Dirt Slow G
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- VikingBlues
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Dirt Slow G
Right - I've slapped the "learner" plates on the guitar and had another go at a bit more "dirt". I just don't give up!
The backing track is from BluesBlast.com and has the catchy title of "hi_dirtslow_g".
Slow dirty blues in G - bluesblast on the sticks plays some truly primitive drums is how it was described about half way down this linked page.
http://www.bluesblast.com/whatever/whatever.html
The Website refers to:-
tracks I put together for my own fun but you are welcome to share
The neighbours are away on holiday and there was a chance this morning for a recording by microphone at a decent volume level. Two takes intercut and panned left left and right. Both with the VS6 "SG" and through the Fender G-Dec3 30. I'm trying to get accumstomed to the way a solid body humbucker guitar plays again. As usual I'm hogtied by my lack of speed.
download/file.php?id=2029
Please be tolerant of an old guy pretending to be young again.
The backing track is from BluesBlast.com and has the catchy title of "hi_dirtslow_g".
Slow dirty blues in G - bluesblast on the sticks plays some truly primitive drums is how it was described about half way down this linked page.
http://www.bluesblast.com/whatever/whatever.html
The Website refers to:-
tracks I put together for my own fun but you are welcome to share
The neighbours are away on holiday and there was a chance this morning for a recording by microphone at a decent volume level. Two takes intercut and panned left left and right. Both with the VS6 "SG" and through the Fender G-Dec3 30. I'm trying to get accumstomed to the way a solid body humbucker guitar plays again. As usual I'm hogtied by my lack of speed.
download/file.php?id=2029
Please be tolerant of an old guy pretending to be young again.
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Improv on Slow Dirt Blues in G
Dirt G.mp3 - (3.05 MiB)
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- vancouverois
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Re: Dirt Slow G
A good one VB!
Nice back track that naturally leads you to an overdriven sound.
I'm sure your SG could do wonders with a bit of gain on the treble pickup
Nice back track that naturally leads you to an overdriven sound.
I'm sure your SG could do wonders with a bit of gain on the treble pickup
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A swedish saying; "You is not older then you feel". I'm old and feel young. To young to cach up with my real age. Don't worry to pretend to be young. We all have our life within us.
Nice to here you play more dirty and far from the VB sound. Good job.
Nice to here you play more dirty and far from the VB sound. Good job.
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Don't be so shy - crank it up! Humbuckers are so powerful!
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vancouverois wrote:Nice back track that naturally leads you to an overdriven sound.
I'm sure your SG could do wonders with a bit of gain on the treble pickup
Thanks guys - it's fun to stray a bit from the usual gentle VB sound.MichaelRobinson wrote:Nice to here you play more dirty and far from the VB sound. Good job.
I'll need to investigate the gain and treble pickup idea, but with this recording I'm already teetering on the edge of inner voice telling me things are getting too brash and noisy!
In order of your text - 1)Advice I should apply to all parts of my life, 2) advice that I will try and (gradually) follow, and 3) very true.12bar wrote:Don't be so shy - crank it up! Humbuckers are so powerful!
I had gone off the humbucker sound rather a lot - but this vs6 SG seems to have restored a lot of my interest in the 'bucker sound.
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An alternative take.
P90s and the PRS SE this time.
download/file.php?id=2063
It's just a little less restrained tahn the last attempt.
I'm very gradually easing myself towards playing with freedom - maybe get there by the time I'm 150.
P90s and the PRS SE this time.
download/file.php?id=2063
It's just a little less restrained tahn the last attempt.
I'm very gradually easing myself towards playing with freedom - maybe get there by the time I'm 150.
