Having a hard time differenciate solo, mi solo and rythmn if somebody could help and point out specific parts or time stamps from specific songs just so I could see the difference between the three. Its very easy to see what a solo is, which is the most important part of the sebene, just having a tough time wrapping my head around mi solo

Listen to the albums Extra Musica - Trop c'est Trop, Koffi Olomide - Effrakata, & Extra Musica - Shalai and you will understand it well. Since it that the sound of the rhythm-guitar and mi-solo guitar his high tuned so you can hear the difference well. The most album you can't hear the rhythm guitar and mi-solo very well. That's why I was liking the albums of Extra Musica alot, because you can hear the sound of the rhythm very good and I liked the style of playing rhythm guitar by Durrel Loemba & later Sonor Digital. With Extra Musica in Shalai & Trop c'est Trop starting to use the mi-solo position. You need to listen those albums it with the headphones, because in the normal way you will hear it not well. My favorite songs to hear the 3 guitars are Guivano, Moselekete, Suivez Le Guide, Aministie Shalai & Effrakata-generique. The way of playing mi-solo in the Trop c'est Trop-album is making me crazy.

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Can't forget about the trio guitarist from Wenge Musica Masion Mere, specifically at the 00:22 mark in Ms. Margo. That dizzy glissando of the lead guitar, before the rhythm guitar begins which then followed by a playful fill by the mi-soloist as the Werrason starts singing. That opening always puts a smile on my face, everytime I hear it!



Flamme Kapaya's mean solo at 11:42 is then carried away to the end by a bouncy rhythm guitar and the gentle licks of mi-solo guitar. Although I do wish the studio engineer tuned the mi-soloist's guitar a bit higher, the drums and snyths sorta drown out his part towards the end.

Sometimes I wish I was present during these sessions 

Having a hard time differenciate solo, mi solo and rythmn if somebody could help and point out specific parts or time stamps from specific songs just so I could see the difference between the three. Its very easy to see what a solo is, which is the most important part of the sebene, just having a tough time wrapping my head around mi solo

Tis a question i have also had for a long time. is techno malewa by WMM purely a rhythm guitar?

Personally i always thought it was useless and unecesairy to have both rythm and Mi-Solo as sometimes we can barely even hear them. Specially in concert...so for me 3 Guitar player is enough(Bass, Rythm or Mi-Solo, and Solo)

Personally i always thought it was useless and unecesairy to have both rythm and Mi-Solo as sometimes we can barely even hear them. Specially in concert...so for me 3 Guitar player is enough(Bass, Rythm or Mi-Solo, and Solo)

I don't know if you wachted the video I posted or what mi-solo means. But the mi-solo position doesn't exist if you play with 3 guitars. We barely hear rhythm and the mi-solo guitare because the artist or arranger put the sound of those guitars on low. But if you listen to the songs/albums made from the mid-60 (Tabu Ley who introduced that position in African Fiesta National, after that Dr Nico left) until the mid 80's you will hear those guitar very well, espcially albums/songs who were recorded in Kinshasa. The same thing with concerts, there were sometimes concert where the mi-solist or rhyhm-guitar was playing the lead-guitarst out the game. But in Madiu's albums Pouvoir, Bonheur you could hear the 4 guitars very well.






 I noticed that we doesn't have pure rhythm and mi-solo guitarist anymore in the big bands. In the past you had Anto Denewade, Safro Mazangi, Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Tofla Kitoko (R.I.P.), Jimmy Yaba, Zamuangana, Ping Pong (R.I.P.), Dezay, the then young Fiston Zamuangana in Wenge 4x4, Lady Mbala, etc. the list is long. Each guitarist had is own style of playing rhythm, mi-solo and lead. But now everybody is sounding the same.