miroslav wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2017 1:34 pm
My approach to guitar solos is to just riff away over and over and over...until something starts to gel, and then I'll hit REC, grab 2-3 takes, and pull what I like. If there's some specific melody line I want to use, something complicated...then I'll sort that out first.
And that's sort of what I do. Just sit with it and noodle and work it up over time, whilst at the same trying to work out where the notes I hear in my head fall on the fretboard. Or I'll have a thought - "this would probably sound good" and then discover I can't actually play it.
Problem with this one was that it contains two short bits that were unlike anything I've played before - and so there's no muscle memory associated with them, so it took me longer than I expected to get those two bits under control. They're quite short and there's nothing about the rest of it that's particularly hard.
I'm really trying to avoid just "sitting in the box" and following modes and scales up and down just because. And because what I'm doing all has a deliberate aesthetic to it - clean/crunch guitar multiple figures throughout rather than chords, lots of notes played twice in succession, single note tracks with interesting rhythms, semi-spoken word bits, particular harmony treatments, I'm just trying to ensure that any guitar solo bits don't just revert to what I can do easily without thinking.
I mean when you hear it eventually you might go "Big deal!" which is fine, it's not intended to be a piece of masterful searing lead guitar work, just a short stuttery lead break that fits in with everything else I'm doing.
