Having a stab at the intro now. I suspect I’ll be learning snippets of this song for the next decade given how long it is - my phone now knows to auto suggest the entire sing artist name now 😂
I had only 5 minutes spare this morning before I needed to head to work, so I did this quick play with the central riff from a song my friend Adam wrote when we were back at university. I still really like this song.
Still being inspired by many things, this is a fusion of the 16ths strumming practice from last week, my new delay pedal, and listening to 60s guitar jazz after Wilderness festival
I got a cheap delay pedal on reverb to see if delay is an effect I can Fri on with, and I’ve had so much fun this last hour trying lots of different styles. It’s nice to suddenly have a new colour on my palette. This is something I made up I think, but I also think it sounds a bit like Ikari - so perhaps I’m subconsciously channeling them :)
Still trying to improve my rhythm playing. Although the fast 16ths style strumming is mostly associated with funk/disco you can hear it in lots of things you’d not associate it with, e.g., Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd and Another One Bites The Dust by Queen
Our house is in disarray due to building work, so I’ve not had much chance to practice. Feeling a bit under the weather today too, so didn’t have much enthusiasm, but need to keep it up!
We’re having house work done, and couldn’t get to my amp, so I picked up my much neglected acoustic today. This is the closing song on the documentary film It Might Get Loud, which was at the time quite an influence on me getting back into guitar again.
Whilst I vaguely had the Muse track in my head, this is all figured out by me from my vague memory of that tune. I originally set it just to work out the backing riff, but the vocal line came relatively easily too. A small thing, but a major achievement for me considering I think if myself as tone deaf.
This is the first time I’ve played guitar after being away for four days and I’m trying to recall how this guitar thing works. I’ve always envied his other guitarists can skip between rhythm and lead in a single bar of music, my brain always needs time to switch modes. This isn’t too bad for me though.
Is amazing to me how four notes like this can feel so haunting. Obviously now I need a Binson Echorec, right?
One of those practice sessions where nothing seems to jel, so I ended with this in a fit of frustration. Sometimes louder is indeed bettered.
Why make things easy? Here I’m throwing in some right hand movements in addition to struggling with my left hand :)