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Fun with wah wah. We tried to capture that feeling of walking through a carnival with everything moving around you. The tune opens with a double kick drum intro into unison guitar and bass lines, breaking in to the main wah melody played over a moving bass line. The middle solo section builds to a unison section with an organ played over the top, to add to the circus atmosphere, then back to the main wah section to end.
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This tune is a shuffle slightly touching on a swing groove. The repeating melody through out the verses adds to the swing shuffle feel. The middle solo section is a basic taping technique ending with the main melody.
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Four guys with acoustics. C-tuning. This was done totally live done in one take. Only the madoline was overdubbed. This tune has a Celtic/Zep vibe, which I love.
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The complete piece is a E-Bowed Strat direct to the board. This tune is a Middle Eastern melody, originally written as the live opener for "Xcendix" from my first CD, but ending up here as the intro to "Desert Caravan".
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Heavy chunk through out. A majestic metal groove with an exotic melody.
Picture the Sahara with a caravan crossing the dunes. This is the feel we were trying to capture. Builds to the center section with a dynamic break down played with a clean Strat, and a fretless bass melody. Sets the mood for the build to the main solo, played over a heavy syncopated Zep style groove. The tune ends with heavy guitar drifting off into the desert winds.
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The second acoustic tune on the disc. This one is in a D-tuning. It was written about a place that I used to stay in Flagstaff Arizona. This is fingerpicked with an E-Bow melody simulating flutes. A very moody piece.
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This is my cat running amok in my studio; he is really a big baby - SATANS BABY!
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D-tuning. Just trying to capture the feeling of a few friends sitting outside just laying back, and picking to a blues thang.
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More fun with wah’s. This is rock n’ roll; perfect for strippers to dance to; a straight-ahead beat with plenty of wah wah guitar. A lot of fun to play.
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A heavily over dubbed acoustic tune in a D-tuning. A real bitch to play live by myself.
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We tried to capture the feel of an old detective movie from the 30’s and 40’s, with the guitar lines being played where the horns of that time would have been. Sound effects and a narration track add to the feel. An epic little piece. Queensryche would do justice to this piece.
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A simple nylon stringed piece in standard tuning based in the style of the Renaissance.
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Thin Lizzy was one of my favorite two guitar bands, and that’s what inspired me to write this piece. Standard Marshall, Les Paul rhythm chunk, with a solid melody over the top. Drop out the main melody and Phil Lynott could have put a vocal over the top. That was the goal. The center section is your slow heavy Sabbath sludge with a soaring guitar over the top building to the ending section which I played like two guitars doing a call and respond section. You play 8 bars, and then I’ll do 8!
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YIN and YANG. This starts out with faded in psychedelic feedback frenzy, building into a complete guitar freekout as a simple one guitar softly strumming, fades in. The goal was to show the extremes of the electric guitar, and how it covers the full spectrum of emotions.
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