JonnyOnTheSpot said:

in the past i probably would have cited some overly long trey solo or some such similar solo, but i realized awhile ago that the best solos are the shorter ones. with less time to solo you are forced to arrange more specifically and i think it's a better demonstration of creativity as a guitarist when you write a good solo as opposed to just having a loose frame work to improvise over top of. being forced to squeeze your solo into a short section of the song makes you have to pick and choose which parts to include and is a better overall gage of your song writer ability and your particular "ear" for good music. plus a good short solo, if done well, is so much sweeter and emotionally relatable than a long noodlely solo. i'm not saying that i don't like long solos anymore, because i still do, but i've grown to appreciate an artists ability to be simplistic yet expressive at the same time. it's harder then it sounds, and it adds more overall depth imo.

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According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Eddie Hazel to play the first half of the song like his mother had just died and to play the second half as if he had found out she was alive (other variants of the story suggest that he was simply told to play as if he had found his mother dead.) The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized the power of Hazel's solo and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar (the band can only truly be heard during the end of the song, and even then, it is barely audible.) The entire track was recorded in one take. The solo is played in a pentatonic minor scale in the key of E over another guitar track of four simple arpeggios. Hazel's solo was played through a fuzzbox and a wah pedal; some sections of the song utilize a delay effect.

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slackophage said:

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

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