Mika Tyyskä: Mr. Fastfinger - Great Blue Waves



Epic instrumental tune from the Spirit Rising -album. "Great Blue Waves" performed by: Mika Tyyskä - Guitar, Kai Hahto - Drums, Lasse Rantanen - Bass, Andrey Sazonov - underwater synths. I love reading your thoughts and comments, let me hear how this tune makes you feel. Thank you!

Initially composed as a jam backing for my Jam Track Central "Mika Tyyskä - Expressive Modes" package. This composition came out like water, all flowing. Once I came up with the main riff, everything fell into place like I was on autopilot. I was thinking of improvising the leads, but as I did some demo tapes to practice and develop ideas the main melodies came streaming on the first take (or second) and as it felt naturally perfect I had to keep it like that. The original Jam Track Central versio is shorter. Here a new middle part with the fish jaw jamming was composed with the "The Spirit of the Guitar Hunt" movie scene in mind. I actually worked on the composition/guitar part and the cartoon simultaniously. Also the epic outro solo is totally new. Of course this version also features way much better production and some fantastic performances by Kai, Lasse and Andrey.

I'm proud to have Kai Hahto, my friend playing here the drums. He's a musician who I really admire in many ways, I've been fortunate to play quite a few gigs him during the last 8 or 9 years I've known him. We had spoken about him doing some drumming for Mr. Fastfinger for a long time. He's currently busy with Nightwish, I'm glad he still found the time to do this.

Lasse Rantanen who's doing the bass here is the shaman of the group. He has a signature sound that has so much character, his playing brings warmth to the Mr. Fastfinger recordings. I've worked with Lasse for 20 years or something. The rest of the bass players in the world always seem to lack something that Lasse has. Big muffy magic power!

Guitar were recorder with my Ruokangas Custom Green Guitar. Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister gives us that mountain like tone! I might have used some pedals there too, but can't remember to be honest.

Spirit Rising CD's are available from mrfastfinger.net store. http://mrfastfinger.net/index.php/store
Digital downloads from all major download stores.

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Enjoy the video and check out "The Spirit of the Guitar Hunt" movie if you haven't yet done so!

Mr. Fastfinger - Great Blue Waves (Spirit Rising) Mika Tyyskä, Kai Hahto, instrumental rock

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