SOLO of the Month #7 - Chat

Antique_Guitars

This is the 7th SOLO of the Month (SotM) Challenge, being run by @Antique_Guitars and @TTony.

The idea is that we give you a new backing track to solo over every month, the backing track will be a maximum of 1.5mins long and you will have to download the track from soundcloud and record your solo over the top of it and then submit it to us.

The challenge is now open, and remains open for submissions until 24th September.

All you have to do is ...

• Download the backing track and record you solo over the top of it.
  
• Challenge opens on the 1st of every month, and closes on the 24th of the month.
• Voting opens on the 25th of the month, and closes on the last day of the month, when the winner will be announced.

Here is this months backing track (you can download it from soundcloud)

Specs: African influenced (westernised) world music in E

Let us know if you would like your entry to be anonymous.

Send your tracks to solos@theFB.co.uk

The tracks will be uploaded to our SoundCloud account and saved in a playlist that will be linked below

PLEASE GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK ON PEOPLES SOLOS AND RECORDING TECHNIQUES IF YOU HAVE TIME

markv

Blimey. What happened to "This is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try and keep up"?

:-P

RedRabbit

Love the backing track - no idea what I'll play over it though.

I need to keep up with these better than I have been doing.  They definitely push me out of my comfort zone.

littlegreenman

Now that my emotional state is finally getting back into some semblance of normality after several months of major headfuck*, I'll do my best to get something done for this.


* Yep, what else, women problems. You'd think after all the Blues song written about it that it would actually help. Believe me, it doesn't!

Teetonetal

All I can think of is Paul Simon's Gracelands... would be a really interesting one to try, but given my current RSI I am not sure I will be able to enter this month

Looking forward to other's efforts immensely though..

hobbio

I've got a few ideas, I'm hoping to get something committed this weekend.

rash

I had a go at it this evening, emailed.

axisus

Not my sort of track at all. Guaranteed to make me sound more lame than usual!

bingefeller

Not my cup of tea either.  Gonna leave this one.  

Sambostar

If I am the only entry...I might win...I might WIN..

markv

I think I've got something, now all I need to do is practice it for a month.

Teetonetal

Had a spare evening and the RSI turned out to be something else, so managed to sneak in an entry.. not happy with it, but this was a hard one to do, so good enough,

Teetonetal

@Rash now I put mine in, I had a listen to yours - some stunning execution there, really, really nice playing.

markv

Sent mine in. It's my poor attempt at a highlife (soukos?) style guitar. Good fun, even if it did tie my fingers in knots.

rash

Teetonetal said:

@Rash now I put mine in, I had a listen to yours - some stunning execution there, really, really nice playing.

Thanks man.

Teetonetal

markv said:

Sent mine in. It's my poor attempt at a highlife (soukos?) style guitar. Good fun, even if it did tie my fingers in knots.

looking forward to hearing it  

markv

Cheers - likewise!

rash

@Teetonal @markv

those both sound really good guys

Teetonetal

wow @markv that is quality.

Blimey some good efforts this month!

hobbio

Arrghhh!

Tonight's the night, I've been struggling with the transition over to recording on my laptop so I either need to sort that out or just do it on my iPad.

ChrisRG

So, I've just submitted my entry.  I found it quite difficult to lock into the vibe on this.

Unfortunately I didn't have very much time for this one and coupled with learning to record and use a DAW (I got help recording the last 2 solos) it's not a great effort. Basic melody and repetition I'm afraid.  Still, I promised myself I'd enter every month........

Looking forward to listening to everyone's take on this now mine's in.

Out of interest, how do people record their solos?  DI into an interface/DAW? Mic'd up amps?  For me, it was DI into an old mbox 2 mini and then into Studio One 3 (the free one at the moment).