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Posted by: Fran Aug 30 2008, 07:46 PM

Here's my attempt at Trond Vold's Rock solo lesson, recorded the whole thing four times, all of them had some mistakes here and there, so and I ended up choosing my first take!

Posted by: Outlaw2112 Aug 30 2008, 07:53 PM

sounds good, bro... got a little off at the end on that fast run, but that part sounds like its hard... ill have to learn that lesson

Posted by: kaznie_NL Aug 30 2008, 07:54 PM

Hi Fran!

It's not bad, but it's not perfect either. I think you have very nice vibrato. Sometimes the timing seems off. Like during the first notes. I mean the first pull off. I know it's hard, but maybe try to hold the first note a bit longer before you pull of! You know what I mean? You did the octaves very neat'o! Also the harmonics sounded! The harmonics were a bit sloppy, but you had sound! I don't get decent sound The run in the end wasn't totally perfect either, but quit good! Try to play the run a couple of times on a lower BPM. This will help you with the accuracy, speed comes later!

I hope this helped, and not offended you! You did a great job, I just thought I'd help you by telling what to improve. I did this solo myself... I found out it's not very easy I thought I did it quit nice, then I recorded it and I suddenly heard all the mistakes!

Posted by: Fran Aug 30 2008, 08:11 PM

Thanks guys, I appreciate your comments! Will try to improve it, last legato run is probably the hardest part (that's why it sounds horrible in my take

Posted by: Outlaw2112 Aug 30 2008, 08:16 PM

It doesnt sound horrible, it sounds a little off... dont be soo hard on yourself

Posted by: superize Aug 30 2008, 08:21 PM

I think you should work on the muting there are some nise in the background but its not much but it would sound much better tonewise..... otherwise great job

Posted by: Siggum Aug 30 2008, 09:28 PM

Nice job Fran, you got the hang of it for sure

Posted by: skennington Aug 30 2008, 09:40 PM

I thought it was a very nice attempt Fran. Sure, not mistake free but that's what practice and these lessons are for. Good Job

Posted by: Trond Vold Aug 30 2008, 10:30 PM

I thought you did great

But there's 2 things i notice that you could work on; timing and muting. Some notes were played quite out of time and there's a some noise at times that can be avoided.

Your bends and vibrato were quite good at times, although a bit too "fast".

But all in all, well done

Posted by: Fran Aug 30 2008, 10:54 PM

Thanks for the insight guys, and specially yours Trond!

I'll work on timing specially with the bends at the beginning and the legato run at the end, and muting of course!

Posted by: kjutte Aug 31 2008, 04:03 AM

You hit most of the notes, and your timing is ok.
However, you plass very statically.

To improve on this you should build a strong vibrato, and also it's VERY important that you bend to the correct pitch, or else you're totally out of the scale (in a bad way )

Hope this helps!