<glacius:metadata>

    <title>Ratt - Lay It Down - Solo</title>

    <description>

        My recording of the solo from Ratt's "Lay It Down"

    </description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="41">2022 music project</series>

</glacius:metadata>

<p>

    I recently bought a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratt">Ratt</a>

    tab book because why not? As I was leafing

    through it looking for cool solos, I was left disappointed. I thought

    for sure a glam metal band from the 80s would have some serious

    wankery-style solos in it, but not really. It was all pretty

    uninteresting. So I decided to just cover

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NMF6u14DU">Lay It Down</a>

    because that riff is awesome, even if the solo is quite

    <em>meh</em>.

</p>

<glacius:figure glacius:src="lay-it-down-solo-book.jpeg" type="image">

    <caption>

        Transcription of the solo from <em>Lay It Down</em> the 1985

        album <em>Invasion of Your Privacy</em>

    </caption>

</glacius:figure>

<h2>Recording</h2>

<p>

    The outro part was pretty boring since it's mostly Stephen Pearcy screaming

    about how you should "lay it down" ("and how!") followed by a super lazy

    fade-out (is there another kind of fade-out?). So I shredded at the end

    to give it a mildly satisfying finish.

</p>

<glacius:figure 

    glacius:src="lay-it-down-solo-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="lay-it-down-solo-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Cover of Warren Demartini's solo from <em>Lay It Down</em>

    </caption>

</glacius:figure>

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    glacius:src="lay-it-down-solo-ardour.png"

    glacius:thumbnail="lay-it-down-solo-ardour-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>

</glacius:figure>