Reverse wave forms, drum crescendos, and just about any other cool buzz word can be found in a bridge (well in an alt rock one anyway). Having stepped out of a purist acoustic/folk genre, I’ve been experimenting with a new VSTi plugin (Revalver 4) for electric guitar tones. And to be frank, this thing rocks! Some of the tones that can be produced digitally is quite staggering, given a valve-based amp or a carry case full of pedals is no longer needed. Sure, it’s not a replacement for a live setting, but for recording, it sounds pretty good to me. You can take a listen for yourself in the sample I’ve uploaded to this post.
The sample attached is a bridge for a new song called “Escape To The Moon”. The arrangement for the bridge involves an acoustic guitar as rhythm, an electric guitar playing the same progression with a considerate amount of reverb to achieve the distant sound, with focus put onto the vocals and lead electric guitar. I’ve been listening to a bit of Moving Mountains who seem to have achieved a very rich/distant guitar tone in a couple of their songs, which is a similar effect that I’m going for here. Contrast has also been added with fast drums with stops in-between for a bit of fun 
. I like to think of the bass line as tagging along since I’m not really a bass guitarist. Complimentary might be a better word, although I did manage to squeeze a slide in there. And if your a bass guitarist, I’ll apologise in advance.
Anyway, thought this deserved a post as the genre is quite different to the previous tracks recorded. More cool album stuff to follow!