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My band, Red For Dissent
My technique was to start off playing ALL the notes on the fretboard as fast as possible in key, then play ALL the notes on the fretboard as fast as possible out of key, (that sounded even worse), then stumble onto lots of tremolo picking and decide that's my technique for this entry.
Don't take your pencil off the line.
I used E something for the 1st part (phrygian perhaps?), then Am pentatonic for the 2nd part. It was all one take although i added a different FX for the first section compared to the second section.
I'll give this one a go too, right my meine strasse. Will crack on with something tonight, stress over getting it JUST SO for a few days and then just w*** over it.
All of 'em sounding good so far!
My band, Red For Dissent
The DAW is Studio One (recently moved away from Ableton Live) and I'm running a Neural DSP 'Archetype: Plini' plugin for amp/effects.
Nothing else other than a bit of DAW eq and comp here and there.
I listen to Guitar Nerds podcast and their recent 'home recording' series recommended the Plini plugin too, and Studio One.
If you sign up at Neural, you can grab any plugin and trial it for 14 days.
I wouldn't say I'm in Neural's target demographic but I can definitely find ways of using the plugins (got Plini and Nolly). Wrong tool for the job might keep me from sounding like everyone else! (so why do I keep browsing for Strandbergs?!!)
PRS Custom 24 S2
Zoom UAC-2 Interface
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My band, Red For Dissent
I am guilty as charged ... I don't often pop into solo / riff of the month challenges. I shall endeavour to be better ....
Gear wise, pretty straight forward ... EVH Striped Series -> Helix Native -> Scheps Omni Channel -> H-Reverb
Theory wise .... well, I don't really know Started in E Phrygian Dominant (I think ... ) and improvised some slow and really fast bits noodling around there with very little taste involved. For the last round of ascending chords I tried to arpeggiate through the changes in various modes of the harmonic minor and aeolian trying to pull some interesting altered notes out in groups of 5, played in straight 16ths which let me land in the right spot to emphasise then ending.
That's what I think I did, many better theorists would be able to tell me I'm wrong! Hopefully it sounds cool ... that's all I was really aiming for.
It's in the playlist.
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Does this backing track from @imalrightjack meet your criterion for metal?
IIRC when I had a go at a heavy metal backing (many moons ago), you were the one that pointed out that it didn't sound like proper metal
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