audio: Sorry to hear about your situation. Next time, don't delete files too soon! I also had a similar experience, with my sch project. Grrr...
ShredCow: Can't wait to hear your full version! I do like what I hear so far...
Anyway, I thought I'd share a ballad, recorded to this backing track. Note: It is NOT done by me (I wish!). When I first saw the video, I was pretty much blown away from start to end. It is incredibly melodic, even at shreddy parts. Actually I didn't even think of shred, cause it was just excellent phrasing throughout! It's the kind of tune that I can remember from start to end. Gets really intense at the later half of the song...
Some highlights: 3:25 tapping sequence...3:49 to 3:54 is his own style of sweeping. It's not the usual sweeping technique, it's extremely fast and clean. Listen to it! It's even more amazing on the video...He also does it on a couple of his songs...Other highlights: 0:00 - 4:31
Here's the mp3 I extracted from the video (sorry guys can't upload the video, too slow upload speed). And you really gotta turn up the volume and use headphones to hear everything. Some parts a bit hard to hear 'cause it's recorded live and the original vid is low quality.
http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2B3K0673D9W3812H6C8DAS4WS3