Do you like your own playing?
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Davey
Goliath of Tone
Re: Do you like your own playing?
depends on my mood and how i feel when i pick up my axe. i'm a casual player cos i dont have a band and all i really do is play along records and somethimes write my own riffs.
if i'm warmed up and got that groove, isometimes really go, awesome! and then bum.. man i wish i had recorded that
on the other side, i start recording and then when i playback it's horrible =P
and i can never remember a solo or something if i dont write it down or have it recorded
depends on my mood and how i feel when i pick up my axe. i'm a casual player cos i dont have a band and all i really do is play along records and somethimes write my own riffs.
if i'm warmed up and got that groove, isometimes really go, awesome! and then bum.. man i wish i had recorded that
on the other side, i start recording and then when i playback it's horrible =P
and i can never remember a solo or something if i dont write it down or have it recorded
Re: Do you like your own playing?
i think its all in our minds guys.
i used to think i was pretty good when i got my digitech pedal (year and a half ago), tone and chops, but i found my old recordings on a CD yesterday and its embarrassing beyond belief... couldnt keep time at all and the tone was awful
i think its all in our minds guys.
i used to think i was pretty good when i got my digitech pedal (year and a half ago), tone and chops, but i found my old recordings on a CD yesterday and its embarrassing beyond belief... couldnt keep time at all and the tone was awful
Sly_D
New member
Re: Do you like your own playing?
My playing improved a lot in the last two years, probably because I played more than ever before. Am I satisfied? I think I'll never be.
I think NOONE should be
Where do you go when you're satisfied? Down.
Since I don't want to loose any great flash and forget them like anybody else, I hardly every give a shot at a back track without recording it... then I keep the small extracts I like best in a safe place. When I'm done, I redo the whole thing to see if it flows well. Sometimes it does, sometimes not. We are a very far cry from improvisation... but beleive me, it improved my playing a lot. Because now I remember my best chops, and I can insert them in real live improv.
Beleive it or not, some chops I did on the fly were not obvious even to me, I sometimes go "how did I do that?", and it can take me 5 minutes to relearn my own lick... because I don't remember anything about it, as if I was trying to learn another player's lick.
It just prove that music is in great part an intuitive process.
My playing improved a lot in the last two years, probably because I played more than ever before. Am I satisfied? I think I'll never be.
I think NOONE should be
Where do you go when you're satisfied? Down.Since I don't want to loose any great flash and forget them like anybody else, I hardly every give a shot at a back track without recording it... then I keep the small extracts I like best in a safe place. When I'm done, I redo the whole thing to see if it flows well. Sometimes it does, sometimes not. We are a very far cry from improvisation... but beleive me, it improved my playing a lot. Because now I remember my best chops, and I can insert them in real live improv.
Beleive it or not, some chops I did on the fly were not obvious even to me, I sometimes go "how did I do that?", and it can take me 5 minutes to relearn my own lick... because I don't remember anything about it, as if I was trying to learn another player's lick.
It just prove that music is in great part an intuitive process.
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: Do you like your own playing?
What a great question. On one hand, I can create a piece of music that's at least good enough that I, myself, can enjoy listening to it in the car. On the other hand, if I had applied myself, "back then", me and George, (Benson), could be releasing our 5th album together.
Now 'scuse me while I go kick myself . . . again. :smack:
What a great question. On one hand, I can create a piece of music that's at least good enough that I, myself, can enjoy listening to it in the car. On the other hand, if I had applied myself, "back then", me and George, (Benson), could be releasing our 5th album together.
Now 'scuse me while I go kick myself . . . again. :smack:
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HeadBanginologist
Re: Do you like your own playing?
yeah i enjoy myself, sometimes i'll just get bored and put on some of my old clips and just rock out. i really dont care though
yeah i enjoy myself, sometimes i'll just get bored and put on some of my old clips and just rock out. i really dont care though
Nightburst
New member
Re: Do you like your own playing?
Well just like you Lee,
sometimes I think 'wow did I do that'?
sometimes I think 'oh no! is that me'?
I'm never satisfied either but I can find peace in my best take on something as long as I keep my head pointed forward.
Well just like you Lee,
sometimes I think 'wow did I do that'?
sometimes I think 'oh no! is that me'?
I'm never satisfied either but I can find peace in my best take on something as long as I keep my head pointed forward.
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
Unseen
Re: Do you like your own playing?
I only hope to fit in.....my main enjoyment is the music that I play to.
Hmm I have fun when I play, and I like it best if I can capture the soul of the piece..not how I nailed that lick through that part using that backwards saltoflip skip shreddy sweeper tapping legato technique...
One or two good notes and it is a keeper!
I only hope to fit in.....my main enjoyment is the music that I play to.
Hmm I have fun when I play, and I like it best if I can capture the soul of the piece..not how I nailed that lick through that part using that backwards saltoflip skip shreddy sweeper tapping legato technique...
One or two good notes and it is a keeper!
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: Do you like your own playing?
What does this have to do with playing/recording tips or sound clips?
What does this have to do with playing/recording tips or sound clips?
Lee
New member
Re: Do you like your own playing?
What does it have to do with playing? I'm asking if you like your playing.
Where else would I ask about playing other than in the forum where we play?
I'm only interested in the question when it concerns known players - and this in the ONLY forum where players congregate.
Lee
TwilightOdyssey said:
What does it have to do with playing? I'm asking if you like your playing.
Where else would I ask about playing other than in the forum where we play?
I'm only interested in the question when it concerns known players - and this in the ONLY forum where players congregate.
Lee
