Musical Experimentings

I don't know what has come over me, but ever since I had NYT in on Friday, I've hardly been able to put my guitar down. The practical upshot of this is that over the past 4 days, I've experemented with a lot, and learned a lot.

Right now I'm focusing on my own version of U2's Vertigo. I'm using a tab that came in Guitar World a couple months back, and I really like how it's turning out. For the legato slides in the intro and pre-verses, I put a bit more swing into it than the original recording has. The result is something that sounds a bit more surf rocky, but in a good way. The verses have that really cool scratching in them, which sounds awesome with my neck bucker and the tone turned about halfway down. I'm keeping the choruses as true to the original as possible, with a more straight up legato slide and no swinging to it.

Effects wise, I have my Japanese DS-1 with the Distortion dialed down to about 20%, and my Ibanez CF-7 with some heavy chorus over the scratching. Overall I'm pretty pleased, I'm not muting anything on the slides, which is a big improvement from even 2 months ago. If everything goes well, maybe I can throw it into Logic Audio this weekend.