E Aeolian Vamp Idea
by Rhoy Pamparo on Oct.03, 2008, under Melodic Insights
I was working on an idea for some string-skipping exercise that goes like the one below. Please pardon the “text-based” tab, I should find a better way of representing this!
Guitar Tab Idea:
———12——————————– e
—————-15sl17———–15—- B
——————————————– G
–sl14——————–17————– D
——————————————— A
——————————————— E
I wanted to practice it with a metronome so I plugged in to my Garageband software to just jam along a drum track. And just like that, I had a musical idea. It just snow-balled from there and I am liking the groove on this thing. Hopefully, I get the chance to finish this idea and make it into a full-blown 3-minute track. We shall see …
For now, enjoy this short version of it. The progression is Em-G-C-D and it just loops for about 8 bars.
Enjoy and God bless!
October 6th, 2008 on 7:02 am
very nice– i found looping something and playing over it to be awesome practice, and you are right- a great songwriting tool!
Clip sounds a little reggae
hehe, play some rhythm with more treble (compressor too perhaps) and get that shac, tic a tak tak, rhythm and thats it. The notes for some reason want me to say- play through a cocked wah and see what happens! 
I’m interested to see how it turns out! good post!
October 6th, 2008 on 8:48 pm
Thanks LP Player Doc! My friend said that it reminds him of Cuba/Caribbean so I guess it is reggae
I didn’t really use anything else but the presets on the GB software. I did a little bit of compression on the original rhythm track (panned left) and I was too lazy to do another take. the other rhythm track (panned right) had a little bit more treble i think. i felt that I had to pull the volume down a bit on both tracks though. but you should hear it if you put a good pair of headphones on.
i had fun playing the parts especially the bass line. i had two ideas but this just popped-up in the mix and grooves better. i wish i have a drum-kit so i can say that i played all the instruments. maybe next time