Let's RUMBLE! 2006! Blues!

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Pretty funny backing track, kind of like the Star light lounge/Bowling alley blues featuring Mack and Billie on her pan flute. :rolleyes:

I think this track comes with windows, is it a midi file in XP?

:D
 
apl said:
The only rule is there are no rules!!!D
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That might be going a bit far. Traditionally, RUMBLES! have two rules:

1) You have to use the track in some way

2) The winner is determined solely by arguing ;)
 
Finally got some time for some noise, a lot less than I wish I had-its rough but done for now. Figured I'd run outa licks so I put a few verses of vocals-Baby what you want me to do-fit the shuffle beat-scratch vocal so its nothin' great.
First leads a Tele, next my Frankenstrat, last my Gibson "the Paul" all through a Peavey Classic 20 amp.
Theres about 15 seconds of silence at the start, the fade in I had there somehow disappeared.. :confused:

It's titled APL's Rumble blues on my soundclick

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=541176
 
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bigbubba said:
I thought you might set a song structure but you didn't. Which is what I've been doing in my random soloing. Solo'ing is hard for me 'coz I know the scale that I wanna use but then I don't have the speed to play it in a manner where it doesn't sound like a scale but an expression. :)
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I think I've gone beyond the point where I want to use a scale. That might sound all pretentious but I don't mean it to be so. Some musicians like to learn the sound of a scale, or a mode, or whatever, and then choose that scale for a mood. I have to say that knowing all the modes not only of the major scale but harmonic and melodic minor to the point of not only knowing the fingering, but more importantly the mood, that is an accomplishment.

But I don't know all that. Instead, I deconstruct. Blues tunes, even a simple I-IV-V, usually work off the tension between major and minor scales. So out of 12 tones, 10 are instantly in play. The tritone is popular enough to make it 11. Why leave out poor b2?

The issue becomes tonality rather than scale. In this context, do you want to hammer on the roots of the chords, play off the tensions of the chords (like the G in A7 against G# in E7), or blur the tonality to the point it is unrecognizable?

It doesn't matter which you choose, so long as you focus on playing a good melody.
 
That's almost exactly

Track Rat said:
refin, outstanding chops sir. I have a 63 Melody Maker but it doesn't sound like that.
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what I was going to say. I HAD a MM, and it didn't sound like that! Probably something to do with his custom-wound FINGERS!

Out-freakin' standing! Listen to Steely Dan much, do ya?

I wish all of the J-Station nay-sayers could hear that one. I still might try to find one yet.

I will give MSH an 'O' for originality. That went in a direction that (to be said in a Jon Lovitz-Tom Hanks corner guys way) didn't even cross my mind.

Couldn't get that one to play, either. Said it didn't exist.

On to more listening...
 
Sorry for the joke, it's sounds way way too white!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kind of Donnie and Marie blues white!

:D
 
Dogman said:
Excellent Gort...Nice tones, and great choice of notes on both of em.

Very cool man... :cool:
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Thanx Dogman, I always have fun with this soughta stuff! The Strat makes it easy to get a particular tone, just plug it in and play!!.. :)
 
bigbubba said:
Gorty that rocks. Real cool and bluesy. :)

Interesting combination of different tones.
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Thanx bigbubba for your listen and comments. :)
 
lbanks said:
See, this is what happens when bassplayers' get ahold of guitars and a pedal.
baconbutt baaluz
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I think I love you. In a totally non-homosexual kind of way. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :D

That was one of the most entertaining things I've listened to in I don't know when. The sound of a guy trying out all the settings. I'm dead serious, that was absolutely great fun. It sounded like you were having fun and that came through.

Wait a minute. I think somebody already said that on Dancing with the American Rockstar. Geez, even my compliments aren't original. :(

Anyway, primo job!
 
EL34 said:
Pretty funny backing track, kind of like the Star light lounge/Bowling alley blues featuring Mack and Billie on her pan flute. :rolleyes:

I think this track comes with windows, is it a midi file in XP?

:D
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That's the same picture I got, well, minus the pan flute.

and Nancy on the organ...
 
mshilarious said:
Dead on the Strat tone there Gort. Nice contrast of tones. I should have tried that, since it was recorded clean I could have done anything . . . I should have cleaned up the tone on the chords like you did, because the intermodulation gets to be a bit much on mine :(
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Thanx mshilarious,

Like I mentioned earlier to Dogman the Strat is so easy to work with, just plug in and play. Adding a little extra texture with some clean chords just gave the rhythm section a little boost.

Gorty. :)
 
That's the same picture I got, well, minus the pan flute and Nancy on the organ...
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Don't laugh, Nancy plays a mean organ! ;)

And a flute too! :eek:
 
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