"The Way It Is" genre: Soft Rock
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	A folk inspired instrumental featuring multiple layers of guitars plus fretless bass, B3 organ, congas, and drum kit.
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	Story Behind the Song This is my second number utilizing my Quicksilver guitar from Ed Romans's World Class Guitars. The melody line is a blend of two separate guitar tracks. For these, I used the Piezo bridge pickup for an amazingly convincing acoutic sound. Next I layered in a little strumming and blues picking using the humbucker pickup in the neck position. All guitars tracks were recorded through an old Yamaha EMP100 effects processor using my favorite custom settings. The remaining instrumentation was composed, arranged, and recorded on a PC using various SoundFonts until everything came out right.

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