<glacius:metadata>

    <title>Alice in Chains - Them Bones - Solo</title>

    <description>My recording of the solo from Alice in Chains' "Them Bones"</description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="14">2022 music project</series>

</glacius:metadata>

<p>

    I had a good time recording the 

    <glacius:link page="music/projects/stairway-to-heaven-solo">Stairway to Heaven solo</glacius:link>,

    so I thought I'd run it back this week with one of my favorites: Jerry Cantrell's

    solo in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_Bones">Them Bones</a> by <em>Alice in

    Chains</em>. Unlike <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>, I already knew this solo, so I didn't 

    really need to practice or memorize it, which made things way easier.

</p>

<glacius:figure glacius:src="them-bones-book-480p.jpeg" type="image">

    <caption><em>Them Bones</em> solo from Alice in Chains' <em>Dirt</em></caption>

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<h2>Recording</h2>

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    glacius:src="them-bones-solo-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="them-bones-solo-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>My rendition of Jerry Cantrell's solo from <em>Them Bones</em></caption>

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<p>

    I don't have a guitar with a tremolo bar, so I emulated the dive bomb by

    slowly detuning the 5th string by about an octave (heard at about <code>00:37</code>

    in the video). I tried using a slide but it sounded like trash on the low strings.

</p>

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<p>

    As usual, I recorded it in <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>

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

    the drums.

</p>

<glacius:figure 

    glacius:src="them-bones-ardour-hydrogen.png"

    glacius:thumbnail="them-bones-ardour-hydrogen-thumb.jpeg" 

    type="image">

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

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