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Slow Dance II
Naked Giants
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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
Slow Dance II 
For some reason these heavy reverb/delayed strums work very well over songs in 3
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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 
Carefree Summer , Slow Dance II , and 
Maggot Brain
Carefree Summer , Slow Dance II , and Maggot Brain ...
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.
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.



