Improv - Metal/ Rock/ Hard Rock/ etc.

Post your playing of this genre here.

Judging time! POST YOUR STUFFZ PEOPLE

ye, on wedsnday or so, when i get my new amp!

might i suggest a song as a judge? sabbra cadabra - black sabbath good stuff

I'm a judge, so one of the songs shall be...


Iron maiden, run to the hills!

showcaseyourmusic.com/lanny124 check it out

Far Freaking out Guitarslinger!
I've listened to some of your stuff before. is there anything new here? (i wouldn't think you'd have time right now)
How's the military lifestyle treating you man?
Diamond Phip

Really good phrasing. I love how you're so different from this typical stuff I always hear. Still keep to techniques which were already around, but you've changed it to something new. Well done.

its ok, im goin to germany soon which should be awesome...ill be home for leave in a few weeks and i plan on putting some new tunes up so ill let you know when i do. rock on dude.

Well heres a link to mine its a 12 minute improv to a backing track i got for pink floyd style soloing: http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/danielm

It may be a bit dodgy at times as this is my first attempt at soloing with this backing track and i didnt have any licks prepared or anything.

Enjoy

theres nothing there...

It's always good to start slow and then bring your solo to life. But you need to keep working on it. You sound like you're still seeing within the box, try and experiment outside of it every now and then, it'll help. It's a good start, but you need to work on it.

Try to listen to your timing, nod your head or tap your foot along to the music to keep yourself in time. Listen back to this solo, too. What do you think about it? What do you think works and what doesn't? Go along with the drum beat and listen to your playing, it'll help you to understand where you're going out of time.

guitarslinger your really in chalfont?

the link to my profile does work but i just uploaded the song like a minute before i sent that message so it may not have fully loaded when i sent it

right now im at Fort Gordon, Georgia. but yea, when im not living where the army tells me to live, i do have my own place in chalfont.

hah! full metal jcket. best movie ever.

@guitarslinger: "my rifle is my best friend, without my rile i am nothing. no all together!

It's actually your knife that's you best friend.

no its ur rifle.

"This is my rifle. There are many like it... but this one is mine. Without my rifle I am nothing... Without me, my rifle is nothing."




Welcome to the suck.

@guitarslinger, man thats crazy im a little north of there in the Quakertown/sellersville area

woo-o-ou you are in the...

When I was in army here in Finland, when we stand in straight line with our rifles and our sergeant checks that everything is order...he noticed scratchses on my rifle back and yelled to me "WHAT IS THAT" and I answered calmly "Its the name of my rifle" and he suddenly went white...

i know exactly where that is ironman...bout 45 minutes from where i live.

@empirism: back in basic training, our weapons checks were nightmares...we'd spend all day low crawling the mud with our weapons then given 10 minutes to have them clean again...which never happended, but bit of dirt on the weapon and we all doing pushups tills we puked.

aye, everyone know that its almost imposible to have them cleaned, but thats the way they know it is. Its part of the attitude training... imbosible missions that can be done that they can "punish" with things like pushups. Keep your mind strong and dont take it personally and you rock.

yea i know...im headed off to germany which puts me closer to getting deployed to afganistan...that'll be the real test

im gona post a couple of me playing a couple songs on here, im thinking coming home by skynyrd, hotel california by the eagles (just the solo) maybe an ac.dc song and some ozzy stuf.

Good Idea I'll post a classic rock song probably by the Skynard.

Guitarsinger good luck and bring us back a turban or a goat.

I heard they have some beauties in Germany.

Unfair, unfair... emb got uber amp, none cant beat him here :D.

Go get Obama-err, I mean Osama!

come lets cool it with Obama I didnt vote for him but soon enough hes gonna rule us all.

@ Empirism we should have a Rock a Thon like everyone should play their best solo but then I'm afraid someone might steal it.

We should definetely post our Vids.

aye, unfortunately i have no change to record video... I can put song here in audio tho. When i got rid of this darn flu

wit can we post covers? or just our stuff, im not much of a writer.

Post anything. It'll be what you're judged on though o keep that in mind.

kk

Okay the first song is what I wanted to show off my improv.
Backing Track: Steve Vai-For the love of God

I know the beginning is how it goes, but at about 2:00 and then on I just improv and do whatever I feel in my hands and heart:

http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/justnothingness

Any judges?

judgin time???? i cant play right now, i hate when this happens

@shred
I liked the panoration tricks on that one :), also shredding technique is good, but maybe because that is so long improvisation... it get little out of hand in couple times...

Im not a judge, but imo as far guitarslinger is at the top :)

Ahhh I used to jam to this track, the memories!! haha.

Making those mistakes when you accidentally play the open strings are going to happen a lot, it even happens to the greats. What you should do is not ignore it and keep playing, but make it sound like you meant to do it even though you didn't. So now that you've played an open string work your way around that area and just mess around. John McLaughlin does it a lot.

There's some improvement in your playing, but you still need more practice. Keep up the good work.