It’s been a while since I posted any live sessions – but here’s a track I recorded that I liked – OK – so the thrashing intro riff, of just one chord, is way too long – yeah I know lol, I got a bit carried away by the moment – but after that, its not too bad at all, even if I do say so myself!
Its a nice rock sound – coming from my fender strat, through my trusty Digitech RP200 effects pedal, with a manual setting – then looped through my Digitech loop pedal to lay down the riff I then solo over. I play about for ages sometimes, on the RP200 pedal getting these sounds just right – and this is one of my favorite rock sounds.
Same old Led Zip style riff that I have used many times before, it’s a powerful sound, and I love soloing over it – though I keep the riff a lot shorter than them – It keeps it more interesting I think! Plus I don’t have to wait for Plant to sing over it!
The loop seems OK, so I start with the beginning of the Jimmy Page solo, with that bend on the fourteenth fret of the G string, which puts me right into the first position of E Minor pentatonic in first position, on the twelfth fret – though it’s nice and easy to wizz back up the neck, use those open strings, and do some hammers and pulloffs on the second and third frets – great fun, as I can make screechy noises with the strings when I change position on the neck – and since it’s all E minor pentatonic – it’s easy-peasy!
After going round and round a couple of times, it’s nice to get that blues note in there somewhere – and I try to get in in the same as Mr Jimmy does, though this is where I start to diverge from his solo a bit more, and go onto my own stuff – it really needs a bit more practice to smooth things out a bit, and to avoid so much repetition of the same licks, and to avoid mistakes like that bum note! but I am getting closer to what I am aiming for!
A quick bash at the minor scale next – and I have noticed that just adding one new note at a time is easier on the listener, keeping the pentatonic as a good familiar skeleton, which I can have fun adding flesh to it as I go. I even manage to bend right up to that top D, and nearly hit it too! I finally quit when I run out of interesting places to go, and to stop it getting boring and repetitive, I decide to stop!
Yeah – I am pleased with that track – gonna put it on the net!
