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Archive for July, 2008

Jonesing to Play

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, musicians on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, my career as a web development engineer has taken a huge turn for the better. But it has also affected my ability to set aside some time to play guitar. Because of my weird schedule this past week (luckily it’s an anomaly), I haven’t picked up a guitar since Tuesday, and I’ve got serious [...]

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New Song: I Come To You

Posted in Guitars, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, recording, songs, songwriting on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just wrote this one today. While a love song, I wanted to be careful about the lyrics because it’s easy to get cheesy. But at the same time, I didn’t want to get really cerebral like Sting because I can’t do it as well – sounds way too formal and contrived, whereas Sting can almost [...]

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Capturing Your Ideas…

Posted in Guitars, Music, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, recording on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Whether or not you write songs, there are times you might be noodling on your or just plain thinking, and suddenly, out of nowhere, a riff, or a way to play a certain phrase pops in your mind. If you’re lucky, you’re nearby some recording equipment. But more likely than not, like me, you’re driving [...]

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Layering Your Guitar Parts

Posted in Guitars, Music, Tone, guitar, guitarists, musicians, recording, songwriting on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just read a great article on Guitar Jam Daily by Carl Verheyen (this dude has a really smooth style!) about the art of layering guitar parts in a song. Essentially, the article covers using a variety of guitars, and approaches when recording a song. For instance, using clean to slightly distorted guitars for rhythm [...]

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New Song: You’re Stuck With Me

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, recording, songs, songwriting on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Song Link It’s funny how the inspiration for a song comes. I started out writing out the idea of a song that evolved into a jam track that evolved into a completed song structure that finally evolved into a finished piece, replete with vocals and a guitar solo. For this piece, “You’re Stuck With Me” [...]

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Song Update ~ Anyone want to collaborate?

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, jam track, musicians, recording, songs, songwriting on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just finished the complete song structure for what’s tentatively known as “Mr. Chunky” for the chunky twang rhythm part in the song. I’m looking for drums and bass for the song as I kind of “faked” it with audio loops for the drums and input the bass with MIDI. I posted a Jam Track earlier [...]

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New Jam Track: Mr. Chunky

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, jam track, musicians, recording on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I was working on a blues-rock song this morning, and came up with this riff that I cut out and thought I’d share because instead of working on the rest of the song, I found myself jammin’ to it. Thought I’d share it with the rest of the folks here. I’m looking to collaborate on [...]

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You Will Be Assimilated…

Posted in Guitars, Music, Tone, guitar, guitarists, musicians, rock star on July 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »

A couple of issues ago, Guitar Player mag published an interesting article entitled, “The Homogenization of Rock Guitar Tone” in which they interviewed a few top rock producers, and posed the question (paraphrased): Have we reached the point in guitar tone, where there’s nothing new to be heard? Interesting question that… and if we were [...]

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