Afterlife

Tonight, I tried my hand at recording a video for the first song on my list, Afterlife, from DT's 1st album, When Dream and Day Unite. Although it's not perfect, and the perfectionist inside me is screaming, I'm going to go with what I have. It's a pretty good representation of my playing.

The song itself is pretty straightforward. All in 4/4, nothing really difficult going on. But awesome and catchy nonetheless. The alternate picking isn't too fast, but fast enough to be challenging by playing through the entire song. The solo did give me a bit of trouble. I just can't even begin to imagine matching JP's alternate picking skill. There is a ridiculously fast run that I couldn't hope to do, so I used legato and tapping to make it my own, and tried to approximate as well as I could. I do want to get better with my alternate picking but I was surprised to find such a fast run in this older song. It's sad because he was younger than me at that time, and I am nowhere near as good.

But that's okay. Song 1 done. Check me in the Afterlife, 'cause now I'm Learning To Live.