<glacius:metadata>

    <title>Boston - More Than a Feeling - Solo</title>

    <description>My recording of the solo from Boston's "More Than a Feeling"</description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="15">2022 music project</series>

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<p>

    This week I recreated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scholz">Tom Scholz's</a>

    solo from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo"><em>More Than a Feeling</em></a>

    off the 1976 album <em>Boston</em>. I recall reading somewhere long ago

    that this solo sounded like "the national anthem of a small European country." And

    it totally does.

</p>

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    <caption><em>More Than a Feeling</em> solo from Boston's debut album <em>Boston</em></caption>

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<p>

    You can't truly appreciate the talent of Tom Scholz until you try to

    emulate his 1976 tone in 2022 and fail horribly. Although I'm probably

    the world's most uninterested-in-tone-chasing guitarist, so you can't

    probably infer much from this anecdote. But Scholz had an amazing guitar

    tone for such an early album.

</p>

<h2>Recording</h2>

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    <caption>

        Me pretending to play my rendition of Tom Scholz's solo from <em>More Than a Feeling</em>

    </caption>

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<p>

    I particularly like Tom Scholz's writing/recording style because he harmonizes and doubles

    a lot, which is similar to the way I like to do it.

</p>

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<p>

    Recorded in <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>

    and <a href="http://hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a> was used to program

    the drum track.

</p>

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    type="image">

    <caption>Screenshot of my Ardour/Hydrogen setup</caption>

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