The Light of Day

Harmonized guitars
KeithHandy posted in Playing, Producing on October 14th, 2007

Man, I freakin’ love doing harmonized guitars like this:

I don’t care if it is a 1980s hair metally kind of thing, or a 1970s middle-of-the-roady Eaglesy/Bostony kind of thing, or what cheezy genre it sprung forth from. I just like the sound of that particular musical… *cough*… “device”. I’ll be working on using the guitar to do a lead melody line, as I was just now — a specific melody as opposed to an improvised solo — and while I’m fiddling around with ways to reinforce it (unison, octave up, octave down, etc.), I say, eh, what the hell, and start to play along with it a third higher — you know the sound — as a sort of internal joke, initially snickering at myself for shamelessly barreling straight for the cliché — but then reluctantly admitting to myself that I just plain have to keep it.

Dammit.

Edit 11:00 PM sunday: Here it is a little better mixed. I sped up the whole first measure by 4% because it really felt like it was dragging, which was hard to tell when all I had to go by was a drum track.

How did I speed up the first measure by 4%? With a calculator, and some careful slicing and dicing. So there you go… that 27 seconds of music encapsulates me. You don’t need anything else. Play it for my funeral. It will be a 27 second funeral, which is great, because nobody likes funerals… although some people will complain that they got all dressed up for a 27 second funeral, but hey, let’s be real, you can’t please everyone.