How many here can rip?

[FrankHudson]

Rip? Hmmm. Naw--But I'm a cross-cut saw, just drag me 'cross your log...Ops, I forgot, I'm not Albert King there for a moment.

I spent some time about two decades ago working out playing electric lead. To my tastes I got so that I liked what I played some days. Now I'm focused elsewhere on compositions and learning to use other instrumental voices in them. In the current Covid days I don't have access to other players, and the tragic irony is that when I call on myself to lay down an electric solo I often fail myself right now.

A dozen years ago I was trying to sell a guitar (I thought I had too many Telecasters, silly man!) so I put up a some publicly accessible demos recorded over backing tracks to show what the guitar could sound like, quick first takes done when I was nearing the end of that former focus. I never took them down, and here's one of them where I try to (among other things) imitate a jump blues horn section.

Jump Blues

I listened to a few of those tracks again, all these years later, and though I can hear the occasional clams and muffed notes, I'm surprised I played them, sounds like another class of player than I am today.

[redir]

I've got the Pentatonic rock and blues stuff down pretty good but as much as I'd love too I will never be able to play like Bucket Head.

I have been practicing 3 note per string scales through the seven diatonic modes though and that's pretty cool stuff.

[blue]

Originally Posted by KevWind

Certainly has talented fingers. But the music must be someone else's, cup O tee

Yup. Her's.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by blue

Yup. Her's.

One would hope