The 'fusing The Genres' Collaboration, Time to get Electronic! Options

[Taka Perry]

Hey Folks!

It's time for us to get electronic with the 'Fusing the Genres' Collaboration! The idea behind this one is to stray away from standard rock instrumentation, and solo over a more synth-driven style of backing track. Furthermore, if you want to play an instrument other than guitar, you are more than welcome, as it would be awesome seeing some other instruments being added into this collaboration. So if you're up for it, keep reading on for more details!

Lets make this one big!

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The Important Stuff

Backing Track:  fusing_the_genres.mp3 ( 2.73MB ) Number of downloads: 1069


Tempo: 150BPM

Key: E Minor / G Major



Deadline: Friday 10th October
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After you come up with your guitar part, here is what I need you to do:

1. Open up the backing track in your DAW
2. Record yourself playing the solo, with both audio and video
3. Render a 16-bit WAV 44.1KHz with just the solo
4. Render an MP3 file with the backing track and the solo
5. Send the video (preferrably .mp4)

You can upload these files via Dropbox or just on this thread. Alternatively you can email me a link over at [email protected]
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Tips: I'm going to quote Cosmin here, because I agree with him entirely. It's better to make short but polished, detailed lines, rather than long rushed passages! There is no need to play over the entire backing track, in fact, it would probably be better to focus on a particular section.

Finally, have fun and enjoy! Let's see what we can create

Participants: Taka Perry, Cosmin Lupu, Huargo, Jim S., Todd Simpson, Gabriel Leopardi,

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This post has been edited by Bogdan Radovic: Sep 17 2014, 05:23 PM

[Huargo]

Heres a little recording I did today. It has the theme in which I'm shooting for. There are a few notes which I really like. The first is F# this has some great harmonics to it. The other is a E harmonic minor starting on B. Lastly is the lick that ends on a G and F#. That is a cool tension. As Ben Higgins would say, Most of the work is done I just need to add polish to it. Not Polish like Poland but polish like the nail paint.

https://soundcloud.com/jim-seekford-music/fusing-the-genres-ideas

Hi Jim! nice lines here!
0:34 my fav

Would anyone care to bounce back n forth on one lead? Or like phrase for phrase?

An idea would be to have all participants add one lick that builds upon the next until the climax of the song. Just an idea.

A good idea for a instructors collab... i think it's a lot of work for a student to edit a lot of phrases but i like the concept...
Searching the perfect lick.

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[Jim S.]

Hi Jim! nice lines here!
0:34 my fav


A good idea for a instructors collab... i think it's a lot of work for a student to edit a lot of phrases but i like the concept...
Searching the perfect lick.

Thank for listening Huargo! I agree that might be too much.

I think I'll end my solo on that lick your talking about. I think it's a little nasty

Hey Jim Looks like you befriended Mattias IA Eklundh on this track Nice lines! I especially love the 0:24 chord and that lick around 0:34-0:38 - that one sounds very Mattias like!

Cosmin thanks! That exactly where I'll end my solo. Short n sweet!

I am not familiar with Mattias, I shall google him or her now.

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Thank for listening Huargo! I agree that might be too much.

I think I'll end my solo on that lick your talking about. I think it's a little nasty



Cosmin thanks! That exactly where I'll end my solo. Short n sweet!

I am not familiar with Mattias, I shall google him or her now.

Great choice, Jim - as I said, you actually hit some very different things with this improv, than I am used to hearing from you - was it the backing that inspired you, or have you been working on this direction and found it appropriate to deploy such lines in here?

Mattias is one of my favorite guitarists - he is a Swedish prog/cartoon/pop/metal musician If we can describe him like this!

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[Jim S.]

Great choice, Jim - as I said, you actually hit some very different things with this improv, than I am used to hearing from you - was it the backing that inspired you, or have you been working on this direction and found it appropriate to deploy such lines in here?

Mattias is one of my favorite guitarists - he is a Swedish prog/cartoon/pop/metal musician If we can describe him like this!

I believe the combination of the rec. lessons and this backing have allowed me to open up a bit. In the lessons there are passing tones I'm picking up on, here I found B maj or atleast sliding into the maj third starts a harmonic minor phrase. From there I wanted to be creative moving up the neck. I felt as though at that point there was a need to hit some of the chords tones and there was the top of a gmaj arp. I like using those "I think harmonic minor tones, making coffee now" when I solo but never seem to pull it out at the right time.

This little passage was pretty easy to write because it wrote itself. Each part seemed to just fit together. I'm pumped to work on ot again.

As you know I'm programming drums..........

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[Cosmin Lupu]

So it was pretty much something that came natural That's absolutely great to know - I asked, because when a certain musical context provides the right inspiration, you will most likely come up with something nicer than usual, as a general situation.

Another important thing - if I got it right - was that you managed to incorporate knowledge you have gathered from studying lessons here at GMC - that's simply great, because this is their actual purpose - enriching vocabulary, teaching how to apply theoretical notions and concepts and developing technique! Good going Jim! You provided a good example for everyone!

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