Monday, July 14, 2008

Delong Avenue


Another in my series of guitar based instrumentals. I apparently can't play in time however. So there's a little bit of a lag when the drums don't pick up the end of the riff in the first section. They should jump the beat a tiny beat...alas, they don't. So it sounds a little robotic and not swinging.

However, you can work your way past that, the riff's are pretty cool. In this case, I did them all with Logic's Guitar Amp Pro. For clean stuff, GAP isn't bad. It lacks the character of GR3 but for the clean parts in this song, that's not such a problem. You just want a good cleanish sound so the playing really comes through. On second thought, that's maybe the opposite of what I want until my playing catches up with my ambition.

My goal is to move beyond just creating 16 or 8 riffs and songlets and eventually pull out an entire song...instrumental-wise. I'm getting closer.

Guitars are my normal Squire Bass and my Fender Mexican Strat for all the other guitars. If you listen close there's a synth in the deep background kind of mirroring the chord changes.

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