drum tracks, rock and roll

so here's the latest plan.  i found some rock drum backing tracks on youtube, so i'm gonna make some rock videos.  probably won't happen until the end of the semester.  rock is our folk music.

Pholk Music

since i'm not really working on chinese folk music, but instead i'm playing the major pent scale and "sounding" chinese or asian, i decided to call my work pholk music.  not real folk, but faux folk.  pholk.  so, my indigenous folk name (like a blues name) is Phil Pholio.

not much lately

not much lately going on.  too busy with life.  still playing.  not recording, but hope to do so in a few weeks. 

chinese folk music

been listening to chinese folk music lately.  it uses major pentatonic scale, so i'm finding i can imitate the folk melodies pretty easily.  gonna record some fake folk tunes.  yeah, fake folk is what it is.

BEATLES

Let It Be will be my first two track instrumental.  Yeah, doing another 180 on everybody.  Blues will take a break while I work on Beatles guitar instrumentals with the same two track method, rhythm and lead.  Did the rhythm today, and will do lead track tomorrow and upload the video.  let it be!

3220 blues new video

OK, so here's the new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJF3FVlAIg

first vid in a while.  2 tracks, using the vg strat.  rhythm track is 12 string acoustic setting, and the lead track is 6 string.  that's gonna be my pattern for a while.  the photos are from the library of congress and in the public domain. 

two or three track recording

yeah, going back to my idea of the multi-tracked instrumental as the final product, instead of the live performance.  Then I can split up the guitar parts into rhythm and lead parts, with maybe a piano part too.  It will be easier to do country blues, ragtime, and other songs this way, and I can use all my guitars in the process.  Must think this over some more, and experiment a little on Fridays!  Garage Band will be the software platform.