Thread: Guitar Showdown Anyone?

Originally Posted by DuB

Does this sound good to everyone as the final backing track?

Sounds good to me.

Friday's good

Originally Posted by stonedape

Friday's good

K. Maybe that will give some other people - (who might want to participate ) some time to join in and put something together.

so what are we essentially doing? solos with hey joe backing, or Hey Joe?

Originally Posted by guitarboy

so what are we essentially doing? solos with hey joe backing, or Hey Joe?

Composing a solo to the Hey Joe backing.

sweeet. I'll get it up in a short while.

Does anyone know if how to upload garage band or audacity recordings? which is easier?

Create an mp3 file, it's the easy way to uplaoad aduio.

Originally Posted by guitarboy

sweeet. I'll get it up in a short while.

Does anyone know if how to upload garage band or audacity recordings? which is easier?

Audacity is probably easier (though I don't know). Just save it as a .wav file and then either convert it to an .mp3 or just upload it to a third-party host as a .wav file. www.putfile.com will be good enough, but there are a lot of different sites that let you upload and share your files.

Alright, I'll sit down tomorrow and try to come up with something. Holiday is over and starts this monday though, but I should be able to come up with something

Originally Posted by guitarboy

so what are we essentially doing? solos with hey joe backing, or Hey Joe?

O answered the question, but I just want to make sure that you understand that the task is to compose a solo, not improvise one. This means that every note should be planned in advance rather than made up on the fly.

Redundant 8D

Just making sure

I'm just improvising in the key of Eminor, pentatonic scale, figuring out what sounds nice, then I'll write it down.

Here's my entry:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/downl...cfm?ID=7211474
I had a pretty fat Brian May tone going on .

That sounds great, DuB!

Unfortunately, I've been so damn busy that I've hardly had free time to do anything, let alone compose the solo. I'm gonna try to get one done tonight. Is anyone else ready with theirs?

I'm still not ready either. It snowed a few inches and I have to walk to the place where I record, so I've been being lazy. I'll do something tommarow hopefully, if not I have to go there on Monday so I should have something by then.

Hey! What up my string strummin biatches!?

Doing another showdown? Hmm... maybe I'll catch you all on the next one - if not too late for this one. What is this one anyway? Solo?

Nice DuB!
where's TJ goin with gun in hand? To shoot his ol' lady, of course!--------------

Sup, guys.

Sorry, but it's just not looking good for me (in terms of getting an entry for this one done any time soon). Things have been really busy around here for me lately since my classes just started again and my daughter is staying with me full time for the next couple of weeks. I wouldn't even be able to put in my best effort to compose something. (I've never been much of a composer, as of yet. Heh.) Don't let me stop you, though, if there are more of you that want to finish this one out.

Oh, and TJ (you may have figured it out by now, but) the task is to compose a solo to that Hey Joe backing track snippet that DuB posted a few posts above.

Ah thanks, O! Actually I hadn't realized that - I was skimming through for something in bold and thought maybe it was to just record a solo. I'll download the mp3 when I get home. I'll probably stay in tonight (sucks, I know, but it's fkn freezing out!) so I should have some time to fondle my 6-string a bit. (let there be no confusion, that is a "6" - not a "G" )

Originally Posted by Tornado Joe

I'll probably stay in tonight (sucks, I know, but it's fkn freezing out!)

No joke. I know that, with it being as cold as it's been down here, it's gotta be just ridiculously cold up where you are.

And thanks for the clarification. Heh. I was beginning to think you staying at home would have been a bad idea after-all.

Nothing from me... my guitar cable broke >_< That's right, my second expensive fender cable somehow had a bend to it when I got home one day... a bend which so happens to totally kill the signal from the amp to the guitar. Hopefully I will get a new one next week! :S

Bagh! I never followed through on playing this Friday - I didn't do much of any of the things I set out to do, honestly

...my guitar cable broke >_< That's right, my second expensive fender cable somehow had a bend to it when I got home one day....

Hey SomeD - don't toss that cable just yet! Cut the portion of the bent part out (discard it), then re-attach the ends back (twist tie) of the two halves, band it with electrical tape and you should be good to go! (Done that many a time over the years, saves $$ and gets you up and playing again until you get new cable).

Hey SomeD - don't toss that cable just yet! Cut the portion of the bent part out (discard it), then re-attach the ends back (twist tie) of the two halves, band it with electrical tape and you should be good to go! (Done that many a time over the years, saves $$ and gets you up and playing again until you get new cable).

Didn't toss the cable Already got my new cable though! Was actually a cheap one, and funny enough I get such an awesome sound from it compared to what I did with more expensive cable o_0

Thanks for the tip though ^^ I bet it'll come in handy in the future

So..do we still have enough guitarists hanging around DV to start another generation of this??