Ok we had a bit of fun with this one, but you won’t find out until the end.

This was Matt Webb on drums, Kurt Belshaw on guitar and bass, and Me.

Its kind of funky, but with waaay to many guitars. And no melody. Just the way we likey likey.

http://stevysound.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/shut-up-and-play.mp3

shut up and play- funky acoustic jazz fusion guitar stuff

Ok this one is kind of funny

Here are two files, one of which is the bass players mix and one of which is the guitar players mix.

Can you guess which one is which?

steve d flat noodle-guitar players mix

steve d flat noodle-bass players mix

I guess the titles give them away, its still kind of funny.

Heres a tune kind of inspired by the great jimmy page and robert plant, once again acoustic, with Kurt and Steve

steve-and-kurt-zeppelin inspired tune

Here’s a funky acoustic Jam with tabla, a 5 string bass and a couple other things

steve-funky-acoustic

Here is the 18 minute improvisation we just did.

Hope you like it.

steve-and-kurt-acoustic-improvisation

Here’s the first stevy sound video I made, which is just a d flat jam over a tabla loop.

Stevy Sound first jam

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Many players when they are beginning, just want to play fast.

There is nothing wrong with this, hey its kind of fun, but playing fast just for the sake of playing fast will get you nowhere, except staying in your moms bedroom.

Seriously, in the world of real professional musicians there are always people that can play fast, but many of them fail to get and keep gigs because they ignored factors other than speed which are actually much more important.

What are those factors?

They are myriad depending on the style of music and the situation, but no matter what the gig is, whether it is your origionals, a big stadium, or the holiday inn, one of the biggest is your TIME. Seriously, you are playing solos maybe 5 percent of the time (10 percent if you are Nigel Tufnel from spinal tap) and the other 90-95 percent of the time you are playing rythm of some sort. You gotta lock with the drums, bass, dj and whoever you are playing with, or it won’t matter one bit that you can play a zillion miles an hour.

Shredding is a lot of fun but is a bit of a trap. I have seen a lot of players on youtube playing amazing things, but they are really not paying attention to what they should play, as opposed to playing some notes fast.

In my book playing something interesting is what I am concentrating on now, although we all have our old habits we fall back into

So my point is, play something interesting, whether it is slow, medium, or whatever. David Gilmour is not a shredder by any stretch of the imagination, yet he captivates people with sometimes just a few notes. Get the magic. Do it now.

This is just an excerpt the incorporates baseless sweeping where it really doesn’t fit the song whatsoever in the style of frank gambale and my other guitar playing heros. Thanks for watching!

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This is just a small clip of a sweep and how it is used in soloing.

Tasteless, but a helluva lotta fun! Check it out…

I’ve had some requests for more “Guitar solos” to be played on the keyboard, PLUS it’s a video response for Leopard Joy: “Smoke On The Water” See if you can hear where it is!

And thanks to all of my friends who have recently stood behind me.. I’d do the same thing for you in the blink of an eye..
You guys ROCK!!!

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