Guitarbloke

Tag: not metal

  • Where is This Going?

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    geebee
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    I tend to get more productive when I’m feeling frustrated. Music’s a great way of taking negative emotions and sublimating them into something more positive. I like instrumentals that have lyrics (I’m pretty certain that “Liberty” by Steve Vai is an example, and that’s a killer tune). The human voice is much more engaging to…

  • Go Punt

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    geebee
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    This is the companion piece to “Ardor“; the two are intended to be the first and last tracks of an EP, although I haven’t quite worked out which songs best fit in between. Despite being, by my standards, unusually dense and orchestrated, this was surprisingly easy to mix.

  • Ardor

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    geebee
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    This tune is about that time at the end of a good day when you’re dropping off to sleep, feeling generally well disposed and thinking about how lucky you are to have the people you love. This is a reprise of another song; I wrote two quite different arrangements to the main melody and they…

  • Do You Think?

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    geebee
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    This song is an exercise in trying to take the most boneheaded riff possible and make it sound more complicated than it really is. The main guitar figure is just two alternating barre chords (played in drop D for even more simplicity) but it doesn’t really sound that way since the harmony is implied by…

  • Never Feed After Midnight

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    geebee
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    This track started out with just the rhythm part and then somehow turned into what I think it would sound like if Joe Satriani played lead guitar for Mogwai and everyone was a bit tipsy.

  • Left Hand Riot

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    geebee
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    This is a mid-tempo rock track partly inspired by the tones I got out of the Neural DSP Mesa Boogie Mark IIc+ suite. The IIc+ is famous for being the Metallica Amp, but it’s also great for classic rock rhythm and lead sounds.

  • Christmas at the Beach

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    geebee
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    Christmas isn’t just about snow and wellington boots and a big roaring fire; in fact that only really applies in the Northern Hemisphere. This song was written after a rather nice Christmas Day spent working on my tan. As it turns out, warm, laid back, summery sounding guitars actually go surprisingly well with sleigh bells.