The Creation of Rain - Freedom Cd... Rain is a song that I love playing live & still love to listen to it on the cd. I really enjoy listening to my guitar trading lines with Victor playing the flute. The flute during the intro reminds me of Jethro Tull.

Rain begins as a really nice soft ballad, then picks up towards the end with one of my favorite electric guitar solo's. (the solo is available for guitar players to learn on my guitar lessons page).

The story behind the recording of this song is very interesting. The song was tracked at my home studio. The drummer played upstairs while we recorded and listened downstairs. The dejembe (the big drum you hear durning the begining) was recorded in my upstairs bathroom.

Rain I believe was the last song I recorded for the cd and at this time we were having troubles locking up the computer to the multitrack recording deck. So I made a decision to record this last song 2 tracks at a time. That meant recording a click track and scratch guitar. Then we recorded the drummer playing dejembe, then only kick and snare, then hi hat & symbols. then toms, etc... once the drums were completed I recorded my rythym guitars, then the melody, then came bass, flutes, horns, electric guitar, etc...

The Freedom cd took over 3 years to create and I'm very proud of it. It was during a time when we did not have a budget and studio time and equipment was very expensive. Thanks to great friends, a lot of sleepless nights, lots of borrowed equipment & doing whatever was nescessary to get the music recorded, we did it!

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