RiffCasts

This may be my favourite guitar solo of all time, and I just HAD to do it! It's based on one of those backing tracks I wrote about in the forum. Those of you familiar with this masterpiece will notice that the first 2 minutes are remodeled after the recorded and the famous live version of the song, the final - and obviously weaker - minute is my improvisation. As always, I used Amit's intelliriffer to import the song to RW. Since I don't own one of those fantastic Gilmour Strats, I had to use my Yamaha since David's string bends really hurt my fingers on any other guitar :-)

Here's my first DS10 sequencer track! As everybody who owns that piece of gear, too, will recognize, it's just playing around with the Demo song. I hooked the DS on to the Guitar Port, recorded with RW, added instant drums and REX drums there, added real bass and guitar, some effects - and here we go!

Since I'm going to Marrakesh tonight, I thought I better finish this piece here before as a goodbye present to myself :-) Nothing oriental to it, just a - how do you call it? When you play against the beat? Guitars used: PRS SE Allender Drop-D and PRS Custom 24 regular tuning. I sorta enjoy playing stuff with differently tuned guitars.

Here's my latest riffrumble effort for y'all - hope you like it! I'm kinda influenced by JouniL these days, what with these one-beat pauses and half-bar intros. And after I had added the keyboards, I felt it sounded a bit like Aldo Nova back in the day. In any case - good luck with the Rumble, everyone!

...an original composition from meesh with added musicianship from riffer777, trikloretylen, ian2mur (guitars), JouniL (guitars and mixing lessons), Rotund (keyboards) and myself (guitars, bass, some arrangement). I totally love this tune!

At the moment there's not much heat going on over here in Berlin. "Inundation" would be a better description from my view. So to raise my temperature I took one of my old songs and tried to heat it up a little. Hope you like it!

Again a composition of Marc B. from Berlin, spiced up (or ruined?) by drums, bass and guitar by yours truly redbaron.

"Der Weg zum Titel" is German and loosely translates into "The road to the championship". The championship obviously is this year´s EURO football cup, and this song is dedicated to our national team as it struggles to overcome football superpowers like Croatia and Austria. I've spent the past 7 days between 5 and 11 p.m. in front of big screens, watching football and drinking beer, and this song was literally finished in the half-time break of yesterday´s Spain vs Sweden game. So here we go - Deutschland vor, noch ein Tor!

Ambient electro meets RiffWorks! This was made possible by Atawar´s intelliriffer and wavechunker programs that enabled me to import the ambient electro recording of my friend Marc B and add drums, bass and guitar in RW. Finally I´ve created something that´s NOT Rock, Blues or Metal :-D

It only shows in the solo parts, but with this one I´ve discovered the neck PU of my PRS. For the hardrockin´ thing, I´ve always, always played the bridge PU only, sometimes wondering why guitar manufacturers add more pickups to that at all? And now I´m totally smitten with the neck PU. I played the solo on JouniL´s Megadeth cover with it and basically all recent collabs, and I feel as if I got a new lease on life :-D

It´s been raining cats & dogs for days here in Berlin, another incentive to sit down and come up with some sort of a ballad.

Didn´t want to participate in RR at first for lack of inspiration. But then I thought: Hey, some Rockin´Blues always goes! And I wanted it to be a little challenge, so all blues schemes in this song are 20-bar riffs, not tiny 4-bars that make it easy to patch together something acceptable from fragments of inspiration you collect over days :-D Anyway, it´s not much, but I hope you like it!

in memoriam Jeff Healey...

Casio HZ 600 bought 2nd hand in 1985!

This one I dedicate to my PRS Custom 24 that stays sober and sharp even under heavy effects overdoses.

Something to get back into the groove after not having touched a guitar for 5 weeks :-)

an old tune of mine revived by some friends!