Another Tool cover. I’ve always found “jimmy” to be one of their most emotionally powerful songs, though it’s not usually the first song that comes to mind when you think of Tool.
The idea to do this one came back when I started working on “Forty Six & 2″ though I didn’t start to work on it seriously until a few months ago.
Something that happens to me often when I’m writing for solo guitar, is that I start imagining other instruments in my mind, sometimes coming up with a totally different arrangement. I’m used to imagining a whole band when I’m composing, so it’s hard to prevent that from happening.
The result is that for every solo piece I come up with, there’s a usually at least one alternate arrangement floating in my head.
It’s no secret that I haven’t been playing too many shows lately. Part of the reason is that I’ve been rethinking my approach to how I do concerts.
I’ve always preferred it when a concert is more than a setlist of songs, but an experience. Let’s call it the Pink Floyd/Tool approach to concerts, though it’s a little more challenging to do that with a small budget and solo guitar.
Here’s a new song from my upcoming album. It started out as a very strange and difficult experiment with quintuplets, but in the end I simplified it and focused on groove and feel. The title comes from a line in Planetary, one of my favorite comic book series. Hope you like.
I released this as a single last year, but I actually wrote it almost 10 years ago. It was part of a set of songs I was working on at the time that never really saw the light of day. I was just experimenting a lot and trying new things. Some of it worked, some of it not so much.
My sad power ballad. I originally released this on the two-song Jackson EP. The tuning is also very similar to “Jackson“: G G D G Bb Eb.
On this song in particular it was difficult to keep the low G string under control and to avoid all the intonation issues tuning that low can bring.
I you'd like to support what I'm doing here, download my solo guitar album A Work in Progress and pay what you want for it.
My name is Ernesto and I'm from Panama, though I currently live in Berlin.
I've been trying to compose and play music since I was about 5. I only started getting decent at it when I was 13 and picked up an electric guitar.
To make a long story short, I've always had lots of music in my head, I've finally decided to just put it out there without worrying about what to call it.
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