Simple Seventh Chord Rhythm

That's cool, Jack. I like hearing just the rhythm part with drums. I thought some of the rhythm tracks were "overshadowed" on the full band tracks on the CD. When I went thru BRYCU, I found myself wishing you also got a track with just rhythm guitar and drums and bass. Of course, then I'd also want one with just the drums and bass - so by the time you've got all these, you've got to include multiple CD's with the book... I wonder if JG could set up some way of downloading those - would probably have to be restricted somehow. I definitely don't know enough computer stuff as to how this could work.

Bruce

Thanks guys! Yeah that solo could have been a little louder, I guess I wasn't too fond of it nor of my sloppy playing on it and was trying to drown it out as much as possible lol. I've been so abysmally uninspired when it comes to writing for the last week or so, hopefully as I write more stuff and develop a better work ethic towards it things will get better. I tend to spend an hour "writing" by which I mean I jam along with the song for an hour and get absolutely nothing written But that's just part of the learning process I imagine.

jack1982 - loved it dude! Can you transcribe it? Perhaps we'll all have a turn at recording our renditions of your work too

Thanks so much guys!

Mick, yeah I really want to get into the whole "You Can Use" aspect of BYCU, and writing my own stuff is my first little baby steps towards that lol. I don't have a camera yet, but as soon as I get my current credit card bills paid off, and then I have to buy a new computer monitor, but THEN finally I'll get a webcam and start posting videos.

WPB, sure I can transcribe it tomorrow if you'd like to give it a try.

Phil, I totally agree about writing your own stuff making you appreciate John's work so much more.You're talking about an entire lifetime of work to get to that level.  I can't even express how much I appreciate him taking the time to share all his knowledge with us.

I was actually messing around with a bunch of stuff for this solo - you can play Double Stop Stomp over this (it's even in the same key) but the mood is completely wrong. I mostly just used a lot of double stops which I learned from BYCU, and added in some full chords to accentuate the part where the song drops to F, F# and G because I really liked that bit (I got that from the R&B book). But yeah there are hundreds of other licks I'll get around to as I progress. And structures and themes too - that's the foundation of it all.  Having the solo really fit the mood of the song and having one phrase flow into the next and having it logically build to a climax.

As far as Cheap Runs, I was playing it pretty good yesterday about 6 bpm slower than full tempo, but today I'm Mr. Fumble Fingers lol.  That's song is like putting out a never-ending series of brush fires - I'll have a little problem with this part so I'll practice it in isolation and get it fixed.  As soon as that's done, some other part that I was previously playing pretty well will suddenly develop a problem.  Then another and another.    It's all because of the speed - my fingers will decide to skip a note or two so they can get to the next one faster, and my picking likes to get sloppy as well. 

I'm also working on Rakin' In The Soul from the R&B book.  The chords in the rhythm part are played by muting and raking the strings, then playing the note on the high E, then arpeggiating back down.  Not hard to do, but try doing it for every chord in the entire song without a major screw-up lol.  And then there are a couple of chord ins the middle of the lead that you've only got about a quarter of a second to finger - I can finally play them almost fast enough but nailing them is a ways off still.