Decided I will keep this thread for my creations and covers instead of spamming the forum with lots of posts!
I plan on making my own backing tracks, recording covers and posting jam sessions here regularly.
So if you like your blues, rock or funk then keep your eyes peeled
Thanks!
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Original post…
Getting better at using the video editor and DAW. Still a bit of a task to get it all together. Spent more time mucking about with the computer than holding the guitar for this! Then there’s a the challenge of getting a clean take or sounding remotely interesting, not sure I’ve reached that point yet😂
But it feels like I see the progress each month even if it feels like not much is happening day today.
Dude… you are totally Vibing (“vibing”… not sure if that’s a real word) Out!!!
Love the tone! I’m very impressed with the things you’ve posted so far, Neil! The video editing has come along leaps & bounds too - did you ever get the sync issue with Sunshine of Your Love “fixed”? I’d love to hear that one again but with your lead/rhythm tracks better aligned!
Keep 'em flowing Neil!
Sounds great, Neil. Maybe work a little on mixing up the note lengths and pauses a little? Lots of great technique worked into this. Loved your rhythm groove. Excellent and keep on jamming!
@theoldman66 Always wondered how to make that sound and then stumbled across it watching Justin teaching Lee from Andertons in the “Captains Privates” lesson! Love the sound, could play it all day
My friend gave me a loan of his Les Paul copy today. Vintage V100. Had never heard of them but they get great reviews and after having a shot I’m well impressed! Not my choice of colour but can see what my next guitar will be!
Stumbled across this in a funky blues playlist and learned it tonight. Relatively simple and good fun. This was 2nd take, so far from polished and a few mistakes but gotta keeping moving forward!
What a fun track! I don’t know how you picked it up so fast. I didn’t hear any wrong notes. It sounded great to me. If I could make one change, I think I’d want you to hit a few mutes on the chips to give the song more dynamic mmf --if that makes any sense.
I can pick things up fairly quick I’d say but still takes alot of work to polish them!
Yep I agree with you there, I think I kinda forgot what was happening on that bit whilst thinking about keeping the rhythm! I want to move into funky sort of stuff, keeping the right hand going all the time is hardest bit!
Had to record a solo as a reference starting point for the Blues Immersion course here.
Not my best stuff but for 5 mins straight improv it’s accurate depiction of where I’m at right now. Looking forward to seeing the improvement over time!
Neil, that is a nice funky groove you have going on there. You have a clean tone and tight rhythm. I have put this song on my list for the new year. I did a month of funk style guitar a few years back and this rhythm brings back good memories. Thanks for the post.
Neil, it sounds good to me, but I’m still a blues player wanna-be. It sounds like you have doing quite a bit of playing blues lead in the past and starting the BLIM with a fair amount of experience. I spent a lot of time listening to the blues back in 1999 to 2005 so I picked up several different influences in your 5 min solo, particularly BB King and SRV. I look forward to hearing what you sound like after the BLIM lessons
Thanks Steve. I picked up guitar around 15 months ago, started noodling around the pentatonic scale maybe October last year and then really looked into blues stuff in January or Feb of this year.
I kind of dedicated myself to guitar in 2024 practicing several hours a day on average and really focusing on blues. Pleased with what I’ve achieved so far, never thought I’d be doing anything besides strumming some chords.
Thank you! That means a lot that you say that, as they are probably my 2 biggest influences! BB for the sweet major stuff and SRV for the angry minor stuff
Do you have any blues aspirations?
Cheers, Neil
PS just saw your other comment. Thanks again, I really think funk and blues are my jams so combining them is the ultimate fun for me I’d say!
I like BB King because it is easy enough for me to learn a few licks. My “dreamer” level influence is SRV. The G99 in my online name is G for guitar and 99 for 1999, the year I heard SRV play Little Wing on the radio for the first time and rocked my world. Before that I didn’t even have an electric guitar, just acoustic and classical. I bought all of SRV albums (CDs since it was 1999) and then bought CDs of all of his influences. I soon bought a Strat and a Fender Blues Jr amp. In my Learning Log at the beginning I list Mary Had A Little Lamb - SRV version as one of my early dreamer songs to work on. I especially like all of SRV slow blues.
I was only really exposed to the blues proper by a work colleague last year. I always enjoyed it when hearing it but had never purposefully listened to it.
But when I came across SRV I was instantly hooked.
