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Slow Dance II
Naked Giants
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Mentioned in Have You Ever Loved A Woman? Derek & The Dominos
11/21/2025 public
sombr can try his hardest (and
we never dated is a banger) but nothing captures the feeling of being horrendeously down bad like a waltzy blues does
the guitar playing on this song epitomizes the saying "you can't play the blues with a full stomach"
Mentioned in Lover, You Should've Come Over Jeff Buckley
11/18/2025 public
5/12/2025 [0:24] public
Love the delay/reverb on the guitar strums as well - another waltzey song that does this is
Slow Dance II
For some reason these heavy reverb/delayed strums work very well over songs in 3
Mentioned in Still Got The Blues Gary Moore
4/8/2025 public
On a second listen, this song is in #3/4 . I really love blues phrasings over 3/4, other examples include
Aching Heart,
Slow Dance II , and
Maggot Brain
Mentioned in Reptilia The Strokes
2/24/2025 public
There's this accompanying riff that he plays during the chorus that's fantastic where he arpeggiates the triads to chords of the chorus. It sounds so angular and distinct.
He definitely has a very distinctive soloing style, especially for a indie rock guitarist. He really likes playing intervals, triads and changes - it's a lot more sophisticated than your basic pentatonic indie rock soloing (which is mostly what I do). Contrast this to the solos in Arctic Monkeys songs (which I still really like!), which are almost all pentatonic, with basic bends - think
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor. Even fancier indie rock solos like the one in
Slow Dance II (or
Even Flow, if we want to expand to grunge) are mostly pentatonic, and draw mostly from the Hendrix/SRV style of playing. What Nick Valensi plays here sounds completely different, and that's cool.
