Spent the evening playing with myself

Molly · Post by **Molly** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:10 pm

Dragged a few guitars into the living room and spent the evening playing with Audacity. Recording some chord sequences and just noodling over them. Absolutely nothing worth sharing but much better than watching telly.

Fancy giving this a bit more of a go. Makes sense given that there's nobody else around here that plays guitar.

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:45 pm

Get a looper. It's much more immediate than recording.

Molly · Post by **Molly** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:23 pm

Good idea. Might just do that.

I was using open D tuning for the backing most of the time (on an acoustic) and the Les Paul to noodle over the top so I guess in that case I'm kind of obliged to record a backing track first.

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:30 pm

Molly wrote:Good idea. Might just do that.

I was using open D tuning for the backing most of the time (on an acoustic) and the Les Paul to noodle over the top so I guess in that case I'm kind of obliged to record a backing track first.

No output jack on the acoustic?

Clanger · Post by **Clanger** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:50 pm

+1 on getting a looper. A little TC Ditto is all you need. I like nothing better than looping a nice basic rhythm bit down and fluffing around over the top of it.

I love playing with myself.

Molly · Post by **Molly** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:01 pm

No. No output on the acoustic. Will look into the looper just the same. Anything that enhances the playing with yourself experience.

Might call my first solo album: Playing With Myself (Sounds very David Brent - bet it's been done though).

KentNZ · Post by **KentNZ** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:59 pm

Get a shubb cut capo (bars three strings) and put it on second fret and play a bunch of D shapes, then jam over that in E on electric. Fun fun.

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:31 pm

KentNZ wrote:Get a shubb cut capo (bars three strings) and put it on second fret and play a bunch of D shapes, then jam over that in E on electric. Fun fun.

Oh. I had no idea you could get one ready made. I cut a Kyser with a hacksaw instead.

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