Wrote an instrumental tune

[DrewJD82]

Despite growing up listening to instrumental guitar music, I've never had any desire to write something like that. The main melody fell out the day I got my Orville and I built a song around it, intended for vocals, but I could never come up with any melodies outside the chorus. I used it as a backing track to warm up with and figured I'd just make it an instrumental after enough time hearing it as one.

Last weekend I went apeshit recording every setup I own, AxeFX, real amps into the AxeFX, real amps into real cabs, AxeFX into a cab, there's a mix of all of it on here and the way I labeled the tracks, I don't even know what's on there anymore. The only thing I know is that I've never questioned a tune as much as this, there's no shredding or guitar olympics which is fairly common with instrumental tunes, I just wasn't feelin' it with this one and most of the time I had a "Why bother?" mindset with it.

 

[FuzzyAce]

That's awesome Drew!
You should do more instrumentals.

 

[TVvoodoo]

Great vibes, it goes places. Nice melodic leads, I hear plenty of slow burn in there.
percussion is real solid too!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Psychedelic Drew is a GREAT vibe \m/

 

[DrewJD82]

That's awesome Drew!
You should do more instrumentals.

I feel quite inadequate stepping in that territory, most certainly as a result of growing up on Vai and EJ. I can bang out tune with vocals and not think twice about it, but I had to force myself to post this one and if the Do Something challenge weren’t starting this week I probably wouldn’t have gotten it done at all. The scratch tracks have a bunch of shreddy stuff on them and part of me wishes I kept them in the final takes, but I was sick of hearing/playing it.