I've been lurking here for quite a while listening to some good guitar playing by all of you. I'm not even close to being able to do what you guys are doing but by listening to your playing I'm trying to figure out what you're doing, like the types of licks your using and what box you are in. This recording has some cool licks I'd like to study, so I'm going to save this recording and isolate the licks and try and figure some of them out.
I hope some of will respond and help me out a little with some questions I have:
RR: Are you playing most of your licks in box 1?
Marv said his licks are in box 1 & 2 - thanks Marv
Chuck:Â Yours sound like they are in box 2?
Your responses will make it a little easier to try and figure out all these great licks.
Thanks
Tom45, I'm pretty much like Cowboy ... all of my playing on this track was in boxes 1 & 2 and mostly just in box 1. But I usually do slide up into box 3 a bit as well. I know boxes 4 & 5, but haven't gotten many box 4/5 licks stashed in my "vocabulary" yet. I am VERY lick oriented. To me, one lick fits one box and only one box ... the fact that you can use music theory to play those same notes in some other box is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to me because doing so means different FINGERING for that lick, which makes it a DIFFERENT LICK ENTIRELY. My WHOLE FOCUS on learning to play blues guitar is to build a huge vocabulary of licks for each box and know them all like the back of my hand.
+++1 to that! Dan, your playing improves literally every time I hear you, and your tone is steadily improving as well! This one was particularly sweet.
Yeah, it was my standard Mustang III '65 Twin preset that I use most of the time and my ES339 neck with volume and tone all the way up (as usual). But I'm at work right now, so can't give you the exact bass/mid/treble settings but I know the vol/gain are both on 10 and the speaker cab is the '65 Twin cab and the bright switch is on. And I had the BBE Sonic Stomp before the amp with both knobbies at high noon, and my Aphex Xciter just before that and my TC Arena Reverb just before that. The preset also uses a little internal stompbox compression and a little bit of stomp box spring reverb.
I don't think it matters if the reverb is before or after them. I just stuck my TC Arena before them just so they process that along with everything else. On the other hand, the INTERNAL Mustang reverb/s are NOT processed by these pedals. Both of my Mustang '65 Twin presets have some internal reverb ... one uses the stomp box spring reverb, the other the simulated rack-mount reverb, and both sound just fine. When I want an extra dose of reverb I will turn on the TC Arena reverb as well (It is on for this track), set on it's extra-lush "Royal" setting. I usually do have it turned on, and just adjust the reverb level from song to song. There's just something about a reverb running into another reverb that makes for ... well ... REVERB.