Here's a shuffle blues/rock jam and joining me on this track are two killer musicians: Jamie Rhind, who goes off on his Hammond Organ for his grooving scorching solos and Jeff Volkman, who adds so many layers and dynamics with his funky bass/synth basses. Check these guys out!
Jamie Rhind - Hammond Organ https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Jeff Volkman - Bass and Synth Bass https://soundcloud.com/jeffvolkman
Louis Taverna - Guitars, Drum Programming, Backing Organs, Pianos, Horns and Additional Bass Guitar
Strut It was written by Louis Taverna © 2022

Strut It - Featuring Jamie Rhind and Jeff Volkman

Here is my isolated guitar solo track with full orchestra for my title track "The Wheel."
The Wheel is a concept song spanning over 20 minutes long, which I wrote in 2017/2018 and recorded in 2019. I uploaded it to my SoundCloud back in early 2020. Here are the last 4 minutes of the song. The song itself is a finale to an album idea that I had, and this guitar solo acts as the grand finale movement. The Wheel was written, recorded and arranged by Louis Taverna
All instruments, including orchestrations were recorded and arranged by Louis Taverna
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The Wheel - Guitar Suite Finale

Here's an old neoclassical style guitar solo I recorded over a year ago that I wanted to add to so I put some small orchestral accents in there to embellish the movements. Played around a lot with harmonic minor and some phrygian. Recorded the solo on my schecter custom guitar.
Renzokuken was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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I'm working on an instrumental album at the moment and re-amping this was a tone test of sorts for my lead for the album. This solo pays homage to one of my favorite guitar players, Yngwie J Malmsteen. In the same way that Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen changed the guitar scene when they came out in the 60s and 70s respectively, Yngwie changed it again in '83. I consider those guys the BIG 3. If I name all of the players that influenced me though this paragraph will go on forever so I'll stop it here lol.

Renzokuken

7th and final track off of my concept album, "The Wheel."
The Wheel was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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This story follows a group of young childhood friends as they grow into adulthood and navigate through the experiences that must come with that; the wistful memories of their youth, the death of childhood, love and loss and growing older. However, they eventually discover they are in an illusionary world controlled by an omniscient super intelligence directly affecting every decision or even thought one may have, keeping them locked in an endless loop. Ultimately the friends find their true path and break free after a perpetual night of no reprieve.

This concept album sort of acts as a spiritual successor to my Demo EP "Welcome to the Neighborhood", as some similar musical themes appear in both, mostly used to foreshadow this one.

Thanks for listening, it always means a lot to me.

The Wheel

Here's a demo track called "Mystic" that was initially going to be on an album I was working on but decided not to use it.
I tracked rhythm using my Ibanez 8 string guitar and used my Schecter Custom for guitar leads and solos.
The Mystic was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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The Mystic

Mystic (Demo)

Here's an acoustic guitar solo I threw together; I didn't record to a click so I'm probably way off time in some parts.

The Spaniard

1st track off of my instrumental metal album, titled "III."
I used my Ibanez Prestige 8 string for tracking my rhythms.
I recorded all guitar leads and solos using my Schecter Custom.
Also used a synth harmonizer for accents over some of the guitar rhythms.
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Ascension

Track off of my EP Welcome to Neighborhood
Night 2 Remember was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Special thanks to chfox1 for the news cast segments, which are all under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Public Domain Dedication

Welcome To The Neighborhood

Night 2 Remember

Track off of my EP Welcome to the Neighborhood
Em Fo Thaed was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Em Fo Thaed

An instrumental classical piece I wrote several years back that appears on my EP Welcome to the Neighborhood.
Despite the name, most of what is heard in this song is actually a cello.
Violin Hill was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Violin Hill

Track off of my EP Welcome to the Neighborhood
Death of Me was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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[D]e[a]th. of. [Me].

Death of Me

Track off of my EP Welcome to the Neighborhood
Chase was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Chase

1st track off of my EP Welcome to the Neighborhood
The name is in reference to the name of the fictional neighborhood on the album.
Cradle Park Overture was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Credit to Alexander Scriabin and his Étude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12 performed by Vadim Chaimovich which is heard briefly

Cradle Park Overture

Had to reupload due to ISRC code issue
Title track off of Welcome To The Neighborhood EP
Welcome To The Neighborhood was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Another song off of my instrumental album, "III."
The Swords of Thoth was written arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna.
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The Swords of Thoth

5th track off of my concept album, "The Wheel."
Endless Night was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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This story follows a group of young childhood friends as they grow into adulthood and navigate through the experiences that must come with that; the wistful memories of their youth, the death of childhood, love and loss and growing older. However, they eventually discover they are in an illusionary world controlled by an omniscient super intelligence directly affecting every decision or even thought one may have, keeping them locked in an endless loop. Ultimately the friends find their true path and break free after a perpetual night of no reprieve.

This concept album sort of acts as a spiritual successor to my Demo EP "Welcome to the Neighborhood", as some similar musical themes appear in both, mostly used to foreshadow this one.

