My good friend Steve O'Grady is an amazing musician. He doesn't read music, but he can create arrangements that always impress and his performance skills are spot on. I'm fortunate that he asks me to participate on some songs he records. I tend to supply the lead guitar parts that are usually electric.
This is a cover of an Ultravox song that has a synth line running through it that he wanted to do on guitar.
The picture he used is from one of our open mic evenings.
There was an issue with the embedded player, but I think he re-did his post. Here's the current link anyway. This) is his channel. This is mine.
I felt the need to work out my part, so I did a lot of listening and mapped it out using TuxGuitar. This free software is pretty good. You can get it to play the piece so you know if it's right.
I recorded my part with my Gordon Smith guitar through a Zoom G3X effects unit. I found a fairly distorted sound that worked well. Steve sent me his parts and I recorded mine using Ardour.
This is all just a bit of fun. I did some similar projects with people in the Six String Bliss community a few years back. I've got another song from him that I need to work on when I find time. Steve is having an operation on his hand soon so he won't be playing for a while after that. I have tried to persuade him to join Steemit, but he's a busy man and not so into blogging.
Rock on!
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