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    <title>Winger - Easy Come Easy Go - Solo</title>

    <description>

        My recording of the solo from Winger's "Easy Come Easy Go"

    </description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="24">2022 music project</series>

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<p>

    <em>Winger</em>, like <em>Extreme</em>, was caught in the middle of

    the glam rock/grunge phase, and didn't really fit into either one.

    They had their smash hit

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_(Winger_song)">Seventeen</a> in 1988,

    and despite a reasonable amount of talent and a wildly successful follow-up

    album in <em>In the Heart of the Young</em>, didn't do too much after

    that. And Beavis and Butt-head taunting them mercilessly didn't help

    their street cred either.

</p>

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    <caption>

        <a href="https://beavisandbutthead.fandom.com/wiki/Stewart_Stevenson">Stewart Stevenson</a> from 

        <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-Head"><em>Beavis and Butt-head</em></a>

        was a <em>Winger</em> fan who was somehow successfully depicted as more of a loser than

        either Beavis or Butt-head.

    </caption>

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<p>

    <em>Seventeen</em> has a pretty awesome solo, but I don't have the songbook

    for that, so I had to choose from something <em>In the Heart of the Young</em>.

    And those pickings were slim. After covering <glacius:link page="music/projects/sweet-child-o-mine-solo">Sweet Child o' Mine</glacius:link>

    I had no desire to learn another pentatonic wankery solo, and that's pretty

    much all Reb Beach did on this album. <em>Easy Come Easy Go</em> had a neat

    little tapping lick that sounded kinda cool so I went with that one.

</p>

<p>

    Now I can safely say my purchase of a Winger songbook from a used book store

    was not in vain.

</p>

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    <caption>

        Transcription of the solo from the 1990 album <em>In the Heart of the Young</em>

    </caption>

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<h2>Recording</h2>

<p>

    If you listen closely you can enjoy the fake horns. The voice that I used

    on my keyboard was called <em>Big Band 2</em>, which amused me a great deal.

</p>

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    glacius:src="easy-come-easy-go-solo-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="easy-come-easy-go-solo-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Cover of Reb Beach's solo from <em>Easy Come Easy Go</em>

    </caption>

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    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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