I finally finished recording my first original song in a long time. I created a video and posted it to YouTube! I wrote most of these riffs over a year ago, but I finally pieced together a complete song over the past few months. I think vocals would fit very nicely over this song, but I decided to keep it an instrumental for now. I left it short and sweet to keep your attention. I put a solo in place of the second verse of the song.
Please rate and leave your comments here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDhaegA7UJ0&fmt=18
The recording process was a learning experience for me. This is the first time I used a full-fledged DAW software (REAPER), and I took some tips from RedSGShredder for creating my drum tracks (check him out—he is awesome! http://www.youtube.com/redsgshredder ). I'm not a drummer, so please don't expect anything great on the drum track. PetrucciFever gave me much-needed motivation to get started on some of my original material, so I owe a big thanks to him. He also gave me the idea to use pitch-shifted guitar for the bass line. He is another awesome player, so visit his channel if you havent done so already (http://www.youtube.com/petruccifever ).
Obviously there are multiple guitars layered in this song, so I'm only playing one part at a time for this video. Maybe in the future I'll take some time to learn Adobe Premiere and put together something a bit fancier. I plan to make a complete write-up about how I recorded this song. If youre interested in recording your own stuff, keep an eye out for this. I will probably also post the tabs at some point.
The full quality mp3 file is now available for download from iTunes and other music stores!
Thanks again for watching my video, and please let me know what you think!
Tabulature is now available for this song! Download the Guitar Pro file here. (Note: read the information about TuxGuitar on the tab page if you don't have Guitar Pro). Please note that this song is copyright protected. I don't mind if you want to learn the song for fun, do a YouTube cover, or perform it live with your band--all I ask is that you give me proper credit. Thanks a lot and enjoy!