[QUOTE=Disconnection Notice]And "making your own music" is no harder than making a good sample.[/QUOTE]

You don't write a lot of your own music do you? I can guarantee you that writing your own song is a lot harder than just taking an already written song and adding some stuff to it in the studio.

George Thorogood is coming to my city in a couple months, I'm gonna get tickets. Everyone keeps on freaking out because I'm not going to Velvet Revolver, they are coming to a city thats like two hours way...and I'm freaking out because no one cares about George Thorogood.

Good Late Underrated Dead Song
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Grateful Dead - Don't Ease Me In

What makes an already written song easier is capability to work with the scales in the same structure the artist uses..which is why i like learning an entire song by a band, study thesong (usually the solo), and work off his technique to inovate on it myself.

Im no good original music maker, since i dont want to contribute any bad form of music in such an age we live in today. Im startin to get the hang of Scales and Modes though, and i actually innovated of Claptons - Crossroad about 16 bars longer then the solo and it sounded pretty good.

Now im on to black dog, which ive known for over a year, but never bothered with the solo

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Im no good original music maker, since i dont want to contribute any bad form of music in such an age we live in today. Im startin to get the hang of Scales and Modes though, and i actually innovated of Claptons - Crossroad about 16 bars longer then the solo and it sounded pretty good.
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I think I'm just about the opposite. I can't be bothered to learn a real song by a band/artist, I just make up my own stuff. A lot of people think I'm crappy at guitar to because they are all like "play this song" and I have to tell them I don't know that song. Although I can improvise to any song and it sounds awesome. Improvising to Clapton is always fun, especially with Cream.

edit- dammit when did I get 3000 posts? I was looking forward to that for a while, and I missed the post!

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]I think I'm just about the opposite. I can't be bothered to learn a real song by a band/artist, I just make up my own stuff. A lot of people think I'm crappy at guitar to because they are all like "play this song" and I have to tell them I don't know that song. Although I can improvise to any song and it sounds awesome. Improvising to Clapton is always fun, especially with Cream.

edit- dammit when did I get 3000 posts? I was looking forward to that for a while, and I missed the post![/QUOTE]

I love playing along with Cream. My favorite band to jam along to.

I couldnt believe how smooth Clapton worked up and down the fret board, you wouldnt even notice if you were just listening to it.

Crossroads seemed to have the same scale use as Comfortably Numb (the song i learned right before), so that worked out conviniantly for me

I think a really good classic rock band is that band the backstreet boys.
Those guys are super cute and i want to have sex wiht them.

i'm pretty sure Clapton just uses the minor pent or blues scales, maybe with a little extra notes for flavour. you can't really tell but Gilmour also uses a lot of those scales, he doesn't sound as bluesy as Clapton though.

I saw Gov't Mule last night, it was an unbelievable show, 3 and a half hours of Mule tearing up the stage. It was the last stop of their Deja Voodoo Winter tour. A guitarist from RANA Scott Metzger also jammed with Warren for a bit.

[QUOTE=Distant Echoes]I couldnt believe how smooth Clapton worked up and down the fret board, you wouldnt even notice if you were just listening to it.

Crossroads seemed to have the same scale use as Comfortably Numb (the song i learned right before), so that worked out conviniantly for me[/QUOTE]

Crossroads works with the A minor pentatonic, but in some parts it also switches to A major.

I forget the exact name, since of course, im no good guitarist, but it some kind of minor scale.

The added blues notes are incredibly evident though, but i seem to like the blues scale better then the minor pentatonic. Not just cause its the minor pentatonic + a note, but that extra note just kicks so much ***.

That Blues riff is pretty sweet too. Who cant like that riff.

Speaking of the blues riff... NP: Bring it on Home

[QUOTE=magicbus]Crossroads works with the A minor pentatonic, but in some parts it also switches to A major.[/QUOTE]

Wel thatll answer my questions :lol:

id totally rep you, but am sortta restrained

[QUOTE=Jam2Me]I saw Gov't Mule last night, it was an unbelievable show, 3 and a half hours of Mule tearing up the stage. It was the last stop of their Deja Voodoo Winter tour. A guitarist from RANA Scott Metzger also jammed with Warren for a bit.[/QUOTE]

That's awesome man.

