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Up An Octave!

27/3/2017

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I woke up with one hell of a crick in my neck - OUCH - hope it doesn't affect todays practice but certainly no drumming for a bit!

Update on the song, I've popped the file of me playing the song so far (with shortened verses) above.  I'm still learning it so there are a few boo boo's in there but I'm sure you'll forgive them as always and hopefully enjoy.  The intro did go up an octave but I'm not 100% sure it's going to stay as is, yes up that end but I think I might add another four bars before it to build the speed as it just kind of 'leaps' into the song full speed at the moment.

I was having a debate about where to go for the bridge, I thought I wanted to go with rhythm instead of a solo or another melody.  What I couldn't make my mind up about was should I use the verse chords, the chorus chords or new ones.  In the end my hands made up my mind for me and although I've added a bit of melody which kind of mimics the verse I've gone for a new set of chords and a different feel but kept it upbeat.  That's not in this particular recording because I've only just made it up but you can hear it on todays Instagram post if you're so inclined to check it out :).

Today is lesson day with Zak yay!  I'm really happy with the progress I've made on his solo, string noise is down a lot although a long way to go which is why you haven't heard it yet.  I'm hitting the bends perfectly 80% of the time which is great progress and varying them better - so sometimes they're fast straight up to the note, sometimes slower, sometimes I'm bending back down sometimes they stop.  I love bends - I want to practice bends a lot because they are incredible tools to work with on the guitar, so much sound variation, so much expression - love it!

I plan to keep working on the piano song and see if I can't get that laid down ready to add more.  No idea really what or how on this one - somehow I just can't see drums over the top!  At some point I need to break away from my theatrical side on piano and start right pop tunes - not because that's how I want to play but it's how I'll build more songs that I can push on the other instruments over.

Hope it's a good week :)
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