Survey and Opinion Wanted for Guitar Solo

[Swifty]

Hi I am a Degree student doing my research paper and part of my research is to do a survey on my final product. I sincerely hope that you will take the time to listen to the guitar solo and provide your opinion on the guitar solo. Thank you.

http://www.purevolume.com/Swiftkill/

From a scale of one to five, please rate the following criteria.
One – Totally Unacceptable
Two – Unacceptable
Three – Average
Four – Good
Five – Very Good

Criteria Answer

Guitar Technique

Guitar Tone

Originality of Guitar Solo

Overall Opinion

 

[wjl123]

I'll give it a 3/5,

Technicality:
I think you should explore more of the technical side of the guitar too, throw in some bends and more slides? Might make the solo more tastier.

Tone:
Tone wise its pretty okay, kinda thin but sorta fits the feel...

Originality:
Not sure if I've heard anything else similar but seems okay to me...

Overall Opinion:
I think its a pretty decent solo but lacks that power to make you like go "Wow!" or something. However i do believe it will be much better with some improvements made here and there.

Btw, is the solo limited to just this kinda feel? Cause I sort of feel that if you can give it a " Climax" at certain points and then go back to the same feel initially again. Haha just my opinion...

 

[karlie]

Honestly I would give it about a 3/5 as well
it sounds pretty dry but it's a solo with a story nonetheless.

technique wise you're pretty tight!
I felt you could have done better with the originality though, it sounded pretty straightforward.
I'm quite bad with tones so i'll not talk about it.

haha

cheers man!
and merry christmas!

 

[kaiwenny]

i'll give a 3.5/5 (is that okay?)

Technique wise: you should add in more bends. but overall it was not bad.

Guitar tone: i cant judge this cause i have no idea how to differentiate tones :/

Originality of guitar solo: Well, the solo would be much better if it doesnt repeat over and over again in some parts. and you can foresee what comes next in your solo. it would be better if you could create a solo that people will be amazed or dazzled and even have goose bumps when heard. but for your solo, i din get any of those.

Overall: its quite acceptable.haha.

Merry Christmas and have a nice day!

 

[honey lemons]

4/5

dude, good solo man

technique: good, the way you ran up and down the scale shows u know ur stuff man. Good on you there, but since ur song has a jazzy kind of feel, I thought that the current solo fits into the genre quite well, but being a fan of that old school rock, i think some quick riffs would give it the 'climax' that wjl123 mentioned.

tone: to bring out that rock "feel", changing the tone settings on the various pickups, to make it harsher and softer would be very good for that change in feelings being portrayed. Gary Moore is damn good at this.

Originality: It's okay, i mean, ure mostly just using the scales and linking the boxes right?

Overall: this is a instrumental, so there's no lyrics to tell the story, so the notes u choose is very important, tones settings is like the voice, like how it goes higher pitched when ure pissed, and soft and gentle when ure whispering to a lover.....



so ya, that's my opinion...cheers

 

[keiith]

i'll give a firm 3/5

First ive to totally agree with Karlie.

Tone's okay.Started off well but i felt that there was little 'climax' throughout and it was just playing with scales without incorporating much technical/technique creativity,Thus i feel that there is a lack of style imho.good effort nonetheless!

 

[blank]

To be honest, I thought it was pretty boring.
The only thing that interested me was the part where you went slightly off-rhythm or something, I don't know how to explain it in formal music terms, but yea. Still it didn't sound good to me.
Technically speaking you were fine.

 

[daryl]

i'll give it a 2.

the parts where you try to play a lot of notes, i hope you are aware of the cliches in running up and down the scales in such a manner. and with the strict rhythm it sounded bad. like youre just trying to fill in notes.

the part you did the returning to the same root note thing wasn't good too. it was totally out of place.

i liked the main melody you did though. that was ok.

i suggest you play the solo based on the context of the track you are playing over. it's all about context. and your phrasing on the fast parts could be improved to give it more emotion