00:04in this lesson i'm going to talk about a tune called ace of aces which is the
00:08debut track of the fearless flyers a side project of wolfpack that i have with myself
00:13on guitar mark letieri on baritone guitar joe dart on bass and nate smith on the drums
00:19now this one is interesting because where it came from was i just had this line and then jack who
00:27was producing the album the band leader for wolfpack he had mined a handful of clips from just
00:33like live shows of either mark or mine or different any of us in the band different ideas that we
00:38had
00:38and he said let's work on these concepts as different things let's let's use cory's line
00:43as the anchor and then let's kind of think of four different sections of playing over kind of one
00:49chord now the the thing that i see a lot of people where they get this wrong when they cover
00:54it is
00:55that they're not intentional about the sections and i'll explain what i mean by just kind of
01:02explaining how mark and i think about our guitar parts in this tune so it starts with the main line
01:12that's basically compositionally the majority of what's happening quite easily right but then what
01:20happens is during the first the first i mean i'm not even gonna call it an a section during the
01:25first
01:25kind of verse of the tune the concept that mark has is
01:38just kind of jamming on an east nine but doing this
01:44right he's sticking to that sort of thing and when i'm layering when you're when you're thinking about a
01:49second guitar what i play is baritone guitar on this one and mine is tuned a to a not b
01:55to b
01:56what i'm doing is i'm kind of thinking almost like another bass player because joe's playing
02:02a little more simple on this so i'm going
02:13and the way that mark's part and my part weave together is kind of an arranged thing and then
02:19there's holes where we have these little uh
02:26this this little line so halfway through we play this line
02:32play it again
02:36so we have that line halfway through and then we play it at the end
02:39but in the main part of it we're really thinking kind of parts and our parts function together
02:46then we play the riff again and then the second verse thing that we go to
02:53mark's whole concept is
02:58e7 sharp 9
02:59we're almost thinking uh shining star earth wind and fire
03:04so it's all about that e7 sharp 9
03:12and then on the halfway point and the end there's another line
03:19that line happens unison between mark and i so two three four one
03:29for me i'm also outlining that sharp 9 or flat 3
03:33but i'm keeping a similar sort of rhythm to the first verse
03:37i'm going
03:50so we're both really leaning into that sharp 9
03:53that's the whole concept of the second verse
03:56then we play the riff and we go on to the third verse
04:00the third verse this is one mark's whole concept
04:03and i guess mine too is like a little bit of a gospel-y downstroke thing
04:09and this this was a concept that came from jack watching one of
04:13mark's instagram videos or something
04:15i don't really remember what mark plays
04:21something along these lines
04:28it's kind of this
04:35so he's got a little sixths thing happening
04:37and then it's just downstroke funk
04:44so what i'm doing is kind of a gospel quartet line
04:46this sort of like
05:07it goes right back into the line
05:12and now this last one
05:17it's a bass feature
05:19it's a bass feature that goes into a drum feature
05:21mark's whole concept is
05:29e9
05:33sustained strummer guy
05:35and then it's just building energy
05:37along with the whole thing
05:40and because joe is playing a bass solo
05:43and he's going up high
05:44i kind of change my function
05:46and go into like a little bit of a slap bass part
05:49to cover for him
05:59i do that for a while
06:02and actually i think i play that most of the time
06:04up until even through the drum solo
06:06when it's all building and getting crazy
06:08and then it ends in the line
06:10with a tagged walk up four times
06:11and we're out
06:19so you can see mark and i have very intentional things
06:22that we're doing on every section of this tune
06:24and they both have the same source material
06:26for inspiration
06:27and we're trying to align our parts
06:30that work together
06:31that kind of fit that thing
06:33but work together to kind of create something new
06:37hopefully that helps
06:39you
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