Members Telecruiser Posted September 11, 2011 Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 The one thing I am first is a guitar player. I am more in the vein of a country, bluegrass, r&r, blues type player. I can flatpick and fingerpick (both using thumb or thumbpick) solo with no problem. I did a two hour gig once just doing made up fingerpicking songs for background so instrumental work for me is fun. With a bass player I like doing surf and/or Ventures instrumentals, bluegrass flatpick tunes etc. How about you? Do you put instrumentals into your routine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted September 11, 2011 Moderators Share Posted September 11, 2011 My new duo is all instrumental...so yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EightString Posted September 11, 2011 Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 On some songs, if I feel like it, I'll pull a "Satriani" and play them as rock instrumentals. Not very often though. At most, just one or two songs a night. It would certainly be fun to do a set of instrumental material, but I'm known more for my voice, so audiences are mostly there to hear me sing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chip Stewart Posted September 11, 2011 Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 I'm a singer who plays guitar, not a guitarist who sings. I truthfully couldn't pull off an instrumental that would be worthwhile for the audience. When I gig, I provide the vocals and the rhythm guitar, and my partner provides the lead instrumental. It seems to work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Howie22 Posted September 11, 2011 Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 I'm a singer who plays guitar, not a guitarist who sings. Strumming chords or some simple fingerpicking plus vocals for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Telecruiser Posted September 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 My new duo is all instrumental...so yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members leftyjay Posted September 11, 2011 Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 i do both instrumentals and vocals. when i do my concerts, people want me to show off, so i play my difficult stuff. as for dinner music, i play mainly instrumentals. my youtube videos are mainly instrumentals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Telecruiser Posted September 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 11, 2011 my youtube videos are mainly instrumentals Nice stuff! You and I would get along musically nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saturn1 Posted September 14, 2011 Members Share Posted September 14, 2011 I used to do solo or duo gigs with a bass player that would be predominately instrumental - chord melody versions of standards and pop tunes and the like, but that was meant to be background music for dinner and cocktails and worked fine. The current duo - two guitars/two vocals - is really a vocal driven thing. I've gotten to where I have even seriously cut down on my solos during gigs as it began to feel self-indulgent in this context. Probably because I watched too many guys play long, repetitive solos while the audience drifted away to conversation or, worse, checking their e-mail and texting. Now, if I solo for 12 or 16 bars in two or three songs a set it seems to get attention because it stands out. I am becoming a proponent of the 'less is more' school of thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitapick Posted September 18, 2011 Members Share Posted September 18, 2011 I've got some vocal tunes on my cd but never spend the time getting them together for performance. It's a lot easier putting a vocal track down than singing it while you're picking. I'm just not very comfortable with my voice. Much more into instrumental fingerstyle on acoustic, so that's what I play out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fingerpicker Posted September 18, 2011 Members Share Posted September 18, 2011 My instrumentals sometimes get the most applause. They are flashy, difficult to play originals though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted September 18, 2011 Members Share Posted September 18, 2011 The one thing I am first is a guitar player. I am more in the vein of a country, bluegrass, r&r, blues type player. I can flatpick and fingerpick (both using thumb or thumbpick) solo with no problem. I did a two hour gig once just doing made up fingerpicking songs for background so instrumental work for me is fun. With a bass player I like doing surf and/or Ventures instrumentals, bluegrass flatpick tunes etc. How about you? Do you put instrumentals into your routine? Approx. 25% of any gig will be instrumentals...adds a bit of variety and the audiences seem to like it. Mostly do easily recognized things like Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Pachabel's Canon in "D" (which I figured out in "G", before I bothered to find the correct key ), Georgia On My Mind, Blues For Herb, Under The Double Eagle, Irish Medley, stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members w,wert Posted September 19, 2011 Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 On some songs, if I feel like it, I'll pull a "Satriani" and play them as rock instrumentals. Not very often though. At most, just one or two songs a night.It would certainly be fun to do a set of instrumental material, but I'm known more for my voice, so audiences are mostly there to hear me sing. Im known for my voice too thats why I did a lot of instrumentals and half the vocals songs had long solos . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members richardmac Posted September 19, 2011 Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 I don't do them. And by that I mean I sometimes do them. But usually I never do them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sgt. Rock Posted September 20, 2011 Members Share Posted September 20, 2011 I do instrumental "noodling" between the vocal songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MartinC Posted September 20, 2011 Members Share Posted September 20, 2011 I can't sing a lick, so it's all instrumentals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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