My new Premier Guitar column is up!

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good read pete, nice glimse into a working guitar player. were the chris cornell euphoria morning songs harder to learn than soundgarden stuff? the morning songs seem to have more goodies going on than soundgarden did.
 
nice! some really, helpful info there Pete. i couldnt think of a better source to write an article like this than yourself. killer read.


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Thats crazy having to learn so many songs by ear. Its always been my dream to be a session/touring guitarist so this was really helpful. I guess i better do a lot of ear training exercises now lol.
 
AMAZING !!
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This hits home because I had to learn a whole set of Heart for a Heart Tribute in less then a Week and then learn about 28 Journey songs for a journey tribute in less then a week and then play shows. I thought that was tough until I read what you had to learn in 48 hours!! Now I don't feel so bad :D :lol: :LOL:
 
awesome! how the hell you can learn 22 songs in 48 hrs is beyond me, you are a true professional!
 
155":ykptotcr said:
awesome! how the hell you can learn 22 songs in 48 hrs is beyond me, you are a true professional!
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my head was SPINNING.
 
When I auditioned for Chris Cornell- I got an email at 11:30pm saying "be at this location at noon tomorrow and know these 5 songs if you want to audition". I was in a session, recording til 1:30 am- got home around 2- learned 2 songs and programmed sounds- slept for a few hours til 8 or so, got up and learned 2 more, and went over the first two, and said "screw it" on the 5th tune, and just sort of half assed learned it. Best I could do on 12 hours notice. Packed up and went and rocked as best I could- It all worked out ! :)
 
petethorn":h825f95y said:
155":h825f95y said:
awesome! how the hell you can learn 22 songs in 48 hrs is beyond me, you are a true professional!
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my head was SPINNING.
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I know the feeling... I was once called on at about 10am to fill in on guitar for a local (signed to an indie label) singer/songwriter's set that evening at a radio-fest. The guy's manager was a friend of mine, so I basically did it as a favor to him. I learned their 6-song set for that night in a few hours and met up with the singer of the band that afternoon to run through them... made it through the gig that night (the venue was the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ) and wound up playing with them for a few more months after that, pretty much just before the act was dropped from his label.
 
petethorn":wemz2w8k said:
When I auditioned for Chris Cornell- I got an email at 11:30pm saying "be at this location at noon tomorrow and know these 5 songs if you want to audition". I was in a session, recording til 1:30 am- got home around 2- learned 2 songs and programmed sounds- slept for a few hours til 8 or so, got up and learned 2 more, and went over the first two, and said "screw it" on the 5th tune, and just sort of half assed learned it. Best I could do on 12 hours notice. Packed up and went and rocked as best I could- It all worked out ! :)
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Now thats Rock and Roll. :rock:

Sounds like my bar band audtion except I had an ace up my sleeve, I had the moving truck and the PA. :lol: :LOL:
 
Nice read, well done. Maybe transcribing the music is easier these days, but why don't they give you the tabs of the songs you have to learn? I would expect that the artists you mentioned in the article (who are on a very high professional level) whould have mapped everything out.
 
It'd be great if PG would run this column in the print edition.... Are there any plans for that Pete? Or is this online-only column another audition of sorts?
 
Great article. I never had to do it at that level but I do use the same tools to figure songs out.
 
Ya I wish it was in the print edition too. It's because the contact I made at the magazine initially was specifically the web content editor. I didn't realize this until I'd already said I'd do the column, silly me. I figure I'll do a few more then hit them up and say I want in the print edition as well, if we are to continue.

If anyone wants to email the editor of the mag for me, and put in a good word, I'd be grateful :)
 
Great info! :thumbsup:

I found myself getting stressed learning a lot of songs for a new band. I've played in many tribute bands (Eagles, Queen, Madonna, Aerosmith, U2...) as well I'm in a regular weekend cover band that's always adding new songs. Seems like I'm always learning new songs. I use a plugin for Winamp that slows the song down while keeping the key the same...lots of cheat notes. :lol: :LOL:
I turn down gig offers at times because I'm tired of learning 30 songs in a short amount of time.
 
Laurens":3adg6klq said:
Nice read, well done. Maybe transcribing the music is easier these days, but why don't they give you the tabs of the songs you have to learn? I would expect that the artists you mentioned in the article (who are on a very high professional level) whould have mapped everything out.
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Just doesn't work that way.

Sometimes they get you the music on cd, or mp3, sometimes not. Either way, you are on your own figuring it out. I am a humble guy but I will toot my own horn and say this- I am really fucking good at figuring out songs by ear, it's one of my strong suits. Years of learning VH, SRV,Rush, racer X (and lots of other) songs and solos by ear, when I was a kid :) you need to develop an ear that sort of "reaches into" the recording and pulls the parts out. If it's a tough part, listening to literally 1/2 a bar at a time, sometimes at 1/2 speed, is how I do it.
 
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