@jordp 12546 wrote:
I cant remember where from, but I heard an earlier version of this. I didn’t think he’d be releasing it because of how similar the intro sounds to “Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis” by Trivium…..and its still just as similar, so that kind of bothers me. Also, i seem to remember hearing it around the time Trivium released their album or around when Andy was working on the Trvium DVD for Lick Library.
Not a blatent rip off of course, just raising a point- this must be his “tip of the cap” to trivium if anything. Either way, top track, top playing from a top guitarist.
For your consideration in comparison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nJ2vQg3EM
Hi jordp,
You raise a good point here. š I’m a fan of Andy James‘ playing, and I’ve taught a few Trivium riffs/solos to a couple of my more “metal” students – LOL š However, I didn’t know this specific Trivium song until you linked it to this thread. I must say that I am a bit surprised that Andy would’ve gone down such a similar path? Yes, he uses different notes/key/mode, but rhythmically, it’s damn near identical! (See the following 16th-Note Breakdown, with accents (>) shown below each accented (fretted) note in each riff.) One thing that stands-out to me is the use of consecutive dotted-eighth accent-figures (IE: 3-sixteenths in duration) with a couple of un-dotted eighth accent-figures (2-sixteenths in duration) thrown-in for variety (beat-4 of bar-1 & beat-“+_3” of bar-2):
||:_1_e_+_ah_2_e_+_ah_3_e_+_ah_4_e_+_ah_ |_1_e_+_ah_2_e_+_ah_3_e_+_ah_4_e_+_ah_:||
___>_____>_____>______>______>___>______>_____>______>____>_____>______>_____
***This fretted/accented to open-string/un-accented pattern is IDENTICAL in each example that you cited…Good ear BTW!:
As I said, atleast Andy was wise enough to change the scale/harmony used and the rest of the song bears NO resemblance, but the intro…Hmmmm? :confused:
~Bill Meehan~ š
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