EP 154 – Gypsy Waltz

[Duffy P]

Here’s a take on EP154, which is one of my favorites so far. I have two lead guitar tracks, but they don’t overlap, and a rhythm track. Hope you like listening to it almost as much as I liked doing it.

[Doug T]

Good job, great sound

[charjo]

Hi Duffy,
Sounded good. Nice idea to add your own rhythm track. Is the first lead the natural sound of your baritone or did you add some effects?
John

[Lights]

Yeah! I like it!

[WBlues]

Hi Duffy, really great. I like it very much if their own ideas are incorporated. You can get a non-simple Solo ideas. What DAW did you do that? Did you put your Solo as an add-on to the melody and the tone of the first melody lowered? Or have you interrupted your first melody?

Wilfried

Play guitar just like you live; don't get bogged down in theory, it's just a tool without feeling.

Wilfried

[Jeff Y]

Some really nice parts to that…cool sound

[Bryce-AKguitar]

Duffy that was great! Really well done! I love you improvs too! Great job!

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[Brian]

Beautiful job on this 🙂 Nice improv as well – that’s what it’s all about. That’s challenging to improvising over because of the unusual chord changes but you hung in with it and made it sound very intentional

[Scott M]

Wonderful rendition of this lesson Duffy. Well done.

Scott

[Don D.]

Hi Duffy, there’s a nice ambling gait in that piece that you really brought out. Solid playing. My only criticism, it seems like the kind of piece that should have a definite ending, not a fade.

Don D.

[Duffy P]

Thanks, guys.

@charjo – Lead is all with my six string. No baritone. I turned the bass up on the amp, and added some compression and echo for the first melody part.

@wilfried – It’s all done with my sound hole pickup into my iPad with Garageband. I have three guitar tracks. The rhythm track is self explanatory, but I did add a little chorus pedal. Then I have a lead track for the main melody at the start, using one amp, with compression and echo. For the “solo lead” part, I recorded it separately and used a different amp in garageband (the Marshall looking one), with different effects – compression, echo, and just a touch of tremolo.

@Brian – the tricky part here, because its outside of what you usually do, is the transition to A7, especially from the Eb bridge. That’s what I found so fun. Also, it was a challenge for me to try to incorporate some of the blues type things that I’ve been learning here into the lead, and not have it sound so much like the running scales that typically plagues my soloing.

@Don – To a certain extent, I am a slave to the backing track. But I suppose, with some extra work, I could fade the backing track out towards the end, and then come up with an ending that is just my guitars together. Perhaps for a later lesson. But I agree with your basic point.

[bri-uklefty]

What a really rich deep tone and as John mentioned that baritone really comes through the beginning into the contrasting lead.
Thoroughly enjoyed that one!
Cheers Bri

[kubrider]

Hey Duffy, that’s really well done. Take a bow.
I enjoyed it start to finish, perhaps a different ending but that’s being picky picky.
You put this together very quickly I may add.
Rob

[sciencefiction]

Fantastic job, Duffy. I really enjoyed it. Your original solo on top of everything else really adds to it! I don’t know how you guys do these big productions. It’s fun to listen and try to figure out how you put these things together.

Larry

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