Not E-asy Mode
By Nyarlos on February 18, 2024 9:16 pm
Been going rock/metal/rock/metal, so here's another rock song. A couple of things here, mainly this tune is about not doing the every week same old E minor thing, so I thought the best way to do that is by playing all the modes around E minor, and never actually playing the E note in them. Almost all the rhythm parts are modes of E, but ignoring the E itself, so always trying to keep to A B C D F# G, except for the lead which goes to A Phrygian, and Im sure the solo has lots of E's in them, but passing notes don't count lol. Also had to make sure there is a full G Major happy middle bit too. Sort of like Joe Satriani's "pitch axis" thing but on chords instead of leads?
Second is more Plexi sounds this week, in 2022 I did the pedal challenge, but Its not like I stopped buying pedals lol, so its all Carl Martin this week! The Plexitone did a good job of emulating the crunch and presence of its namesake, a good versatile drive pedal, and with the boost it can get pretty high gain too. The Red Repeater on cleans and leads etc, Very similar to a Carbon Copy, but not like that's a bad thing.
Amp is the Engle Powerball on clean, guitar was the Purple Rock Beast, my Ibanez Fireman, for that fixed bridge set neck rock sustain thing.
Also big shout out to spending 20 minutes trying to find a decent vinyl plugin, then finding that one you already own.
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