pharmd07
Experienced
Hi all. I'm hoping to draw on the collected experience here for some advice.
So I recently starting playing with a phenomenal singer who plays for another band. She does a bunch of shows, and I'm kind of her backup guitarist for when the band can't play a show. So when we play, it's just me on acoustic guitar and her on vocals...that's it.
So a lot of the songs she wants to play are songs that she plays with her band. These are songs that have a ton of guitar solos in them, ya know, the long Lynyrd Skynyrd kind of stuff, or songs that have well known solos in them that are almost always played on an electric guitar with a full band in the original recording. I'm finding this quite awkward for our setup. In these songs I'm playing chords, then suddenly I'm having to stop playing chords and then start playing solos...long solos. If it was just a couple bars, it wouldn't be that big of a problem, but I feel like this is just totally losing the momentum of the song. In my experience, I don't see acoustic guitarists doing this when they are the only guitarist.
Am I alone in this or do you guys have to do this too?
Thanks!
So I recently starting playing with a phenomenal singer who plays for another band. She does a bunch of shows, and I'm kind of her backup guitarist for when the band can't play a show. So when we play, it's just me on acoustic guitar and her on vocals...that's it.
So a lot of the songs she wants to play are songs that she plays with her band. These are songs that have a ton of guitar solos in them, ya know, the long Lynyrd Skynyrd kind of stuff, or songs that have well known solos in them that are almost always played on an electric guitar with a full band in the original recording. I'm finding this quite awkward for our setup. In these songs I'm playing chords, then suddenly I'm having to stop playing chords and then start playing solos...long solos. If it was just a couple bars, it wouldn't be that big of a problem, but I feel like this is just totally losing the momentum of the song. In my experience, I don't see acoustic guitarists doing this when they are the only guitarist.
Am I alone in this or do you guys have to do this too?
Thanks!