been caught off guard a few times and I wanted to work on my mental resiliency to stay focused on the background chord structure of the song while also playing lead.
My goal was to combine chord tones, chord shapes, and major and mior pentatonics into a blues where there wasn’t a backing track to lean on for a crutch.
Critique most welcome! I want to be the guitar player that other guitar players think is good. I’m gonna get there!
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Sounds good to me Austin. What helped me with the issue you described is to learn some of the “call and response” lessons that Brian has done. It’s kind of like playing with backing track, except you yourself have to provide the chords, then noodle in amongst them.
Everyone who signs up for Active Melody wants to jump straight into lead guitar, so the rhythm guitar technique is left untouched by most of us. But if you practice rhythm guitar enough, it helps to burn those chord changes into your brain.
Sunjamr Steve
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Excellent Austin.
Your playing is mighty fine.
Only thing I would’ve like to here the backtrack, could barely hear it.
Well done.AndréM
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Actually Andre there was no backing track! Just playing to myself to see if I could get the audience to hear the chord changes without having a bass player or drummer give me the cues.
And Sunjamr – You’ve got a great tip there. After I get some modes down, I am going to do a deep diver in the rhythm courses! I was actually wondering what I was going to do next so I’m glad you mentioned it.
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Nice work Austin. Great that you can hear chord changes coming up and play to them – I am tone deaf when it comes to being able to do that.
Soloing on electric guitar without a backing track is tricky and it is hard to sound good. Its the reason I have never posted myself soloing electric guitar the way you have done – never happy with the way I sound doing that. You sounded pretty good doing this and Kudos to you for this.
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I quite like it, I could definitely feel the progression moving in your playing. I sometimes do a shell voicing (often just the 3rd and 7th) of a chord to 1. mark where I am in the song, and 2. remind myself to not fill every moment with single notes.
A thing that I noticed is that you repeated yourself more than a few times, which is not that bad if it’s done as a kind of callback to a melody, but it somehow felt like it was more of a lick that was repeated rather than a melody. I think you know what I’m talking about (after you go back to the I on bar 7 and 8 as well as on the turnaround). That might be a case for transcribing what others are playing to widen your vocabulary.
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Great playing Austin. To be honest, I couldn’t detect the progression and the changes too well, but without a doubt that was me. But I very much liked what you were playing and wondered if I could do the same. The answer is no, but that tells me I should work on that, too. So thanks for posting this!
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A thing that I noticed is that you repeated yourself more than a few times, which is not that bad if it’s done as a kind of callback to a melody, but it somehow felt like it was more of a lick that was repeated rather than a melody. I think you know what I’m talking about (after you go back to the I on bar 7 and 8 as well as on the turnaround). That might be a case for transcribing what others are playing to widen your vocabulary.
Yes Javi, I know exactly what you mean. I had intended to do 3 go-throughs of a 12 bar blues and edit it down to find the best one but I just uploaded the whole video as I hadn’t made too many mistakes! Good catch!
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