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How many here can rip?
I went through a phase where I played acoustic 98% of the time, or so, for about 15 years. But, now I'm back to more 50/50 between acoustic and electric the last couple years.
I'm more of a rhythm player on both, but I'm trying to rip leads on electric now. (I don't mean shred. I don't like shredding. I mean like rock/blues type stuff.) It's going ok, but I still am not great. But, I'm getting better all the time because I'm practicing. So, now many here can tear it up on the electric?
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I'm not in the "rip it" category, but I can play solid and tasteful leads in both rock and blues. I'm strictly a riff, walk and minor pentatonic guy though and when I try to play a lead to country it still sounds like the Blues.
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Yeah, I can usually play licks ok, but when trying to do a solo of like more than 30 seconds, I run out of ideas really quick. I'm working on it though. Playing over backing tracks is fun too.
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If you mean by "tear it up" on electric, sounding bad and hitting lots of wrong notes, yep I got that covered.
If you were to listen to Red Shea playing electric guitar on Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown, that's about what I typically do on electric. I really don't plan to get too crazy. I can generally do outlaw country type stuff, the basic stuff anyway, but when it comes to shredding, I really never developed an interest in that.
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I doubt anyone would accuse me of "ripping" on electric or anything else. Sounds like it implies speed and I've never had any speed in my picking. More of slow blues player, lot's of short phrases, lots of vibrato and bends and double stops and stuff. But I will say I can play soooo much more freely on electric than acoustic.
On acoustic I can play songs from a known set of chords and I can sort of make up the accompaniment as I go, but I'm a really bad singer, so it doesn't go too far. I love doing it, but I just don't do it well at all. Or I can play my meager little collection of fingerstyle pieces that I've learned in the short time I've been doing that. But those are pure memorizing and muscle memory - I don't feel like I'm creating or even interpreting so much as just trying to play them competently. On electric I can get into a zone of total creativity. Limited creativity because I'm not that good at it. But still, when it's happening it just flows out of me. I'll mess around with some rhythms until I find something I want to play to and I'll kick on the looper for a few measures and then jam to it. Maybe for ten minutes and then go find another rhythm for a while. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes I play pretty predictably, calling on my limited vocabulary, but some days it just feels like more than that, like I don't know quite where I'm going but I seem to enjoy and be surprised by every twist and turn along the journey. I can kill and hour or two doing that with no trouble at all. I can be funky sometimes, slow and bluesy sometimes, and it's just the most creative I can be at anything. I don't know that I'd call it "ripping" in any sense that ripping is partly about technical mastery or speed or whatever. But I can surely flow on a good day. It just starts flowing I don't turn it off until it turns itself off. -Ray
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Here is a decent example of my definition of "ripping" at the beginning of this video. Not blazingly fast, but have some tasty licks mixed in with some quick runs:
Another example at the beginning of this video:
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I can play some pretty inventive melodic leads if I need to, but I need to think about it a bit first. If I have to do it spontaneously, I lapse into cliched pentatonic things, which is ok to the uninitiated I guess, but any actual player would know what was going on. That's why my best playing has always been on recordings, where I have time to listen and fit something in.
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Nice man!
How come you're mostly off camera though? Not fair...
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I'm going to derail my own thread ( ) and post examples of playing I like. I really like this guys playing (fast forward about a minute):
And, this guy has AMAZING touch... love it (first demo is good, but skip to his other demos too in this vid):
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Do I rip? Hmmm... I play for the song. I began doing that right at the start because I studied Joe Walsh and several other players... right from the start. The solo would arrive and Joe would just take over the song, but everything he did developed the song, made it better. So, as I work as a studio player, that is the approach I've taken. Examples:
OUTRO SOLO 1 OUTRO SOLO 2 INTRO SOLO That last one was on a progressive rock album, slated to be, I think, cut four. I was the recording engineer on the job. Knowing that I was also a guitarist, the producer asked me to bring in my stuff and do something with the song. I took in my lap steel and G&L S-500 and did three solos in the song. The executive producer came into town to hear our progress. We played that one back for him and he said, "That cut just got promoted to cut one and will be the radio release." Bob
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do you mean riffing???
this is as close to just straight riffing I'll do... slide guitar solo on this one @ 1:30 (this one's for Bob Womack because he said he studied Joe Walsh style, and that's who was thinking of here while I was playing) solo @ 2:42 straight blues... |
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Nice playing!
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I'm at home "ripping" improvised lead lines over up tempo rhythm tracks as I am playing tastefully over less up tempo tracks. (I like it faster because I'm mostly cross picking and don't have to think too much about the next note I'm about to play).
Think more country, rockabilly and/or just about every other genre outside of metal though! Last edited by Steel and wood; 07-03-2020 at 12:51 AM. |