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Original message:324 days 15 hours 2 minutes ago

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Member: Dan Whelan

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Hey, I've just written a song about being far too drunk, and I need a solo that sounds like the guitar has had a few too many. So it sounds like swaying, stumbling, slurring falling over and ready to puke. As it sounds the song is written in open D tuning but that can change if needs be. I've tried a few things such as using a slide swaying about the fretboard with a repeating reverse effect from my delay pedal but it isn't quite working. My only pedals to work with at the moment are a crybaby and digital delay. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I realise that this is a strange request but at the very least it should be an interesting challenge for you all to try.
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Reply:324 days 14 hours 51 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG

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Drunken sound... Hmm, my checklist would include most importantly open string noise as you play (as in really sloppy playing) and unsteady timing (the stumbling thing), maybe bum and off-key notes.
Delay or slide or whammy or wah are not going to convey the meaning on their own. The drunken effect will be conveyed by what you play, then you can use the effects to spice it up, but it has to start from your playing because that's what's mainly affected when you're drunk.

Anyway, a song about being too drunk written while you're sober seriously lacks mojo. Get yourself drunk, set the backing track on playback and let the solo happen.

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Reply:324 days 13 hours 46 minutes ago
Member: pickabass

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start playing mary had a little lamb in the middle of it

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Reply:324 days 13 hours 45 minutes ago
Member: Waltz

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get wasted and then try it

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Reply:324 days 13 hours 3 minutes ago
Member: Dan Whelan

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Well it is new years, might whip out the guitar at two in the morning and give it a go...if I remember

Reply:324 days 10 hours 19 minutes ago
Member: Evil Kitty

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What about a backwards solo?

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Reply:324 days 9 hours 11 minutes ago
Member: Leif

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you don't want it to sound right? Just loose? There is a song by nin that had a kind of off beat guitar solo yet it still kicks ass..I would try making a real nice melody based on the melody of the song and then throw some chromatic off-beat stuff mixed in with A_TONAL leads..The a-tonal notes could be cool if you make the 2nd note that is being played with the first only slightly off and then bring it back in tune..

Send an mp3 i'll give it a shot!

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Reply:324 days 9 hours 10 minutes ago
Member: Leif

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or play like .... a Neil Young thing..his leads are always sounding like he's drunk right? Aweful but melodic.

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Reply:324 days 5 hours 45 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul

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hire keith richards as a session musician and pay him in advance with a 40oz bottle of his booze of choice. :)

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Reply:324 days 5 hours 42 minutes ago
Member: NegativeGhostRider

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a 40? for Keef?

That would be like giving me a teaspoon of water ;)

I'm sure the man's liver no longer knows what its like to function *without* alcohol.

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Reply:324 days 5 hours 2 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul

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lol

ok...a case of 40's.

I was trying to go easy on the guys wallet, but in reallity a single 40 would not get Keith drunk.

ummm...and as for his liver not knowing how to function without alcohol...do you think if he'd act drunk if his alcohol to blood levels got too low on the alcohol side seeing as pickled has been his normal state for decades?

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Reply:319 days 5 hours 17 minutes ago
Member: thumpinelse

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Think "Falling down the stairs, but landing on your feet"
I kind of hear a more "drunken rythm" than anything to do with the actual notes.
A few tentative note stuttering, then a tumble of notes that land on their feet maybe with a sustaining note with whammy dip (as when your head spins...)
My drummer often does fills like that. It sounds like he's not going to make it then all of the sudden he's there for the break!
Weird but possibly useful suggestion: Speak the solo with jibberish, then "write it" to match.

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Reply:319 days 2 hours 44 minutes ago
Member: sallan

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Lots of good ideas here. Try a voice box?

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