The hardest part about the Marty gig is trying to remember the parts that I have to play. Sure, the parts themselves are fingertwisters, but no matter what I do, I will never be able to duplicate Marty's phrasing because when Marty plays, you know it's him. His right hand is angled so different than your normal way of picking and the attack is never the same.
I cover most of the higher harmonies on his solos/melodies, but sometimes the lower, depending on what is the 2nd gtr part. And that's difficult to know which is which sometimes, and with Marty's schedule, I don't know exactly what parts to play until we have rehearsals. Then I have to cram all of that info into a short amount of time. It would be much better for me and my memory if I knew what parts to play, then could practice them weeks before the real band rehearsals, but we don't know what parts will work best until they happen live at rehearsal.
I've got 5 more song to learn from Marty's latest solo CD 'Loudspeaker' (which is HEAVY), but the good thing for me is there is far less lead/melodies to play than on the last solo CD 'Music For Speeding'. But now I have to relearn a few of those songs because I'm going to try to get by the whole gig with one guitar, probably a 7 string. (On the previous gigs, I had a normal E tuned guitar, and a D drop C. That's it. There is an 8 minute song on Loudspeaker that uses a low B. So now I've got 1. normal E tuning 2. Drop D on two Loudspeaker songs 3. D drop C on a few Music For Speeding songs. 4. Low B on Stigmata/Addiction.)
Ron
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