Friday, November 20, 2009

Jam Session 103l with Dm F5 A5



Here are some show/lesson/jam session notes for Jam Session 103l:

  • Like yesterday, we're in Dropped-D tuning for both guitar (D A D G B E) and bass (D A D G).
  • We've added effects to the bass, to give it some heavy fuzz-like distortion.
  • We actually used a distortion, followed by auto-wah/envelope filter (with the treble up) to approximate the fuzz.
  • We played with the 6/8 fast-waltz mentality (one two three FOUR two three), but 12/8 slow-blues swing could also work in this case.
Here's the bass groove tabbed out in 6/8:

    Dm 
G |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
D |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
A |-5--5--5--8--5-------|-5--5--5--8--5------|-5--5--5--8--5-------|
D |----------------0----|----------------0---|----------------0----|

    F5       A5 
G |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
D |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
A |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
D |-3--3--3--7--7--7----|--------------------|---------------------|

12/8 (twelve eighth notes per measure) would also work:

    Dm                                    F5    A5
G |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------|
D |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------|
A |-5-5-5-8-5---5-5-5-8-5---|-5-5-5-8-5---------------|------------|
D |-----------0-----------0-|-----------0-3-3-3-7-7-7-|------------|

Here are some guitar chords used (tabbed in 12/8, to save space LOL):

    Dm                        Dm          F5    A5
e |-5-----------------------|-------------------------|------------|
B |-6-----------------------|-------------------------|------------|
G |-7-----------------------|-------------------------|------------|
D |-7-----------------------|-------------3-----7-----|------------|
A |-5-----------------------|-------------3-----7-----|------------|
D |-0-----------------------|-------------3-----7-----|------------|

If you don't know how to read guitar tab (as computer text), this section of a Wikipedia article may help.

Here is the beginning of the melody that Jon fiddled with:

    Dm
e |-10----10------------|--------------------|---------------------|
B |----13----13--10-----|--------------------|---------------------|
G |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
D |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
A |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
E |---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|

Try some D blues over the above progression:



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