A light and easy instrumental guitar piece that made me think of hot summer nights of my youth spent listening to katydids and watching fireflies.
Kind of an experimental piece featuring a tremolo’d Les Paul tuned to DADGAD on rhythm and an over-driven Stratocaster on lead. Bass is a Rickenbacker 4003 tuned to Drop D. Mallets by BeatBuddy.
Yet another mix of this 2014 recording. Minimalist approach with no compression and just a tad of studio reverb on the lead track. My Martin DC Aura acoustic recorded on a TASCAM DP-006 Pocketstudio. This version includes the intro that I had removed on the previous version.
The title of this song comes from the fact that I used a tone on my Les Paul that was reminiscent of something between “American Woman” and “Outside Woman Blues.” Impromptu was added because, well, it isn’t a blues song and the leads were pretty much ad-lib.
A “feel good” instrumental with a driving bass line and several layers of Stratocaster, including a simulated vibraphone track. What’s not to like?
After playing around with my latest song idea (The Ballad of DADGAD), I started working on adding some kind of melody to it. While experimenting, I noticed several songs kind of worked with the chord progressions I was playing. This old public domain Christmas song was one of the better ones. It kinda sorta works. The Strat and the Rickenbacker bass were in Drop D tuning. The Martin was in DADGAD tuning.
This song is based on an acoustic demo I recorded in 2017 called, “Extra Light.” That video got a good number of views (for one of my songs), so I figured there might be something to it. I had to re-learn it, of course, since I had totally forgotten what weird DADGAD chords I came up with for it. I added a BeatBuddy drum track to this version and came up with a bass part, as well.
I still may not be done with this song…I’m thinking of adding an electric lead or at least some flourishes using my Strat. We’ll just have to see how it sounds. ©2020 Solid Body Publishing / ascap SolidBodyPublishing.com JREMUSIC.com
