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Approach: I originally tried to do something more melodic and, well, sweet sounding on the upper frets, in the vein of the track that nobody's mentioning. That wasn't working very well, so I decided to make everything the opposite. I selected the scuzziest tone I could (a Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion helped greatly here) and worked on the bottom string only, looking for something more riff-y than solo-y. Scale is D-minor pentatonic.
Now I'm done and I listen back to, er, y'know, that track ... well, it's not all as clean as I remember actually, so maybe I'm not that far off after all.
Similar to @Brad 's description, I ended up using three scales/keys based around D major, G major, and G minor, with some chordy bits in as well, along with some favourite double stops.
I guess the option to use a few different scales does prove the "keyless wonder" theory!
This was recorded using the bridge pickup of an '85 Japanese Fender Tele into a Zoom MS50G. Overdrive into Fender amp with spring reverb and a bit of delay. All modelled of course.
Also, thanks for the descriptions of the approaches used.
I've updated the playlist in the original post to contain all the entries so far.
Im not a lead guitar player in the slightest and have only ever played a handful of solos.
my approach was to put together a handful of twiddles and slides and some half forgotten things from an old Albert Lee Starlicks VHS and hope for the best .
So that's a total of 13 entries so far. A very good turn out this month
My approach was to think in phrases, starting low on the neck and working up. Could have released a double album of out takes by the end.
I'll start a new thread for the voting tomorrow.