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Instrumental band I play with (guitar guys)

Platypus

Platypus

Lifer
Some new jams with the band, took a long hiatus from our regular gig but we've been playing some pretty crazy shows lately and I figured I'd toss up some of our newer stuff.


Anyway I thought I'd share it with you guys, if this isn't your bag I understand but I know there's someone out there who'll appreciate it 🙂

enjoy

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Update:
More jams!

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New jam, 27!
This is a whopper. 28 minutes long. I'm rocking my jazzmaster into an ocean of echo and doing some feedback manipulation early on with the trem. I then get into some raunchy crunch town antics as the jam spirals on. There's also some spastic staccato style freakout going on too. This is a pretty dark one and a very cool one in my opinon.
 
marked for home.

I often jam out on my bass with random people during parties. I find it much easier than trying to remember a structured song.
 
I could so lay down some BB King and a wah pedal to that 🙂

Nice work. I love doing that kind of stuff. We have some musicians in our family and we usually have a 4th of July jam in the back yard. Lots of fun.
 
I'm a fellow guitarist and I just wanted to say that this is great stuff! I love impromptu jam sessions! Keep up the great work and post more if you can!
 
Nice work, I'll always be a fan of the jam sessions, eventhough I dont have a lick of musical talent.
 
hey man, good job! sounds really good! I wish I could do this sometime, but I don't really know a lot of other musicians (I just started drumming back in August, and I don't go to a music school lol).
 
Originally posted by: Platypus
Figured I'd toss this out there for jam music lovers to see if there's any interest. I was invited to jam with some pretty great musicians on a regular basis and the concept is that everything is completely on the spot and recorded. Most jams are 15-20 min long and as I said are totally on the spot.

There was no prep work involved here and I'd never met anyone involved before like 30 seconds before I was thrust on stage in front of everyone to try and hold my own on guitar. I'm no guitar hero but I think I held up pretty well all things considered. The other guitarist and I basically traded licks the whole time, the only direction given was him holding up a 'C' motion with his hand and then we began and this was the result: clicky


Basically I had a blast and I'm going to make it a regular thing, there is just so much of a rush being tossed into a completely random situation blindfolded so to speak and be forced to create on the spot. I realize it's a bit on the long side (17) min but it really starts to pick up just before 4 minutes into it. Anyway I thought I'd share it with you guys, if this isn't your bag I understand but I know there's someone out there who'll appreciate it 🙂

enjoy
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it's toe-tappin-nice :thumbsup:
 
Downloading now...


Since there are going to be mostly guitar people visiting this thread I'm going to throw these questions out.

Are any of you self taught? If so, what books, cd's or dvd's did you use to help you?

Any other tips or things to help someone along?


Reason: My son just started showing an interest in playing the guitar. He is 16 and my mom just bought him a nice acoustic guitar. I kinda wanted to surprise him with some music lesson books or video's this weekend.

Thanks in advance.
 
I'd love to be able to jam but I wouldn't even know where to start. I mean I can play some songs (Blink-182, Bad Religion, Nirvana) but I don't know sh!t about theory, which I'm guessing is what you'd need to be able to do that. Any tips on where to start (books, tutorials, etc)?
 
Thanks for the compliments

I'm self taught, I learned how to play guitar listening to old Hendrix and Zeppelin records 😀

It's kind of a dumb answer and not very helpful but I just know what sounds good for what is going to come next in my head and just go with it, I know very few scales on guitar since I never had proper theory. A lot of that ability came from writing my own solo licks for my favorite songs and just building on that. It also helps having some really solid musicians to play with, a lot of the creative energy is from feeding off what someone else plays and then adding your own twist to it. I don't remember playing half the licks I did in that tune nor could I probably recreate them without careful practice, it's just a mode I get into when I start to play music. I seriously thought we only played for 5 minutes and it turned out to be 17 in that particular clip

edit: here's another one from the same jam with all different people:
clicky
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
The only thing I'd have to contribute is when I caught my old guitar teacher (and now drinkin' buddy) at open mike night at a bar:

http://members.toast.net/dougz/barband.wmv

Note: his drummer is 12 years old and his bass player is the size of the Death Star.
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I remember when you posted this forever ago and it's still great, your guitar teacher has some serious talent going, I bet this sounded 10x better live 😎
 
Originally posted by: clamum
I'd love to be able to jam but I wouldn't even know where to start. I mean I can play some songs (Blink-182, Bad Religion, Nirvana) but I don't know sh!t about theory, which I'm guessing is what you'd need to be able to do that. Any tips on where to start (books, tutorials, etc)?
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Not necessarily. Although guitar was one of my classes in high school, it was mainly focused on rhythm guitar. Yeah, I knew a basic major and minor scale form, and one blues form, but I was pretty much teh suck at playing any kind of lead.
It wasn't until a couple years later that I actually started trying to play lead lines... even though I sucked, I'd sit there and play along with anything and everything, punk, metal, rap, classical, techno, whatever. That was when I really got a feel for how to do it, now I can generally play along with most things as long as I can find a note or two that work (as long as the key changes are minimal).
Now in the last year, trying to write songs and account for the piano piece and the trumpet/harmonica, that's when I've finally had to start learning theory.
 
Originally posted by: Platypus
It's kind of a dumb answer and not very helpful but I just know what sounds good for what is going to come next in my head and just go with it, I know very few scales on guitar since I never had proper theory. A lot of that ability came from writing my own solo licks for my favorite songs and just building on that. It also helps having some really solid musicians to play with, a lot of the creative energy is from feeding off what someone else plays and then adding your own twist to it. I don't remember playing half the licks I did in that tune nor could I probably recreate them without careful practice, it's just a mode I get into when I start to play music. I seriously thought we only played for 5 minutes and it turned out to be 17 in that particular clip
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That's pretty much exactly how I'd describe it. You just get into the groove, and the notes kinda come out by themselves.
 
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: Fritzo
The only thing I'd have to contribute is when I caught my old guitar teacher (and now drinkin' buddy) at open mike night at a bar:

http://members.toast.net/dougz/barband.wmv

Note: his drummer is 12 years old and his bass player is the size of the Death Star.
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I remember when you posted this forever ago and it's still great, your guitar teacher has some serious talent going, I bet this sounded 10x better live 😎
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He recorded a blues album with that song on it within the last year. It's commercially available now. I'll see if I can get the title. Haven't seen the guy in about 3 months 🙁
 
damn that was awesome!! How do you guys recommend getting better at this? Just listen to any kind of song and try to play along with notes that sound right? I lack music theory knowledge and only know the pentatonic and chromatic scale 😛.
 
i only got to listen to a little bit but from what i heard, NICE JOB! :thumbsup:


I'll really listen to it when i get home

 
Originally posted by: jai6638
damn that was awesome!! How do you guys recommend getting better at this? Just listen to any kind of song and try to play along with notes that sound right? I lack music theory knowledge and only know the pentatonic and chromatic scale 😛.
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thanks!

yeah just start noodling around and figuring out the 'patterns'
 
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