it feels so good when the choir kicks in here, sounds like the end of Hey Jude
"the sun machine is coming down, we're going to have a party"
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beautifully layered acoustic guitars here, with lots of guitar harmonics to top things off
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when i think of the blues, i don’t think of peace. i think of hunger and passion. it’s incredible that tomo is able to create such a peaceful feeling using the blues vocabulary
between this and the other song off this album that sounds like a tool song (Eternal Life), seems like jeff buckley takes a surprisingly large amount of inspiration from prog rock
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i love the pad synths that kick in here, they sound so spacious
the intro to this song sounds almost exactly like the intro to Parabol
they're even in the same key. both songs are also fast rock songs
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this bass solo could easily just be a regular bass line. some of the best bass solos are like this. they're defined less by the bass playing differently and more by how the rest of the band takes a back seat
the main guitar riff here reminds me of the intro riff on SAVE ME
(in all honesty, a little too complicated for its own good)
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there's a secret followup song after a prolonged silence - the acoustic shredding intro here is what inspired me to really start to practice my open guitar licks
the acoustic guitar he's playing sounds deliciously tinny, my friend has a busted up classical guitar strung with rusted steel strings that sounds a lot like it
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very obviously philip sayce's take on Voodoo Chile, but fantastic nonetheless. the way this song (and the entire album) is mixed brings out the character of his stratocaster very well, you get a lot of those classic strat bell tones, especially in the faster strumming sections towards the end
the lyrics are also fairly obviously inspired by voodoo chile - same supernatural psychedelic type beat
when it lines up with the kick drum it feels like a gut punch
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i love the palm muted rhythm guitar tone on this song, gives it such a grungy feel
incredibly catchy
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beautiful rhythm guitar fill here, using just harmonics
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the bottom up guitar strum here hits so hard, with his voice hitting falsetto at the same time. reprise of something similar at 1:07.
it is a running motif through the song. sounds angelic
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fantastic bass line on this song. really groovy for a country song
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intro feels like its in 7/8 (but it's in 4/4) because the piano plays heavily on the last beat. feels really weird
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opening guitar riff is "rhythmically recontextualized" by the drums, similar to Time & Place
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some incredibly tasteful pinch harmonics at the start of this guitar solo, used as part of an actual melody. so rare to hear them outside of hair metal
jeff baxter is the goat
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i love the sound of an octave played on the lowest keys of a piano, such a classic rock and roll sound
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showed my dad the guitar solo on this and he said it sounded like the grateful dead. felt great to have my guitar playing compared to jerry garcia
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i struggle to use minor/major pentatonic switching outside of a blues context. this song provides many examples of that over a progression that is not bluesy at all
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fantastic example of tomo fujita's tasteful guitar playing - patiently plays the melody twice, lets the organ solo first, starts with simple improvisation, full of delicate and melodic bends, building up to some genuinely impressive lines
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the chord progression for this song is quite simple but provides a wonderful playground to solo over - a ii iii vi (which you can think of as a iv v i) progression in the verse with ample opportunities to play with the dominant to minor i transition, then a ii V I, then the same "walk the root minor down a whole step" trick that sounds like Just the Two of Us (feat. Bill Withers)
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was on a hike the other day and this song spontaneously popped into my head. I suspect it's because tomo fujita wrote this song about his hometown kyoto, which is full of natural beauty
jazz guitar solo on this is slow and simple, very transcribable
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hearing both guitar players jump in with overlapping solos and the drums and bass and piano building up feels incredible. fantastic climax for the song
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drums/bass cooldown for a new guitar player
incredible phrasing at the start of this guy's solo. really worth a close listen and transcribe