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Location: Utah | One half of the duo has a cough/cold, requiring the other half to go solo tonight at the restaurant. I'll be helping out with some songs we did last year (is it too amateurish to have sheet music on a stand on stage?). There's four good ones we can refresh quickly. Sara has enough solo material to fill out the rest of a 50 minute set. She has 3 hours to fill, repeating the same set.
What guitar solo instrumentals that could be learned enough to fake? Don't suggest Classical Gas! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Wow, you're in a bind. This is where I would draw the line on parental support. Time for her to learn a tough life lesson - when your support calls in sick you better have a plan B. OK, well I guess YOU are the plan B.
I haven't got a lot of good advice. Too bad I'm not in Sandy this week. I can fill a good 15 minutes with ukulele and kazoo, no problem.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Blues jam in G.
Play "The Thrill Is Gone" and have the solo last for the rest of the set. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The only true instrumental I know is Classical Gas, plus a couple intros to Spanish songs. |
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Location: Jet City | Got a keyboard player? then try..
ELP - From the Beginning.
Though not instrumental, it's easy to play/learn/sing. 2 short verses, and the chorus is nothing but "From the Beginning", then it's keys for the next 4324 measures
Walk Don't Run, or other Ventures/surf style stuff.
Or like Beal says, long slow blues jam. G, A, E, doesn't really matter. Learn the licks to "Still Got The Blues" from Gary Moore and you don't need to sing the song. THat hooky riff gets 'em every time. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Is it too amateurish to have sheet music on a stand on stage? No! Especially after she explains this is my Dad!, who needs a little help sometimes!
It sounds like you need about 25 minutes to fill ... this is easy. Just extend the solo in twist and shout, do the versus a couple of times. There you go, a 2 minute song is now 8. Do that Izzy Somewhere over the rainbow medly, but do it twice. That's now 10 mins. How about that old blues song, you got me up, down, down up etc. you can jam that to 6 mins easy, exchanging vocal parts.
Next problem please. |
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Location: Chicago | Norwegian Wood works well as an instrumental. You can learn it in five minutes. There are a few good YouTube TUTORIALS like this one . The melody is inside Lennon's guitar part, so no vocals required. Everyone knows it, too! |
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Location: Tennessee | Wipeout |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Carmelo :D |
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Location: Crossville, TN | pretty much any improv blues song, Little wing or angel by JH are nice instrumental pieces in a pinch. Tears in heaven, dust in the wind or some other finger picked songs also sound nice when done as instrumentals. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...yup. The Blues. Just phrase the lead to the melody like a singer or sax player's phrasing. |
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Location: Tennessee | Any Grateful Dead or Phish song ought to be good for at least 45 minutes. |
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Location: south east Michigan | American Pie...
Just ask the audience to sing it. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Any Grateful Dead or Phish song ought to be good for at least 45 minutes. Add Dave Matthews to that list. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Any Grateful Dead or Phish song ought to be good for at least 45 minutes.
Add Dave Matthews to that list. . . "
Just TUNE for a half hour . . . it'll be the same thing. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by cliff:
Just TUNE for a half hour . . . ... and tell Rodney Dangerfield jokes! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Let us know what you decided to do, based on all this great advice, and how it went. Good luck. |
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Location: Jet City | Learn some Smothers Brothers skits. You'll never have to finish a song again. |
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Location: Tennessee | Mom always liked you best. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Blues jam in G. Or A. Or E. Or Dm. This is a good example of when a loop comes in handy. Lay down a few standard progressions and noodle over them. That could easily use up an hour. Just be careful to mix up the tempo and key so they don't all sound the same. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "Any Grateful Dead or Phish song ought to be good for at least 45 minutes."
Knocking on Heaven's Door is good for 15 minutes.
Just change guitar versions each verse...
Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Carlos Santana, Guns-n-Roses...
And hunt down the Bob Dylan & Tom Petty version,
it has an extra verse or two... (then extend the outro :p ) |
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Location: Utah | Norwegian Wood is in. Wipeout matches my vocal capabilities, so we'll consider that one. ;) We may try some jamming if we need to kill some time.
We've got two Patti Griffin songs (Up to the Mountain and Forgiveness) and two Jewel songs (Hands and Life Uncommon) that we did last year that we can resurrect quickly enough.
Thanks for the suggestions. |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Blues jam in G. Or A. Or E. Or Dm. This is a good example of when a loop comes in handy. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'd just start some latin/jazz improv stuff and let it take its course. If you play jazz you can carry it out for quite a long time. I like some of the old Tuck Andress stuff. If worse come to worse, tell em' you need to take a short break and put on a CD. There's an easy 25-30 minutes. |
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Location: Agawam MA | "Blackbird by the Beatles works well as an instrumental. |
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Location: Jet City | OK FlySig, other great groups have run into hard times, where a band member was absent, and had to "tighten the belts" so to speak, and come up with a new direction.
Case in point, and maybe the answer to you question, "Jazz Odyssey" by Derek Smalls (Spinal Tap)
Written by Derek, this instrumental premiered at Themeland Amusement Park in Stockton, California, during the 1982 tour despite David's reluctance to "do a free-form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd."
As it turned out, only a sparse crowd was on hand to witness the rebirth of Tap sans Nigel. It may have been a good thing: Nigel is not a fan of jazz. "Jazz," he said in 1992," is just a series of mistakes without the 'oops.' " Nigel has also lambasted jazz guitarists for playing so soft. "I don't understand it. They use this bizarre tone on their guitars; it's like it's under a tub of water. It's like plup-plup-plup-plup-plup, like a little motor boat. But I think that's because they're old people, and they don't like the noise. And of course they play soft, so you can't hear them. Then they go, 'Yeah, I'm a great player.' 'Sure, mate. I've gotta take your word for it.' With me, I play loud. My manhood is right on the table. Examine it, pick it up, if you will."
Derek: "Hopefully there's a bit of Jazz Odyssey in everything we play." Asked if the band would ever record Jazz Odyssey, Derek replied, "To record it, I think, would be to imprison a bird that must fly free." |
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Location: Utah | Thanks for all the suggestions. We'll look into those for future shows.
Last night went well, in that I didn't embarrass Sara. The restaurant was nearly empty at first, so we started with our duet stuff. Having only run through a couple of the songs one time at home, they were a bit rough but we faked our way through it. She had nearly an hour of solo material that went very well. Then I played Norwegian Wood for a couple of minutes of filler.
On her ten minute break she ate her free meal and finished up her calculus homework. Then back on stage for her second set. This time she had me come up in the middle and we did 3 of the 4 songs and did them quite well. We jammed to one of her songs, Kings and Queens, which was fun. At the end of the set I did Norwegian Wood again, then did an instrumental preview of a new song with a working title of "Chaos" to fill some time.
Repeat for the third set. Over all a good night for her having to be up there solo for so long, and great for me to have the opportunity to perform with her. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wouldn't have been able to stay up that late on a school night, even though I haven't been in school for 30 years. Congrats, Dad. Not embarassing your daughter is a major accomplishment. |
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Location: Jet City | Sounds like ya did good. Nice work there FlySig. |
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| Bramfatura by Joey Eppard
Oh I missed the cut. =P |
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Solo instrumental song - needed tonight. Suggestions?