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Caught Red Handed - Post Punk Improvisation for #straturday and #gibsunday

Here is a post punk improvisation for both #straturday and #gibsunday. I kept the beat simple at a 4/4 120 bpm tempo with a sort of uptempo ballad beat using the

Elixir – A Post Rock Improvisation

Legend has it a secret elixir is stashed in a buried castle on a volcanic mountain in the middle of a dark forest in Europe. Many quests have been made to recover

Best of #Straturday

It's been a while since I posted for #straturday as I have tennis elbow, but eventually it will heal and I'll be back to posting. In the meantime here are some of

Strife and Frenzy - Synth Rock on a Sunday

This jam started out as an experiment on my Akai mpk mini III where I was playing around with the Xpand!2 synth plugin. Xpand!2 is pretty fun as you can stack various

Planned Obsolescence - Paul Reed Smith on a Straturday

Here's a #staturday jam combining by Akai MPK mini, Musicman Stingray 5, G&L Comanche and Paul Reed Smith Hollowbody I. I programmed the drums in Superior Drummer

Impending Doom - A Darkwave Horror Synth Straturday

Here's a little horror synth backing track I created in MPC 2 on my Akai MPK Mini while commuting in to work. I randomly chose some samples and synths and it ended

Minimal Darkwave on a #straturday

Here's a #straturday in a minimal darkwave style. I've been neglecting my bass for a while so I decided to bring it out and what better genre to feature bass than

The Spiral - Classical Guitar, Udu, Tar on a Straturday

Here's a jam that started out on my UDU drum. I decided to build up the tracks to include my goatskin tar drum as well as some shakers. The beat is a bit tricky

A Knock at the Door - Handpan on a #straturday

Looks like it is another #straturday. This time I decided to use my hijaz tuned handpan as the backing track for the stratocaster improvisation. After recording

Arrays of Light - Oud on a Straturday

This is a remix of my previous Points of Light jam on the Egyptian oud for this #straturday. I changed out the drums and tried different effects on the oud and jaw

The Garden Defender - Setting the Jumping Spider Free on #straturday

Here is my pet Phiddipus audax I kept over the winter that is now ready to be set free. It finally got warm enough outside for her to safely setup shop outside again.

Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces GUITAR SOLO

Anyone a fan of Slash? I sure am! I love pretty much all of Slash's work, easpecially the early GNR stuff! But I also love his recent work with Myles Kennedy. His

Seven Cities of Cibola - Classical Guitar and Partsocaster Jam

Here's a jam on my Takamine classical guitar with some lead on my home-made partsocaster. Drums are via the ez drummer big rock EZX. I also added a second acoustic

Cave of Crystals - #straturday Jam

Here is a little jam that started out with an improvisation on my idiopan. I recorded the idiopan both clean with my zoom microphone as well as direct via the pickup.

Banana Orange Smoothie - G&L Fallout and Comanche Improvisation

Here's a progressive hard rock style improvisation on my G&L Fallout and Comanche. The fallout's Seymore Duncan bridge humbucker pickup is great for drop d tuning

A Hostile Takeover - #straturday Improvisation on a G&L Comanche

Here is a #straturday improvisation on my G&L Comanche, not quite a true stratocaster but close enough. The G&L Comanche was designed by Leo Fender as a

Very late Straturday with a Yes to a $130 solo

This was recorded last week but I got dragged away on a loooong weekend with the wifes side of the family and didn't get a chance to post it. We went a couple of

#Straturday - All for you? Why not!

It's the end of another year already! Who'd have thought eh? While things are still pretty messed up I've been playing guitar more that I did when I was in my 20s,

#Straturday - John Mayer - From one tool to another

You don't need me to tell you this, but it's been a long year. A sometimes productive year but loooong. I've been pretty consistent with the guitar practice and

#Straturday - Still got the Calluses

So I asked Mr @andrewmusic for a suggestion of a song or solo to play and he kindly suggested "Still got the Blues" by Gary Moore. I hadn't heard this