[Closed] STW Blues jam 2

go on, it'll be fun.

Did I miss the first one? (can't play, just love hearing guitars) 😀

Hi there, nice to be with you, happy you could stick around.
Like to introduce "Legs" Larry Smith, drums,
And Sam Spoons, rhythm pole,
And Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, bass guitar,
And Neil Innes, piano,
Come in Rodney Slater on the saxophone,
With Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax,
Hi, Vivian Stanshall, trumpet.

Big hello to big John Wayne, xylophone,
And Robert Morley, guitar,
Billy Butlin, spoons,
And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes... Nnnnice!

Princess Anne on sousaphone... Mmmm,
Introducing Liberace, clarinet,
With Garner "Ted" Armstrong on vocals,
Lord Snooty and his pals, tap dancing,
In the groove with Harold Wilson, violin,
And Franklin McCormack on harmonica.

Over there, Eric Clapton, ukulele.... Hi Eric!
On my left Sir Kenneth Clark, bass sax.... A great honour, sir.
And specially flown in for us, a session's gorilla on vox humana.
Nice to see Incredible Shrinking Man on euphonium,
Drop out with Peter Scott on duck call,
Hearing from you later Casanova, on horn,
Yeah! Digging General de Gaulle on accordion....
Really wild, General! Thank you, sir.
Roy Rogers on Trigger.

Tune in Wild Man of Borneo on bongos.
Count Basie Orchestra on triangle.... Thank you.
Great to hear the Rawlinsons on trombone,
Back from his recent operation, Dan Druff, harp.
And representing the flower people, Quasimodo on bells.

Wonderful to hear Brainiac on banjo,
We welcome Val Doonican as himself (Hullo there)
Very appealing, Max Jaffa.... Mmm, that's nice, Max!
What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion,
And a great favourite, and a wonderful performer, of all of us here, J. Arthur Rank on gong....

Ok, so that's nobody so far. Looking good.

Ten people have downloaded the backing, no takers? Is the backing that poop?

Should be able to do something later this week dude (will have to be with Guitar Rig though ;-()

Yeh i'll get on this tomorrow also.

Nice one guys. Looking forward to the results 🙂

Not my usual style of playing, but I'll give it a bash, can't get it sorted till the end of the week though. Should be a challenge!

Downloading now. Same as last time? ie Just wail over the top and you'll pick the best bits?
I'll try to get something done this week...

Hummerlicious, what style do you normally play?
Chipps, wail away that's cool.
Happy to get the full thing jammed and I'll pick, or your best 8 bars.
Really looking forward to hearing everyone.

Let's say I'm more metal than blues, unless you call Kirk Hammett a blues player. Not that I can play like him mind you, but that's where my 'style', such that it is, comes from. \m/

Well posted guitarhero, and thanks for hosting this one.
I have the excellent backing track downloaded already, and I'll spam/email a link to this thread to the guys from last time who I have an email address for.

Is there a deadline for submissions?

cinnamon_girl - Premier Member

Did I miss the first one? (can't play, just love hearing guitars)

CG, you'll find the first one here.....
http://www.youtube.com/user/stratobiker#p/u/8/iRfJrklIRG0

You have to watch the credits at the end to find out who's who. It's not just guitars there's Sax and Keyboards too!

SB

I'll work on it today!

Is there a deadline for submissions?

Hi

i've downloaded the track

are there any perticular sections you need or just play the whole thing ?

i might have time to do a few bars of the slow bit

cheers Dave

I might have a crack at this some time this week

Trying to overcome my inate 'need' to over play - quasi blues/classical numptiness

Plum

Nice Plum, but don't go changing. Are you gonna be able to supply me an isolated audio file of our part?

are there any perticular sections you need or just play the whole thing ?

**Ideally I would like 8 bars of JUST you playing, in a WAV file, or an mp3 at the highest bit rate you can. I'll also need an mp3 of that combined with the backing (or a you tube link), so I can sync and make it sound how you intended. It's OK to just play along with it all and send me that (again obviously JUST your guitar) but that will be more work for me to pick your best bit.
The order of the backing isn't cast in stone, it's just a rough to play along with. Depending on the response I may arrange it into more Verse Chorus etc format.***

I recommend uploading your files [url= http://www.datafilehost.com/ ]here[/url]. There are no wait times for downloading and no need to sign up.

Sorry for long post but just wanted to make clear what I need

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Let the blues-o-rama commence.....

