TonyFlyingSquirrel
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The band is WÖR Party.
The song is Medicine Man.
Over the past decade, I’ve been incorporating my Native American heritage into my music, which I was not able to do in Prodigal Son as it wasn’t part of the design of that particular band.
I thought I’d share a pre-production demo from my current project.
We are called WÖR Party, which is a hard rock/metal band with some progressive elements, from a Native American experience.
Here is a song called Medicine Man, which utilizes many traditional elements mashed up into a hard rock context.
My history as a lead player has primarily been classically influenced, borrowing from violin styles, and I never really utilized the pentatonic scale.
When I was growing up in the late 70’s/early 80’s, everyone wanted to play like Jimmy Page except me. I gravitated toward the harmonic minor scale as it had such a deep mystery about it, and toggle back & forth from natural minor to harmonic minor was easily applicable in a rock context.
Recently in the last decade, I began exploring the pentatonic scale when I began to listen to and borrow from Native American flute music. You can hear that emulation in the bookended melody lines in the lead guitar passage of the attached song.
I hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening.
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=13196573&q=hi&newref=1
The song is Medicine Man.
Over the past decade, I’ve been incorporating my Native American heritage into my music, which I was not able to do in Prodigal Son as it wasn’t part of the design of that particular band.
I thought I’d share a pre-production demo from my current project.
We are called WÖR Party, which is a hard rock/metal band with some progressive elements, from a Native American experience.
Here is a song called Medicine Man, which utilizes many traditional elements mashed up into a hard rock context.
My history as a lead player has primarily been classically influenced, borrowing from violin styles, and I never really utilized the pentatonic scale.
When I was growing up in the late 70’s/early 80’s, everyone wanted to play like Jimmy Page except me. I gravitated toward the harmonic minor scale as it had such a deep mystery about it, and toggle back & forth from natural minor to harmonic minor was easily applicable in a rock context.
Recently in the last decade, I began exploring the pentatonic scale when I began to listen to and borrow from Native American flute music. You can hear that emulation in the bookended melody lines in the lead guitar passage of the attached song.
I hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening.
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=13196573&q=hi&newref=1
