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  • All of Us Together

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    I think I must have been listening to Ommadawn a lot when I wrote this; more in terms of the use of vibrato and ornamentation than the composition. The writing process was very quick; I improvised the melody in one-and-a-half takes and after that the arrangement also came together quite naturally. It’s nice when a…

  • Cetacean

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    This one really goes places. I tried splitting the different sections out into their own songs but none of them worked out. I think there’s a reasonable flow from one section to another, so it doesn’t seem too odd unless you directly compare the final section with the introduction. As you can imagine from the…

  • Eminence

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    This is a song that I wrote while I was trying to write another song, which itself turned into two separate songs. Sometimes compositions take a lot of effort to fit together, and sometimes they seem to just come out naturally. You’ll often hear from (actual, professional) songwriters that they feel like a particular piece…

  • Mountaintop

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    This is more of an improvised sketch, really, but sometimes a piece of music doesn’t really need anything more added. Gear-wise this is my JEM with the Sustainiac running through Archetype Plini. I might also have used an EBow on some of the backing instruments; it’s inferior to the Sustainiac in nearly every conceivable way…

  • Turns into Mike

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    This is a remaster of an older tune; the main difference is that I re-did the bass part and “re-amped” the guitars (i.e. swapped the original Native Instruments Guitar Rig plugins out for Neural DSP equivalents). The verse is heavily inspired by Eric Johnson’s track “Trademark”, while the chorus sounds a lot more like Mike…

  • Where is This Going?

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    I tend to get more productive when I’m feeling frustrated. Music’s a great way of taking negative emotions and sublimating them into something more positive. I like instrumentals that have lyrics (I’m pretty certain that “Liberty” by Steve Vai is an example, and that’s a killer tune). The human voice is much more engaging to…

  • Go Punt

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    This is the companion piece to “Ardor“; the two are intended to be the first and last tracks of an EP, although I haven’t quite worked out which songs best fit in between. Despite being, by my standards, unusually dense and orchestrated, this was surprisingly easy to mix.

  • Ardor

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    This tune is about that time at the end of a good day when you’re dropping off to sleep, feeling generally well disposed and thinking about how lucky you are to have the people you love. This is a reprise of another song; I wrote two quite different arrangements to the main melody and they…

  • JP…but not

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    This track was originally inspired by the tones from the Neural DSP Archetype: Petrucci plugin, specifically the “Glasgow Kiss” preset and the default rhythm tone. I added some extra flanger to make the lead guitar “sing” a bit more and also as the (extremely) lazy man’s alternative to hooking up a wah pedal. The result…

  • KDH Solo Competition Entry

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    Guitar YouTuber KDH is currently running a solo competition, and I thought I’d take a swing at it. I’m at best an intermediate player by modern standards, but KDH appears to be a bit of a hair metal revivalist himself and so I figured that my stuck-in-the-80s brand of shred would fit in quite nicely.…