'March of Kings' - Original Music, the Last Throwback Tune for a While! New Music Coming This Weekend! Guitar/Instrumental + Walkthrough!

grapthar (74)in #music • 6 years ago

So, this is going to be the last

throwback/look back/past song, as I am going to be coming home tomorrow from vacation, and will be able to really get down to writing/practicing with daily song attempts again. I wrote this in 2005, just before leaving to go to college in Reno, and expanded on it when I arrived there, as I had been practicing a lot and my technique was greatly improving. I still really like the sound of this song, I think if I re-did it with 2 acoustic guitars it might be a lot cooler and more expressive.

Listen to March of Kings here.

The main riff is essentially

just arpeggios of Dmin, Gmin6, and A7. The two-chord slide thing before repeating plays a D#major to an Fmajor then back to D# before repeating the riff on Dmin. We then get to the chorus part, with the palm-muted guitar, which basically plays D5(powerchord), Bb/D, to a Gmaj, then the second time, D5, Bb/D to A. There is also a break in this song, when I modulated to D major, which I always thought sounded really cool, it was probably the first time I really used modulation on a conscious songwriting level, as I had been taking music classes at school.