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I need a better bridge for something that is almost finished.



I am looking at a progression that starts;

C#, E, B, F#, E

E, F#, C# x3

last time

E, F#, G#

I am running a little short on material for this one.

Anyone got any great ideas as to where I can go for the break before it's back to the beginning?

Currently I am looking at a drum roll followed by something like;

B-C#-G# x3

last time

B-C#-D#

It's seemingly too similar, throw a dog a bone and give me something usable. I am grinding my gears after a 1am session last night.

Worse yet, I couldn't finish because this tune is turning into something more complicated than I had originally thought.

Please pass the hot sauce..

It looks to me like this tune is in F#,
F#= 1, B=4, C#= 5th, and E= 7th

So if you end on the G#=2nd

The 2nd will want to go to the 1, or thru the 3
to the 5 to the 1 or 8

That's sound theory, but you could go any where,
theory just tells you where the notes want to resolve to.

Let me see if I can take a stab at it.

Capt you seem to strum your rythyms to your songs, so what I would want you think on is the Who in my approach.

B B /A A#E the Bs are a power chord on the A string as your root, then lay into the A chord, then play the A# as a single note and kinda pull off open E string

C#C#/E F#F# the C# as a power chord again using the A string for your root note, then play the open E into F#F# with a little bend

Heres the pattern best I can write it out.

B B /AA#E /C#C# /EF#F#, in other words the the B and C# are chords, all other notes are single notes played on the lower E string to give it a little heaviness

To me I would resolve it back to the F# chord with a hold and some sort of little guitar riff, before going back to C#

B B /AA#E /C#C# /EF#F# /B B /AA#E /C#C# /EF#F#
B B /AA#E /C#C# /EFF#F#/B B /AA#E /C#C# /EF# hold it and add a little guitar riff flourish on the end, then go back to your normal rythym in C#


I hope what I put down makes sense, I always like a heavy sounding mid break in a song to break it up, I call it a mid eight, or however many bars you wante to play

Good Luck


An edition, Capt if you try this substitute A Flat for the A# I put in there, last night I messed around with this little change up, may use it for something myself, more on the line of a verse rythym. I was just humming this in my head yesterday and wasnt thinking in the terms of #s and Flats, A flat is what i was thinking. Sorry

When Ive listened to your stuff you ussually have a strummed type chords for your rythyms with a lot of chorus, for what I did, think LP into a Marshall, no effects, the B and C# as power chords, and the walks as a single note walk, hope this makes sense.

I think if you are doing the song like i hear it, that taking effects out and just straight up cranked guitar, with the single note lines would make a big contrast to what I think your doing.

Capt I played this in my head when I posted but I went home and ran thru it.

Change the EF#F# part to F#E F# just kinda pull it off on the lower E string da-da-dum, if that makes sense then you could hang a bar in F# and do the little guitar bluesy finale, before resolving back to your rythym line.

Hey it was fun jamming with you man!

Lynard Dylan wrote:It looks to me like this tune is in F#,
F#= 1, B=4, C#= 5th, and E= 7th

So if you end on the G#=2nd

The 2nd will want to go to the 1, or thru the 3
to the 5 to the 1 or 8

That's sound theory, but you could go any where,
theory just tells you where the notes want to resolve to.

That's the kind of thinking thats got me Soooo intimidated. Where did you take guitar lessons? Jeopardy? should've answered in question form!

Try this.. Hot sauce and A-1 sauce on french fries. but not when you're playing guitar, it can drip down onto your bridge.

Don't sweat it crunch old boy.

Your not alone.

Try something like this...After you end on the G#..go into this:

Amaj , E, F#m , C#m7

Amaj , E, F#maj7 , G#

PaperDog wrote:Try something like this...After you end on the G#..go into this:

Amaj , E, F#m , C#m7

Amaj , E, F#maj7 , G#

Kind of the same direction I was thinking but make the A an Asus2 fret only the D and G strings(2nd fret) and you can follow it by adding the F# using your thumb on the E string(2nd fret) follow it with an E major. Then maybe back to the Asus2 then to a B sus with the B and E strings open. That B would ring nice moving back to the C# (minor?) It would help to hear the dynamic of the progression, is it picked strummed, power chords etc...

Oh you guys are awesome..

Thank You kindly..
I wasn't sure what I'd get, turns out I got much more than I had thought.

I love meat and potatoes of this type of stuff, as after I lay down a verse and chorus, I get a little mental block if I didn't have it all planned out. (I didn't write a bridge yet for the tune du jour)

Not sure yet how or if I am to change this but somewhere after 12/7 this one will be done and I'll post it, rest assured.

Way to exceed expectations, this forum continues to astonish me in a good way.

I just hope the next tune lives up to the hype. lol

-S.

Don't be surprised if this page doesn't just go away. Good info here I have to work through.