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DanTravis62 said:
Thank you, I appreciate the vote of confidence - I guess the grass is always greener on the other side right?

No matter how hard we try, we always end up sounding like ourselves when we play leads lol

At least for me, part of why I always have the "snake-y" and rhythmically fluid thing going on, is because my mentor/longtime teacher ingrained it in my brain that when you're doing a guitar solo, especially with metal or hard rock, you aren't "bound" to the tempo like when you're playing a riff

In fact, just like you can add tension and relieve tension with notes resolving into the root, fifth, or third, you can use "out of the box" rhythms as a way to color your solo - as long as it has internally consistent rhythm, and you don't overdo it, sometimes it can be more expressive or express an idea or emotion better. Sort of how sometimes Randy Rhoads will "unsync" his right and left hands a bit to get more of that out of control feeling, it's the same idea except unsyncing from the rhythm specifically when you're "emoting" or doing more vocal lines

I used to do tons of exercises to add weird subdivisions and stuff like that to get my brain used to a more "holistic" way of doing things, leadwise

I appreciate the kind words, anyhow, and really enjoyed your playing man!
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Dude that’s the best part about these backing track throwdowns! We get to hear everyone’s stylistic or musical choices and it’s just as much fun as looking at each others gear imo.

I love that everyone has a slightly different way of doing stuff and I get to listen and pick and choose what I want to try on my own!

lol the funniest thing about the 180 bpm for me is all I wanted to do was a slightly off tempo boomer bend lick I came up with and I couldn’t get it absolutely anywhere near the speed of the track :ROFLMAO: . Sounded killer at like 150/160 bpm but that just crushed my spirit even more when I couldn’t get it higher
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
Dude that’s the best part about these backing track throwdowns! We get to hear everyone’s stylistic or musical choices and it’s just as much fun as looking at each others gear imo.

I love that everyone has a slightly different way of doing stuff and I get to listen and pick and choose what I want to try on my own!

lol the funniest thing about the 180 bpm for me is all I wanted to do was a slightly off tempo boomer bend lick I came up with and I couldn’t get it absolutely anywhere near the speed of the track :ROFLMAO: . Sounded killer at like 150/160 bpm but that just crushed my spirit even more when I couldn’t get it higher
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Man, you should have just gone with it! Fuck it!

Honestly sometimes the effort of trying to get it up to speed adds urgency and rawness to the solo
 
DanTravis62 said:
Man, you should have just gone with it! Fuck it!

Honestly sometimes the effort of trying to get it up to speed adds urgency and rawness to the solo
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Totally agreed! I wanted to so bad but it was just muffled garbage by the time I got anywhere near tempo hahah.

I’m gonna record it today at a slower speed and I’ll share it here. It was a total schenker/page 70s blues daddy rip off hahah but I have a soft spot for that stuff
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
Totally agreed! I wanted to so bad but it was just muffled garbage by the time I got anywhere near tempo hahah.

I’m gonna record it today at a slower speed and I’ll share it here. It was a total schenker/page 70s blues daddy rip off hahah but I have a soft spot for that stuff
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Man I love that stuff. I always add a couple schenker/hammett/blues dad things in my solos

I am almost always in natural or harmonic minor out of habit, so it's always a big mood change to switch into dad rock
 
DanTravis62 said:
Man I love that stuff. I always add a couple schenker/hammett/blues dad things in my solos

I am almost always in natural or harmonic minor out of habit, so it's always a big mood change to switch into dad rock
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Haha yes that’s it dude, the contrast is so epic when it comes in perfectly over a chord shift!

I do think it sounds good but sometimes I wonder if I like it because of my heroes lololol
 
What the hell am I reading right now?
This is RiffWarz, not a dating site.
The only people that are allowed to be nice here are @dstroud and @ChuggNorris

Also, where is everybody? @japetus @Techdeth @thegame @JackBootedThug @311splawndude @Yolo Tomassi @Speeddemon @ShatGPT @nightlight
 
Yolo Tomassi said:
Good talking wif you over on SoundCloud, bro !

Thanks for the invite.

Scuse me while I whip this out.

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nice tune dude, great playing and tone, and yea nice chatting with ya on soundcloud too

not sure what you mean by invite haha, this challenge is open to everybody!!!
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
not sure what you mean by invite haha
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Yeah, me neither.

I'm all hopped up on old-timey codeine-laced cough syrup.

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It's hard to even keep track of this with the total page long sucking each other off wars in the comments. This is the furthest thing from a war I've ever seen. It's like a pajama party where everyone shares the same cheese snacks.

Dare I say it seems like... a few of you have even designated this a "safe place" for your feelings and man, it makes me sick. 😂

This is when I'd fly over head and drop bombs on all your little cheese niblets if I could and break up all this hand holding lets sing kumbiya together bullshit.

Being nice, okay cool. But this is mashed potatoes levels of soft in here.
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What started as a riff war offshoot, has somehow turned into a whole emotional support group for grown men where youre just stroking eachother off to feel warm and cozy inside. Dafuq. 😂😂😂
 
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