Hey, Muchachcos...
Was up early and just wanted to talk a little about a cool project I been working on.
In 2019, a 3-piece Christian Rock Band reached out to me after their guitarist left in the middle of an album. I signed on and began helping them complete the album.
This is in addition to supporting two other bands, plus my work in the studio. These are a couple of really cool dudes to work with.
Recently, the guys in the Christian band came to me with a song. It starts out very mellow, almost like Dio's 'Last In Line,' and then the tempo picks up. I played the acoustic guitar on the intro, and simply followed the existing arrangement and chord structure.
The bandleader had worked out the basic melody on guitar and recorded it, sufficient enough to be able to sing the vocal parts. The drum tracks were solid and the song's intro was complete.
My task was too follow what the bandleader had already laid down, basically a two string melody, and turn it into something interesting.
Since nobody reads music, I just listened to what he had done and plucked along to his melody and drums/vocals, mapping out how I would approach the chord changes.
After a few practice runs, I suggested we just open a track and let me play along and record the results.
The thing that kept throwing me off was a timing anomaly in the "scratch" guitar tracks the bandleader had laid down. We decided to drop the volume of the other tracks down and then just add a click track for timing.
I laid down two rhythm guitar tracks, back-to-back, on my Schecter through my rig, mixed from the studio's 600 pound isolation box.
These are really just 'scratch tracks' and won't be used on the finished recording, but I thought you guys might enjoy a peek into putting a song together like a "patchwork quilt."
Track 1 was laid down while playing along to an MP3 of the original 'demo' and was followed immediately by a second guitar track.
In one of the interludes between the verses, I composed a short, improvised solo, which we recorded on the neck pickup of my schecter with delay from my board.
Was up early and just wanted to talk a little about a cool project I been working on.
In 2019, a 3-piece Christian Rock Band reached out to me after their guitarist left in the middle of an album. I signed on and began helping them complete the album.
This is in addition to supporting two other bands, plus my work in the studio. These are a couple of really cool dudes to work with.
Recently, the guys in the Christian band came to me with a song. It starts out very mellow, almost like Dio's 'Last In Line,' and then the tempo picks up. I played the acoustic guitar on the intro, and simply followed the existing arrangement and chord structure.
The bandleader had worked out the basic melody on guitar and recorded it, sufficient enough to be able to sing the vocal parts. The drum tracks were solid and the song's intro was complete.
My task was too follow what the bandleader had already laid down, basically a two string melody, and turn it into something interesting.
Since nobody reads music, I just listened to what he had done and plucked along to his melody and drums/vocals, mapping out how I would approach the chord changes.
After a few practice runs, I suggested we just open a track and let me play along and record the results.
The thing that kept throwing me off was a timing anomaly in the "scratch" guitar tracks the bandleader had laid down. We decided to drop the volume of the other tracks down and then just add a click track for timing.
I laid down two rhythm guitar tracks, back-to-back, on my Schecter through my rig, mixed from the studio's 600 pound isolation box.
These are really just 'scratch tracks' and won't be used on the finished recording, but I thought you guys might enjoy a peek into putting a song together like a "patchwork quilt."
Track 1 was laid down while playing along to an MP3 of the original 'demo' and was followed immediately by a second guitar track.
In one of the interludes between the verses, I composed a short, improvised solo, which we recorded on the neck pickup of my schecter with delay from my board.
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