i performed "eruption" at my high school last year, the whole student body went nuts! and this year i'm thinking about what to do that would be as extreme, but not repepitive to last year... any suggestions?
I'm in Year 11 and I'm playing that very song at a school concert on Wednesday. Fingers crossed it'll go well, I'm more concerned about getting the emotions of that song across in my playing than anything else.
Anything by the late great Michael Hedges (Rickover's Dream springs to mind, but is probably impossible!) or something by Kaki King - woo hoo - there's a lass that can play the guitar! (I/we are not worthy!!)
I am playing The Animal , Juice , Starry night , 7 string song demo and FTLOG tomorrow and I think the Animal really has that groove that people want , FTLOG also off course !
I did FTLOG about 2 years ago ( dunno what grade that is bcos here in Belgium it's another counting , I whas 14-15 back then ) , and alot of people loved it ... ( 95 % were non - musicians )
Yup, great cheers. Many teachers congratulated me afterwards. One of them commenting that he had never realised electric guitar could be such an emotive instrument before, which was perhaps the best compliment of all, as the emotions are what I was desperately trying to achieve.
i'm in the 12th year, my last, and i want to go out with something to remembered by, if i'm gonna do FTLOG i'll need a backing track,(none of the other "musicans" here would do something like that) any one know how i could get a good backing track?
Join guitarbt.com and the one I used is there. However, for some reason it goes on a minute too long so I had to stick it in cubase and chop it up. If you can find something to fit in that extra time though, go for it!
i think i'm gonna pull of scarified with a backing track for my talent show this year! just need to speed up the last arpeggio part, then finish off the solo for the paul gilbert part ;O
hey !!i think if your good enough to play all that you are good enough to,,"do your own thing" write something!! its no sweat,,you got to start some where,,,and no matter ow it turns out good,bad ,ugly or great,,,at least you can say you did it on your own...
Fire has got to be one of the best songs to do for a talent show, cos loads of people know it, guitarists or not, and you can string it out with a bunch of crazy guitar stuff on the verse after the solo, and then end it with a bang.
Well I'd say Racer X's Viking Kong as it's *not* that difficult to play. If you have a whammy pedal you may be able to do without a second guitar player. The solo section does have a WOW factor to it when other tunes can be basically boring for a non guitar audience. This is something I've tried looking at. All the cool guitar tunes WE like Bad Horsie etc are all cool but to a non guitar playing audience they seem to take ages to get to the solo especially if ya want to show off to your classmates they won't really want to see how nice the melody line is
I like to think of it as tunes for the MTV 2nd Generation where there's a 90 second attention span if your lucky.
Groove or Die by Andy Timmons would be another cool one but that's a tad trickier. And I think if you can play it you need to be seen not to be taking yourself too seriously other wise you'll look like a fret ****er doing excersises on stage.
Ya need to impress without seeming to want to impress Well that's how I see it.
bump! I did an imporvised super colossal last year (freshman year) and literally blew minds. my band nailed it, and since then im that kid that everyone knows can tear the roof off of an auditorium when i want to )))
haha didn't know that anyone had posted on this thread recently. it has been a few years, seeing as how i graduated 6 years ago and never posted anything about it. I auditioned SRV's "Lenny" and didn't get in sadly. I played it alone and it was probably the worst decision I could have made but doesn't really matter now.
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