Quite a while ago, Travis reached out and asked if I’d contribute
a guitar solo for his album “Silly String III”, and here’s the result.
Apparently the song was composed using the Persian scale,
which I had never heard of,
but was a nice place to start.
Of course a bunch of pentatonic and chromatic licks snuck in there
since I composed the solo by just playing with the track over and
over again. I hope you dig it, and suggest you go buy the
album!
All the rest were
remixed, remastered, and with any programmed drums (and samples) replaced by
much cooler and badasser real drums.
Take a listen on
bandcamp,
YouTube,
or anywhere else you like to consume musics.
This tune from Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger is one of my favorites so I thought I’d record my interpretation, up through the first chorus at least.
It’s transposed down to play on a 7-string and the intro key is sort of rationalized with the rest of the song, partly for the mechanics of playing on a 7-string, and partly because it sounds more natural to me.