Igorrr | Very Noise | Guitar Cover With Tab & Original Solo

Hey Gautier, if you see this video and like the solo, I'd love to collaborate with you in any way :)

First things first, the tab:

GP5: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_I5-...

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqKl...

So with this video I wanted to express my interest in working with Igorrr. It was not supposed to have a big description, except for some music recommendations for people interested in similar electronic music (I am a big fan of some drum'n bass acts after all). But some things went wrong and I was surprised to see how intricate the guitar work actually is, so I think that deserves a proper explanation :)

I transcribed the song and recorded the video over a week ago. A regular one-take thing with an original solo in the middle. When I was just finishing things up I thought "hey, why not include a tab?". So I started making one. Here's the first suprise: the whole main part of the song is in 9/8, which I didn't feel at all. I felt some weirdness in the rhythm but I thought it was just the break beat. I usally don't count rhythms when I get them intuitively (apparently I didn't lol). I noticed some sloppiness in the timing in my first recorded playthrough, but blamed it on the break beat and well, that it is a 9/8 instead of 4/4. But there was another issue I only noticed at the very end...

Because the song is in 9/8 for the most part, the rhythms in the tab look kind of ugly, and I double and triple checked all of them to get them as close as possible. So what I did was to put the song in my DAW, align it with the grid and count all the 16th steps of whatever note I wanted to check more closely. And then I realized I f*cked up the chromatic run in the main riff. That's what the rhythm sloppiness was that I noticed but couldn't quite point out.

Here's a comparison of my first version and the correct one:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m5Tp...

Basically at full speed it sounded like an 8 note run, which makes a lot of sense due to the easier picking pattern. Just regular alternate-picking. No mixing up of down or upstrokes. But that's where the intricacy of that song shines. It's actually a 9 note run that starts and ends on the first fret. (My first version ended on the second fret because it also makes the next chords a lot more playable).

So you will run into trouble if you attempt to play it with regular alternate picking. You have two options (actually three but the third one sucks):

1.Start with a downstroke, end the run with a downstroke, play the next power chord with an upstroke. That basically sucks. General rule for me: Only play power chords with upstrokes if there's no other way.

2.Start with an upstroke, end with an upstroke, play the next power chord with a downstroke. That's how I do it and that's also the cleanest and most powerful version in my opinion. You also get the benefit of an easier string skip because the open A string will land on an upstroke this way.

You can also play it without that string skip and just stay on the low E string, but you'll have some issues because you will have to incorporate at least two slides that way. And sliding from the second to the first fret right before the power chords, where you'll have another slide for the transition, is a bad practice (in my world).

By the way, the third option would involve some weird economic approach or some other double-downstroke which I usually stay away from and can't recommend.

I only noticed that it's a 9 note run when I counted all the 16th note steps in my DAW. The first time I focused more on the guitar but the bass part in the middle is a lot tighter and made it easier to correctly transcribe it. (Hey Erlend!)

And that's why I basically had to reshoot the video. The first version actually sounded good, but for a semi-audition, I shouldn't have these kinds of mistakes. Instead of doing another one-take I just reshot the parts around the solo and "hid" it with some video editing. This is still the original solo from the full one take video. Apart from being too early on that 12th fret harmonic I liked that one.

Here are some song recommendations for people interested in drum 'n bass that I like:

Amon Tobin (Very hard to recommend specific "songs" - very special)
Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn
Aphex Twin - Cock/Ver10
Mefjus - The Sirens
Noisia - Anomaly
Noisia - Could This Be
Noisia - Mantra
(It's actually hard to recommend specific Noisia songs, they are all special)
Sleepnet - First Light (The full EP)
The Upbeats - Mediums
The Upbeats - De-Evolution
Thys & Amon Tobin - Ithaca (It's actually an ambient EP)
Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár

This is some of the electronic stuff that I still regularly listen to. Enjoy the video! :)