my apologies for letting things hang on my thread so long …...
Freddy J
Well Yee Haw --- I didn't know that you had that country side to you Kenny. Your playing sounds pretty good to me. Real country sounds have that kinda loose feel (they make that pickin' sound easy) and you sho-nuff captured that. Well done!!!
Thanks Freddy
I do think that it sort of odd that I would spend most of my time learning how to play the guitar in the styles of Jazz , Rock , Blues and a hint of classical . Then a funny thing happens , nobody ever asks me to play Wes, Clapton or Page...
once anybody I've ever gigged with found out that I played Country ..they would end up wanting me to play in that style ….
it's a good thing for me ….the bulk of most of the paying gigs I ever had when I played in clubs involved me getting my Twang on….I honestly do enjoy playing that way with that type of sound ...
once again thank you
Starise
I left a comment on SC...love it! Probably did it all in one pass too .
Hello Tim ,
Yes , my whole guitar part was done in one pass. all i did was to practice along with the track for about a half hour and then record my guitar part straight up w no editing or punch ins ...
I was very much on the fence because I was toying around with the idea of doing a u tube video ..
once i started having fun , I didn't want to set up all the jazz thats involved in doing a vid ….
it is probably a good thing …the other guys on the other forum were pretty much all about keeping it lite
thank you for leaving the positive comment
i think i might need to sign in to soundcloud first before I start listening to posted tunes from this forum … I do like a lot of what I hear …got to break the laziness ...
The Band19
No way, I was sure I commented on this? Or perhaps I heard it and thought I commented? Or maybe I commented, and it was obscene and the moderator deleted the comment? The later is probably the most likely...
Nice chicken picken... The sound of that Les Paul is "unmistakable." A few timing anomalies, but I certainly couldn't pull it off, although I was brought up on charges this one time for trying to do so? But the evidence wouldn't stand up in court... But that's another story for another forum.
Would love to hear you comp one and play it to a tic track. Diagram it first, practice it, and then perfect it :-) You have so much raw talent.
You Again
just kidding ..
Hello Robbie ,
Believe it or Not , I Honestly do get you
You Know, I spent my whole life banging my head up against the music stand trying to play E=MC2 on the guitar .
Eventually I had to find something that works for me ...
I found through trial and error that creating back stories and letting my imagination loose happens to be a very creative tool I use all the time to keep the juices flowing in my playing the guitar and music ...
I always like to create a story in my mind that involves a cast of crazy musical characters …like a cartoon almost ..
by the time I was ready to post this song , my back story was about a Lil Red Rooster that was having somewhat of an identity crisis…
The Lil Red Rooster pretty much had his way and the run of the chicken coup , he even took a liking to parading around like a Peacock every once and a while . It turns out that his favorite hen wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to his antics so the Lil Red Rooster decided to throw down a challenge to prove himself and win her affection…
What he did was to challenge the biggest baddest Hawk in the Sky to a duel of Country Guitar Chicken Picking ...
The only rule was ….winner takes all and gets to wear the crown of being The Twang King
Anyway , to make a long story short The Lil Red Rooster out Twanged the Hawk .
Since it was winner take all,
The Lil Red Rooster decided to take all his winnings and make a pillow out of Hawk feathers for his favorite hen
I kid you not Bro …thats a big part of the back story on this one
Kenny