A Harmonic Minor Piece Squished Into a Minute
With the popularity of Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, I’ve been making a bunch of little guitar videos for my IG account and YouTube channel.
A lot of the short videos I’ve been making for YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels are usually just single song parts. Given these videos are so short, there isn’t a whole lot of time do get too complicated. Scroll to the bottom for the video.
For the video here I decided to try and squish a couple of guitar, bass and drum parts into short video less than a minute long.
I’ve played many versions of this piece at different tempos over the last few years. Normally I play it faster than this and using fuzz instead of high gain distortion. However, this morning I was playing around with a drum track and decided to arrange it into a musical piece with various guitar parts, but also various drums parts, and somehow fit it all into the typical length of an Instagram Reel.
A Harmonic Minor
The piece is written in A Harmonic Minor, using the technique of also including notes of the A Natural Minor scale during some of the parts.
To one-up the stuff I’ve been posting I’ve recorded a bass track this time. I don’t really like following the guitar’s root notes on bass, but for this video this is how I did it this time. So it is what it is. I plan to continue making these videos more elaborate as I go along.
The guitar and bass featured in the video
The guitar is a Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster in mostly stock state, but with a Fender AVRI trem. The bass is a Fender Player British Racing Green Precision Bass from a special edition run done by Fender for Guitar Center.
The guitar is recorded directly into an RME BabyFace Pro FS using a BOSS IR-2 set to the Hi-Gain algorithm. The bass was recorded into the same audio interface but using a Tech 21 VTBass DI as the amp and cab sim.
It would be nice if you follow along. I’ll put links to my Instagram account and YouTube channel below.
