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Post by joachim on Mar 26, 2015 13:01:00 GMT -6
I worked on another song from Fretboard Roadmaps by Fred Sokolow; this is a standard 12 bar blues over pattern 1 & 2. soundcloud.com/joachim-dahl-1/straight-blues-pattern-1-2I exported drums and bass from band-in-a-box and recorded rhythm and lead myself. The rhythm is recorded on my Fender Classic Player, and is slightly different from the CD example, which wasn't very interesting. The lead is recorded on my Ibanez and just follows the tabs from the book. The main difficulty with this song is some moderately fast string skipping and pull-offs around pattern 1, but otherwise quite simple. Bruce mentioned earlier that BYCU offers a more streamlined progression; I completely agree - this example is the main example in the book showing to improvise over pattern 1 & 2, right after the colorful description of string choking. I got carried away playing with band-in-a-box, it's really starting to grow on me. I figured out how I can use my VST plugins for my MIDI keyboard directly with band-in-a-box, so even very plain MIDI piano sound like a real piano. I will include a piano backing using that in my next example.
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Post by cunningr on Mar 26, 2015 16:16:20 GMT -6
That was pretty good, you are making great progress musically. Also making want to add another book to my library
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Post by Phil on Mar 26, 2015 16:36:58 GMT -6
Nice playing there, Joachim. You always find good material. Are you still working on BYCU? How about the T-Bone Walker book? Come to think of it you are into a lot more stuff at one time than I can handle, but you seem to be able to pull it off quite well.
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 26, 2015 17:43:22 GMT -6
That was a cool song Joachim, very interesting rhythmic phrasing - you're making me want to buy another book too Looking forward to hearing some of your keyboard stuff too!
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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 26, 2015 18:15:43 GMT -6
Sounding good, Joachim - you and your band (in-a-box). Yes, the quality of sounds you get from BIAB (for midi) will be dependent on what midi synthesizer you use to play the midi sounds. If you use default Windoze sounds, it'll sound pretty much like a toy. If you've got a decent soft synth or something like the synthesizer in a decent keyboard to use, it will sound much better. Of course, the real tracks in BIAB will sound good no matter what, because they are actually recorded instruments. I enjoy the heck out of that program, too!
Bruce
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Post by joachim on Mar 27, 2015 0:50:11 GMT -6
Nice playing there, Joachim. You always find good material. Are you still working on BYCU? How about the T-Bone Walker book? Come to think of it you are into a lot more stuff at one time than I can handle, but you seem to be able to pull it off quite well. Phil, my main focus is still BYCU/BRYCU. Then I am going over Fretboard roadmaps as diversion while bringing the BYCU studies up to speed - that last studies in BYCU are going to take some time for me. I have mixed feelings about Fretboard roadmaps, but it's short and there's still some cool examples and simple lick sections for the different patterns, so I decided to go through it - if nothing else it serves as consolidation. There is one study left, which I want to do - a very B.B. King sounding jazzy piece over pattern 3 and 4, and then there's a section about turn-arounds. Then I do a bit of "Beginning Fingerstyle Blues", but all other books are back on the shelf. I will wait learning "real" songs for now; it's simply too time-consuming with my limited technique, I will wait until I am able to worry about what is being played and not how it's being played.
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Post by Phil on Mar 27, 2015 15:26:17 GMT -6
Then I do a bit of "Beginning Fingerstyle Blues", but all other books are back on the shelf. I will wait learning "real" songs for now; it's simply too time-consuming with my limited technique, I will wait until I am able to worry about what is being played and not how it's being played. Your technique is not going to stay limited for much longer. Before long you're going to leave the rest of us in the dust.
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