Stratomaster
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Every year on Valentines I try and post a song/video on Facebook to say hello to friends and family before I resume my hermithood. This year I had a collaborator, a singer friend of mine and we decided on The Cars "Bye Bye Love" to continue the ironic valentines choice of years past. I haven't posted anything here in a while, so here it is.
I already had great respect for Elliot Easton, but doing this reminded me what a great player he is. It took me a few days of practice and 10 passes at the solo just to splice together a reasonable facsimile of what he played. The guitar were all recorded with a UA Ruby pedal, first time trying it. The keyboard solo had to be "played rhythmically" for timing then "fixed" on the midi grid. Tedious.
You tube was a tremendous resource, there are isolated guitar and bass tracks, demonstrations of the keyboard solo and the guitar and bass tracks (though i don't think anyone demonstrated the guitar parts accurately) along with live performance videos of the band to help out.
Thanks!
I already had great respect for Elliot Easton, but doing this reminded me what a great player he is. It took me a few days of practice and 10 passes at the solo just to splice together a reasonable facsimile of what he played. The guitar were all recorded with a UA Ruby pedal, first time trying it. The keyboard solo had to be "played rhythmically" for timing then "fixed" on the midi grid. Tedious.
You tube was a tremendous resource, there are isolated guitar and bass tracks, demonstrations of the keyboard solo and the guitar and bass tracks (though i don't think anyone demonstrated the guitar parts accurately) along with live performance videos of the band to help out.
Thanks!