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Some Electric Fun – Solo from “The Wind Cries Mary”
Besides my acoustic practice, I’ve been working on learning some classic electric solos. I’m hoping that learning these licks will help build a library in my brain that will help me improvise. Still a long way to go on the improvisation!
Here’s the solo from “The Wind Cries Mary”, although nowhere near the awesomeness of the original:
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That was great ted_h! 👍
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Super nice @ted_h 🤩👏👏 you did that so well👍👍
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Awesome!
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Great job, Ted!! I’m from that era and it didn’t sound too bad to me. To do it better, maybe you would have needed to be trippin’. 😉
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Interesting hypothesis, @Rando! Perhaps that was the missing ingredient! 🤯
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oh yeah, @ted_h… that was sweet! ✌
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Heard Jimi himself do that tune in 1968 and 1969. He is smiling.🎸😇Thank you Ted for bringing back memories, sort of (it was the 60s!)
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Not envious at all… (sob)
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Should I dare mention I attended a Janis Joplin concert and stood about 10 feet away from her as she belted out the Blues. Those were the days they let you up close and personal to the stage. Being old has some advantages @Moonhare. 😲
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Just stop now… it’s unbecoming to mock those less fortunate than yourself.
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Sorry, just lucky I guess
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Ted_h, nicely done! Jimmy totally tapped into the magic of electricity like no other! Electric fun indeed!
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Great fun and worth the exercise for sure. I remember shopping for my new electric guitar and not one but two salesmen played that riff as an opening to how well the axe sounded!
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I guess that it is not one of the Forbidden Riffs! 🙂
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that was a tasty riff indeed @ted_h ! really well played 🙌
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Love it! I have literally just bought my first electric guitar (although I have my brother’s old broken one here), a beautiful tobacco sunburst PRS and your solo has inspired me to try recording with it.
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Nice choice @Moonhare! What amp do you plug it to?
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No live amp yet. That’s going to take a bit of saving up. At the moment I’m running it through my studio desk into various effects, compressors and amp models so I can record into Cubase. But the PRS SE Standard has two humbuckers that you can coil split – so for a beginner like me it will at least give me access to the Gibson like sounds I love (ah Jimmy Page!) as well as the Fenderish single coil sound (for my Pink Floydy tones).
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My son-in-law recently gave me a Gretsch G2210 Streamliner (Junior Jet Club) as a gift for my 70th birthday. Still have my daughter’s Fender Cybertwin amp (wide range of effects and vintage band-like options including Zep and Floyd) to crank it. Fun to mess around with but I still use my acoustic 99% of the time. Your PRS must be a honey both in looks and sound. Enjoy it @Moonhare.
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Congratulations, @Moonhare! I think that instrument will bring you a lot of enjoyment!
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Yes I’m loving it although I’m a real noob on electric. Currently in the middle of programming a virtual effects rack in Gig Performer so I have access to all the sounds I need.🤘😎🎸
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I dig it. Sounds good you got great tone from the tele
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Rocking solo @ted_h ! Sounded very vintage, clean transitions & smooth bends!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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