Me soloing on Daphne

AmundLauritzen

Hi guys! I posted a video here a bit over a year ago where I played Djangos Tiger. I've been working hard on changing my right hand technique to get a better sound. I recorded a video of me soloing over Daphne and I'd appreciate some criticism on how I can improve my playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIzoP-L- ... e=youtu.be

I know I mess up the ending. It caught me by surprise

Bones

Wow, nice work Amund! I'll check it out a little closer when I get some time.

anthon_74

The picking is good.

My only critique, which is more of a suggestion on where you go from there, is that now that you can play notes so well continually, smoothly going from chord to chord (WELL DONE BTW), you might want to start experimenting with more dynamic range. More spaces... more varied phrasing... fewer "notes".

all in all, if you're the person I remember posting the Django's tiger last year, you've come a long way.

cheers

Anthony

AmundLauritzen

You are absolutely right. At this point in my development all my focus is on trying to make sense in the progression and keeping up with the tempo. So there is not so much capacity for me to be aware of phrasing as I still have to concentrate very hard. And as you notice, I still mess up and my timing fluctuates.

I think as my vocabulary grows and my confidence in making the changes improve, I'll develop my phrasing more on a subconscious level.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to listen to my playing!

Jon

I thought it was good. You crossed the beat a couple of times and wound up in the wrong spot, but seemed to find your way back. Also, it seemed to me like you were playing a lot over, for instance, just the D chord in the A section, and not outlining the more interesting changes much. While simplifying changes like this is ok, I would have liked to have heard you occasionally nailing all the chords - it really makes the whole thing sound more like you're in charge, and not just floating over the rhythm section. I really liked that you have some good ending/cadence phrases that you use - that's very important I think.

I understand that you are trying to develop the ability to play right through a progression, and not working on phrasing so much yet, but can I suggest that phrasing gets more and more difficult to work on the more free and quick your hands become? One of the good things about being limited technically is that it makes you play more melodically, with more full stops and commas. This becomes very much harder to force yourself to do if you to it later rather than sooner (this is something I struggle with every time I pick up the guitar).

Sounds great though - I'd love to hear more!

Jon

Bones

Hi Amund,

For the rhythm track are you using a Gm, Bb7, or a G#dim chord after the G chord?

Generally, I'm wondering what most people use there.

Conversly, it goes by pretty fast so I'm not sure if it makes a lot of difference except relative to what one is thinking about during a solo.

thanks

ps- nice use of the enclosure ideas by the way!

delb0y

Sounds great to me! Well done.

AmundLauritzen

Bones wrote:

Hi Amund,

For the rhythm track are you using a Gm, Bb7, or a G#dim chord after the G chord?

Generally, I'm wondering what most people use there.

Conversly, it goes by pretty fast so I'm not sure if it makes a lot of difference except relative to what one is thinking about during a solo.

thanks

ps- nice use of the enclosure ideas by the way!

I'm not sure. I use the track from Stephane Wrembels site and I don't know what he uses. I think most people use the Gm chord but that's just an assumption.