Posted on 2010-10-10 16:45:13.948393 for for Round 25.
This was going swimmingly yesterday … tracked rhythm and drums at the same time in one take; was going to have this done in record time … then I started noodling over it and tragedy struck … my E broke. No other 0.10s laying around, no place close to go buy one, so it’ll wait till Monday — office is close to Guitar Center.
Posted on 2010-10-10 16:43:23.907053 for for Round 25.
This was going swimmingly yesterday … tracked rhythm and drums at the same time in one take; was going to have this done in record time … then I started noodling over it and tragedy struck … my E broke. No other 0.10s laying around, no place close to go buy one, so it’ll wait till Monday — office is close to Guitar Center.
Posted on 2010-08-16 01:56:47.575375 for for Round 24.
Hmm, a tone round. Guess that means you should hear the guitar and not just production.
Posted on 2010-06-06 15:58:40.870858 for for Round 23.
One nasty, gritty open position riff coming up!
Posted on 2010-06-01 00:31:21.633964 for for Round 22.
Hmm, didn’t I do my round last time? :)
Posted on 2010-05-17 01:26:29.989635 for for Round 21.
Make my own round? I took the easy way out, I picked the 1 major mode we haven’t done a round on Mixolydian.
Posted on 2010-05-03 00:25:46.778013 for for Round 19.
1 Guitar, 1 Track … took 4 takes before I didn’t completely fail something …
Posted on 2010-04-11 01:17:59.435871 for for Round 17.
I promised Ahsanul a little ‘Sweet Ass’ and failed to deliver in my original submission … but I keep my promises.
Posted on 2010-04-10 16:26:10.924155 for for Round 17.
Could have called this “Hank Noodles in Drop D” and been just as accurate.
Posted on 2010-04-04 00:53:46.819325 for for Round 16.
E Maj - > B Lydian
Posted on 2010-03-25 01:09:42.100937 for for Round 15.
I like Lydian, but even to me, whenever I play it, it comes off as a half assed impersonation of Joe Satriani — clearly he’s an influence of mine, but Lydian in particular it always seems blatant.
Posted on 2010-03-21 21:06:33.581991 for for Round 14.
Last one, I promise … again using C Major, but taking F Dm and Bdim as the three chords ….
Posted on 2010-03-21 15:49:09.116292 for for Round 14.
Another 3 Chord in C Maj. This time, Am, G and Dm … So you have natural minor, Mixolydian and Dorian sounds happening.
Posted on 2010-03-20 22:31:46.329990 for for Round 14.
OK, the ‘Accuracy’ stuff …
Posted on 2010-03-14 18:14:09.757362 for for Round 13.
Over the 10 rounds or so that I’ve played, I’ve noticed that people tend to comment favorably on parts that aren’t really scripted and honestly aren’t that hard or solo laden … so since this is just a ‘Rock’ round, I decided to just groove a little on G pedal bass pattern.
Posted on 2010-03-08 01:57:48.333490 for for Round 12.
Had a couple hours to play, so figured I’d do another just for fun. Plugged the good old 12 bar blues in A into the 880 and let it rip for a couple minutes. Then I started noodling over it and it took a while to come up with something interesting … I came to like what I’m using for the verse quite a bit, it alternates with the solo sections which are just standard blues faire …
Posted on 2010-03-06 21:52:16.151548 for for Round 12.
So I dusted off (literally) the Boss DR-880 for this one. It has some really nice sounds and nice patterns in it — it handles all the rhythm. I just figured out some reasonably nice melodies in A and then grooved a little at the end. High art it’s not, but it was fun.
Posted on 2010-02-07 01:04:01.506994 for for Round 11.
Dare I say this is anti-climactic? A 12 bar blues exchange after metal and industrial; but for what we’re doing with assembling the Magnum Opus track, the 12 bar blues is about as common ground as exists short of just pedaling over Em, Am, etc.
Posted on 2010-01-31 23:42:44.106723 for for Round 10.
Some of you likely saw my ‘bow out’ for this round on the round comments; yet here is a submission. I was in a fairly negative place when I wrote that, happens to everyone from time to time — so I did what I could to fix all the things I hated, I killed off the Ape Ass sounding bass, added some distortion and echo to the lead voice and gave it one more shot.
Posted on 2010-01-24 12:55:07.844021 for for Round 9.
Industrial. A lost genre for me, came to popularity after I quit playing, peaked and went back underground before I started caring again. So I had to do a little research for this one, closest thing I had in my collection was Shotgun Messiah with Tim Skold who went on to KMFDM for a while (as well as Marilyn Manson and other solo stuff), so I listened to some KMFDM, Ministry and a couple others, taking from the experience:
| Accuracy | Speed | Interpretation | Uniqueness | Tone | Overall Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Really Kicks Ass | Really Kicks Ass | Kicks Ass | Not Bad | Kicks Ass | 4.25 |