Dirty Tropes Done in a Week
By Nyarlos on February 27, 2022 9:33 pm
AKA: Dad Rock and Boomer Bends
No prizes for guessing the "inspiration" for this week, I feel like this one borders on "Rip Off" not "Inspired By" lol
But having said that, did very much try to hit the tropes as close as possible, one guitar is almost entirely open chords, the other is accented those with power chords, just like the brothers did. It had to have a single note blues scale run, just to please the riff raff, and keeping the drums totally four on the floor. But the real challenge was the leads, I am totally Pentatonic bereft. I just don't play that way, I always stayed clear of 2 note a string box patterns, so now I needed to to really sound like the inspiration. And that was really hard for me. There's only so many notes that Boomer Bend properly, and I had to comp together little blues and box pattern sections to get there.
But lastly I think I committed a bit of a crime with the ending, there must be some sort of law that forbids "Rock Out" endings. But, hey, its what they would have done.
Could only use 2 pedals for the whole track, because stylistically, effects don't work here. I put delay on one note in post, the rest was just guitar - light drive - marshall
1: MXR Distortion III. A classic rock box distortion, used sparingly into a just driven clean channel
2: MXR Dist + Clone: I chucked an active EQ section to a vintage Dist+ circuit to make a bit more versatility, slightly more drive than the rhythm guitar, then bumped a bit more for the leads.
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