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For about last three months I have had a pinched nerve that caused my fretting hand's little finger to go numb and totally useless.  Thus my guitar playing has been to a bare minimum.  It just started to get better so I played this jam.  I wasn't going to post it but a couple of friends said that I should so here is that jam.

I hope you like it for what it is.

https://soundcloud.com/mario_guitar/yo-1

Oh I do like this. Highly original. O0

Yup (How else do you respond to YO?).

I like it. Nice and relaxing. Just the right number of dissonant notes. You keep the same sense/feeling for the entire piece.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a real band doing backup? I long for that all the time. But we can't have it all, can we?

Thanks for sharing.

Thanx Will!

Bvdp, Thanx for the kind words.

I played in wedding bands for years and we had to play what the audience wanted if we wanted to keep having gigs.  We had more gigs then we could play.  Now I sit home and play what I want when I want with the computer backing me up and I love it!

On Sundays I do have a friend, BobH, who comes over and we jam.  Sometimes we record our music.  Another friend, JonD, moved 4 house down the street and he occasionally comes over.  We record mostly jazz, blues and new age music.  Thus I do have some jamming going on but the majority of even that music is me and my instruments and computer.

Mario,

I love the concept and ideas that went into this tune...very chill and uber-cool! 8)There were periodic segments throughout the song,where the bass line didn't seem to jive with the guitar melodies,as well as portions of the drum track that just meandered & didn't fit the rest of the tracks.

I realize it was just a jam,but if you would be receptive to it,I would really like the opportunity to collab with you on this and polish it into a complete and polished tune.

There is a really stout and inspiring vibe to this tune and I'd love to expand on it...what do you think?

No problem Thom.  I'll assume that you need the individual tracks.  It may take me some time to get these ready as my plate is really full right now but I promise that I will get them.  Just let me know where you want them?  Dropbox?  Email? Or something else?

Yes...individual tracks in WAV format via DropBox would be ideal.Don't worry about the time frame(as I got a lot going on,on my end anyway.)Whenever you can get to it,is fine.

It will be really good to jam with your tuneage again,my friend....looking forward to it...thanks! 8)

Mario,

I've been picking away at this tune here & there,when I've had some free time(work has been exhausting.)Got through about half of the tune,but could not find a way to complete the latter half,in a way that made sense to me.

I hate leaving projects unfinished,but perhaps this could be a group effort(should anyone be interested in filling in the rest.)

Thanks for letting me fidget with your material....hope you like this rough draft.

Sounds really good Thom, I like what you did here.  IMHO the only thing that needs work is the ending.  Just smooth that out a bit and it would be finished.  That is just my opinion and your and others may not agree.

Thanks Mario.The length of this is only about half of what your original was,which is why I had trouble with it.

Only just had a chance to listen to this. I think my only comment has already been covered. ::)
Good overall anyway.