so to speak. I was really happy with the way it came out because for me that stuff is kind of hard to do. " I was really very shy and insecure about my playing and everything when I was with my friends ?cause they all seemed in my mind so much more accomplished and cooler and they were always older. " ?Creamsickle Sunset? was a challenging song for you? Oh yeah, they?re all challenging. What happens is I kind of piece them together and then I learn. It?s a great way to expand your playing?you do it piece-by-piece and you kind of do things that you imagine but you can?t quite do and then you work on ?em until they come out. Then when you string them all together and you learn it, you?ve evolved your playing. ?Gravity Storm? is the other side of the guitar spectrum with that heavy distorted riff. Yeah. A lot of people think I played that with the whammy bar but the guitar I used didn?t even have a whammy bar on it. All those bends are with my fingers. I wanted to create the feeling of weight without doing the conventional thing like using a 7-string tuned way down and going chugga chugga chugga. So I discovered that by bending these notes down a half-step, sometimes a whole step and sometimes a quarter-step, at the end of each phrase and even the solo and everything, it creates this illusion of weight and it