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time for a cover. ;D
ok, it's still mostly a jam and I didn't bother covering the tempo... but, yeah. heh.
pardon the whole tone stuff, trying to work it into the bag but it's resisting... the notes work for me but I'm hearing pentwank rhythms... not good.
http://www.ironsheep.com/mp3/ironsheep/Media/sunshinetemp.mp3
Sorry it took so long to get to this. I've been busier than a cat covering up shit for just short of a week, and have had very little time for anything other than work and sleep.
My Pop always says I have to make hay while the sun shines! LOL
I think this sounds really good. It's like a cover with a detour, but thats cool. There are a lot of tunes that do that kind of thing.
The live Zeppelin stuff like Whole Lotta Love was like that, where it starts, wanders off, then comes back. Very cool stuff.
I dig it.
I love the intro, if I didn't already know from the name, I'd know from the mode and tempo that it's sunshine of your love.
Where this really takes off is at the first solo. Stretches the tonalities a fair distance from Cream. Very tasty and fluid. The second solo stretches even further, and then goes way out, what is that a diminished scale? Still fluid though. Again I have to ask if you manually program the drums like this... play to a click first and then replace? what. I really dig what you are doing around 4:40 - end... it's like you obliterate the song completely, then come right back to it, but with more disturbing guitar sounds.
thanks DM and charger, glad you liked it!
I did this one differently than normal. bass jammed out to a click, then added drum midi (all from S2's Nir Z material... mixed and matched - not all from the same "song") -- had to alternate 4/4 (cover and some lead parts) and 6/8 (intro and the bulk of the lead section) due to the meh quality of my bass counting skills. then did the guitar parts - used a few takes since I kept screwing up the fricken timing on the first note on the intro (grr)... so I did that separately... and took a couple tries to get something ok in the back half (that could be better). that's me trying to use the whole tone scale (no semitones) in the way way out part... not comfortable with that scale yet but better since this was done (been wood shedding riffs with it like crazy... heh)... it's very cool but definitely strange.
It's funny that you did this though. I listened to the whole Cream catalog just a week or so back. It's also funny that you bitchslapped the pentwank. That's all I have been doing. I had really gotten back into playing so most of what I have been doing is the Pentwank. LOL
heh, nah, it's just certain rhythms that I fall into and note repetitions that bug me. there's nothing intrinsically wrong with pentwank.
Ironsheep creams Eric's version! :D
Gosh, that sounded just like the older progressive stuff I like that Howie doesn't! ;D
Good job. :)
I like this much better than the original, mostly because this is one of those "schoolboy" songs from Eric Clapton that I have never liked so well done on making a very bland song interesting. Some nice juicy sounds you've got there, good job. I think clapton is one of the most over rated guitarists ever.
Excellent! I loved the return to the cover part @5:00 after the improv-feeling mid portion. I had briefly forgot about the sunshine melody, so it hit hard when it returned, but that's a good thing because I was taken elsewhere for a bit and I'm sure that was the effect you were going for. Clever concept and clean, great playing!
thanks guys!
re clapton's over rated ness: I used to think he was pretty amazing before I knew what he was doing - then compared him to SRV, who was just as "cliche" but had orders of magnitude more emotion... and lost interest in clapton. crossroads still impresses me, though, and I like some other tunes... but I don't feel the same way about his stuff as I do hendrix/page/gilmour etc. from that era.
Nothing wrong with cliche, just that claptons take on cliche just sounds like somone who has only just discovered how to play the guitar. Just sounds childish in the extreme. I remember in the early 70's seeing "clapton is god" grafiti everywhere in the uk and even at that early age I couldn't understand why anyone would think that. More like clapped out ;D.
But as ever, your take on this song is excellent.
I'm a bit reluctant to let myself feel the way I want to about clapton because he connects with loads of people somehow. not that I care about popularity but there's something in there that's probably worth understanding. even EVH went to the temple of clapton for a while... maybe it's just the "keep it simple" rule? dunno, his playing is really not that amazing most of the time but it works anyway. maybe it's just that chicks dig his hairdos... heh, I dunno.
but for the rest of us... it's more like this ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA
I checked into Clapton as well at some age, but only because I recall EVH stating he was one of HIS fav's. I didn't really gush over or get that though, it seemed like a lot of repetitive boxy type playing, figured it was a generational thing. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE some of his songs, I mean Layla has a distinct, memorable melody and White Room is balls to the wall too IMO, but yeah, when I think "guitar GOD" I don't think "Clapton" by any stretch.
Strangely, I dig his songwriting, but hate his playing. I also don't get why everyone cries over his "woman" tone. To me any decent tube amp sounds better than Clapton's tone. But that's just me, truth is I don't like a lot of guitar players other people like, don't even get me started on Santana.
Clapton's "Old Love" is one of those progressions that just sticks in my fingers.
Heh, I found out many years after the fact that the parts I liked best were actually played by Duane Allman... ;D