Favourite syn solo?
- Thread starter Tobias Mortensen
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Right now I’m revisiting MIA and Higher and working on getting them perfect. There is a C7 lick in the MIA solo that I stumble on a little bit and I’m working on getting it perfect every time. Also that last section of Higher with the string skipping pentatonic scales is a bitch, so I’m working in that one again too.
Nothing can top Syn’s own answer here, but I’m going a different way.
I don’t *want* to play them perfectly. To play them perfectly, I’d have to play like Syn.
For better or for worse, I PLAY LIKE ME, and when I take on one of Syn’s solos (or anyone’s, for that matter), I approach it from a “what to keep, what to lose” perspective. Some solos have really iconic moments in them that HAVE to be there. These are usually more melodic bits, but they don’t have to be. I like to approach it more like a cover than a tribute – hit the important beats, the fan pleasers, but then also make it my own.
In the case of some, there’s just the ENTIRE SOLO is iconic, but even with them, the original guitarist usually takes liberties, too.In some cases, it’s hitting 25% that people will remember, and then doing your own thing. In another, it might be hitting it note-for-note, but putting your own FEEL on it (this is what my Syn mini-solo-lesson will focus on).
If I play along to one of my own songs, when I get to the solo, it amazes me sometimes – “Holy shitballs! That sounds EXACTLY the same, what I’m playing and what I’m hearing!” It’s not always a conscious thing, but I hear it, and feel it.
I don’t EVER want to have that when I’m playing someone else’s parts, no matter how enamored I am with their playing and their style.
My $.02.
PS: There’s definitely something to LEARNING the solo correctly, to cop the great licks and add them to your repertoire, though!
I don’t *want* to play them perfectly. To play them perfectly, I’d have to play like Syn.
For better or for worse, I PLAY LIKE ME, and when I take on one of Syn’s solos (or anyone’s, for that matter), I approach it from a “what to keep, what to lose” perspective. Some solos have really iconic moments in them that HAVE to be there. These are usually more melodic bits, but they don’t have to be. I like to approach it more like a cover than a tribute – hit the important beats, the fan pleasers, but then also make it my own.
In the case of some, there’s just the ENTIRE SOLO is iconic, but even with them, the original guitarist usually takes liberties, too.In some cases, it’s hitting 25% that people will remember, and then doing your own thing. In another, it might be hitting it note-for-note, but putting your own FEEL on it (this is what my Syn mini-solo-lesson will focus on).
If I play along to one of my own songs, when I get to the solo, it amazes me sometimes – “Holy shitballs! That sounds EXACTLY the same, what I’m playing and what I’m hearing!” It’s not always a conscious thing, but I hear it, and feel it.
I don’t EVER want to have that when I’m playing someone else’s parts, no matter how enamored I am with their playing and their style.
My $.02.
PS: There’s definitely something to LEARNING the solo correctly, to cop the great licks and add them to your repertoire, though!
would love to nail it at some point
but M.I.A a little bit more Similar threads
