My First Student Collaboration, Rock ballad style - all levels Options

[Emir Hot]

Here it is after so many personal messages and e mails from you guys. Sorry I have been very busy recently but now I am back to contribute more in GMC activities.

This track is in 130bpm and has kinda slower rock ballad feel. You can use any technique. There are places for slow long notes, fast runs, maybe tapping if you want or even some arpeggios. Stylisticaly you can play any rock style. From jazz rock to neoclassical metal if you like You have about 45 seconds to play - enough to show us some creativity. You can start with slow melodies and buld up later.

The chord progression is:

Section 1
Am,
Am/G,
Am/F#,
Am/F (or Fmaj7 if you like),
Am,
Am/G,
D,
E7

Section 2
Am,
Bdim7,
Bdim7 (again the same one, but this time you can move it to the next inversion Ddim7 or even think of this one as E7),
Am,
F,
G (or G7),
C,
E7

Section 3
The same as section 1


The first 4 chords - you can play A minor scales (pentatonic or aeolian) but it's up to you how much you want to extract from here and go for a more "spicy" approach

The track consists of 3 sections and it might sound unfinished when you stop playing but it should sound ok when the next person takes over the solo. Please do not play all the way after the last chord - think that somebody else is coming after you.

Please pay attention on your guitar sound. This is rock style backing so your sound should be warm with some nice overdrive but do not go extreme to trash metal sound. You can record with effects if you like but don't put too much delay. I need to have a good raw definition of your sound in order to mix it nicely.

Please export the track from the begining exactly as the backing. The first bar is empty, the second bar is click (metronome) and the song starts from the 3rd bar. I only need your solo exported, not the full mix with the backing. Also don't export stereo track unless you use a stereo delay or some other stereo effect.

There is no limited number of participants. You have 2 weeks exactly to submit the track on this same thread. The deadline is January 24. After that I will need 3-5 days to submit the mix and comments. If you have any question you can ask here.

I hope you will enjoy this one and I am looking forward to some great takes.

Cheers


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Participants that confirmed their entry:

1. superize
2. Smells
3. Tolek
4. enforcer
5. Toroso
6. Caelumamittendum
7. ztevie
8. Toroso
9. Marc_Maiden
10. UncleSkillet
11. Ajmurrell
12. Col Roberts
13. OrganisedConfusion
14. wrk
15. Vaialation1232
16. SonofDestiny
17. audiopaal
18. lcsdds
19. strat
20. Tjchep
21. berko
22. Paiva
23. utak3r
24. JamesT
25. Velvet Roger
26. coffeeman
27. kaznie_NL
28. Sondre

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This post has been edited by Emir Hot: Jan 18 2009, 09:39 PM

[Toroso]

Here's my take Emir. There are no effects other than distortion, so a little verb would put some lipstick on this pig!

Maybe by your next collab I will have improved some.

 EHot_Collab_BT_Toroso.mp3 ( 1.19MB ) Number of downloads: 223

 EHot_Collab_NBT_Toroso.mp3 ( 1.19MB ) Number of downloads: 159


Thanks for the collab!

EDIT: Added a mix track for good measure.

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This post has been edited by Toroso: Jan 15 2009, 11:22 AM

[Emir Hot]

Here's my take Emir. There are no effects other than distortion, so a little verb would put some lipstick on this pig!

Maybe by your next collab I will have improved some.

 EHot_Collab_NBT_Toroso.mp3 ( 1.19MB ) Number of downloads: 159


Thanks for the collab!

Thanks Toroso, dry signal is the best. It saves me from a lot of trouble in mixing

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[audiopaal]

Thanks Toroso, dry signal is the best. It saves me from a lot of trouble in mixing

I don't believe my take is completely dry..
Do you want me to re-upload it with no effects?

No, no... I'd like to see more of this constructive, truthful analysis in the student collabs too! Most of the time it's too cute and nice. Comments are always "Awesome", "Great" and so on, and I don't think that's very helpful to the player...
Of course, a player like you can hear in what stage everyone is in so you can give the appropriate critique. I mean, it's not very helpful to bash someone who's been playing 1 year and tell them how bad they play and it suck big time. Everything must be in comparison with at what level each one is at the moment?
I would hope we could see more of that, and not be afraid to point out things. In a friendly manner of course.
But I don't know, people are different, maybe some would take it very hard and feel insulted?
Anyway, you can bash ME all you want, I know I need some pointers to develop my playing. If I break down, start cry and burn the guitar up... Well, so be it, I can always start collecting stamps instead!

I agree!
I don't mind honesty, and if something is way off in my playing, I wanna know

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[utak3r]

I don't mind honesty, and if something is way off in my playing, I wanna know

You know, what I've recalled while reading this? This insane video lesson by Kris "yeaaahh.... coooolll....."

That's true, and it's the most important somewhere in the middle of the learning path... it's easy to stop developing right there... On the other side it's also important to the beginners, like me - to avoid learning some horrible habits

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