Slow In A Minor - Redux - Complete

[PapaRaptor]

This track encourages you to stretch out. I posted it and it filled up immediately, so here it is again, stretched a little longer which should allow a few more players in it.

https://fuzzypinkstrap.com/VJR/2020/clean/SlowBackingInAMinord-Redux.mp3

 

[JPsuff]

This is a really nice track and thanks for posting it again.

One thing I discovered is that playing softly is harder than it seems.
Here's my contribution. I wish it was as good as some of the others I heard in the first version of this track, but I figured I have to start somewhere.

Recorded with my PRS, neck humbucker with some chorus and reverb.

It runs to 2:30.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/whag5ywj8bj4qcx/SlowBackingInAMinorJP.mp3?dl=0

 

[Many Moons]

I wish it was as good as some of the others I heard in the first version of this track

Indeed it was!!!! Beautiful stuff JP!! I don't know what mode you added in to the mix, but it made for some beautiful sounds. Superb work sir. Well done.

 

[Ted_Zeppelin]

One thing I discovered is that playing softly is harder than it seems.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/whag5ywj8bj4qcx/SlowBackingInAMinorJP.mp3?dl=0

Indeed it is but you pulled it off wonderfully. Your playing and tone are right on point! Great job.

 

[Elwood]

another fine one for sure, very good JP The PRS sounds great!

I'm goona jump in, this is the thinline. This time I'm running through my Rumble200 Bass amp. It has a balanced line out and really seems to help with taming some of my noise issues. I had to roll back the levels, what a treat!

Fun track!!!

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/b45v4uxy62f1qks/sbam- jp-ew.mp3?dl=0

Out @ 4:37

 

[CaptainMoto]

JP,
Very tasty.
Just enough soft, a good touch.
Some Classic JP riffage.

Elwood,
Really making the Rumble growl, like petting a lion without getting bitten.

 

[artyman]

I'm in from from 4:30 to 7:00 using my old Encore Les Paul through Mustang III Tweed Sugar patch

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4ars56y1b4r1ye5/slow in am redux.mp3?dl=0

 

[Many Moons]

Elwood - That had a haunting menace to it.

Arty - You're very fond of that sugar patch!!! Sweet.

 

[Elwood]

Very Nice Arty! So, do you connect to your DAW (Audacity?) via your usb port on your amp? I am curious about your signal path as you obtain nice tones consistently and you mentioned variable usb out levels in another post.

 

[JPsuff]

Indeed it was!!!! Beautiful stuff JP!! I don't know what mode you added in to the mix, but it made for some beautiful sounds. Superb work sir. Well done.

Thanks, MM.

As for modes, I generally play what I have come to refer to as my "Blues-Penta-Dorian" scale which as the name suggests is a combination of the Blues, minor Pentatonic and Dorian scales.

Although in this particular track, some of the Dorian flats don't fit (possibly Aeolian?), so I just eliminate them and go from there.

It's all just top-of-my-head stuff anyway and I know that my "BPD" scale will cover just about anything, so I just play what seems to fit.

I know I should learn more about modes and specific notes, but sometimes I think it will take some of the fun out of improvising. I'm sure that will change as time goes by, but for now the "exploring" is fun.

 

[Elwood]

I know I should learn more about modes and specific notes, but sometimes I think it will take some of the fun out of improvising

you're a brave man to say that here, I agree. What ever you were doing I sure like it. Enough to try to sneak in behind you as seamlessly as I could manage, both in tone and melodic flow (I got lost real quick though ).

 

[artyman]

Very Nice Arty! So, do you connect to your DAW (Audacity?) via your usb port on your amp? I am curious about your signal path as you obtain nice tones consistently and you mentioned variable usb out levels in another post.

Yes I just pick a patch on the Mustang hook it up to the PC via USB, fire up Audacity and off I go, not always successfully.

 

[PapaRaptor]

I just love what this track allows you to do. Youse guyz are just setting the place on fire, albeit slowly and smokily(?).
I had a couple of cups of coffee this morning and had a go at fooling around with Cubase. I like clean sounds a lot, but I like dirty, too. So I did a clean track, then dirtied it up and swept the dirt under the rug. I took it from Arty's pure serenity around 7:00 to about 10:15. Sorry to take so much, but I could play this track end-to end...
https://fuzzypinkstrap.com/VJR/2020/SlowInA-Redux-JP-Elwood-Arty-PapaR.mp3

 

[Elwood]

I could play this track end-to end

Yup!!!

 

[Many Moons]

Oh yeah Papa!! Smooth playing sir.

 

[PapaRaptor]

Oh yeah Papa!! Smooth playing sir.

Thanks!
I was testing out my Flying V Shred that had been sitting, unplayed and unloved for a while. I love the way it plays, but never quite cared for the way it sounded. It has EMG 85 active pickups and it always sounded really metallic, with very little sustain. Yesterday, I decided to see if I could make it sound better, so I put on a new set of strings and proceeded to do a full setup on it. This isn't a fun guitar to set up, because it has a Kahler whammy bar, which is much closer to a Floyd Rose trem than any other type of vibrato/trem system. When I checked the pickup height, it was way too close to the strings (<1/16" clearance), so I backed it down to 3/32" clearance and plugged it in. It suddenly came alive like it has never sounded before. I've always read that active pickups don't tend to have a sweet spot like passive pickups do, but the difference was astounding. This guitar is going to get a lot more play time now!

 

[Many Moons]

This guitar is going to get a lot more play time now!

Won't we be spoilt!!!!

 

[PapaBear]

Thanks, MM.

As for modes, I generally play what I have come to refer to as my "Blues-Penta-Dorian" scale which as the name suggests is a combination of the Blues, minor Pentatonic and Dorian scales.

Although in this particular track, some of the Dorian flats don't fit (possibly Aeolian?), so I just eliminate them and go from there.

It's all just top-of-my-head stuff anyway and I know that my "BPD" scale will cover just about anything, so I just play what seems to fit.

I know I should learn more about modes and specific notes, but sometimes I think it will take some of the fun out of improvising. I'm sure that will change as time goes by, but for now the "exploring" is fun.

It's all about making it "your" sound, and it sounds good!

 

[PapaBear]

I just love what this track allows you to do. Youse guyz are just setting the place on fire, albeit slowly and smokily(?).
I had a couple of cups of coffee this morning and had a go at fooling around with Cubase. I like clean sounds a lot, but I like dirty, too. So I did a clean track, then dirtied it up and swept the dirt under the rug. I took it from Arty's pure serenity around 7:00 to about 10:15. Sorry to take so much, but I could play this track end-to end...
https://fuzzypinkstrap.com/VJR/2020/SlowInA-Redux-JP-Elwood-Arty-PapaR.mp3

Nice dynamics

 

[PapaBear]

Great playing all around!