| M_anstrom |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQeNFEF1Yk
I wrote the intro on my 12 string when I was talking music with my dad after finishing replacing my CV halfshafts...lol
I ended up making it into something a little heavier... tell me what you think... |
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| ETC |
cool, hard to tell with that kind of song without drums and a bassline. transitions always seem rough or random. lay down some tracks on it.
i liked the other one "jammin around with my vox" ...... good flow.
of course i'm old, grew up on zeppelin, pink floyd, sabbath etc. not crazy about most of what they're calling rock these days .... actually i don't even know if it's called rock. seems like they came up with some new names for the cookie cutter junk they're clogging the airwaves with these days.
still a few good ones around, tool comes to mind, my kid just burned me the metallica album so i'll have to see if i like it better then their last several offerings. |
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| M_anstrom |
quote: Originally posted by ETC
cool, hard to tell with that kind of song without drums and a bassline. transitions always seem rough or random. lay down some tracks on it.
i liked the other one "jammin around with my vox" ...... good flow.
of course i'm old, grew up on zeppelin, pink floyd, sabbath etc. not crazy about most of what they're calling rock these days .... actually i don't even know if it's called rock. seems like they came up with some new names for the cookie cutter junk they're clogging the airwaves with these days.
still a few good ones around, tool comes to mind, my kid just burned me the metallica album so i'll have to see if i like it better then their last several offerings. | |
yea, I'm still working on that song... I started as a jazz and blues guitarists so the heavier stuff is still a little difficult for me to play. Pink floyd is easily my biggest influence. I can't stand the stuff on the radio anymore (minus the classic rock stations). If anything I listen to the metal coming out of europe (stuff like Children of bodom, korpiklanni, etc)
As for the new metallica album, I picked it up a couple weeks ago. Not too bad but I only listened to it once and just kinda put it up. |
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| ETC |
i guess i should have said that "i" can't tell much about that kind of music unless it has all the parts included. i can recognize musical talent when i hear it but i'm by no means trained in the art.
by the same theory i used, a perfectly good guitar riff can be decimated by bad song structure or lyrical content.
the best example that comes to mind is yngwie malmsteen, incredible guitarist but i never really liked the music he put out as a whole.
those europeans are holding on to death metal with a .......... death grip. some of the stuff my kid hooks me up with is just screaming nonsense. i like hard music but there has to be substance to it. some of it is decent but alot of what i hear just sounds dated, i find myself saying "that sounds alot like ......." a lot.
the last few metallica albums were the same for me, listen once, say "enh" and back in the cd rack. unlike when the black album came out and stayed in my work truck cd player for a month or so. i remember when i was a kid seeing them at the country club before kill em all came out, they were one of my favorite bands through my teens. still like it enough to have ride the lightning and master of puppets in my walkman, though i feel kinda weird being 40 and blasting it in the car ;] |
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| ETC |
i've heard cob before, think i have some on a comp cd my kid made for me. little to monotone yelling for me though the guitar work and instrumental arrangement is good.
the finnish guys are a bit gimmicky for me, little too ronnie james dio who if i'm not mistaken came up with the "devil horn" hand gesture back in the day ;]
like my lyrics a little more cerebral like ..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJA...feature=related
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um7y...feature=related
but to each his own right ........ at least we don't listen to brittany spears .... well .. maybe watch christina aguilara ........ with the sound off ;] |
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| M_anstrom |
yea, I was in a band in high school were most of them were big tool fans... problem was they wanted to be carbon copies of them and that just doesn't work in the music industry...
Ya gotta be unique to truely turn heads. Look at nirvana, very nontechnical, very raw but they had a huge following and brought Grunge to mainstream... but once again to each there own...lol |
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| ETC |
i agree 100%,
i wasn't suggesting you copy anyone, if anything tool is a prime example of being different and successful. the two are not exclusive of course, plenty of bands out there playing the same garbage over and over and raking in the dough. take any boy band, janet jackson clone, rap artist, the "emo" bands ...... etc.
sad thing is most aspiring musicians tend to want to be who they like and completely miss that whole point ........ that they like the music because it is original or different.
if you plan to pursue it, the best laymans advice i can give is to put a lot of thought in to your lyrics. unless you plan on being the next joe satriani. |
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| M_anstrom |
| very true... I great up with Stevie Ray Vaughan as my favorite guitarist... Then I added Alexi Laiho, David Gilmour, and a bunch of random ass guitarists so I've developed an odd style. |
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