Please welcome my new instrumental tune, “EleMental Bazaar”!

EleMental Bazaar

Here is the story: playing new instruments is always very inspiring. The first time I played with a 7 Strings guitar in 2015, the main riffs of this song came pretty quickly, but it took a couple of years to find out what I would do with these.

EleMental Bazaar was started as a jazzy jam, with the main 7 strings funky riff complemented with slow chords on keyboards, and the second part, which sounds a bit heavier… :-).

To keep the idea of a crazy instrumental jam around these ideas (and because I am lazy), all solo parts and melodies are improvised (with several takes) using different instruments, except for the recurring riff/melody that acts as a chorus, even though it is not exactly the same every time.

My initial idea was to play both guitar and bass parts with this 7 strings guitar, but I finally ended up playing a 5 strings bass guitar to add lower notes an octave below – because you always need more bass, and there is no jam session without a bass player!

Gear

• Electric Guitars: 7 Strings Schecter Omen Extreme 7 for the main riffs, Fender Stratocaster with (bright) noiseless pickups for clean guitars in the first section, G&L Comanche for a couple of parts and the final guitar solo, and a Danelectro Sitar Guitar.
• Bass Guitar: 5 Strings Cort A5 Plus.
• Drums & Percussions: Roland V-Drums triggering the Addictive Drums plug-in, by XLN Audio.
• Rhodes and Wurlizer electric pianos: Nord Stage 2.
• B3 Organ: Nord Stage 2.
• All effects plug-ins (guitar tones, delays, reverbs, compressors etc.) by Blue Cat Audio.

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