Finally! A new post!

*Updated 8-27-09 with newer versions of my Youtube videos.
I don't know the extent of what I will post here. I mean, I can't do anything near as good as IG and others did/are doing it and he decided not to do it anymore. I am posting a couple of clips of me mangling and screwing up a couple of songs. (yes I do plan on re-doing them sometime soon! I think!) Getting a good or semi-decent sound out my little Rick amp is difficult. I now have a Digitech Artist 200 pedal that helps. I also used my Boss Super Overdrive on the Def Leppard stuff. I love my Fender Super Reverb, but that monster is way too hard to move around and I have it in the garage and have to move the cars out and everything to play.
Well here they are. I will probably redo a few and do others too. I had a few (well more than a few) screwups but all in all they're ok. I think.

Foreigner-Cold As Ice-rhythm guitar-main verse/Solo

Here is the main rhythm guitar part (at least what can be played guitar-wise for the song) for Foreigner's Cold As Ice. I am playing it in the key of Eb minor. I am playing a Eb7sus4 to Ebmin, then going to Eb7sus4 transitioning to B, and then B6 to B. I am playing it slightly different from my earlier post, but not much more than having the Eb7sus4 being the transition to the B6 rather than just going from Eb7sus4 to Ebmin; B6 to B. Here is a link back to the older post I had for this song. Foreigner's Cold as Ice -main rhythm part and solo...
It's probably not the exact chords, but I think it sounds good enough.



Here is my version of the solo to this song. I always liked (and still do) Mick Jones' playing! He has great tone, and a great sense of melody! This has always been one of my favorite guitar solos! Hope you like my version. There's another guy who does a slowed down version of this solo Cold as Ice solo slowed down and it's much better than mine. If you like this version, let me know.




Related Tags: Foreigner Cold+As+Ice electric+guitar classic+rock solos Mick+Jones

Trying something new out soon!

I am going to try something out soon! What I am planning on doing is taping the songs that I tabbed/described in previous posts, and posting them along with those descriptions. I already did the Brighter Than Sunshine song last night-I just need to edit it a little.

For now, I was thinking about distortion/overdrive sounds, and how they are all different-some are harsh, some are warm and some are a mix of the two. There's the solid state amp sound and the tube amp sound. I like them all, but I do tend to like the old warm overdriven tube amp sound-that classic sound.
Below are some songs with different overdrive/sounds. What do you think? Which kind of sound is your favorite type of crunch?
To me, there seems to be 3 main types-(I know that might be simplifying the sounds too much but in the interests of not getting too crazy and technical-lets say 3) of :crunchiness":
1. warm, tube classic -classic rock, older metal bands, punk
2. "tighter"-heavier, less-nuanced crunch-newer metal bands/thrash
3. mix of the two sounds above-80's metal, "grunge"

*Gonna try to post some songs you might not think of for this discussion of distortion/overdrive:

warm, classic crunch:

Dave Mason-Only You And I Know-I absolutely love the guitar sound in this song! Damn! That tone! &^%*! It just has the warmest, singing tones I have ever heard! When the chords are strummed, you can hear the individual notes, and the lead tone is awesome. As you can tell, one of my favorites in terms of tone!
*I know it says Gordon Lightfoot, but this is mislabeled. It really is Dave Mason!




Three more classic overdrive sounds:

James Gang-Funk #49 and:



The Bomber



One more classic sound:

The Who-Won't Get Fooled Again




The newer metal/thrash sound:
Rammstein-Du Hast



Metallica-Enter Sandman:




Dream Theater Forsaken


If you can think of some band that I missed for this type of sound, let me know-I am not as familiar with the newer metal bands.


Mixture of the two sounds:

Judas Priest-Breaking the Law:



Scorpions-Still Loving You:



So...do you have a favorite overdriven guitar sound, or do you prefer the mixture of both sounds?