Bright Shadows – Intro/melody Video

2 07 2009

I recently posted up a piano/strings version of the song and figured it was about time to show some hints of where the song is going after adding in other instruments and of course the main guitar melody.

As always, it’s very rough and subject to change heavily. The final track currently clocks in at around 8 minutes and has 30 tracks of music… I’m removed most of them for this to make the mix at least slightly clean!

Gear setup is nice and easy, the PRS Custom 24 through a Line-6 Pod Direct to PC. The tone on the POD is pretty straightforward too, a smidgen of delay and reverb, volume pedal for the swells and a slight amount of gain.


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What I’ve been playing

1 07 2009

Ok so I mentioned in a recent post that I was going to attempt to transcribe and learn to play Guthrie Govan’s wonderful track called ‘Fives’. At the time I knew it was a tall order and I still think it is! I envisage this taking several years to play at an acceptable level…

Anyway, I managed to learn the intro and main melodies over the last few days so here’s where I’ve got to so far:

Where that ends off there is a pretty damned scary string skipping ascending tapping riff, which I’ve managed to tab, just not manage to persuade my fingers to do yet ;P


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