[QUOTE=Distant Echoes]Wel thatll answer my questions :lol:

id totally rep you, but am sortta restrained[/QUOTE]

No problem. And I'm pretty sure Clapton does throw in the blues notes like you said, he does often. Do you know what the major pentatonic is?

[QUOTE=magicbus]Crossroads works with the A minor pentatonic, but in some parts it also switches to A major.[/QUOTE]

Such a wanna be BB King.

...Or Blues player in general :upset:


/loser

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]i'm pretty sure Clapton just uses the minor pent or blues scales, maybe with a little extra notes for flavour. you can't really tell but Gilmour also uses a lot of those scales, he doesn't sound as bluesy as Clapton though.[/QUOTE]

You can't tell that Gilmour is bluesy because of all the synthesizers and other effects that Pink Floyd use, but if you strip it down to just the guitar, you find a conservative blues guitar.

What makes Gilmour stands out is the use of regular blues guitar licks in an out-of-the-blues music, like Floyds.

It's the same thing with rock 'n roll. The best rock solos are basically blues solos used on another context, that being rock.

I've also heard a blues solo over some reggea, and it sounds awesome.

[QUOTE=magicbus]No problem. And I'm pretty sure Clapton does throw in the blues notes like you said, he does often. Do you know what the major pentatonic is?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but im having a hard time actually remembering it, and putting into effect as easily as a scale that can be barred

[QUOTE=Distant Echoes]Yeah, but im having a hard time actually remembering it, and putting into effect as easily as a scale that can be barred[/QUOTE]
Here's a trick so you'll be able to bar both:

You start the A minor pentatonic on the fifth fret correct? Well the major pentatonic is the same pattern moved back 3 frets, in this case it'd be started on the second fret. So this way you could basically take all your licks, move them back 3 frets, and you'd be in major.

The trick is to learn both the minor and major patterns all the way up the neck, and then be able to interchange the notes without having to keep jumping back frets.


And to Slowhand, very insightful. You always make good points. :thumb:

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Good Late Underrated Dead Song
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Grateful Dead - Don't Ease Me In[/QUOTE]

You know exept for the Dead songs on Skeletons From the Closet I think pretty much all Greatful Dead is underrated.

Er, I wouldn't say everything the Grateful Dead did. But much of it is.

Shakedown Street don't get no love :(

[QUOTE=jpjrulestheworld]Shakedown Street don't get no love :([/QUOTE]

Yeah, allmusic giving it 2 stars. WTF

I'd five it a 4.5/5 - 5/5

I wish I'd just gotten the Golden Road box set, since I'm probably going to end up with most/all of those albums.

[QUOTE=slowhand]You can't tell that Gilmour is bluesy because of all the synthesizers and other effects that Pink Floyd use, but if you strip it down to just the guitar, you find a conservative blues guitar.

What makes Gilmour stands out is the use of regular blues guitar licks in an out-of-the-blues music, like Floyds.

It's the same thing with rock 'n roll. The best rock solos are basically blues solos used on another context, that being rock.

I've also heard a blues solo over some reggea, and it sounds awesome.[/QUOTE]

That's very true. I never really realized how bluesy Gilmours solos were until I played them on my own, without any of his effects or the rest of the band playing.

I've never heard Shakedown Street. You're saying it's not a bad album? (not directed towards Slowhand.)

has anyone got the doors box set?

[QUOTE=jpjrulestheworld]Shakedown Street don't get no love :([/QUOTE]


I just don't get Shakedown St, I like it, but not as much as their earlier stuff. It seems kinda disco-y, was it a parody of disco or was it just their version of it like Floyd's "We don't need no education"?

[QUOTE=Walrus Gumboot]I just don't get Shakedown St, I like it, but not as much as their earlier stuff. It seems kinda disco-y, was it a parody of disco or was it just their version of it like Floyd's "We don't need no education"?[/QUOTE]

Oh man, you just n00bed it. Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In the Wall Part 2" is the song name.

1.) Shakedown Street the album and song were released before The Wall.

2.) It isn't a parady, it's a Funk influenced song. Or Disco, but Funk is the main basis of Disco.

[QUOTE=lunch998]Oh man, you just n00bed it. Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In the Wall Part 2" is the song name.[/QUOTE]


:upset:

Moon can you send me some Old and In the Way samples sometime?