upside down guitar solo ...backmasking

[cuthbert]

Always love backward recordings - I haven't tried it the way you did it in a DAW, but your results sound good to my ears.

Back in my cassette multitracking days, we used to flip the cassette (similar to how they would flip a reel of tape back in the 60s/70s), and then try to play something that sounded good along with the rest of the song which was then playing in reverse. Could be a scale, or part of a scale - really, just whatever sounded musical while playing in this mode. Generally, if it fit in when the rest of the tracks were playing backwards, then it would also sound good when you flipped the cassette again and your newly-recorded track was now playing in reverse while the other tracks played back normally.

I've used a similar method in Audition in our digital recording age: Do a mixdown of the part where I want to have a backwards track, invert this mixdown, export it as a WAV and import that into a new song on the MBR. Then record the new part in the MBR and later invert that in Audition and then position it in the right place in song time.

Historical footnote: With multitrack tape you had to be careful you didn't record over an already recorded track! For instance, if you had a 4-track recorder and track 3 was free for recording, when you flipped the cassette you'd invert the track order and record to track 2 (i.e., tracks 1, 2, 3, & 4 would map to tracks 4, 3, 2, & 1 when the tape was flipped). This became more difficult to do cleanly if you didn't have an entire free track and only wanted to punch-in/out your recording at a certain point in the track. No undo with tape!

[Jean Pierre]

very interesting thank you Cuthbert

[pjd1]

i have never taken any kind of drug apart from alcohol , but i guess the backward thing in your song is on the verge of that experience , Psychedelic and trippy . you have produced two things a great idea and something which is interesting to the ear well done

Dunny

[Mike_S]

Very trippy which is always great. I dig weird stuff. The tune is great JP and it makes me ask the question "Are you sure you cannot write original material?" After all this stands up as an original piece to me - and a very good one too.

Mike

[WarpCanada]

Very cool song and the backward part works,I think because of the pentatonic scale.

[Jean Pierre]

thank you Warren, Mike and Dunny

"Are you sure you cannot write original material?"

...I should try, Mike, but I like so much different music that I wouldn't know which way to go...right now I'm into Irish (an buachailin ban) ,Cuban ( Chan chan Buena vista social Club)...and 60's Rock (that's be the Day, Buddy Holly) 
How do you want me to compose a music with this heteroclite mixture