Originally Posted by: maggiorAwesome!!! I'll certainly listen to anything you post.

Enjoy your extra time to practice and play![/QUOTE]
Thanks. As long as you'll leave feedback, I'm happy :)

[QUOTE=compart1]Working on a backing track sounds like a good idea..

Yeah, I've already tried jamming along to the recordings, but I find it a bit difficult to improvise properly when there's another solo playing at the same time... So by making a backing track for the solo-section, I can get rid of the recorded solo and just loop it forever, and do multiple takes in the same recording. I already know how long the solo is expected to be, so I'll have a kind of time-frame for it. On the recording, they claim that the solo is 16 bars long, and the first 8 of which follow the same melody as the verse-part, except it starts to break out ofvthe pattern in Bar 8. That leaves 8 bars for improvising something, and believe me. Those 8 bars feel like nothing! It's maybe 15 seconds we're talking about, and that's if I slow it down. And since my speed is lacking, it comes more down to playing with attitude and getting into the groove than just playing fast. It's gonna be a fun experiment :)

And we can't just do an extended solo, because I feel that actually hurts the song more than it benefits it. I've tried it, and it actually feels like all momentum the song had built up before the solo just kinda vanishes into thin air after those 16 bars, if the solo is extended. Nobody wants that, right?