Hello rock music lovers out there! Time Traveler is one of my original instrumental rock music compositions. The inspiration behind it is my aspiration to have a Fender guitar for countless years but didn’t really go for it until December 2019.
It is mainly because, as we all know there are excellent alternatives, I too like many of you out there have the ability to customize our guitar(s) such as changing pickups with Seymour Duncan and/or DiMarzio pickups, change frets, implement shielding, use premium instrument cables, etc. And all that still lets us enjoy playing with a lot less budget and something left to buy pedals. Anyway, I finally had the opportunity to get my own brand new Fender Telecaster and that’s how and why I added the Christmassy bell sounding synth in the song.
The purchase resulted from narrowing down my choices to solve tuning problems using my other guitars that aren’t obvious when doodling around but I can’t deny hearing the issue when I playback the recorded tracks. Those guitars have floating trem and the two big local guitar stores I went to did not have a guitar with locking trem in stock at that time (my first “decent” guitar in the 90s was an Aria Pro with locking trem). The second store was kind enough to let me play with every strat and tele I requested to try out and I fell in love with the Fender American Special Telecaster.
I wrote and finished this song as you hear it in this video in the first week of January 2020. The title came to me later to signify the before (I didn’t have the tele) and after (after taking home the tele) feeling I was reflecting upon while I was recording the guitar part and the fact that Fender guitars are known to last a lifetime.
The Fender Telecaster’s design and sound withstood the test of time and loved by guitarists around the world in the 1950s up to now. And, did you know that Jimmy Page’s guitar Solo in Stairway to Heaven is a Fender Tele? Please listen from beginning to end let me know what you think in the comments below. #instrumentalrock #originalcomposition #originalsong #rockmusic #modernrock #rockguitar