My Try At Trond's Slow Soloing Lesson Options

[Fran]

Just finished recording Trond's slow soloing lesson, lots of bendings in there, which I'm still trying to control. See how you guys like it, let me know what you think of it.

There's one specially hard bending on the e string which I'm afraid my finger is still not strong enough to achieve (I believe it goes further than the usual full tone bending, feels like 1,5 tones to my ears!).

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[OrganisedConfusi...]

I have listened to it and I'm not Trond obviously. He is spot on with everything but this is a really hard lesson and definitely will improve your bends. I'm awful at this lesson lol so you did a really good job. Some of the bends need a bit of extra work to get spot on every time and you have the odd bit of noise when catching other strings but on the whole it was pretty good. Just get more control with bends. Keep practicing over and over and you will nail this lesson and get an amazing bending technique for all other lessons

I'm not an expert though and this is a lesson I'm awful at. My bends need lots of work. You did a great job in my opinion. With a bit of work on it you'll get it there

This post has been edited by OrganisedConfusion: Oct 5 2008, 09:59 PM

[Fran]

Thanks O.C., I appreciate your input I'll keep practicing it as part of my routine, there are a lot of bends indeed, and my muting technique is far from good.

[OrganisedConfusi...]

Bending is a crucial technique but far from the easiest. I think I need to keep practicing this lesson a lot to get my bends sounding spot on

[Trond Vold]

Sorry for being a bit late to reply! Was away for a few days.

I think you did good on this one too Some bends are a bit shaky still and the timing goes off at times, but this can all be overcome with some more practice

But all in all, good job

[Fran]

Thanks Trond, I keep practicing it every single day. One of the things I have a hard time is getting your tone, which is awesome.

I record through pandora px5d using either a high gain or a UK modern amp simulation with high gain, high bass & high eq settings, plus a compressor simulation. Still it doesn't sound quite as good as I'd wish, but I guess the tone is in the fingers too, plus you use active pickups... too many things!

I really like the tone you get with that jackson soloist, though I guess a good chunk of that tone comes from the amp.

[Noangels]

does that pandora have speaker emulation?It doesnt sound like it has in this recording-has that harsh trebly sound

I havnt seen tronds lesson on this,but you sounded fine

[Fran]

Do you mean cab emulation? It has cab emulation, but I guess I'm not really good dialing in tones. It always sounds quite digital to me, I'm sure it can sound better, I just don't know how

[Lian Gerbino]

to me it´s a great take fran well done as trond said, pay attention on bends but I think you´ll resolve this so fast!
keep on practicing man! cya!

[Noangels]

Try some of the other cabs as even with speaker emulation(or cab as you call it)in the chain it can sound like it hasnt got any!I know this from using the Digitech 2120's,I had to mess around with the settings to get a more authentic guitar tone