playing the yamaha again

ok, i stopped playing the yamaha pacifica because the high tone of the single coil pickups got my ears ringing. i think i've found a solution. i drop the tone to zero on the guitar and the amp, and use the bridge humbucker pickup. that seems to help. so i have the tone at zero on both, and the gain at zero. the amp is still at tweed 2 and reverb 3. i will play it with this setup and see how it goes.

i'm still working on the You Shook Me song. it's an accurate transcription of the jimmy page part of the led zep song. in a sense it's kind of fragmentary, and not meant as a stand alone piece. it moves in and out of the melody --sometimes playing it, and sometimes not. it's a good technical exercise in various playing techniques, but it doesn't really stand by itself as a blues piece. i will learn it for the techniques.

this is part of the question of -- what is my goal? blues is mostly an ensemble form, or maybe a guy singing and playing guitar. i'm interested in solo instrumental stuff, and there's not much of that. This is where backing tracks come in for a lot of people. it's instrumental soloing -- useful if you're not in a band and don't sing.