Zombie Hunter
This new song is the culmination of a year’s worth of work since I released the previous three tracks.
In that time I have put a lot of practice into the guitar, learned a lot about blues from the greats (such as Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland, Albert King), worked really really hard on my musicality and composition, and have managed to equip myself with the amazing Line 6 Pod X3 Live.
If it wasn’t for the X3 I’d still be stuck wondering if I’ll ever be able to afford an electric guitar amp, a bass guitar amp, a PA box, and a CAB line-up! You can hear it on this track in all its glory. The only major problem with the X3 is its lack of support for Ubuntu Linux otherwise I’d be using it as my sound card everywhere! Where is it Line 6?
The inspiration for this piece came from playing (you guessed it) Left 4 Dead, a co-op zombie survival game. I thought it would be quite fun to try and capture some of the anguish that a lone protagonist would feel as a result of being caught up in such a dreadful situation. And, I thought that the blues was uniquely suited to giving this song the proper feel also.
I learned slap bass just for this song, and managed to record the final tracks today despite a congested head and consistent coughing fits! Maybe a head cold is all you need to try and get a convincing blues sound 
So without further ado I give you Zombie Hunter, the culmination of a month’s hard work. Click on the sidebar player or listen to it here!
Yo, I finally turned up at the computer.
Your guitar work rocks, I’ll give you that my friend.
That doohickey you have, the one hat does stuff to electric guitar input (yeah, you know the one I’m talking about)… I want one.
Ahem, anyways, I’ll be honest, the lyrics are a little cumbersome and the vocals could use some blues-ing up (this is my thing, I’m kinna anal about it) but other than that it was great.
A very mellow song; considering the subject topic ‘n all.
Hey Isaac. Your music is really coming along mate. However I’m going to be an arse. This track gave me more of a laid-back reggae feel rather than the blues. If you’re wanting to capture the feel of being alone and killing zombies at every turn before they kill you then I think you need a more up-beat sort of song. unless it’s the feel of he’s been killing zombies all day and now he finally gets to rest and feels sad and blue that he’s a lone and killing zombies all the time, then maybe the blues is what you’d go for. but the guitar tone was too piercing and had too much gain to suit what you were doing. i’ve not had much experience with those line 6 thingos but try an amp model such as a vox or fender style. something low-gain so that you get a bit of grit in the sound but not so much that you sound like van halen. also perhaps try some harmonica and/or slide guitar. you can pick up a brass slide for about $10-15. just a few tips mate.
but keep at it. you’re experimental style is great.
Thanks for the heads-up Ben! And I totally agree with you now that I listen to the song (been a while now!).
It certainly does sound quite reggae-like! And yeah, the guitar FX does need some work. I do have a slide but it’s glass…
Thanks for the comments! I’m constantly coming up with new song ideas at the moment but haven’t yet found one that I can just work on the whole way, though I think I’m on to something with the latest one. I’ll take your comments on board when doing this one as well