Riding High🎸Steve Costello🎸Take 5

🎸"Riding High" Take 5 - Raw Master Mix - Psalms 91:1 A.V., is a high energy uptempo Blues variation guitar Instrumental tune. Steve Costello plays this in the styles of Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

🎸The guitar is tuned down 1/2 step to Eb, hence the song is played in the open string E guitar positions.

🎸This Blues progression is unique in that it's variation is with it's basic theme.

🎸The Blues variation is that the verse stays on the 1 chord without going up and back to and from the 4 chord, until the turnaround, and the Bridge to the 4 chord. The guitar playing here is uniquely improvised using a variety of techniques including a long Albert King style delayed resolution.

🎸"Riding High": Verse / Verse / Bridge / Verse / Verse🎸

(Verse) Eb - Eb - Eb - Eb - Bb - Ab - Eb / (Verse) Eb - Eb - Eb - Eb - Bb - Ab - Eb

(Middle Bridge) Ab - Eb - Ab - F - Bb

(Verse) Eb - Eb - Eb - Eb - Bb - Ab - Eb / (Verse) Eb - Eb - Eb - Eb - Bb - Ab - Eb

(Outro Ending x 3) Bb - Ab - Eb / Bb - Ab - Eb / Bb - (stop Ab) - Eb

🎸"Riding High" starts in the Eb verse mode, then goes up to a bridge of Ab in the middle of the song (by going up and back with the 4 chord Ab).

🎸"Riding High" - the Theme Riff is explored with balancing repetitive and linear variations of the theme riff and it's essential pitches throughout the song.

🎸"Riding High" is played in Steve Costello's own style. However there are some influences from the styles of Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

🎸No overdubs - this song "Riding High" was recorded "live" with guitar and background recorded together.

🎸Steve's played guitar for over 48 years as an independent artist, creating home studio recordings. Unlike many commercial recordings, these songs are all free from sub audio messages, providing a safe clean impression.

🎸Steve has had the pleasure of jamming with and recording many songs with the very talented Cosmo Fasciano. These recordings and Steve's studio recordings are now being remastered and uploaded, with many more tapes to go through.

🎸Steve's music is improvised, "created on the spot" guitar playing in various styles of music, with guitar styles that include feedback, fuzz, wawa, EQ, sustain and of course the clean sound.

🎸"Riding High" Take 5 - Raw Master Mix - Psalms 91:1 A.V.
Steve Costello - Guitar
Background: unknown source.
Recorded: March 1997, Brick NJ
Source: Stereo Mix-down Master Tape
Remastered 2025 ©️

🎸Pictures: Steve's cat Purey, and our two kittens Yoda and Missy, & Steve

🎸Go to Steve Costello's YouTube channel to hear many more original Steve Costello and Cosmo Fasciano original compositions, many playing in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King & Jimi Hendrix.

🎸Presented here, as they are re-mastered and uploaded, is one song from the many years of recordings from Cosmo's and Steve's analog 4 track recorders. Hence the channel name "Steve Costello - Original Studio Recordings".

🎸Analyzing songs is very enjoyable. Using the Scientific Deductive Reasoning approach, as with a Jigsaw Puzzle with which one sees the whole completed picture before focusing on where each individual piece goes. Songs are examined from the song key down to actual waveform frequencies. However what is in between these two opposites is extremely interesting, including the song progression, the analysis of melody including it's motif, contour, rhythm and essential pitches.
Most important is how these musical components work can together to keep the interest level of the listener high, instead of losing interest and becoming board.

🎸The answer is that too much sameness, repetition (as in the same Riff over and over) is boring due to being too predictable; and too much difference, or linear Jazz type phrasing is too unpredictible and hence it as well is boring. So, it is advantageous for the Blues style guitar player who likes to improvises to listen to good Blues players and how they phrase and start a guitar riffs, or motive and vary it, and end it tastefully on the root note. by creating Motives.

🎸Much thanks to Fil at Wings Of Pegasus for all the in-depth great videos and for the idea of using the great App VocalPitchMonitor for analysis, as he is excellent in song analysis and looking at the actual frequencies.

🎸Enjoy!

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