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I've finally finished Autobahn -- I got a pretty decent finish to the solo -- and then it was time to move on to Robert Frost (the idea being that I could knock it out relatively quickly, take a stab at Sahara and then pick up whatever was left over in the morning). That was the original plan. However, Robert took a bit longer than I had expected.
The way I'm being recorded this time (at least, this is the way that seems to work best) is that I play the song three times: the first time, I'm remembering how to play all the parts, the second time, I'm getting the feel down, and the third time is about 90% right. After that, we go back and clean up as needed (working on fills, cleaning up some fret buzz, that sort of thing).
The crimp in the plan comes with the way I'm playing Frost. It's a pretty straight ahead, mainstream (almost pop-ish) tune for about the first ninety seconds or so. Then, I start arpeggiating the chords and pretty much keep that up for the rest of the tune. The consequence of that is the sustaining tones of the chords ring through the changes, making punching in and out rather challenging. In other words, I ended up playing the same few parts over and over.
Posted by Casper at July 11, 2005 08:14 PM