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  • Loraine

    Member
    May 27, 2021 at 5:49 am

    This was awesome @Niels ! Very bluesy jazzy feel. Smooth!

    • Niels

      Member
      May 29, 2021 at 3:40 am

      Thank you @Loraine for your kind words.
      Much appreciated 🙂

  • Dan D#

    Member
    May 27, 2021 at 10:48 am

    Yet still very well put together @Niels 👍 I liked your blues bends with your pinkie. Lol as you know I’m forced too use the pinkie a lot😁 great job!👋👋

    • Niels

      Member
      May 29, 2021 at 3:47 am

      Thank you @Dan D# (damn – the @-reference thing does not seem to work with nicknames containing a space – so you will probably not be notified about this answer 🙁)

      It feels a bit like cheating, just reissuing an old improv, but I only made two in 2017, and then none for the following three years, so I thought it interesting to see whether I could spot any improvement.

      I played classical guitar for a long period (plus all the camp fire singing going on as well), and I think that trained my pinkie up to almost the same strength as the other three fingers .
      Sorry about your loss – you are coping awesomely 😎

  • Bill_Brown

    Member
    May 27, 2021 at 1:43 pm

    That was “Really Truly” nice @Niels 👏👏👏 I loved those blues riffs 👍👍 How long did you have to work on that improv before you came up with that great stuff?🤔 Enquiring guitar geeks want to know

    • Niels

      Member
      May 29, 2021 at 3:54 am

      Thank you @Bill_Brown for your kind words🙂

      Concerning how long I practiced the riffs, I will quote myself from back in October 2017, when I was asked the same question:

      This solo has actually been a big eye-opener for me, as I feel I had problems with a wobbly rhythm, especially in the last third.

      I had nicked some bluesy licks I already knew and put them in here – I suppose that is normal practice – but I normally play the licks at almost double speed.
      It turned out to be surprisingly difficult to throw away the muscle memory and play them more slowly with the backgroud track.

      So I cheated and used some licks I already knew 😂

      • Bill_Brown

        Member
        May 29, 2021 at 9:14 am

        Hey @Niels , there’s nothing wrong with using things you already know, that’s a sign of someone who pays attention to what’s going on! But all that being said, how many hours did you spend before you felt ready to record your video?🤔

  • Jonathandavid

    Member
    May 28, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    Excellent as always. Niels. I loved your melody, chords, rhythm and overall very smooth and bluesy sound.

    • Niels

      Member
      May 29, 2021 at 3:55 am

      Thank you, @Jonathandavid
      I really appreciate your feedback 🙏

  • bugmeist

    Member
    May 29, 2021 at 7:20 am

    Very, very nice. Inspirational in many, many ways.

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