My debut as a “guitar player”. Not really sure what to do with this one. It’s like a piece of instrumental soundtrack music, or perhaps the intro to a 26 part prog rock masterpiece that I’ll never write. It’s a tad on the short side, but with no experience writing stuff based around guitar parts, it’s sort of to be expected. However, I’m happy with the way the overall mix came out.

Bought my first [six-string] guitar two or so weeks before this was composed/recorded. So there are no wizardly solos or anything like that for the obvious reason but working on it was fun. I tried to write a guitar part for something I recorded for bass/keys/drums a while ago, but that did not go swimmingly. So I thought that trying something starting from playing guitar, rather than trying to sandwich guitar into something else was a good strategy. This is how guitar experiment number one worked out.

The guitar models include: a modified ‘68 Telecaster for most of the guitar parts, a Gibson J-200 acoustic for the “high” rhythm parts, and trying something new, a graphite neck Modulus bass for some punch. Oh, and if you listen carefully, you might make out hints of the Electric Sitar (just had to try it). Learned quickly that recording/mixing guitar with any significant amount of gain or distortion is sort of tricky, so most of the voices used are pretty “clean”. I can’t find the Jimmy Page Shred-o-Matic preset so that’s a task for a different day.

Not much to say other than than that. It’s the start of something, or just a little piece of instrumental music. Perhaps I’ll expand it somehow at some later date.

Oh yeah, I whiffed a change on the high rhythm part towards the end but didn’t want to bother re-recording it. Sue me.

[modicum-mix.mp3]

And, just for fun, a version w/out synths. Still sounds pretty rich w/out the synth glue. Middle part is a tad more boring w/out the keyboard counterpoint part.

[modicum-no-keys.mp3]