Shredcow's In a Sentimental Mood... (NOT a cover)
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Yo Daniel
Nice to hear you getting into slower stuff. Here's the lowdown:
There doesn't seem to be any motive/song/melody that holds the song together. The starting is nice as a beginning, albeit it is svery standard blues with lots of Jeff Beck feel into the riffs - everyone will love it but it shouldn't be what people remember from the song - it's too standard and it's too Jeff Beck-like.
At about 1:20'ish I really like what's going on - great riff and technique but it doesn't go on to form the basis for the song.
Now the good thingies - I really like what you can do. I would take the best parts from this to build towards something more memorable and original. I really like your technical ability and some of your licks - I wish I could play them. I hear them in my head but I'm too old school to make them come out the way you do.
You should really work towards something more fruitful instead of spending time on a half-baked go-at-it as this. Again, there are good stuff there but I know, and I know you know, that lots more are there, within you, to do much more better things.
May I humbly suggest that you look for a producer to work with. Hold on to your pride. It'll do you lots of good if you can be humble.
Hearing your stsuff, the other bits included, you have a rare quality there but you really need to hone in on songwriting instead of playing with sasmples and stomp boxes.
Concentrate on songwriting. Stop the messing about with stomp boxes. They'll always be there should you need them. Given your technique and talents, I suggest that you take a different route towards music and concentrate on songwriting. It'll be sad to hear you in the same vein one year from now.
And it's only 12 months away. Again, look for someone you trust to work with and do it with a concerted effort.
I really like your technique and feel but you need more and that's going to only come from maturity and direction which a producer may well help you with.
Cheers dude. I'm one of your biggest fans!
RoRK
Nice to hear you getting into slower stuff. Here's the lowdown:
There doesn't seem to be any motive/song/melody that holds the song together. The starting is nice as a beginning, albeit it is svery standard blues with lots of Jeff Beck feel into the riffs - everyone will love it but it shouldn't be what people remember from the song - it's too standard and it's too Jeff Beck-like.
At about 1:20'ish I really like what's going on - great riff and technique but it doesn't go on to form the basis for the song.
Now the good thingies - I really like what you can do. I would take the best parts from this to build towards something more memorable and original. I really like your technical ability and some of your licks - I wish I could play them. I hear them in my head but I'm too old school to make them come out the way you do.
You should really work towards something more fruitful instead of spending time on a half-baked go-at-it as this. Again, there are good stuff there but I know, and I know you know, that lots more are there, within you, to do much more better things.
May I humbly suggest that you look for a producer to work with. Hold on to your pride. It'll do you lots of good if you can be humble.
Hearing your stsuff, the other bits included, you have a rare quality there but you really need to hone in on songwriting instead of playing with sasmples and stomp boxes.
Concentrate on songwriting. Stop the messing about with stomp boxes. They'll always be there should you need them. Given your technique and talents, I suggest that you take a different route towards music and concentrate on songwriting. It'll be sad to hear you in the same vein one year from now.
And it's only 12 months away. Again, look for someone you trust to work with and do it with a concerted effort.
I really like your technique and feel but you need more and that's going to only come from maturity and direction which a producer may well help you with.
Cheers dude. I'm one of your biggest fans!
RoRK
Well RoRk.
Its a struggle to try to sound fresh. I don't think I am near it at all frankly. Everything I've done is a rehash of someone else - I am no virtuoso.
However, isn't normality what the lay person loves?
Try to do something different, ýou'll get slagged down. Its a fact. Been thru it. Do some simple, tried & true formula --> you're IT!
Not that I'm going to give up.... not a virtuoso but I'm just going to carry on doing my thing.
This improvisation really isn't a song... had a backing so I did a little doodle over it, nothing much.
Songwriting? Well, instrumental... for now. I can't write lyrics. I don't enjoy covering songs. Quite picky... :lol:
Its a struggle to try to sound fresh. I don't think I am near it at all frankly. Everything I've done is a rehash of someone else - I am no virtuoso.
However, isn't normality what the lay person loves?
Try to do something different, ýou'll get slagged down. Its a fact. Been thru it. Do some simple, tried & true formula --> you're IT! Not that I'm going to give up.... not a virtuoso but I'm just going to carry on doing my thing.
This improvisation really isn't a song... had a backing so I did a little doodle over it, nothing much.
