Gravity - An Instrumental Attempt

[whitestrat]

Here's something I whipped up in the past afternoon. Let me know your comments on the sloppy playing. I was trying to get as organic a tone from my Silo Spec SSS with Tonerider City Limits and a PODXTLive. I don't think I did the song justice, but this track was so simple, I was stumped for ideas...


SoundClick artist: Demioblue - page with MP3 music downloads

 

[Nemesys]

When I saw the title of your post, I had the horrible thought that you dropped your guitar. This is much better!

I think it sounds pretty good. Nice tone, and if that is sloppy playing, then I should just give up, 'cause I'm way sloppier than that.

 

[mb99zz]

Very nice, Lionel! I just recorded a live concert of his recently filmed in HD. Not sure if you've seen it, but he plays three sets -- acoustic, blues (Trio), popular music (full band). You do a great job here getting that sound.

 

[Volt]

Nice playing WS!

John Mayer's rendering of the song on the Crossroads 2007 DVD is one of my all time favorite videos.

 

[whitestrat]

Thanks guys. I'm learning now how difficult it is to play creatively over a certain length of music when you are the only source of melody. Remeber when you jam with someone else or a vocal song, and the guitar lead bit is only maybe 20 secs at the most. When thrown a full length of music to vocalise over with a guitar, I'm finding that it's one of the most dfficult thing to play melodically trying to tell a story, yet not going back to our trick bag of standard licks.

I like doing covers for this key reason. Makes for a great lesson in phrasing and composition.

 

[Headstock]

Nice work Lionel. I dig it.

 

[TimSz]

Great track. Also, some great backing stuff. How did you manage that?

 

[whitestrat]

Great track. Also, some great backing stuff. How did you manage that?

That was taken from a John Mayer fan forum. Heh...