Mouth Canyon Blues
By Tristan Louth-Robins on January 30, 2018 9:54 am
So, something completely different for this month. I thought it would be a good idea to focus primarily on guitar work for the next four weeks.
This one's an impulsive attempt to amalgamate the guitar styles of Jim O'Rourke, William Tyler and Ry Cooder into a hyper compressed two minutes of imagined road movie soundtracking. Technically speaking, it's pretty much a basic guitar fingerpicking pattern which evolves to a point where several kitchen sinks begin attaching themselves to it through the miracle of endless multi tracking.
Here's a list of the instruments used:
- Degrucy 6-string acoustic. Tuned to CGDGBE [capo'd at IV with the E-string 'un-capoed' - a neat trick I've used for a while] (main fingerpicking pattern and counterpoints)
- Tama 6-string acoustic. Tuned to C# G# C# F A# C# (slide guitar)
- Fender Telecaster (electric guitar parts)
- Fender Precision Bass
- Kick drum sample
- Shaker
- Hohner glockenspiel
- Microkorg systhesiser
- Korg monotribe
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