Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
Hi Dave!
Perfect Lover has all your good usual elements of Blue Attitude: your lead, Chris’ vocals and songwriting, and Marty’s bass work - each part played so well and tight that you all work seamlessly. In this song, I particularly loved the effect of the wah(?) guitar, not overused, but enough to make it a recognisable element of the song.
Thanks for noticing the wah smile
Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
Yesterday, I did a deeper dive into your more recent song threads to appreciate your music. You and Chris and Marty have a good partnership going on here - I am interested in how you and Chris came to work together - assuming you met Marty here on the forum?
Chris and I met on SoundCloud 10 years ago. I had just got back into playing after taking a few years off and was posting blues instrumentals. She was interested in getting into the blues genre and was looking for someone to collaborate with, and happened to stumble across one of my instrumentals. She reached out and asked if I would be interested in doing a song with her and the rest is history, I think we have done around 100 songs together so far.

Marty joined the forum here around 5 years ago I think, and when he heard our songs asked if he could play bass on some of them. Not sure how many songs he has played on, but all of them over the last 5 years. The three of us communicate using messenger while working on the songs, and have lots of fun during the process. And I play guitar on some of his songs too.
Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
I am always in awe of people such as you that have lead guitar skills, and often wondered how you approach the creation of each solo? From a position of ignorance on my part, I am wondering if it’s based around the vocal melody, or known licks, or based around chord notes, or I’m assuming a combination of all the above? Or maybe it’s felt rather than thought?
All three things you mentioned, and in addition I would add scales (major and minor pentatonic for me) and modes (Ionian and Mixolydian in my case). But you don't think about any of those things while playing. Basically it's a matter of knowing all of those things inside and out so when hearing a chord progression you can hear lots of options of things you can play over those chords without having to think about it. And that takes many, many hours of playing and trying different approaches over different chord progressions over many years, and I still spend probably and hour or so every day doing that.
Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
Good work in the genre you guys work in!

Andrew
Thanks for the great comments!

Dave

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