We've played this bit the same way for about a year. I had gotten used to trusting the length and the chords.

Then one evening during band practice the bass player wants to experiment and change the length and the chords.

The 2 things that kept my solo together vanished in one instant.

Back to figuring it out all over again.

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Nice samba groove with lots of syncopation from drums and bass.

My task: "Play this bit like Al Di Meola would."

Slightly above my pay grade, so "fake it till you make it".

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Take #1, no warm-up, 11 C degrees in the room, a smartphone as our portable audio recorder.

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Take #1, no warm-up, 11 C degrees in the room, a smartphone as our portable audio recorder.

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Take #1, no warm-up, 11 C degrees in the room, a smartphone as our portable audio recorder.

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Band practice and checking the new, taller tripod for the smartphone:

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Guitar amp is way back in the room, next time I might want to give up tubes + real cabinet speakers and embrace the dark side by plugging my GT-1000 Core straight into the mixer

With Tijl Vos and Benno Spaans: best way to have fun on King's night.
We nailed this new song, got the whole structure down, clocked it at 6m 45s, which is an average length for our songs.
Now we -- meaning mainly I -- can start polishing the fills, the guitar solo, and getting it tight. Less noodling, more melodying.

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There's no such thing as too funky!
And I managed to slip in a sweep run to match the drum fill :-)

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