Archive for May, 2009

Hee Hee, this is an idea I came up with one day when I was bored.

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Ian Wilson

This Song is basically written for someone I spent half my life searching for but could never find, there is a long deep story behind this but to cut the story short it turned out the person I was really looking for wasn’t even a woman, it was me.

The song is more piano based and to be honest I can’t really play the piano that good and the piano part on this song was done in short pieces but my idea is to re-record the song in the future with a real piano player and hopefully a good acoustic grand piano.

The rest of the stuff was played in live and of course please excuse my vocals, yes I do have a guitarists voice heehee but I try.

Not a lot of guitar solos in this one but I did put one in the middle taking over from the saxophone.

The background vocals were sung by Me and my wife Kim and the rest was just me.

For the musicians and technical geeks

This song was recorded on a Fostex D80 8 track hard disk recorder and the drums and keyboards were recorded on a Roland MC50 midi sequencer synchronized to the HD recorder via midi clock.

The Drums were programmed in step for step to get it as human sounding as I could and the sounds were taken from a Boss DR5 drum machine.

The guitars were recorded with the same setup as last months song using my W.S. Custom Guitar and Marshall Jmp1 pre amp straight into the mixing desk.

The piano part was programmed on the roland midi sequencer and will be replaced in the future with a real piano.

The rest of the keyboards I played as they are and I recorded those on to the midi sequencer.

In order to get the string sections as they are I first had to study a lot about how an orchestra string section is put together and which tone ranges the different instruments have and then I played each one separate for example, first the violins, then the second violins, then the cellos then the bass strings etc.

Then I mixed all the different tracks together and tried to position them as a real string orchestra would be positioned so as you can imagine it took me a long time to put the strings together and I didn’t simply play the chords.

The saxophone solo I played on the keyboard which is by the way a Roland E20 and I added some echo to it on the final mix to lift it a bit.

Of course being a guitarist I had to get a solo in there and my idea here was to get it to fade from the saxophone to the guitar on the mix but it doesn’t really come out as good as I wanted on this mp3 and will get that better when I redo it.

The solo starts on the same note as the saxophone ends and begins with a few slow notes shaped with the usual whammy bar now and again, then it goes through a couple of faster sections combining picking with hammer on’s, pull offs etc to build it up.

Finally at the end the last five notes where fretted actually an octave lower than they sound and the notes where produced by touching the string with my first finger of my right hand at a harmonic point one octave above the fretted note and picking the string with the plectrum between that point and the bridge while at the same time releasing my first finger to let it ring out, it takes a bit of practice if your not used to it but I like those little details heehee.

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