Considering that I consider myself a "country guy"........


I don't fear exploring other styles. I quite often use rock styles in my country songs. I used LA HARD ROCK in several early on in my time with BB.

With BB, there are a lot, and I mean a lot of really great sounding rock styles complete with the guitars. I did a song a while back that was called Under the Black.... a song about pirates and the series Black Sails that is on Starz TV.... (great series BTW) I used a rock style and while I really wanted to replace the rhythm guitars in the style with my own, I realized that they fit perfectly and there was no reason to actually replace them so I left them.

https://m.soundcloud.com/guitarhacker/under-the-black/s-uEQ34eUZiTe

I provided the leads and one of the rhythm sustained guitars. In the verses, and after the solo, you hear the BB guitars.

To sing rock... it's mostly the attitude and phrasing. It's not sweet and pretty.


For example:

Under the Black is _DOOMED which is a rock cello ballad style

We Ain't Got There Yet is _ANARCHY. which is a Punk Rock style.

You never know which style is going to get the job done until you play with several ..... try it.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 05/07/21 05:14 AM.
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