Another video clip from this album I'm working on

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#21

There were two blown notes in my video performance I had to basically punch in audio from my finished track, before reamping this - that bend, and then the very slight pause on an A, if I remember right, at 1:00. I actually meant to mention that in my post, but I forgot. So, thanks. :rofl:

I ended up re-recording that section on the keeper take - the note it resolves to at 0:40, in the performance here that’s a G#, against an A chord, and then jumps two octaves to a G# I bend up to an A, I think, against a C#m. But, that felt too repetitive in the context of the solo and an A fit better anyway. I was just going to punch in that single note and the slide up to the next, but I thought the performance of the run itself leading into it was a hair nicer so I kept it all. :laughing:

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#22

Liquid legato on an Ibanez always hits different. Perhaps is just the emotional connection to my teenage years listening to Satch and Vai all the time.

Really nice solo. I like that it adds a bit of the shreddy stuff without losing context of the melodic nature of the piece as a whole.

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#23

Thanks man! Yeah, the rest of the song is acoustic driven and pretty sparse, so it was a balancing act of wanting to add energy and complexity, but also not sound like a random blizzard of notes, as the demo with an improvised placeholder solo and the first several passes as I was trying to figure out WTF to play did. :laughing:

I’ve gotten a little less into Vai over the years, his Zappa-esq weirdness is awesome, but just not really my thing… but I’m to this day still a huge Satch fan. I think he’s still my favorite player, and he really opened my eyes to what could be done with a guitar.

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