Thread: Dream Views Guitar Wars - Week 5: Cast Your Votes!!!

Ok. We know you've ALL been just beside yourselves with anticipation () waiting for us to get this week's Guitar Wars up and running. Well THE WAIT IS OVER!! IT'S TIME TO OPEN THE POLLS!!

We had some pretty steep competition, this week, so let's try to have an amazing voter turnout!! Yes, this means YOU!!

Here is the overview of the assignment:

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Gilmour Blues Task

With the provided backing track, improvise a slow moving yet passionate and thoughtful solo. It must be slow and true to the genre. It also MUST be an improvisation, no planned solos in this one please. Take it slowly, maybe include a few short licks, some slow bends. Just be creative and take the track slowly, constant fast soloing is not permitted in this task. The backing track is a Gilmour blues which is slow and gives you lots of opportunity to express each and every note, so use it wisely to create something nice.

And now, this week's entries:
(As always; all contestants please vote for yourselves so as not to offset voting!!)

pj's entry:

Originally Posted by pj

http://theveryfew.net/pinkpete.mp3

It is the Steinberger, jacked straight into the E-Mu with a rectifier type amp emulation. I kicked in a phase shifter in the last cycle just to keep it interesting.

Oneironaut's entry:

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Ok, here's mine. There are are a few parts that I'm just not happy with (and one around 3:17 where I just completely missed the note I was searching for - you'll hear it), but it was the best take that I recorded, so it'll have to do.

Guitar is an Epihone Les Paul run through a Zoom505II pedal and an old ART MultiVerb Alpha panel.

It wasn't until I picked up my guitar again, [the day after], that I noticed it had somehow been knocked slightly out of tune. It had been like that since before I uploaded my track, and I realized that that was why the parts in the beginning, when I was trying to harmonize two strings at once, sounded like shit.

I wish I would have caught it earlier, though, but oh well.

Oneiro's entry:

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Okay. Here's my entry. I felt really restricted doing this. I kept telling myself "Slow! Slow!" and it was challenging, although good practice. I couldn't always resist the temptation to let rip however, but I tried to keep it to a minimum.

G&L Comanche > GK250ML > PC + echo.

http://media.putfile.com/Oneiro-Gilmour

CoLd BlooDed's entry:

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Without further adieu, here is my entry. I'm pretty impressed with how it turned out. Great intro, great ending. Some of the middle stuff is a bit repetitive but I'm okay with that. Few sour notes, but that's it.

This was probably one of the first times where I went up and down the neck all on my own to find the scale. I've never actually done that before, so pat on the back for me.

Lucid Seeker's entry:

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Okay, heres my go, i could have done a lot better had i done another take, plus i forgot to record till a few seconds in so all the more sucker me. I was feeling rather repetitive today in my improvisation, so its does repeat a lot unfortunately. Oh, and the sound quality is pretty bad for some reason. I'm regretting doing it on a clean setting because you can barely hear me over the backing track. I had a pretty good intro which is annoying and i managed to cock up the outro by not finishing with the track

But i hope you enjoy anyways.

I hate uploading sites, why can't it just be simple.

My personal criticisms are the following.

- Too much repetition
- Too many mistakes
- Out of tune guitar
- I tried to get too adventurous at times which resulted in mistakes.
- Damn repetition again, i really wish i could have another take at this since i could do a much better one which explores more of the fretboard, i did try to but i wanted to make it fluid and smooth.
- I think i went a bit too fast in places.

There are more, but hopefully i didn't do too bad, but its good to be back, i love the feel of this competition because it gives people the chance to explore new horizons and improve.

Oh, and this is on my crappy Encore Strat-Replica, so sorry for the crap quality overall.

http://media.putfile.com/Lucid-Seeke...tar-Wars-Entry