I downloaded it and was going to try some jews harp but I really need blues in Dm if that's ok?

Here's my effort, I've tried to be as sensible as possible!

[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-3585cba1.html ]complete track[/url]
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-58d85a62.html ]gtr1 - hendrixy sound[/url]
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-29df209a.html ]gtr2 - dry[/url]
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-e4990d65.html ]gtr3 - wild delay[/url]
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-25d34b0a.html ]gtr4 - 'normal' me[/url]

GH,

Due to my lack of gear currently the you tube clip is the only way I can get it to you, I tried to edit it so you could just drop into any video that results.

Cheers like

Plum

fab idea guys, ive got my part recorded via minidisc mic, how the hell do i sysnc it with with back track? i dont have software by theway other than a dodgy mp3 line in convertor!

guitarhero,
I just sent you my bits by email.

earl_brutus
Get yourself a copy of Audacity - it's a free audio editing thingy.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

SB

Hummerlicious, Is gtr1 the one you want used? If so do you have it with backing as well for reference?
I really like the stuff you're doing in gtr4, do you have that in isolation?

plumber, no vid this time. Audio only, sorry mate.

earl, mail me with a bit more detail, not sure what you're asking

Simon, [url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-c705a425.html ]just for you[/url]

ok ive got audacity, got two tracks on there, mine and backing, how do i move my track say 2 secs to sync it with the backing, if i try cut an dpaste it always reverts to t+o rather than where the cursor is?

Earl, there's a tool on the tool bar, next to the transport, the one that looks like two arrows back to back.

GTR4 was my favourite, but least bluesy!! It should be synced up on the complete track. I just thought I'd give you the option of the others too.

4 it is then 🙂

gtr4 file should be it in isolation. If you want me to export it again let me know......

gtr 4 has the backing with it. Beam it on over in isolation. LOVE the trem stuff. Awesome work dude.

Cheers, it'll try and separate them tomorrow night then, riding tonight!

Plum,
Have you got some headphones?
If you could do a vid of the bit you want, then just a vid of the nylon guitar, I'll pull the guitar of the vid and convert it to mp3.

HTH
SB

ok, next job the files are about 60mb, hows best to send em over, (hotmail aint playin ball)

Will try and have a bash at this tomorrow. 🙂

Export as mp3 from audacity. Highest bitrate available

says I need some lane file or other to download before i can export mp3, any ideas?

earl, [url= http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Lame_Installation ]this'll sort you out[/url]

Can I just say that I've been enjoying listening? Looking forward to the finished product 8)

And of course I'm dead jealous I have no musical ability 😥

cinnamon_girl -
And of course I'm dead jealous I have no musical ability

CG - Tou shouldn't let that stand in your way. Get strummin'n'pickin girl! 🙂

>And of course I'm dead jealous I have no musical ability

Aha, drums for you, then 😉

I'll see if I can get something together over the next few evenings..

stratobiker/jond - I'll just stick to listening to my rock god of the moment (Joe Bonamassa) 8)

ok squire, my mp3s are mailed to you, thanks for the audacious help!

Two words EarlB..Awe some

That's earl_brutus and stratobiker in the can (so to speak)

C'mon everyone else, get on this over the weekend. Sounding great so far.

Bum, that went wrong, for some reason the backing track was also over the solo guitar tracks. I'll do it again tonight, although it'll probably be completely different!!

Think I'm pretty close, was working on something last night - just need to get a better take.

Is it any use if I simply lob backing track on one channel, guitar on t'other ? - that ought to be easy to separate I'd have thought.

jond, that should be fine.

I'm clearly missing something here! How do I get Audacity to record a stereo track without it recording the backing track onto it too? Every time I hit the record button it records the guitar I'm playing live, but also the backing track onto the new track. Help!

Hurrah, sussed it 🙂

Here's the complete track with my guitar:
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-45514b5d.html ]complete[/url]

Here's the guitar isolated:
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-aee81460.html ]solo only[/url]

Sorry if I put too many notes in, I tried to behave....

Hummer,

Holy shit you're worse than me! Tumeni Noats 😀

Plum

hummerlicious - that was pretty impressive, well done you!!

So, guys, who are YOUR guitar heroes then?

heres my effort
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-bb4afac7.html ]guitar only[/url]
[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ddf5bc4a.html ]with the backing track[/url]

Whats the tempo of the backing track?

