Thankyou everyone for your encouraging comments. I am very grateful. A part from a bit of tremolo, anything else would be either a misinterpretation or nerves on my part. Once I've committed the piece to memory and begin to feel less tense when recording, hopefully I'll get closer to Griff's original take.
It's funny the more I listened the more subtle timing I began to hear. For example, in bar 8, the 'e' on the G string that follows the bend of the same note. Then after having problems with bars 6/7 and 15/16, I noticed the dotes in the music notation, which means add 50% of timing to the value of the note. Thus, the phrasing achieves a swing feel. With Bar 15 I found I needed to say the timing out a loud, as I was tending to disregard the rest on beat 3 and jump straight to the triplet.
As for the time it took, I'd say 2 days. I probably took a 100 takes. Most of this was just nerves as I found I could play along with Griff just fine. However, probably the most valuable lesson for me was learning to play along to a jam track. As I've only ever played on my own, I found myself running ahead. As I began to listen closely to the bass and drums, the solo started to fall into place. As Chuck say, it will be fun going back in the future and hearing how we've all developed, thanks to Griff.
As for the setup Bubbwe, it was a Gibson ES355 (pickup on bridge and tones pots on 2 and volume on 3) plugged into a Boss Micro BR recorder with a little reverb selected. The recorder also allows you to select from about 80 tones. I used 'MS Drive', hence the distortion. In turn, I then uploaded the mp3 to my Mac and then uploaded to 'tinypic.com'.
Going forward, I'd like to invest in a mic to plug into the Micro BR so I can record the tone straight out of the amp. I'll need to research mics, so any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks again everyone,
John
