Originally Posted by: wolbaiI like the jazzy Blues vibe on your recording! This has some cool flavour to me.

What I can see as improvements, if you ask me for honest and constructive feedback:

- I don't see a "storyboard" in your lead work (at least I couldn't get it):
Good solos "normally" starts with a melody/motive, which then undergoes some variations.
For the ears of the listener it is important to have repeats and variations on repeats, so he might have the chance to repeat with you as a guitar player your lead work in his mind.
Good solos have ups and downs and a climax where - ideally - everything leads to it.
I normally have at least some anchor points in my solos, where I am going to and moving onwards from. Between these anchor points it is up to everybodies capabilities to improvise or to play it always in the same way ( more or less).

- To spice your soloing up: make a bit more variations on your licks and phrasing (don't play constantly - make more stops). It sounds too much of the same to me. Otherwise you run into a situation where it is boring to the listener. This can be done by variations in rhythm, by using other scales or varations in your tone.

- I haven't heard vibrato in your playing. Apart of bendings and slides, this is another important tool to spice up your solo work. (May be you haven't used it by intenion to be more in the jazzy vibe area).

- The solo does not always seems to be in the right timing for me (I guess that was ment by hesitation in the right hand).

- For my taste you have too much delay on the solo guitar. In some phrases this leads into undefined sounds to me.


In the honest hope that this can give you some new attemps for
your soloing ...

All the best, wolbai.

Thank you very much and I don't see anything that I can disagree with.

I don't have a huge repertoire of 'licks' so that's something I'll have to work on.

My vibrato technique is horrible. But it won't get any better if I don't work on it. :(

The timing is bad - I was thinking too much while recording. I started my lead in the major scale which is a new thing for me. I've done nothing pentatonic for years so branching out into new areas isn't natural for me yet.

I'll cut back on the delay. There's a time (no pun intended) and a place for delay but just setting it and leaving it was probably a bad idea.

As far as the 'vibe', it's a sound/tone that I like. I'm not a big fan of most jazz stuff and although I love blues, the 'rockin' blues that is so predominant these days is just about all we here. So I'm trying to do a 'jazzed up' blues thing. It sounds a lot better in my mind that what comes out on my strings. :o

Cheers,