#12 A Playful Nature

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Hey fellas, here is your weekly dose of Narshisms.... :)

This one started with me pretending like I can play funk bass. (Weak attempt, I know) Then, it turned into a fun tune with tons of influences here and there. I really tried to not take this too seriously and just let out whatever I wanted to. There is some funky stuff, some weedly weedly stuff (tried to pull some Shawn Lane out - I wish) and even some acoustic folk/country stuff.
Most of it was done with my Kiesel SCBH6 but I used my Ovation as well and the peavey 4 string bass. :)

Hope you guys enjoy this one, its a bit different.

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I absolutely hated the first 30 seconds and was just about to click it off and tell you that you're future in funk was bleak....then the song transformed and was a completely enjoyable fun-ride from that point on.
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doc-knapp wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 9:28 pm I absolutely hated the first 30 seconds and was just about to click it off and tell you that you're future in funk was bleak....then the song transformed and was a completely enjoyable fun-ride from that point on.
Lmao I would be the first to tell you that I have zero future in funk. Doesn’t mean I can’t have fun with it... lol
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Different and similar at the same time. I like that you were able to take from a bunch of different genres, and put the song together in a way that still made sense to the listener.

On the acoustic part: the lead I'm pretty sure was done using a pick, but the background arpeggios, was that finger style or picked? Just curious, as its a fast run, and I'm a long time pick player who's trying to learn to finger pick, and it's sure difficult to retrain my thinking, but finger style is so much faster for fast runs or complicated arpeggios, I decided I need to buckle down and figure it out.
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bleys21 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:33 pm Different and similar at the same time. I like that you were able to take from a bunch of different genres, and put the song together in a way that still made sense to the listener.

On the acoustic part: the lead I'm pretty sure was done using a pick, but the background arpeggios, was that finger style or picked? Just curious, as its a fast run, and I'm a long time pick player who's trying to learn to finger pick, and it's sure difficult to retrain my thinking, but finger style is so much faster for fast runs or complicated arpeggios, I decided I need to buckle down and figure it out.
Thanks dude. Yeah the clean rhythm was fingerpicked. I took some flamenco classes way back and while Im pretty bad at it, some of the finger picking fundamentals stuck. Still had to practice that part a bit. It's 3 guitar tracks.
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Cool deal, and it sounded really good to me. Those kind of parts are why I'm investing time into learning fingerpicking, I can't see any other way to get that cool sound.

And do you mean there was 3 tracks for the acoustic section? Or 3 tracks just for the background arpeggio?
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I agree with @doc-knapp . I felt mildly-assaulted in the funk parts. The acoustic part was great.
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tlarson58 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:25 pm I agree with @doc-knapp . I felt mildly-assaulted in the funk parts. The acoustic part was great.
Mildy assaulted? Was it that bad? I mean, if you tell me it sucked, you are gonna get more because that just means I have to practice lol. All joking aside, curious as to what you mean. Obviously its not pure funk, its funky in the sense that is starts on the "1". I tried to mimic some of Joe Satriani influence. Very curious.

bleys21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:16 pm Cool deal, and it sounded really good to me. Those kind of parts are why I'm investing time into learning fingerpicking, I can't see any other way to get that cool sound.

And do you mean there was 3 tracks for the acoustic section? Or 3 tracks just for the background arpeggio?
Yeah three tracks for the arpeggios. L/R and a lower track dead center where I added a pitch shift and a bit more reverb to simulate a 12 string.
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