I grew up listening to the White Album more than anything else by the Beatles, and in particular I always loved “Helter Skelter.” Harrison’s “I’ve got blisters on my fingers” captured in a mic at the end of the track was, while maybe a little silly, always one of those amazing rock and roll moments …
Continue reading George Harrison and I Have Something in Common Now
I'm 99% sure this one is done but at a minimum I'm going to need to give it a few days and see how it sounds just to give my fingers a break. The chorus on this one has a lot of 22nd fret high D's bent up to E's hitting them hard to make …
Continue reading One more song done -“At the Top of My Lungs”
This is a long overdue update - in part because I've had the song I was working on done for about a week now, and in part because it probably should have been done weeks before that. Life's been getting in the way lately; work's been busy, family life has been busy, and then I've …
I did a short batch of tracking over lunch, the probable opening track, "At The Top of my Lungs" I want to have my Strat handle the first few melody lines before switching to my Suhr Modern and humbuckers for the rest, so I banged that out over lunch. The first proper "lead guitar" part …
Continue reading Friendly reminder – listen to EVERYTHING before moving on
Really there isn't a ton to say about the recording process here since all I'm doing is capturing DI tracks for now - the fun will start once I start reamping. But, I finished another song in two sessions, a few hours yesterday and maybe one or two more today. This one does have a …
Continue reading Still Chipping Away: One More Song Done, “Ghost Dance”
I've ended up traveling for much of May, which I guess I knew about coming onto this but kind of put to the back of my mind. So, I haven't had as much time to record as I'd hoped, between a week away, a week back rebuilding calluses and overdoing it while relearning material, then …
Continue reading On to my favorite Strat, and another song done
I suppose that title sounds like some commentary on workflow and working your way backwards through a song or something, but really all I'm saying is I've started lead guitar tracks, and (in part because I planned on using the same sunburst Strat I used for all my rhythm tracks, and in part because this …
...at least, with the caveat that it's always possible I'll go back and re-record a part or two here and there, and there are a couple songs with "rhythm-like" parts where there's a riff leading into the solo or in one case breaking up the solo a few times, but I plan on recording that …
Continue reading Studio Update: Rhythm Guitar Tracking is Finished
I suppose this is a slight misnomer, as I need to set up my PRS and when I do I'll probably add one or two humbucker clean tracks using that. So, really, what I'm saying is all the clean and gritty rhythm guitar parts that I planned on playing on a Strat are done. I …
Continue reading Studio Update: Clean Rhythm Guitars are (mostly) Done
When I was starting to think about how I wanted this album to sound, when I was writing it, I'd kind of expected that there would be a lot more acoustuc rhythm guitar than there actually was. As it happens, two of the nine songs have acoustic guitar parts - the one I'm adding at …
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