Robert's minor blues in Bm lead recording

[deeaa]

I don't think I've ever played over a backing track from Robert although listened to them many a time...so this morning I decided I'd do one, and here's my rendition of Robert's minor blues in Bm:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/clips/roberts_minor_dee.mp3

Recorded D/I to PC with my latest, the whammy-Yamaha w/an EMG 81.

Any comments welcome. I found it very difficult to try and come up with new variations all along the song, it's rather long. Especially the first 2 minutes or so are pretty damn boring now that I listen to it. Warmed up a little later on and going up the fretboard & started playing with the whammy bar.

 

[deeaa]

BTW is it OK Robert to post these clips with your backing to other forums as well? With mention to where the backing is from?

 

[Jimi75]

Good smooth sound. I don't find the first two minutes boring. You spice up the typical pentatonic with some Santana-notes. Try some variations on your target notes in the end of your licks. Good melody runs from 4:30 on. Nothing to complain here. I enjoyed listening to your take deeaa. :digit

 

[deeaa]

Thanks Jimi...to me it sounds very boring, though...but then again most any AOR-style blues does to me. Although it's fun to play stuff like this, I would never ever listen to anything remotely like this myself, really...but I think this won't be both the first and the last time with such backings, it makes for fun playing.

I went for a smooth slightly Santana-type sound with the mix, but since it's completely D/I and just a dry guitar signal recorded on track, I can still flip it into complete Metallica or ultra-clean sparkle no problem...that's what's so brilliant with these plugin amps. I had it on a little less saturated, bluesier drive at first, and maybe that works even better.

 

[Robert]

Thanks! That's great stuff! I liked the controlled first part.

Yes, go ahead and post it anywhere you want. If you mentioned where you got the backing track, that would be great. This one I didn't actually create though - I don't even remember where I got it from.

 

[Eric]

Sounds good for blues, but I agree that I usually wouldn't listen much to this sort of thing. Some of the vibratos really added a lot of character to it. I also like the sparse beginning, because you seemed to wring a lot of meaning from the notes and make them pop out more, due to the lack of a continual line.

I'm always amazed by that: just how much of a difference space makes in music. In large part, that's what makes riffs stand out, and your boys in AC/DC are a perfect example: basic chords, but played with interesting gaps in between that make it memorable.

Considering that was an EMG 81, that was a pretty full sound!

 

[helliott]

Nice playing. May not be your first choice of music, but you did a nice job nonetheless. There is lots of room for nice melodic construction within the blues envelope, even if it seems a bit restrictive. It's all in the execution. Enjoyed that.:applause

 

[deeaa]

Thanks guys! And yeah, an 81 works fine for D/I...I find in D/I recording all that really matters is the pickup is noiseless. You can basically record with a singlecoil neck pickup and still make it sound like a biting bridge bucker, or vice versa...any suitably strong signal works fine with D/I and plugin modelers, they take the sound and change it so completely if wanted, it's all the same which guitar or pickup you use.

 

[syo]

Would love to hear it but nothing's coming down. Did you remove it?

 

[deeaa]

Um, no...do try again...probably some glitch in international lines

 

[syo]

Um, no...do try again...probably some glitch in international lines

Got it. Don't know about the international line glitches but downloading required copying and pasting the link in the browser for me. Otherwise no dice...I mean no deeaa

I like it. Nothing boring in there whatsoever. I read Jimi's comment after listening. For me 4:30 or so is when I was really flowing with it. Very nice. :applause

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Cool Deeaa! I missed this last week. I liked it very much! That playing at around 4:30 or so is really effective and nice for at the end! It was even more effective because you had to wait for it. :thumbsup

 

[Pickngrin]

Tasty playing, Deeaa. We're always most critical of our own playing.

 

[SuperSwede]

I missed this too.. nice playing and great tone