Reply With QuoteGood on ya JasonGins! I, as also a beginner, am very impressed. Thanks for sharing the effort.
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Funk/Fusion Progression - Moving past "total beginner?"
Well, here I am after a few months of lessons (started as total beginner):
Click Here: Funk/Fusion Progression
The backing track is a progression my guitar teacher put together for me using a program called Band in a Box. Using Garageband, I recorded the rhythm chords first (I use the term loosly as I haven't learned much rhythm playing yet), and then went back and recored the "lead". The chord progression I played is Am7, Bm7, Am7, Bm7, E9 and over again. The lead is minor pentatonic. I recorded the guitar parts using Garageband on my mac mini with my m-audio black box as the interface. The effects were done with a software program rather than the black box. My computer doesn't have quite enough horsepower to do reliable recording while simultaneously doing software effects processing - hence the occasional clicks, pops, and stuttering. Next time I'll do the effects with the black box since it does the processing its own hardware rather than use the computer's cpu.
Done with my Squier '51, bridge pickup on the chords, don't remember which pickups for the lead.
I will post the BT in the BT section. I am very curious to hear what someone else can do with it. It is about 8 minutes long in total. This has been huge fun for me, and especially because of thefret.net.
Last edited by jasongins; May 29th, 2007 at 01:51 PM. Reason: Adding information
Guitars: MIM Fender FSR Limited Edition Stratocaster with direct mount pickups, Schecter C-1 Plus, SX SST57 Powder Blue, Alvarez RD8 Accoustic
Amps: Line6 Spidervalve 112
Effects: Digitech Bad Monkey, Danelectro Cool Cat Chorus, GFS Delay, GFS Tuner, Behringer HB01 wah, Line6 Toneport GX, GuitarRig 3
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Good on ya JasonGins! I, as also a beginner, am very impressed. Thanks for sharing the effort.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
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Thanks sunvalleylaw. It seems the more I learn, the more I want to learn.
Guitars: MIM Fender FSR Limited Edition Stratocaster with direct mount pickups, Schecter C-1 Plus, SX SST57 Powder Blue, Alvarez RD8 Accoustic
Amps: Line6 Spidervalve 112
Effects: Digitech Bad Monkey, Danelectro Cool Cat Chorus, GFS Delay, GFS Tuner, Behringer HB01 wah, Line6 Toneport GX, GuitarRig 3
Custom Deluxe
Jason, I think that you came up with a nice melody... but you should turn up the guitar volume!
I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
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Thanks. I can probably fix that by raising the volume on the track in garageband and exporting a new mp3.
Guitars: MIM Fender FSR Limited Edition Stratocaster with direct mount pickups, Schecter C-1 Plus, SX SST57 Powder Blue, Alvarez RD8 Accoustic
Amps: Line6 Spidervalve 112
Effects: Digitech Bad Monkey, Danelectro Cool Cat Chorus, GFS Delay, GFS Tuner, Behringer HB01 wah, Line6 Toneport GX, GuitarRig 3
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That's very good playing for someone who's only played for a few months. And the recording is nicely put together too.
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Way to go Jason!
I pick a moon dog.
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Heck only a few months you say thats pretty darn good my playing wasn't that good for at least a year when I started....Excellent work
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Amps: 1969 Fender Twin Reverb, 2002 Line 6 Flextone 2
Effects: Digitech GNX4, Boss ME30, and a whack of pedals
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