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Zajioa

By rplktr on October 19, 2024 4:37 pm

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I welcome all critical feedback. Can relicense if needed, just ask.

Seeing Josh and Cursory mass-producing amazing songs week after week, I always wished to get better at guitar myself. I only got one in 2020, but never really got any good at it. I recently discovered the bizarre world of 5-string guitars and the DAEAD tuning in particular. I blogged about this in more detail, here it's enough to say that this was the push I needed to start practicing.

To put things in perspective, there's literally 16 different guitar chords in this tune. That's not something I was ever able to do with standard tuning. The track today was supposed to be just solo guitar, but once I started adding things, it was hard to stop. No vocals, though. It became unexpectedly progressive, I wonder what you think of it.

126 BPM, B-major, 4/4. Yamaha Revstar recorded separately for the left and right channel. Also captured acoustic string reverberation (and buzz) via a condenser mic nearby. Bass from Opsix. Drums played on Yamaha FGDP-50, two layers. Solo synth from Iridium.

Super interesting reading about how you’ve learned guitar. I can tell you nobody listening to this would know it’s not second nature. Absolutely beautiful guitar, but the drums are the magic here. Not a second slips or is boring. They’re mesmerizing.

One of my favorites of the whole year of wb

I love some of the big turns this track takes and the Steely Dan Aja-style drums. Really awesome stuff!

That drum beat is adding a lot of life into the track. The arpeggiated guitars are beautiful, and I was thinking how a different beat would change the vibe completely. Those wailing synths around 1:40 onwards are really nice, they float above the track.

This is awesome, I've seen a bit about Jacob Collier's 5-string approach but I appreciate hearing (and reading about) your experience with this tuning.  You've landed on a really pleasant, almost hypnotic groove. Some of the the picking evokes some Radiohead (weird fishes, etc.) maybe? Such a tasty and well thought out track, especially for spending so little time with a completely different tuning.

But yeah, reading your blog post, there's pretty clear value in having a tuning you feel is more intuitive and enables you to generate/record ideas. Plus you're still gaining dexterity/callous if you ever decide to return to standard tuning. Also, I am beyond flattered to be mentioned in such a kind way (and next to jwh for that matter!), cheers smile

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