Can I play live? Rate my playing

If I could Only play Drunk!

Practice, practice, practice some more..

OK.. I just gave 'em both a good listen. Before I get into each one I'll just say, Nice Job, you've got two cuts there to be proud of. The amount of work you've invested in each one shows...nicely done.

Now... to critique (only to help you get even better).....

Comfortably Numb:
In my opinion, the weaker of the two, but arguably the more difficult to play. You need to sharpen up your timing a bit, there were a few places where you entered a bit late, about 1/8 of a step. It seems you were hesitant for some reason. CN is deceptivly agressive in nature and needs to be played agressively. I have always felt CN is speaking of the feeling of a drug induced euphoria. That euphoric feeling needs to be expressed in the guitar solo. It needs to flow smoothly, yet with pace and purpose.. Keep at it, smooth it out and play with passion.

Money:
You're almost stage ready here, a few suggestions. The transition at :24 seconds in seemed a bit off, something was missing there.. The big element I noticed is that the Monely solo is staged in three distinct passages, each defined by a change in toneality. The opening stage is typical Gilmourinsh tone, overdrive, chorus and compression only. The second passage is very clean, just strat into amp. The third passage is on the verge of feedback, take the tone on phrase 1 and turn all the knobs to 11. This could easliy be achieved with a cheap multi effects pedal (Digitech RP100 for example).

Passage 1: Compression = 5, overdrive = 5, chorus =5
Passage 2: Bypass
Passage 3: Compression = 9, overdrive = 9, chorus = 9

Overall, I think it's very good, just a few suggestions to kick it up a notch.

Great job....I think if only the two-hiccups in CN were smoothed out;its a great live act you'll make.

Thanks Fulghum. That really helps. I will try to correct those issues. Man am I excited!!

Thursday: Once the hickups are fixed I will let y'all hear it.


Thanks again!

You are always welcome.Love to hear your next song.

And don't forget that you're imitating Gilmour here, one of the best guitar players ever. It surely isn't easy trying to sound like him so you're doing a great job even if it isn't perfect yet.

Ok this Another Brick in the wall Pt 2 solo is harder than I thought it would be. It's not performable yet. I have been trying to learn it for the past 3 days. It should get better by the end of the week.

My timing sucks I know I know.

Again, all criticism, Costructive or destructive is welcome!

http://ftp.alderre.com/Another%20Brick%20pt.%202.mp3

Pretty impressive overall, not Gilmour standard but then if that was the case we would be worshipping you as well! . IMHO You could probably do with a bit more practice before taking it on stage just to get comfortable with it but you can definitely recognise what it. The other thing I would say is that it isn't absolutely necessary to replicate DG to have a good track, as long as its close. Take Live in Berlin as an example.

I know. I really need to stop trying so hard to sound like Gilmour. I end up sounding worse when I try too hard. I will just play like me even if it sounds different.

I suppose you could always get a more expensive strat

HA! True Man. Very true!