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the solo era is gone, fortunately, together with long haired rock stars, amen
long life to Nigel Tufnel

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Recently I decided to learn some well-known rock guitar solos
> note-for-note, with the assistance of some Linux sound and music
> software. Naturally I used Audacity to learn the solos exactly (Change
> Tempo is just toot sweet), but I wanted to work on the sound of the
> solos as well their notes. I found some nicely arranged MIDI files for
> some of the tunes, I used Rakarrack for the effects, and I used
> AlsaPlayer to play the audio files (where I couldn't find MIDI
> arrangements). Great instructive fun.
>
> I've worked out the solos to Cream's Badge and to Dire Straits' Sultans
> Of Swing, now I'm on to Joe Perry's leads in Aerosmith's Walk This Way.
> Yeh, pretty old school, but still great solos. It's excellent exercise
> too, keeps me from getting bored. Sometimes Bach just doesn't rock
> enough... :)
>
> I've also been sequencing a pseudo techno demo, again using only Linux
> audio softsynths, including AMS, QSynth, LinuxSampler (with sounds from
> the PSIndustrializer synth), and the new Discovery VSTi (in JOST), with
> help from the midirgui MIDI channel router and the mighty JACK. I'll
> post the results when it's done.
>
> Anyway, not to get all weepy here, but I wanted to take a moment to give
> some thanks to the developers who make it all possible. So, thanks,
> devs, your generosity is deeply appreciated.
>
> Back to the rack...
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
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