Doug Sparling Submissions
The Future is Uncertain

This didn’t come out at all as I expected. I had planned on playing a guitar solo as opposed to simple melody and space…anyway, I’m not sure the locrian flavor came through. It’s more minor sounding than modal. I did use Bm-7b5 in a simple Bm-7b5 to Esus7 progression. I’d normally spend some more time on the production, playing, and everything else, but time is short and I’m lucky to get anything recorded at all (and I did get it done under an hour, sorry, it shows)…ah well, no time for a do over. The title is in reference to what I’m feeling a little of now, but such is life. Hoping that if I’m in town in January I can do some better recordings…

Fretwar 2 - I've Got Blisters on my Fingers

I’m not a metal player so I went old school, sort of in the vein of Blue Oyster Cult or Thin Lizzy. I wasn’t intentionally going for “cheese,” but I like chesse, so maybe that came through (though, maybe BOC would sound cheesy no matter what :) I hadn’t planned on the “harmony” guitars, but since I was just making it up as I went, that seemed to be the vibe that was happening, so I went with it. I’m a bit (a lot) out of shape, as I haven’t played guitar much lately, and I actually had to stop because I got a huge blister on my third finger.

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