Another Original: Cold Ness

[ShredCow]

Yeah, yet another doodle!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=641337&songID=5374521

This one has a lot of things going on, the way i like it to be, so ... yeah, have fun listening to it. Pretty simple song though.

 

[gsonique]

power !

smooth as a baby's bottom

 

[KennethC]

pretty nice stuff, shred. less shredding also eh?

a few comments:
- the intentional out-of-sync guitars during the entrance during the first bridge made that section just a tad untidy, think it might be because of the number of notes and where each guitar starts and ends on its respective phrase.

- the chord change from minor to major @ 0:49-0:50 just pricked my ears up a lil. It's not that it didn't work, there was just something that made me feel as if the chords weren't fully resolved in those couple of seconds.

- the ending sounded like it was gonna lead into some heavy chugging rhythm riffin, which might then lead on to a new verse/bridge/chorus. you're leaving it for a sequel aren't ya.

do note that I'm no music theory expert(in fact I don't read music), just giving opinions based on hearing and feeling.

 

[ShredCow]

Hey Goose & KenC, thanks for having a listen.

Less shredding, for now perhaps. There's a reason for me having so many effects, I'd think it a waste to just do plain shredding... hence these little "doodles".

Regarding KenC's comments...
- I think the delay made the 1st bridge just more messy sounding. Perhaps I should have gone with reverb instead on it.

- That chord change was a major to minor actually, A to Am, the IV of E major. You're right, more development on it would make it sound... smoother.

- Haha, the ending? See how lah. I doodle so that all the doodles can come together for a song idea or something one day. Too much time to do 1 full length song lah.

 

[KennethC]

"I doodle so that all the doodles can come together for a song idea or something one day."

Satch boogie in the makin!

Keep up the gd work dude...

 

[ShredCow]

Haha.. satch boogie was done that way eh?

I dunno, its really just time constraints thats making me do doodles. I mean, 80 takes on a solo and coming away knowing & feeling its not good enough, its too taxing right now with work and studies.

 

[KennethC]

hey shred, i realised, nope it's the minor to major change part that sounds a bit funny. It goes from minor to major then to minor, yes?

and yea satch boogie was a collection of many of his lil riffin's over the years. =)

 

[ShredCow]

Haha, KenC, I have no idea!

I know I had a... E major, then A major, then C#m9, then A - Am, then E major.

 

[dhalif]

hey shred... how did you do the thick intro? and i love the transition bit after your intro at 00:24... all in all .. love the ambience in the track.. love it..

 

[ShredCow]

Its an octave down (Foxrox Octron 2) into a fuzz (Subdecay Flying Tomato) and at every 4 bar of the intro riff, it ends with the Octron's octave up just for that last note.

The fuzz has its buffer switch off, so when the octron is on, its buffer makes the fuzz sound synth-ish, scratchy and just wrong, which is totally usable for texture.

No reverb was used, only 2 x delay pedals in series.