Paul Gilbert: what to expect from your vip session

News:
08-10-2008:
Jenn from metalichicka delivers an exclusive blog post about a recent vip session from Paul's tour!

Paul:
The stringskipping arpeggio… it’s this one. WROOOOOOM!!!!



Okay, so what I’ve done is just outlining the chords. It’s a little tricky though, because first they happen on beat. Then they move on to syncopation, so I had to change the amount of notes to match the changes.

It’s rather funny because I recorded the song the day after I composed it, so I had to tell my producer that section of the song in small pieces. Doing like one or two bars at a time. It is a very hard section and I haven’t had enough time to practice to nail it in one step so that’s how we did it. Then of course, I had to play it live and I was like UUuuuh.
read more

Comments