Voting for Solo of the Month (SotM) #35

stratman3142

Welcome to the voting thread for Solo of the Month (SotM) #35

Voting will end on 11.30pm 30th April 2018.

Feel free to vote and comment in this thread.

Vote for your top 3 entries. If you're an entrant you can't vote for yourself.

1st choice gets 5 points

2nd choice gets 3 points

3rd choice gets 1 point

You can find all the entries the playlist below:


https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/sotm35-2018-04

flying_pie

First of all I'd like to thank @stratman3142 for giving us a... "challenging" house/disco tune instead of something which actually needed a guitar solo. For that reason I've deducted a couple of points from an otherwise excellent ripping solo

Everyone that entered deserves at least a point IMO but as the rules don't allow here are my points:


5 points - @ChrisRG - melodic with great use of different tones

3 points - @stratman3142 ;

1 point - @poopot - playing to the tune. Perhaps a safe approach but very well executed 

DulcetJones

Nice to hear some different approaches.

5 Points - @stratman3142 ;   Impeccable riffing!

3 Points - @poopot  Completely different approach that works.

1 Point - @ChrisRG  Another surprise with experimental effects use.

ChrisRG

Close at the top again for me this month although all three were very different. 

5 points - @stratman3142 - Another very well played solo. Some shameless shredding in there for good measure

3 points - @poopot - Really like the approach. The playing really suited the track although maybe needed a little more solo to push it into top spot for me. 

1 point -  @flying_pie - great to hear something different. Reminded me of War of the Worlds. 

stratman3142

5 points - @ChrisRG ; A solo of two halves. Nice modulation effects and melodies during the first half, building to a melodic sustaining tone in the second half, which kept things varied and interesting. I really liked the rhythmic phrasing of the second half. This is just personal taste (and ultra picky), but I would have liked to hear more rhythmic phrasing on the clean modulated sound in the first half, which sounded a bit rhythmically square (8th note centric) at times. But overall a good solo that fitted the backing.

3 points - @poopot ; Good to hear a funky rhythm guitar solo, which fitted really well. In fact so well, that I originally got things mixed up and recorded my first solo over the version with your rhythm guitar. So I had to do it again, but for a moment I wondered whether we should have made it a joint entry.

1 point - @flying_pie ; How I imagine Ernie Isley would sound, let loose with a whammy pedal Very imaginative and synth like.

poopot

I’m going have to do with.

1) @ChrisRG ;
2) @stratman3142 ;
3) @flying_pie ;

again, hard to choose to be fair... all good entries!...

Fretwired

5 points @stratman3142

3 points @ChrisRG

1 point @flying_pie ;

Jaycee

Tough piece to solo over well done everyone.

5 for @ChrisRG different sounds suited the backing track for me.

3 for @stratman3142 i think you have done this before

1 for @poopot ; nice funky sound suited the track as well

Bellycaster

5 Points @stratman3142 ;

3 Points @poopot ;

1 Point @ChrisRG ;

stratman3142

Voting ends tonight at 11.30pm.

Brad

Tough one to score this one! Really not much in it, here goes...

5 points - @ChrisRG Nice use of effects with a cool melody, second half of the solo developed nicely to it's conclusion.

3 points - @stratman3142 Great trem work here and great chops on display! 

1 point - @poopot I like the funk rhythm approach a la Nile Rogers, so that'll always go down well with me  

Some great stuff all round.

stratman3142

That was cutting it fine.

Voting closed.