6/8 80bpm

Thanks CG, I was holding back as much as I could honest!!

My heroes in no particular order:
Dave Gilmore
Jimi Hendrix
Kirk Hammett
James Hetfield
Dave Mustaine
Synyster Gates
Paul Gilbert
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Eric Clapton (cream period)
Frank Zappa

Probably more, but it's too early to think!

Nice Greivoustim, perhaps I did put in a few notes 😉

Nice work fellas. Hummerlicious, don't worry about the too many notes thing, there's plenty of tasteful stuff already 😉

Ouch!

OOps, not meant that way at all. Not saying yours lacks taste, think it sounds ace.
What I really mean that the track will be better for different styles.

You musicians and your fragile egos 😉

Hummerlicious, if you're still speaking to me, good to see another Paul Gilbert fan. Saw him live in Glasgow a couple of years ago. Wow, my jaw was badly bruised from continually hitting the floor. Did a cover of Hendrix's Red House. He tore the blues a new assh0le.

Infuences rather than heros

Tim Pierce
Neal Schon
Eric Johnson

Plum

It's alright, I should have added a 😉

I saw Paul last year at the Concorde 2 in Bighton, I think he's great, amazingly fast picking.

Plumber, yes I love Neal Schon, told you I'd forgotten some. The last band I was in we did 6 Journey songs in the set!

OK I am seriously intimidated by all these good guitarists so to balance it out I've uploaded my piss poor efforts

[url= http://www.phased.co.uk/upload/DavidBsshiteguitar.mp3 ]With track[/url]

[url= http://www.phased.co.uk/upload/DavidBsshiteguitaronly.mp3 ]Guitar only[/url]

Well, you've got to have a go haven't you, my excuse is punk rock.

Well I liked it DavidB, nice tone B-)

This has inspired me to dig out the 335!

Here's mine....

[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-b6e91640.html ]With Backing[/url]

[url= http://www.datafilehost.com/download-72387500.html ]Guitar only[/url]

Only got to do the first 66 bars, as I could not come up with any ideas to play over the changes, and the family are sat in the dark, as the low energy lights make my guitar buzz like mad ;-).

This has been good fun! Kudos to all the submissions so far, let's have lots more!

Iodius
1. What guitar is that..
2 what scales you playing, other than minor pentatonic?

I was thinking that Earle, a few interesting note choices there, me like.

The geetar was a 335 into an Orange Tiny Terror, with the master volume on full, though a Marshall powerbrake and into an old Park 2x12.

I think the scale is Dorian mode, (you just play a major scale, but shift it two frets down, so if the song is in A, you play G major scale). Also probably added the 'blue' note (b5th) when required.

The geetar was a 335 into an Orange Tiny Terror, with the master volume on full, though a Marshall powerbrake and into an old Park 2x12.

Aah, a bit of Dorian action, I struggle to steel myself off the Natural minor thing, despite my best efforts. I had to force myself to think about the blue note for this (if indeed I used it, I can't remember!).

Good stuff anyway 🙂

Does anyone know if there is a simple app on a iMac pro to record? I have Garage Band but it seems to be quite complicated and I've never used it before. ta!

TBH, from what I can gather, Garage Band is about as simple as it gets. It would be less hassle to watch some tutorial videos and read the manual than to try and find another application. All music applications have a learning curve, and Garage Band will be about as shallow as it gets.

I'm sure there would be plenty of people who would help you with this on the forum (i'll help as much as I can, but i've not used Garage Band)

Cheers,

simon - i used Garage band for mine. it is very easy

you can just drag the backing track MP3 from itunes into Garage band as one of the tracks

then use an additional track to record your guitar

last call for submissions. Start piecing it all together tonight

I've got submissions from:
stratobiker
hummerlicious
grievoustim
lodius
earl_brutus
DavidB

am I missing anyone?

Yup, me - many apologies, had a bit of faffing with mixed recording/mp3 yesterday (ie they shouldn't have been). A minor bit of cack-handedness remaining to fix when I get in and I'll upload/post here.

Nothin' from Chipps? 🙁

SB

I've uploaded it anyway, and you'll have to put yer fingers in yer ears 😉

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-3797288e.html

(I need to check what quality it's been exported with, it's default at the mo, whatever that is)

As mentioned, backing on one side, guitar on t'other. I'm in all evening so please post if there's a problem.

what key is it in please?

I think it was 128k, this is the 320k version:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ba1fd39c.html