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 independent kit by Toontrack. From here

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 the magical liquid but all of them end

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 the better #straturday's from the past

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 synths over each other and create

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 using the Dream Pop EZX. The guitar

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 up sounding gloomy and kind of like a

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 darkwave. I also used my spectra drive

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 so I had to just record this one without

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 the main handpan track I added a couple

Here is a remix of my previous points of light jam on the Egyptian oud. Here I changed out the drums and tried different effects on the oud and jaw harp to better allow for some improvisation on my

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. She will now be the defender of my

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 new album rocks! One of my favourite bands

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 guitar track with tons of effects on

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. The direct recording has effects added

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 and heavy chunk rhythm. The comanche's

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 later iteration of the stratocaster with

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 hours from home to a small country town

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, or at least more constructively. A few

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 uploading of my progress so maybe not making

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 track for years but thought I'd give it