Shredcow's Early Morning Jam (New take taken)

[ShredCow]

Unfortunately. Its not. *sigh....* Custom lah, one day!

 

[killinghall]

reminds me of Satriani's custom art guitars...*sigh*

 

[ShredCow]

Ooo... those are nice. I wanna custom guitar next... must tahan, save up, then get my own axe.

 

[vernplum]

Its very hard to just conjure somethign beautiful on 1st take but well, it can be done. Vai;s For the Love of God was a one take according to him. Lots of fasting and stuff, then bam!

FTLOG is not *improvised* in one take. Like most Vai solos he is very meticuolous about pre-planning every note of every solo - he did not come up with this solo 'off the cuff'. However, after rehearsing the solo n times, he did record it in one take, or so the story goes. I read this in guitar player magazine when P&W came out. Apparently his fingers were bleeding from all the rehearsing prior to recording it.

 

[ShredCow]

Ah! Thanks for the correction Vern...

 

[hay88]

finally i will comment well done jam man! somehow it reminds me of zappa

 

[ShredCow]

Haha... finally eh KX?

Strangely, I never heard Zappa before... whats good?

 

[edo83]

OT abit....Andy Timmons Cry For You lead track was improvised in 1 take. Amazing player! My hero

 

[vernplum]

Haha... finally eh KX?

Strangely, I never heard Zappa before... whats good?

I love the 'Guitar' albums - a double album of nothing but guitar solos played by Frank. His playing is an acquired taste - personally I love it - he often plays over some harmonically wide open vamps and does some ridiculous stuff which can elicit the odd laugh now and again with his sheer daring. He's not a technical guitarist such as Vai, Malmsteen etc. but he does have his own unique way of playing and distinctive voice.

His 'regular' albums are less accessible than those 'guitar' platters for the guitarist, but his music is very very interesting. Check out:

Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch (feat. Vai on 'stunt guitar')
Joes' Garage
Strictly Comercial (a best of compendium for the Zappa newbie).

 

[williamyeow]

Fwah cow!! u r amazing!! 2 thumbs up siah!!!!!

really like the "screamin" sound u do with the whammy bar... reminds me alot of satch and vai!!

 

[williamyeow]

eh... forogt to ask u one thing... did u create the backing track ur self??? mind to share??..

 

[ShredCow]

Hey Vern, thanks for sharing. I'll try to search it out. Zappa is something indeed! "often plays over some harmonically wide open vamps and does some ridiculous stuff which can elicit the odd laugh now and again with his sheer daring." INDEED!

hey william, glad you like it. The whammy thing is a technique stolen from Mattias Elkundh of Freak Kitchen. Check him out. www.freakguitar.com or www.freakkitchen.com Vai and Satch aren't the only one who do that.

Well, as i mentioned earlier in the thread (hint hint), its from Guitar Techniques magazine. Its already posted in the 1st post.