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I never learn anything exactly as played. I approach a cover as an original song that happens to have been written by someone else...
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As an example take Tainted Love. It's been released as a single at least four times, each one different but clearly recognisable. Our version is different again.
It's always interesting to see how the original artist has changed a song, first in taking it from recording to live performance, and then developed it over the years.
I always find out how the original was played. Whether to reproduce that is then a conscious decision rather than laziness.
In the past I have been the guy that chucks out a modal shredfest over Smells Like Teen Spirit, but in truth it is better if you just learn the written solo.
My approach is to do as little work as necessary in order to make it convincing.
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For guitar driven rock it's more a case of learning it vertibin and your kind of forced into the original key if you want the same voicing due to open strings etc .... Back in Black won't sound the same if you transpose it into any other key
I like to copy solo's note for note if it's in my capability, some aren't ... I remember trying to vain to do the Get The Funk out solo, just sounded a mess so I had to simplify it in the end. Luckily in the type of music I'm generally being paid to play there's not much in the way of difficult solos
Note that I wouldn't use the term "improvise" as it implies that I make up something on the spot and play it differently each time, but that's not the case. I tend to spend some time to create my own solo, then stick to it every time.
Last start up I picked the songs and would purposely pick ones with simple parts and solos as I was the sole guitarist and vocalist. I would do my best to sound like the original but simplify things where needed.
I do some casual dep/random stuff at parties and Christmas and it's just acoustics mainly. I like stripped down versions of well known songs.
Singer may come up with the song and play it through to us on acoustic and then we will jam it.
Some songs are so recognisable that you have to do a bit of homework as even non musicians know when it's wrong.
i don't think we play any song in the band just like the original, some are close though, but solos certainly ain't!
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