Who’s the happy guy?  This was recorded on July 9th and 10th of 2012 

If you listen to the song below (and you’ve heard my stuff before), that’s probably what you’re thinking too.  No angry-face metal riffs, no brutal tones, no samples, no double bass.  It’s just…. happy.  I had the main chord progression for a while now but I could never figure out how to make it work with drums.  I’ve tried a handful of times to record it and always walked away defeated.  The main reason I think I got it to work this time was because of the new amp modeling software I’ve been demoing…. but more on that in a minute.  Overall I’m pretty happy with it.  I really dig the repeating lead melody lines but I’m not too thrilled with the violin-like lead part in the middle section yet.  I put it down as just a placeholder but after trying to come up with something to replace it with last night for 2 hours, I had nothing to show for it.  Ive decided to call it Pushing Forward  for a couple of reasons (pretty original title, huh? LOL!).  First of all, it has a driving/constant motion kinda feel to it.  Second, and more importantly, it’s about me pushing myself to get back to recording.  It’s definitely different from what I’ve done but I kinda dig that.  I’ve never been a fan of bands that put out the same song 12 times and call it an album.  Yea, the parts in the song just repeat over and over but it’s catchy (like all my stuff!  LOL!!).   But even if nobody else likes it, at least it got me back to recording again.


Tools:

Digital Audio Workstation: Logic Studio 9
Drums: Addictive Drums Plug-in
Guitar Effects: S-Gear Plug-in
Electric Guitar: Fender 50‘s Road Worn Stratocaster
Additional guitar effects: EBow
Bass: Squire Precision Bass

Release - Pushing Forward

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