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    <title>Dream Theater - Innocence Faded - Outro/Solo</title>

    <description>

        My recording of the outro/solo from Dream Theater's "Innocence Faded"

    </description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="51">2022 music project</series>

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<p>

    The last installment for the year is a cover of probably my favorite solo:

    <em>Innocence Faded</em> from Dream Theater's 

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awake_(Dream_Theater_album)"><em>Awake</em></a>.

    Besides <em><glacius:link page="music/projects/them-bones-solo">Them Bones</glacius:link></em>, 

    this is probably the only solo that I already knew before I decided to covered it. Although, 

    in this case, I had to do a lot more practicing to be able to play this in a

    non-embarrassing fashion. And I mostly succeeded.

</p>

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    <div>

        <glacius:figure glacius:src="innocence-faded-book1.jpeg" type="image">

            <caption>

                Transcription of the outro from <em>Innocence Faded</em> from the 1994 

                album <em>Awake</em>

            </caption>

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    </div>

    <div>

        <glacius:figure glacius:src="innocence-faded-book2.jpeg" type="image">

            <caption>More of the transcription of the solo from <em>Innocence Faded</em></caption>

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    </div>

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<p>

    Since I like to double-track pretty much everything, there were a lot of tracks

    for this excerpt. Two rhythm guitars (doubled L+R), two lead guitars, 

    two acoustic guitars (doubled L+R), two clean guitars (doubled L+R), one fake

    strings keyboard track, one fake brass keyboard track (it sounds better than it

    sounds…), bass and drums. I opted not to attempt the vocal line which

    screams "Whoa" for eight bars. All in all, it took a little more than the

    normal 4-6 hours I allot for these things, but I thought ending the year

    with a bang(er)<glacius:cite>Just as I 

    <glacius:link page="music/projects/robyn-call-your-girlfriend-transcription">started the 

    year</glacius:link> with a banger.</glacius:cite> would be fun.

</p>

<h2>Recording</h2>

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    glacius:src="innocence-faded-solo-480p.mp4"

    glacius:thumbnail="innocence-faded-poster.jpeg"

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Cover of the outro and John Petrucci's solo from <em>Innocence Faded</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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