Little Jam with friends


Here is what it sounds like when you mix myself on guitar and my friend on drums!

Rec8 06 by gaud2029
Rec8 13 by gaud2029
Rec8 8 by gaud2029

tell me what you think!

House of the rising sun #1

Here is another recording I did, this time it's an extract of the house of the rising sun. The song is incomplete, it was more of a recording exercise than anything else.

house of the rising sun by gaud2029

impro jazz track by track

I decided to share this little recording that I made while I was practicing to demonstrate how my "practice session" goes.

it's all impro except for that little part where I play some "canon in d" by pachelbel. At least it sounds like it.

I really like to approach of jamming over my own track and adding layer of stuff on every take, a little fill here and there and you try to have an harmony between track.

For the recording, an Epiphone g400 was used. Here is the signal chain :

guitar -> tc electronic g-sharp (for the reverb) -> m-audio fast track pro -> amplitube using a clean fender amp without any changes in the settings.

It was recorded with Reaper.


please, tell me what you think.

impro jam track by track practice. by gaud2029

Space Shooter tune.

I decided to make a small tune based on a theme, a space shooter game..

Right now it's mostly a demo of a song..  but I am surprised and happy with what I could achieve in just 2 hours using garageband. It's encouraging.

If I get positive feedback, I will redo the whole song and do a proper intro/outro. I will also redo the solo as right now it's very bad and it's only a big "spacer" for later.

Anyway, here it is, tell me what you think.

space_shooter by gaud2029

Godin Freeway Classic and GarageBand

A small tune made with GarageBand and my Godin Freeway Classic..

Minor Pentatonic Scale

Here are some interesting schemas I just did, it's the minor pentatonic scale in the key of A

So here are all the notes :

If you want to play in the key of B for example, just switch everything 2 fret to the right.. it's that simple.

To make it easier to remember, I suggest you learn each of those shape and then try to connect them in a horizontal way or else you might feel that you are stuck in those patterns.

This scale is very common in popular music so it's a very good one for someone who wants to learn songs by ear. A lot of solo are made using that scale, Stairway to Heaven from Led Zeppelin,  One from Metallica.. Hendrix was using it a lot.

Btw, in this scale, just add a flat 5 (b5) , in this case it's a D# and you have the minor blues scale.

Pattern 1 :

Pattern 2 :

Pattern 3 :

Pattern 4 : 

Pattern 5 : 

Come back and I'll add more scales and modes.

Symphony X - Iconoclast

Thank you Symphony X for bringing us this gem!

Since a couple of weeks I had the feeling that nothing good was coming out of the metal world but they did change everything, again.

Some people complaints that Symphony X is not accessible for everyone but this album is a lot more easy to listen than previous album, a lot more catchy. It doesn't mean however that they did become commercial/pop or anything, they are far from that.  This band always bring something new on every album and this time they did hit hard. 

It gave me that idea to listen to all of their older releases and I did. I'm thinking now that it could be one of their best release to this date. 

I never give a note for the review I write on this site, but if that albums absolutely needed a note, it would be a good 9 out of 10.