now i know why jonny greenwood wore that arm brace
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i created a nifty drum loop in acid yesterday and as a result, spent the afternoon writing a pretty heavy (for me) piece of music. i've got a bit of a conundrum though when it comes time to sing over top of it though since i have not the rock voice. ugh.
anyway, i was writing and recording the guitar parts and playing pretty hard and i just noticed that i now have a *massive* bruise on the underside of my pick arm from where it kept hitting the guitars' bodies. it hurts like hell today.
even if it's not done i'll post the music tonight. i only a *wee* bit different when i have a drum track to build on.
anyway, i was writing and recording the guitar parts and playing pretty hard and i just noticed that i now have a *massive* bruise on the underside of my pick arm from where it kept hitting the guitars' bodies. it hurts like hell today.
even if it's not done i'll post the music tonight. i only a *wee* bit different when i have a drum track to build on.
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And sorry about your arm, that sucks. Just try to be careful, you wouldn't want an injured arm to the extent where you can't play anymore.
well, there it is. such as it is.
i'm thinking of making collages of radio broadcasts from CBC or something for the "verses'. i have a chorus of sorts but i haven't put it in here. this is just the instrumental tracks.
i can't sing over this. i tried and it just sounds ass.
Just my first thoughts. Great style change though, you easily get away with it.
What stuff did you record this with? Esp. guitar (dot?) and pedal?
telecaster (bridge pup) -> BD-2 -> amp
les paul (bridge pup) -> amp
the solo tracks are:
epi dot (bridge pup) -> double muff -> static wah -> DL4 (sweep echo) -> amp
epi dot (bridge/neck) -> ebow -> DL4 (low res delay) -> amp
the bass track:
strat (neck/mid) -> OC-3 -> pod
on everything i have a barber launch pad boost the signals and pushing the amp harder.
drums:
acid software
i honestly don't know if i like this piece of music or not. sometimes it sounds cool to me and other times it completely doesn't. but at least it was fun to make.
It's a solid piece of rock music, it just sounds unfinished. I bet you'll be content when you put vocals or samples on top of it. And if it was fun to make it's all good anyway.
By the way, what's up with the strange volume fluctuations throughout the song? I don't know if it's my audio system or not.
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Hope this will be around for a while. Don't have access to speakers.
by the way, if anyone has ideas on particular heinous things any political leaders have said recently that i could sample off soundfiles on the net, please let me know. i want to splice them together with really mundane snippets from other things (cooking shows, the view etc etc.) to use as verses.
first verse:
left speaker: jimmy carter talking about the US's role in human rights throughout the world
right speaker: news reporters covering policemen beating the shit out of students in california
second verse:
left speaker: chairman of the FCC in 1961 talking about the shit that networks were producing (formula sitcoms etc).
right speaker: spiro agnew talking about media conglomeration and bias in news reporting.
all thanks to the history channel's website.
now i just need one more really ridiculous statement for the little break and i'm done the sampling. right now, jimmy swaggart is leading the pack.
then i have to sing the chorus and it's done.
i'm doomed to write quiet music but that's ok.
Don't we even get to hear the unfinished speech thing version?
I'd like to hear it