Cool bop meets shred and shred takes over, with perhaps not the best of intentions. However it was fun. With apologies to the Gershwin Brothers.
RIP to Cool Hand Luke, Brick, the Hustler Eddie…..
This is not an endorsement of any particular brand of kettle chips, but rather my brain’s inability to come up with a compelling name for this piece. Sometimes when I go to save a file and have to create a name, I’ll just look around the room for ideas; well when I began this thing, I’d been eating kettle chips.
This is another fusion shred guitar drill in 6/8 time, 160 BPM, though it doesn’t sound like it.
My spacy/shreddy tribute to one of my favorite musicians. A piece that also fulfills this month’s Guitar Collective Task.
This is a woefully outdated site. I’m trying to make up for that by posting here the last several compositions I’ve completed since April of 08. Some of these were Guitar Collective tasks, but not all. Some have too much guitar, and others have no guitar at all, but are mainly virtual synth instrument experimentation. Yes, there are a couple of parodies in here….
Trio con Brio
Aries
NexusSeven
Third Rate Romance
MRTC
Kabniz
Cane
nexusSeven Take-Out
Flippin’ all them burgers
The task over at the collective this month was to make a “composition,” that is, no improvisation or excessive noodling, but rather an ordered opus with every note counting, so to speak. I cloned myself and made a guitar trio and the result you may listen to below. Namaste.
The Guitar Collective task for March was to take the major chords FACE and do something with them. I did a little shredfest thingy, complete with a number of sweep picking cliches here and there.
The Guitar Collective task for February was to do a “period” piece. I’m not sure what era I’m aiming for here, but I added some dust and scratches to give it that “lo-fi” vintage sheen.
An excursion using a midified string section, originally played on guitar. 20th Century Classical written all over it.
Another semi-ethereal jazz tinged rambling after a trio of pale ales. No bass, but enough Impulse Response backing to provide a good sonic canopy.
The last of my ersatz Holdsworth-influenced pieces for the year. Next year? I’m going to try and realize last year’s resolution, which was to de-emphasize shredding and guitar based composition in favor of more elaborate musical exploration. I want to do more pieces that don’t have any guitar at all, maybe get into some ambient sound scaping stuff. Hard to say, though. I just bought the Pat Metheny songbook and plan to give it a good study and I’m sure it will have a big influence on my playing in ‘08.