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Dirt Slow Jam - VB Take 2
Dirt Slow Jam_G.mp3 - (3.04 MiB)
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Hi VB...just listed to both cuts. I like the first one better!!! A bit more edgy...maybe you did not think so much, and just played!!! The ideas seemed to flow better on the first take for my taste. Both takes are very good though, and I still do also like the p90's you play (on last one). Give them both an 8 :)
Tytlblues
"Notes are expensive... spend them wisely”
BB King
"Notes are expensive... spend them wisely”
BB King
- VikingBlues
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Re: Dirt Slow G
I do like the bigger variation I seem to be able to get in tone from those P90s. Most of my other pickups seem very "samey" by comparison however I pick / attack the string.tytlblues wrote:I still do also like the p90's you play (on last one).
Seriously - thanks for listening to both takes. I think I'll need to get some distance in time before I can listen to todays recording with a more impartial ear. At the moment the first version does sound to me like I was playing it safer. It is very difficult to judge your own playing isn't it?tytlblues wrote:I like the first one better!!! A bit more edgy...maybe you did not think so much, and just played!!!
Glad you like both versions. They do seem a bit pedestrian though. Those old finger joints!
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Realy, realy good, VB. This is the hart of blues and you do it so well.
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Oh man VB, that is soulful blues
Keep it up
Pick or fingers? At some places I was 100% sure... fingers...???!!!
Pena
Keep it up
Pick or fingers? At some places I was 100% sure... fingers...???!!!
Pena
"The blues is a low down achein' chill" Robert Johnson
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Thabk you MR, thank you Pena - appreciate the kind comments.
You're right to be 100% sure ... yes - fingers. Usually only end up with a pick if I get serious damage to a nail. I find I can manage more of a voice, and more variations in tone than I get from a pick. For years I used a pick on electric guitars. It used to be the rules I think - fingers for acoustic and pick for electric. It was my better half that got me both getting an interest in the blues, and playing without the pick - I'm eternally grateful for her suggestions about both as my enjoyment in guitar playing has risen hugely as a result.Pena wrote:Pick or fingers? At some places I was 100% sure... fingers...???!!!
Pena
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I don't know you in person but have thought that you want to play sofistcated and dicipined. I think you want to be a gentlemen with your guitars. I don't know if it helps you but let go off the gentlemen now and then and you gradualy get free in youre style.
It's just how I see youre playing and youre desire to play freely.
It's just how I see youre playing and youre desire to play freely.
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You're not wrong. I was brought up in a social class (for want of a better description) where discipline and reserved and unemotional behaviour were considered to make you of good character. Combine that with being on only child and a bit of a loner when young. I suppose it's no wonder I find it difficult to let my hair down and throw caution to the wind.MichaelRobinson wrote:I don't know you in person but have thought that you want to play sofistcated and dicipined. I think you want to be a gentlemen with your guitars. I don't know if it helps you but let go off the gentlemen now and then and you gradualy get free in youre style.
I see the sort of performance, and more to the point, the sort of playing, that the likes of a Pete Townshend can do when they let rip, and I admire their ability to do that hugely.
Though I'm not sure if I would like to have the amount of anger in me that a lot of these players seem to be carrying around with them.
I do remember someone on this forum comparing the more aggressive blues playing as needing a channelling of feeling a bit like a method actor uses - dragging up bad feelings and trying to move them into your playing. It does work, but I must admit to not enjoying that process greatly.
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Re: Dirt Slow G
I prefer the first try, it seems that the humbuckers have the grit needed for this BT.
They just lack a bit of gain to make them singing!
The 2nd try is quite good, but it sounds like the P90 attack is softer.
consider it more like wild passion/burning love.
They just lack a bit of gain to make them singing!
The 2nd try is quite good, but it sounds like the P90 attack is softer.
About the Who, we may certainly "receive" it as anger but I guess that professionals play their heart out on stage and instead of anger I wouldVikingBlues wrote: I see the sort of performance, and more to the point, the sort of playing, that the likes of a Pete Townshend can do when they let rip, and I admire their ability to do that hugely.
Though I'm not sure if I would like to have the amount of anger in me that a lot of these players seem to be carrying around with them.
consider it more like wild passion/burning love.
Jan 15th 2007