Alternating Solos – How to Go About It?
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Hello, everyone!
Some of you might be confused by that title, so here’s what I’m talking about:
Suppose you have a song with guitar and keys, and they both have the same section of the song for solos. However, during this section, it alternates between the keyboard and guitar doing the soloing. For example, the guitar may go first, the keyboardist second, back to guitar, etc. How would I go about charting it? Should I make it one long solo section for both? Should I split it up into smaller solo sections? If the former, should I chart the rhythm guitar in between the leads, or leave it out and just have an empty space? Maybe I’ve been thinking about it wrong. Any insight from people would be much appreciated.
– MADMac
Depends on song to song I would say. Personally I would in most cases chart rhythm parts between solo tradeoffs no matter what though.
My take is long solos, no rhythm stuff, provided there’s a true alternance.I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “true alternance,” but I do appreciate the insight.
My take is long solos, no rhythm stuff, provided there’s a true alternance.I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “true alternance,” but I do appreciate the insight.
That it’s not a series of solos with no back and forth, in which case author the individual solos.
I’m going to assume that Rhythm Guitar is on Keys, rather than actual Keys.
I direct you to the song “Welcome Home” by Coheed and Cambria. This song is already charted on RB1, but it has an excellent example of two guitars switching off.
*The video will start at the solo when you click the link*
You can hear in the song the two guitars going back and forth (if you’re wearing headphones). In this instance, Harmonix chose to chart both guitarist’s solos as one whole solo because the end of one guitarist’s solo ends perfectly where the next one would start (which is what Farottone meant when he said “true alternance.”)
However, if there were to be a Rhythm version, the locations of the solos would probably be like this (based off of the video I linked):
3:57 – Guitar
4:09 – Keys
4:21 – Guitar
4:34 – Keys
4:46 – Guitar
…with the Chord riff being charted on the instrument not doing the solo.
However, the choice is yours. If you can chart both instrument’s solos without cutting out too much of each other’s solos I would suggest making it one big solo. Other wise chart like a Rhythm chart. Do not, however, put Guitar solo markers on top of sections that are clearly not a guitar solo (aka Rhythm chords).
If any of this was unclear let me know so I can clarify.
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