Thanks for listening, it always means a lot to me.
The Wheel was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
All rights reserved

Endless Night

4th track off of my concept album, "The Wheel."
The God Machine was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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This story follows a group of young childhood friends as they grow into adulthood and navigate through the experiences that must come with that; the wistful memories of their youth, the death of childhood, love and loss and growing older. However, they eventually discover they are in an illusionary world controlled by an omniscient super intelligence directly affecting every decision or even thought one may have, keeping them locked in an endless loop. Ultimately the friends find their true path and break free after a perpetual night of no reprieve.

This concept album sort of acts as a spiritual successor to my Demo EP "Welcome to the Neighborhood", as some similar musical themes appear in both, mostly used to foreshadow this one.

Thanks for listening, it always means a lot to me.
The Wheel was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
All rights reserved

The God Machine

3rd track off of my concept album, "The Wheel."
Childhood Ends was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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This story follows a group of young childhood friends as they grow into adulthood and navigate through the experiences that must come with that; the wistful memories of their youth, the death of childhood, love and loss and growing older. However, they eventually discover they are in an illusionary world controlled by an omniscient super intelligence directly affecting every decision or even thought one may have, keeping them locked in an endless loop. Ultimately the friends find their true path and break free after a perpetual night of no reprieve.

This concept album sort of acts as a spiritual successor to my Demo EP "Welcome to the Neighborhood", as some similar musical themes appear in both, mostly used to foreshadow this one.

Thanks for listening, it always means a lot to me.
The Wheel was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
All rights reserved

Childhood Ends

2nd track off of my concept album, "The Wheel."
All That Ever Was was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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This story follows a group of young childhood friends as they grow into adulthood and navigate through the experiences that must come with that; the wistful memories of their youth, the death of childhood, love and loss and growing older. However, they eventually discover they are in an illusionary world controlled by an omniscient super intelligence directly affecting every decision or even thought one may have, keeping them locked in an endless loop. Ultimately the friends find their true path and break free after a perpetual night of no reprieve.

This concept album sort of acts as a spiritual successor to my Demo EP "Welcome to the Neighborhood", as some similar musical themes appear in both, mostly used to foreshadow this one.

Thanks for listening, it always means a lot to me.
The Wheel was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
All rights reserved

All That Ever Was

1st track off of my concept album, "The Wheel."
In A Memory was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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This story follows a group of young childhood friends as they grow into adulthood and navigate through the experiences that must come with that; the wistful memories of their youth, the death of childhood, love and loss and growing older. However, they eventually discover they are in an illusionary world controlled by an omniscient super intelligence directly affecting every decision or even thought one may have, keeping them locked in an endless loop. Ultimately the friends find their true path and break free after a perpetual night of no reprieve.

This concept album sort of acts as a spiritual successor to my Demo EP "Welcome to the Neighborhood", as some similar musical themes appear in both, mostly used to foreshadow this one.

Thanks for listening, it always means a lot to me.
The Wheel was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
All rights reserved

In A Memory

Demo of my song Sorcerer, off my upcoming metal instrumental album
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Sorcerer (Demo)

Here's the 2nd single off of my upcoming metal instrumental album
Water was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Water

Here's another jam that takes inspiration from the guitar work of Richie Kotzen on Poison's Bodytalk. 
This time I asked my good friend and great keyboardist, the one and only Jamie Rhind to join along with me! What can I say, he tears it up with me on this one!

Jamie Rhind: All Main Keyboards and Synths
Louis Taverna: All Guitars, Bass, Additional Keyboards, Organs, and Drum Programming
Here's Jamie's soundcloud: @jamie-rhind
Check out his incredibly extensive catalog of great music!

Duck Talk - Featuring Jamie Rhind - Keyboards

Anamorphosis

Heliacal Enigma

The Egyptian (Demo)

Originally this song was going to be on my album "III", but I decided to make it a standalone piece. This is the demo version
Stargazer was written, arranged and recorded by Louis Taverna
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Stargazer (Demo)

80s style rock/shred mess around track. Most of the solos and the main riff in this were originally ideas I wrote back around 2009/2010.
This was only supposed to be around 3 minutes long but whatever lol.
Most of the song was recorded on my fender strat.
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Street Legal

Pleiades' Gift

My good friend Josh and I soloing over a melody using lydian mode/tonalities. Josh Thomas starts the song off with the first guitar solo. I come in with the second guitar solo starting at 2:13. Credit for the fantastic backing track made by Josh Thomas

Check out Josh's soundcloud page, not only is he a great guitarist but also just an overall great composer and musician! :https://soundcloud.com/user-207241808

Lydian Journey - Josh Thomas and Louis Taverna

My cover of Hans Zimmer's amazing score to the classic 1994 animated film

Lion King Cover - Remember/King of Pride Rock

Here's my own rendition/cover of High Street by Bona Fide. I decided to throw in my own little jazz piano solo over the progression later in the song as well as close the song out with a piano run instead of covering it exactly the same.

Various percussion/drums, bass, electric piano, vibraphone and few orchestral strings
Recorded jazz piano leads and rhythm guitar(fender strat)direct line in.

Smooth Jazz Cover - Bonafide High Street (with an original piano solo)

Lou
Guitarist/Music Artist/Composer
I love to create. So much inspires me.
All music created, arranged, recorded and owned by me unless stated otherwise.

My 2019 Demo EP Welcome To The Neighborhood is now in select online stores

Currently working on an album 

Thanks for taking the time to listen to my music

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