February guitar contest!

Remember when we used to have these, and how much fun we had with the couple we did?

Well I propose we do another! This month! Is anyone down?

fuck yeah i am

I will if it's not a shitty ass one chord "fusion" track

I will if it's a shitty ass one chord "tetrafusion" track.

I am down!
Nomination:

oooh nice

I like that second one

If we do this shit I may try to get a few buddies to join up and make a submission.

Well I think we have you, Matt, Brooks Tarrington IV and me so far so...I dunno who else would join.

I would probably do one.

Tarrington? Really?

i'll join with my big faggot 7-string bass tree limb instrument if thats ok

lol 7 strings

I'm gonna do it as well this month, also

I'd participate if I was good.

nobody cares if you're good, it's an opportunity to just get feedback and ideas from other people.

I'm going to record djent over it.

So.. over the Guthrie thing?

This is so gay

I mean, it's pretty simple but there's nothing wrong with that. I don't want a track that modulates 7 times just to make things harder on everyone. Plus it's nice and short.

Yeah it works. I've never played or improvised over any type of modes, so could be fun.

(....I don't think I've ever played to a backing track either... except some DT songs back in the day)

I think I'll wait and see what people post, so I don't look like a complete ass

i nominate this song!

do fucking zappa you pricks

Let's all do a cover of St. Alphonso!

i can do vocals

Damn right you can

Let's all do a cover of St. Anger!

So wht track are we using?

The second one, Imo

ok. fucking e lydian drone ass guy. im down. will try to get something done by the end of the week.

i will use many soft gellys.

Till you hear a note lower than E.

dont worry brah its just E lydian. if you suck a lot of balls just think B major or G# m pent.

I don't know what you just said.

Code:

E ------------------------------4-7- 
B -------------------------4-7----- 
G -------------------4-6-----------  
D -------------4-6-----------------  
A -------4--6-----------------------  
E--4-7------------------------------

just use that scale.

Okay, I vaguely know what a scale is.

Lydian is hard to do cool chromatic stuff in.

nay!

I guess I should have said "for me"

I'm down once a track is settled on

I think we're going for the lydian guthrie track

zappa

Why not just do whichever one you want, it's not like this is a real contest.

sort of defeats the purpose in the sense that the point, at least IMO, of these things is to have everyone coming from the same position so that it's easy to springboard ideas off one another, and discuss approaches & struggles to whatever that specific type of backing offers.

To me these threads are never about "lol listen to me play a guitar solo" and more about challenging yourself to be creative over something you're being forced to play over, rather than choosing something that is comfortable and easy for you to play over.

Which is also why I want to shoot for jazz backings, something that you actually have to work on to play over rather than 1 chord vamps, and "fusion" backings that are just I-IV-V's.

yeah the lydian thing made me think and shit.

Going for that

Word up, i feel that. Well the lydian thing had me doing stuff some that i'm not totally used to, so i'm pretty cool with that. It actually has a pretty strong Zappa vibe too, coincidentally. I'm all for some standard jazz backing tracks too, as jazz is all i've been playing and trying to learn lately, and i'm very much in the beginning stages of it all.

K, lets do giant steps next month. IM DOWN

FINALLY

can i make a bunch of zappa backing tracks so you will use them

I'll do this. We should put someone in charge of putting this together every month. It's good practice and forces me to do shit.