Hey Mathieu, that was rad! Like you say, so many aspects of guitar (and recording!) to put that together, well done, an outcome to be very proud of! Great to see the leg tapping along with the beat throughout and the main riff youāve got well under your fingers. Power chords sounding great too. Excellent progress, looking forward to seeing whatās next
Hi Mathieu,
That was great ā¦your 2nd ??? set the bar nice and high for yourself
you put a lot of work into it, and it paid off now and later on it will also do you a lot of good ā¦ you also radiated fun
Thanks ,Rogier
Thank you all for your kind words. I appreciate it very much that you took the time to watch the video and write a nice encouraging message. Learning an instrument is hard, but kind messages like that put my motivation high Iāll check them back if I ever feel discouraged when starting grade 3 ! Thanks again and see you around in the community !
Very cool, Mathieu! So much progress on so many levels.
Iāve only played the riff, but I found the timing surprisingly difficult considering it can be played with just two fingers. It never felt quite right for meā¦it never āgroovedā.
I watched Justinās lesson on the full song, and noticed that he was playing it with all downs, and I was playing with up/down alternate picking (like you are).
I found that when I switched to all down picking, it seemed to flow much better for me. I also found it helped to keep my arm moving at all times - āpicking in the airā, if that makes sense.
Just something I thought Iād pass on - but overall, this is a great performance of the whole songā¦motivated me to add it to my list of āSomeday I will learn thisā songs.
@tRONd Thank you tRONd for your nice comment. This was my first solo and I got lucky because itās not a difficult one. Hopefully, Iāll revisit it later when I learn more about string bending in the course.
@KevinKevan Thank you Kevin for watching Sure, here is how I recorded the song. It was definitely a fun project to learn working with DAW software (Reaper).
Moises
For the backing track, in Moises, I muted the guitar track and I put the vocals, battery and bass tracks at 100% volume. Then, I exported the mix to a .mp3 file.
Audio interface
I plugged my electric guitar directly into my Focusrite audio interface. This is because I use a virtual amp plugin (Neural DSP Gorilla) in my DAW instead of a real physical amp.
For physical amp, some have 1/4" output for audio interface. Or they can be mic.
Recording
I did all the recording in my DAW Reaper with 4 tracks.
1st track : The main guitar
2nd track : (Optional) You will not need that if you use a physical amp with pedals. With my virtual amp plugin, I send a midi signal when I want to toggle on/off the overdrive pedal.
3rd track : Guitar - for the solo
4th track : The backing track without guitar from Moises
Mixing
For the mixing part, I simply lowered a little bit the volume of the BT and increased the guitar ones in Reaper with the switch. The solo is the one with the highest volume.
I guess that the mixing could be improved, but Iām not really familiar with this process.
Thanks for all the detail! This whole thing is like learning another instrument.
One more question, is there a reason you used one Moises BT with all the instruments? I noticed the app gives you the option of exporting the tracks individually (drums, vocals, bass) so Iām curious about that.
Cheers, very impressive performance and video/audio quality for a 2nd video!
@Tbushell Thank you Tom! I definitely encourage you to put it on your todo list as youāll have a lot of fun. I agree with your observation with the picking of the riff. When I was praticing it all-down, I found it easier to keep the rythm and the same volume for each note.
There is no particular reason. I use one Moises BT with all the instruments for the simplicity of having only one BT track to mix in Reaper. But, let me know in the future if you find that the invidual track export feature is useful. Iād be happy to hear about it.
Fantastic job Mathieu, you really rocked that one and yes, lots youāve had to learn for that song. Nice switching between the riff and the strumming.
Iām looking forward to what you are going to share next.
Thank you @SgtColon . Hopefully, Iāll record a new song at the end of the summer to show my progress in grade 3. For the past few months, I have been procrastinating at the second module of grade 3. Iām probably not the only one who felt this way at the start of grade 3 Luckily, I was still praticing playing songs.
However, last week, I changed my mindset with a more structured approach and restarted my study of grade 3. This summer is the best time for me to get serious about it as my schedule is less busy. Letās go !
It was really cool.
Like you say, so many aspects of guitar (and recording!) to put that together, well done, an outcome to be very proud of! Great to see the leg tapping along with the beat throughout and the main riff youāve got well under your fingers. Power chords sounding great too. Excellent progress, looking forward to seeing whatās next 
this is what itās all about 
Luckily, I was still praticing playing songs.