Anthropology study

Quencho092

Quencho092

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Got the head and changes down for anthropology, just throwing down a quick track to get some feedback on comping variety and lead tone.

I feel like I've really dialed in a great recording tone for neck pickup, had to boost treble, 350hz and 1.1khz on the mixer (allen and heath Mix wizard, it has great channel strips)

Whaddya guys think about it!?

Melody is exclusively neck ant 2 mini,
chord stabs in the beginning with the mini (fat sound)

B section kicks in neck/bridge in parallel then kicks in twangy downbeat gypsy jazz
http://soundcloud.com/ze-quencho/anthro-powlogy
 
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funny...ive been running laps on that very tune today using band in a box. Those bop heads are always tongue twisters! We played it in my guitar duo yesterday, but i have to admit my partner played the head (id been slack and not learned it! lol), so i thought i better get my head around it today.
your lead sound and phrasing is funky and fun. nice man.

...i dunno if you are interested, but i did a similar thing to you with yardbird suite last year. I had this old L50 i was selling and a fella wanted to hear what it sounded like. I played fingers on the left channel and then pick on the right (or vice versa). I used the same mic and eq (flat) for both channels. Lol....a bit of manouche in the middle too! great minds think alike :)
soundcloud.com/camkinsey/yardbird-l50
 
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I really enjoy the rhythmic fiigures you used to comp the initial melody, I see where we both used stabs in the first go round, then moving into the 4 to the floor gypsy comp.

I'm looking to do another parker tune, I'm starting a duo project with a fast improving bass player from the local college (he sucked last year but had the right attitude and improved astonishingly quick!) and we're adding parker tunes, so far confirmation, donna lee, billies, and anthropology.

He mentioned throwing down dexterity next to add another rhythm changes format, I really digged that Yardbird suite, gonna give that a go as well. That Gibson sounds fantastic, bright and articulate!

I've been GAS'ing a Maccaferri to do stuff like that, I might snag up a 400 dollar Gitane to get more outdoor playing in with my bass player.
 
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I get lots of Trey Anastasio into my jazz playing which is something I'm debating editing a bit. (jazz was rough with SRV style fresh in my fingers) The funky tendancies I have is from playing too much Phish and Grateful Dead in the past 4 years.
 
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yeh those gitanes are cool. The godin fifth avenues are not bad either.
I went down to sydney with a friend who was wanting to try out a gitane a few years ago. I ended up walking out with a yamaha AEX1500 - acoustic archtop with a mini hum, piezo and blender preamp - it a great versatile workhorse for a bit of acoustic and a bit of electric sounds. It was a total impulse buy but it was good axe. He got himself a godin a bit later on too.
Just one thing about gitanes...if you are wanting to amplify, the bridges are kinda weird and not easy to get a pickup arrangement for.
I heard a monster gypsy player not long back....he was using a chinese tricone resonator, so i guess any axe will do the job.
Either way (as you can probably hear) you have to work a lot harder on an acoustic!
 
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good advice.

I'll be trying a few guitars out. Looking for something loud, light and ~400 just to have as an unplugged semi-beater acoustic as my classical isn't loud enough to play with a sax/trumpet
 
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