Jason Burns’ Blog

I haven’t tried to play anything of this caliber for quite a long time, but when I saw these were released recently, I had to go to Amazon.com and download a bit and play around.

I have always been a huge Steve Vai fan, I actually have a photo of me with him in my office!

I downloaded the “For the Love of God” track and got out my guitar and Logic Studio and played around with it for a little bit.

It’s rusty and has some junk in it, but if you are curious, I’ll stick it up here so you can give it a listen.

If you are a guitar player and want to give it a go, be sure to go to Amazon.com, iTunes or your favorite online music retailer and download them, they are fantastic.

It’s basically the songs with all the solos removed so you can noodle to your heart’s content. This was a one take shot just screwing around for 6 minutes of over-indulgent screw-offedness, and I know that isn’t a word

Recording Details:

• Logic Studio/Mac Pro/Yamaha 01x Interface
• Backing Track by Vai
• Ibanez RGT42FM 6 String Guitar, Stock Pickups
• Ernie Ball Super Slinky Strings
• Podxt Pro with Custom Preset I made

While I am waiting for this mix to be live on the Nine Inch Nails remix site, I thought I would post it here for all to hear, what do you think? It’s a ground up remix of the original raw tracks with some added guitar parts in the chorus to give it some meat.

So I am working on getting the drum sound that I want for my CD, here is a test so far, and this was a lot of work to get it here…
 

I was screwing around with Logic Studio this morning and this little ditty came out, it’s totally a one off, improv kinda thing, but it was fun and I thought I would share.

I have been wanting to put something out to let you hear the kind of quality and production value I am getting with Logic Studio and Drumkit from Hell, this is by no means a polished idea, nor is it remotely done, but it’s a riff, an arrangement and shows you what kinda punch you [...]