<glacius:metadata>

    <title>Armored Saint - Dropping Like Flies - Solo</title>

    <description>

        My recording of the solo from Armored Saint's "Dropping Like Flies"

    </description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="43">2022 music project</series>

</glacius:metadata>

<p>

    I found an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Saint">Armored Saint</a>

    tab book in a used book store, and it looked amusing enough to buy. I had never

    heard of them before, but they looked pretty hard core and had a song called

    "Reign of Fire", which I hoped inspired the totally metal 

    <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253556/">movie of the same name</a>

    featuring Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey fighting dragons (yes,

    really). But I don't think there's any relation between the two works of art.

</p>

<p>

    <em>Dropping Like Flies</em> is a decent song with probably the most

    interesting solo(s) from the album. They were kinda fun to learn and

    play. I mostly chose it because I think the singer just wanted to

    have a chorus hook with the line "Sweet as pie" in it.

</p>

<glacius:figure glacius:src="dropping-like-flies-solo-book.jpeg" type="image">

    <caption>

        Transcription of the solo from <em>Dropping Like Flies</em> 

        from the 1991 album <em>Symbol of Salvation</em>

    </caption>

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<h2>Recording</h2>

<p>

    No video for this one. The World Series ate into my music project time

    and frankly, I never played either of these solos the same way twice

    so pantomiming them would've just looked silly. I honestly found them

    kind of awkward and counterintuitive to play. I guess it's just not

    my style.

</p>

<glacius:figure 

    glacius:src="dropping-like-flies-solo.ogg"

    type="audio">

    <caption>

        Cover of Phil Sandoval's and Jeff Duncan's solos from 

        <em>Dropping Like Flies</em>

    </caption>

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<glacius:figure 

    glacius:src="ardour-dropping-like-flies.png"

    glacius:thumbnail="ardour-dropping-like-flies-thumb.jpeg" 

    type="image">

    <caption>

        Screenshot of my 

        <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>/<a href="http://hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a> 

        setup

    </caption>

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