Announcement! The first group of "Expanded Blues Guitar" folks!

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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I think you are all of the folks who bought books so far. This thread is in the new forum with the book extras....I'll be adding to it every couple of days but the first two threads are stickied with sound files. Have fun!

And if you have any questions or anything with the material feel free to start a thread in this forum. Hopefully it will turn into something of a knowledgebase for you guys as I answer stuff.

And let me know when you get your books!
 
Its going to be a long process for me to get everything I want to put in here done (I might need to go back to Scotts to re-record the backing tracks for the book for instance) but I'll at least get all of the augmented charts up and running in the next week or so.
 
Thank you Mark! I'm really digging discovering the music. You got a lot of great solo textures on the album which is something most 'blues guitarists' don't do. They usually get one that sounds great and bring it for every solo.
 
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altoidman said:
Thank you Mark! I'm really digging discovering the music. You got a lot of great solo textures on the album which is something most 'blues guitarists' don't do. They usually get one that sounds great and bring it for every solo.
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Thanks Phil! I think that the key is just having a decent collection of guitars around and even if you have a mental picture of what the tone should be trying a few instruments until one of them really fits.

There are two songs where the solos are from the scratch tracks and I didn't have a chance to actually work on the tone, which are Black Market Hearts" and "Can I Take You Home?". I really loved the performances but they were recorded with my 1971 Deluxe Reverb (which was on its last legs) and a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive MOD into Scotts Demeter Isolation cab so that it wouldn't leak into the drum mics. I was not happy with the sound at all but I figured that we would be re-doing everything later...in order to "save" those tracks we ended up running them back through the PA system at Premier and re-recording that with a stereo pair of mics in the room to give the tone a little more of the room vibe, which really helped. All of the guitars on "Roar" and "Steamrolled" and the rhythm part on "Everythings Cool" were recorded the same way but I took a little more time getting sounds and used either the Silvertone or the Suhr head with the Demeter cab and we reamped them at Premier as well. I also ended up using more of the Suhr Koko boost to push the amp for leads instead of a distortion or overdrive pedal on the rest of the tunes except Steamrolled and SUbterrania, which were the Mojo Hand Crosstown Fuzz (and a Phase 90 for Subterrania).

Tracking guitars was really fun..I'm probably going to do a full guitar rig rundown later today just like El Borrachito did the recording rundown last week: http://markweinguitarlessons.com/fo...-black-market-hearts-recording-rundown.56420/
 
Mark, I just got the books yesterday, and that was band practice day, so I was in drummer mode (that's what I do with the band). I'm looking forward to looking at the books later this afternoon.
 
for you guys who haven't looked in a few days we have PDFs for the 12 bar blues examples now posted in that thread.

We made the decision over the weekend to just record everything with the live band instead of me chasing my tail trying to program all this shit so it'll be a few weeks and then I'll have a ton of stuff to give you.
 
OK... Question from the book... Page 16, turnaround endings... How are you fingering the chords? Ex. 1 and 3, are you barring the low E string and the low D with your index finger, and just muting the A string? I'm having a tough time muting that note if I bar it, which I need to in order to do ex. 3... Ex. 2, are you barring the G and high E strings with your pinky?
 
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I don't bar either of those chords. I play the 6th string with my 1st finger, the 4th string with my second finger and the 3rd string with my 3rd finger.

On Ex 2 you can barre it if you want to but I actually finger all 4 strings separately.
 
Well, I think I found an error on page 18, at the top... Did you miss the middle 4 measures? You show them in the notation, but at the top, before the V chord, I think you missed:
IV chord for 2 measures
I chord for 2 measures
 
paulskirocks said:
Well, I think I found an error on page 18, at the top... Did you miss the middle 4 measures? You show them in the notation, but at the top, before the V chord, I think you missed:
IV chord for 2 measures
I chord for 2 measures
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I'll look when I get to work.
 
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