New Free Track from my album - featuring Arjun Menon

Guy-Onraet

http://www.box.net/shared/umu2je7a8u

Arjun played 2 guest solos (1:18-1:38 and 2:18-2:38) on this track. He is an amazing player with a very unique approach. I love the ideas he played here, especially the way he showed his Indian roots in the note choice and micro-tonal bends, particularly in his second solo.

The final solo (2:42 - 3:18) is my favourite one that I played on the whole album (I think Bryson said that it was his favourite too). I will be posting a video lesson about the solo soon.

You can here more tracks at www.myspace.com/guyonraet or http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandid=964365 for the MySpace haters ?

Another incredible player from this forum played guest solos on a different track. Keep a look out for it ?

arjunmenon

Thanks dude ? I love u too ?
Wish i had your sweep+tap skills.
And i so dig you second solo..is that the one that highlights the phrygian-dominant?
Cheers.

Sorry i couldn't make Saturday. :-[

doc-phil

Wow I really liked that!! ? The rhythm and lead sections really compliment each other well. I find it hard to play anything but 8th note powerchords underneath my leads but you managed to keep it really interesting. I'm looking forward to the next track and the video lesson. ?

Did you record the drums live in a studio or is it a virtual drum machine? Sounds too good to not be a real person playing, especially the beginning bit.

aubs1

Wow Guy, (and Arjun) this is really incredible stuff....... makes any guitarist sit up and pay serious attention...... well done mate, looking forward to my copy of the CD, can't wait to hear the rest......including AJBs contribution...... ?

andrewjbryson

A Towering Rose

Dammmm , you guys are cooking

This is one of my favourites on the album

(0:38) Guy, I really like this section
(1:14) Cool fill in section!
(1:18 - 1:38 / 2:18-2:38) Arjun, crazy skills + youve got Batio-like speed, mate
The final solo (2:42 - 3:18) Very cool solo, love its ending with a nice dig into the string to produce a huge tone

Hearing this stuff Makes me wanna move to C.T and start a band with all you all's

Squonk

Awesome stuff ?

scarey stuff for me at my playing level, but very inspiring.
Looking forward to lesson!
Arjun - fantastic playing, must be something in those cape winds!

Good stuff Guy ?

Also waiting to hear AJB's contribution...

Guy-Onraet

Arjun Menon wrote: Thanks dude ? I love u too ?
Wish i had your sweep+tap skills.
And i so dig you second solo..is that the one that highlights the phrygian-dominant?
Cheers.

Sorry i couldn't make Saturday. :-[

Yep, that's phrygian-dominant at the end ?

Guy-Onraet

doc-phil wrote: Wow I really liked that!! ? The rhythm and lead sections really compliment each other well. I find it hard to play anything but 8th note powerchords underneath my leads but you managed to keep it really interesting. I'm looking forward to the next track and the video lesson. ?

Did you record the drums live in a studio or is it a virtual drum machine? Sounds too good to not be a real person playing, especially the beginning bit.

Thanks bro! Glad you like it.

I wrote all the tracks with both the lead and rhythm guitars in mind - the mix/master engineer did well to separate them too.
i used EZ-Drummer to program the drums, but the mix/master engineer used his own program with my original midi patterns.

I'm keen to hear more of your stuff too!

Guy-Onraet

aubs1 wrote: Wow Guy, (and Arjun) this is really incredible stuff....... makes any guitarist sit up and pay serious attention...... well done mate, looking forward to my copy of the CD, can't wait to hear the rest......including AJBs contribution...... ?

Hey Aubs!

Thanks for the kind words, your positive vibes are always very encouraging! I'll be posting you your copy ASAP. Thanks again for all your help!

Guy-Onraet

andrewjbryson wrote: A Towering Rose

Dammmm , you guys are cooking

This is one of my favourites on the album

(0:38) Guy, I really like this section
(1:14) Cool fill in section!
(1:18 - 1:38 / 2:18-2:38) Arjun, crazy skills + youve got Batio-like speed, mate
The final solo (2:42 - 3:18) Very cool solo, love its ending with a nice dig into the string to produce a huge tone

Hearing this stuff Makes me wanna move to C.T and start a band with all you all's

Thanks Bike!

ja, move to CT now! i miss those silly "30 seconds of shred" games.

I've got more ideas for that project with Arjun that we talked about, i'll call you later.

Guy-Onraet

Squonk wrote: Awesome stuff ?

scarey stuff for me at my playing level, but very inspiring.
Looking forward to lesson!
Arjun - fantastic playing, must be something in those cape winds!

Good stuff Guy ?

Also waiting to hear AJB's contribution...

Thanks Squonk -yeah, Arjun is a monster player, i'm glad i got him to play on my album.

did you ever watch that vid i sent you?

Squonk

Guy

I have tried but on Windows 7 the flash player does not work. Will try and get an XP machine to view video.

arjunmenon

Thank you for the kind words Aubs, Andy, Squonk. ?
Much appreciated.

Andy, I really liked the stuff you played as well. Waiting for an autographed (@ Guy - hint, hint ? ) copy of Invention City to put on continuous play.

Now if i could just get my butt in gear to finish the writing process for uh*cough*shred*cough*album ?

Thanks to Guy for the opportunity.

aubs1

Guy Onraet wrote: Hey Aubs!
Thanks for the kind words, your positive vibes are always very encouraging! I'll be posting you your copy ASAP. Thanks again for all your help!

You're welcome mate, call anytime......... ?