I/V/IV- 3 Chords (D Major to A Major to G Major).VI/V/i – 3 Chords (BFlat Major to A Major to d minor).It’s a shame when you do that because it never sounds like an acoustic. “It was definitely a mic, for sure,” he confirms before adding: “I’ve never recorded an acoustic guitar plugged in. What is written in stone is that the guitar was mic’d up, not DI’d to the mixing desk. Chances are whatever felt good is what I tuned to.” “Often when I knew I was going to be playing on my own I wouldn’t even bother tuning up. Whether that was by choice or accident has also been lost to the sands of time. The guitar in question was tuned to Eb on the recording. I keep thinking, ‘I’ve got to find that guitar’.” That guitar is still sitting in one of my relative’s houses somewhere. You can hear on the record that it’s pretty beefy. “It was an all natural finish Washburn with a fuller body.

Nuno played a black shallow bodied Washburn Woodstock in the promo video for More Than Words, but not on the recording. That would soon let you know if I used a click or not!” I should put the record on and run a click to it. “I usually use a click because I’m really married to tempo, that’s really important to me. “I think we did it all live,” he continues before pondering our question about whether or not he used a click track.

That’s probably because it went down as easy as it sounds. “With More Than Words I don’t really remember recording it. “Usually when you remember recording a song it’s because it was a pain in the ass,” he explains. Maybe the simplicity of it kept it tolerable.”įor Nuno, memories of recording More Than Words are vague over 30 years down the line. It’s one of those songs that people don’t get too tired of. But I think that was probably the best decision I ever made, to keep it as naked as possible. I think when we were recording it I thought it would get bigger with strings and drums. “In fact, I probably fought myself for that. The song could have ended up as a big production number, but Nuno’s instinct led him to keep the arrangement simple. By the time they were preparing to record their second release, the breakthrough Pornograffitti in 1990, at Scream Studios in LA with producer Michael Wagener, they were finally convinced they had a potential monster hit on their hands. In retrospect, the fact that it didn’t make it onto that poor-selling debut was a lucky break. More Than Words was around when Extreme recorded their self-titled first album in 1989. That’s probably because it went down as easy as it sound With More Than Words I don’t really remember recording it.

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