You are gonna like this one! It's me struggling to play the ELECTRIC GUITAR! Please let me know your impressions, I always enjoy reading your fun comments!
As you can see my chops are very barebones, but I make up for it with pure DUENDE in a one-take** performance of this new funky one-chord song! The chord is none other than E7+9 also known as the EHendrix or E major minor. I also do the one-take on the piano where I do the bassline, this time using the UAD Spark Electra 88. The drums are half by hand and half Levi from Logic, but most of the time he is relegated to play the high hat and the ghost notes of the snare, as I recorded on the midi keyboard the kick (1 every beat), and main snare which is kinda like the main guitar/bass groove. Plus hand-made a lot of the fills, to taste.
I composed the riff the past couple of days by jamming, and recorded only from ~4pm today until 12am, with 2 more hours doing the video. Very good result, considering what a struggle it was to get a decent guitar take!
**Actually there is a small part of the middle solo where I switch to a previous guitar take, because it was too good using the frikkin nail clipper as a slide. Well, you'll see.
I had a great time this week visiting my hometown, for my grandma's 80th birthday! I was also hoping to play a lot more electric guitar with my dad but I think he was a bit too busy lately and didn't practice, and he was a bit shy about it, so we ended up playing only twice. Also, he suddenly decided with my uncle to take a vacation to south-east Asia and they left earlier today, so that was a pretty wild turn of events! Family, eh?
I was not very inspired this week to make music but eventually I settled on this idea of the KIBITZER which is a person who likes to complain and give advice and tell you that what you're doing is wrong, even though they don't necessarily know any better or provide any constructive ideas. I think it's quite relatable and I think once again I'll put this song in the regular repertoire with the band once we get around to it ... It's super fun to play it!!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun making it!
› Lyrics‹ Lyrics
Why are you doing the thing that you're doing?
I think you're doing it [slow].
Well how should I do it? You know any better?
... I don't know
But why can't you do it just like the other thing
that you did two years [ago]?
This is a new thing, why is that a problem?
... I don't know!
While you keep doing the thing that you're doing
You still have nothing to [show]!
What should it look like, at this stage in the process?
... I don't know?
> But why did you do it like that from above?
> I think it's better [below]?
>
> You wanna try to do it? I can let you do it!
> ... I don't know
But why do you do it so inefficiently
You call that a [workflow]?
What exactly is your suggestion?
... I don't know
I don't agree with the way that you're doing it, I
think you should do it just [so]!
If you're such a [pro], why don't you do it?
... I don't know.
Well if you won't listen to any o' my suggestions
I won't say any mo'!
I'm very grateful, thank you so much tho.
... ARIGATOU!
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