Songwriting? Well, instrumental... for now. I can't write lyrics. I don't enjoy covering songs. Quite picky... :lol:
bluepowder
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I always find it funny that for every OM,people will point out an artist that its similar to :lol:
bluepowder
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hehe vintage tone...is very important.... :lol: ask me i'll tel you what kind of inspiration good tone is...ex gt-8 user that i am :lol:
What I was talking about...is each OM...ppl say...sounds like vai or satriani or beck or JP or malmy...well DUH..put all of em together and ull find most rock licks visited....hell you listen to Vai ...he still sounds like Satriani....
Very few guitarists dont sound like anyone at all...Mattias comes to mind...
I always felt you take a good combination of styles and note choices...so I never feel your style is copied like the 100s of malmy clones or JP clones or Satch clones... :lol:
Thats all Im saying...unless you played the whole song using malmy licks or vai licks...theres no point in saying it sounds like malmy for 10 seconds.... :lol:
What I was talking about...is each OM...ppl say...sounds like vai or satriani or beck or JP or malmy...well DUH..put all of em together and ull find most rock licks visited....hell you listen to Vai ...he still sounds like Satriani....
Very few guitarists dont sound like anyone at all...Mattias comes to mind...
I always felt you take a good combination of styles and note choices...so I never feel your style is copied like the 100s of malmy clones or JP clones or Satch clones... :lol:
Thats all Im saying...unless you played the whole song using malmy licks or vai licks...theres no point in saying it sounds like malmy for 10 seconds.... :lol:
bluepowder
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ahh dont remind me of the gt-8...I suffered with that piece of shit...
Hi Daniel
I was referring to instrumentals when I mentioned songwriting. I think there's enough there to get something going but you need to brush up on the songwriting bit.
One thing Ive noticed here is that there is a lot more interest in covers than in OMs. The sad thing is that we're looking at the behaviour of fellow musicians and not the lay person.
Should you want to do anything, I suggest that you look into doing it overseas. But first, work on sosngwriting. Your technique is by far the best here at Soft, IMHO. And some of your licks are really nice.
CHeers
RoRK
I was referring to instrumentals when I mentioned songwriting. I think there's enough there to get something going but you need to brush up on the songwriting bit.
One thing Ive noticed here is that there is a lot more interest in covers than in OMs. The sad thing is that we're looking at the behaviour of fellow musicians and not the lay person.
Should you want to do anything, I suggest that you look into doing it overseas. But first, work on sosngwriting. Your technique is by far the best here at Soft, IMHO. And some of your licks are really nice.
CHeers
RoRK
fibredrive
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that was nice i thought. don't listen much to instrumentals but i pretty much enjoyed that piece! 
RoRk... well... songwriting is fine with me... I suppose. However, you gotta note that the way you define a good song is different from mine... like in the matter of having a theme-based approach. I don't see a large, overbearing NEED to have a theme based approach... as much as others would I guess.
hey fibre, thanks for coming to hear... i don't usually play things like this...
hey fibre, thanks for coming to hear... i don't usually play things like this...
Well, I would think that songs would need some semblance of structure. Otherwise it may sound like a loose or controlled jam - at the end of the day it'll sound like a jam.
Then again, maybe I have poor taste in music. :?
And edder says that he can hook you up with Rosli, who will be doing a gig to launch his album. Something to think about - much better than doodling with stomp boxes. :wink:
Cheers
RoRK
Then again, maybe I have poor taste in music. :?
And edder says that he can hook you up with Rosli, who will be doing a gig to launch his album. Something to think about - much better than doodling with stomp boxes. :wink:
Cheers
RoRK
edder
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dunno? maybe you can get more info on his recording process and stuff like that or get him or his producer to produce your album if you're planning one anyway or something like that.
he mentioned to me that he hopes to see more stuff coming out from guitar instrumetalists here in SG rather being bedroom shredders, so I'm doing my part to spread the lurrrrrveeee.
that is if you're interested and planning to do anything and also if he's got anything to offer to you.
even so... you guys can be friends friends and bro bro wat.... hur hur hur~
he mentioned to me that he hopes to see more stuff coming out from guitar instrumetalists here in SG rather being bedroom shredders, so I'm doing my part to spread the lurrrrrveeee.
that is if you're interested and planning to do anything and also if he's got anything to offer to you.
even so... you guys can be friends friends and bro bro wat.... hur hur hur~
