Yesterday was BLIM 2 graduation party with number of people playing live or sending prerecorded videos. It was a great Blues evening, great playing, friendly and supportive audience and fantastic hosts, Justin and Fanny.
I played a solo over a modified rock groove 12 bar blues in Bm (as a way of suggesting Rock Immersion to Justin). The first few notes are terrible noise due to echo suppression - I believe Fanny or Justin realised that quickly and turned it off, so it went ok from that point on. I hope you like it, any comments are appreciated.
Great solo Boris, if you like that style of playing and have not heard him have a listen to some Steve Hillage, any of his early albums are worth listening to.
Thanks for posting this and from what I could see your playing is great. I say ‘see’ because to me the BT drowned out your playing which I couldn’t really hear. Perhaps it’s just my ears.
Thank you Ian. Justin said he was thinking about it. It is a huge task to make it well and there are other projects in his mind competing for his time. We will see which one wins, I tried my best for Rock Immersion.
Thank you very much Paul. With some focused practice, my alternate picking improved significantly this year, especially on a single string which is the case here. String changes, stretching over 5 frets, etc. is much more difficult.
Thank you Adrian. I will listen to Steve Hillage.
Thank you Stuart. I spent some time in preparation for the event trying to set levels properly. I settled for this at the end. When listening it later (especially on YT), my reaction was opposite to yours, the backing track could be a bit louder. There is subjectivness in how we hear things, different devices/speakers/headphones. All of that play part.
That was so rad Boris. I hope you were able to get a read at what everyone was typing in the comments. I know its sort of hard when your playing live. You are fully a favorite to watch and thisntime was no exception, It was totally awesome.
I guess you could say the end of mine was a bit Rock focused too. .
Rock immersion would be pretty rad too. I would be so down for that.
I agree on the backing track maybe being a bit too silent… But what you played sounded really good. Your solo is still playing in my ears while typing. Memorable.
I’m all for RIM if that means you will continue sharing your soloing skills with the wider community as well
Yes, I completely agree Rock in its various forms from classic rock through to nu-metal etc has a big connection to the Blues, although at times tenuous. Whether it is more suited to Justin or not I would not know.
Great solo Boris, congrats! It tells a story, has some evolution in it and you stay aware of the progression, and the cherry on top for me was the deliberate and targeted ending. Nice!
@domi7 Thank you Dominique, I learnt a lot from our collaboration - that was helpful here as well.
@MollyT Thank you very much Molly! I started preparing for this event by purely improvising over the backing track. That way I discovered what I liked and made it a thread. I built the rest then around it.
I have to repeat myself also, hats off to all who played, even if you recorded yourself, you still know it is going out there; however, it is good for you cheers HEC
Yours was fantastic. Especially the recovery with the sound issue you had to stop and then go. And it was like you were not even phased. Thats was cool. Also I think your tone is really great. One day I will get an amp that sounds like that.
The first few notes are terrible noise due to echo suppression - I believe Fanny or Justin realised that quickly and turned it off, so it went ok from that point on. I hope you like it, any comments are appreciated.
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