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What sound DO you want?

I'm watching, "Weekend At Bernie's" and noticing that the audio is SOOOOOOOOO off from the video. There are times when you hear people talking and their mouth is closed. A woman comes down from the second floor, after having sex with a dead guy, and is singing "ahh ta taa choo choo choo. Ta da da da, yeah." all while her mouth is shut. This is happening a lot in this film.

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I will praise this movie for having one of the best racks ever caught on film.

The real trick for musicians getting better gear is to always trade up. I have a friend who started out with a cheap Jackson guitar and a Line 6 amp. Over time, He's acquired some rare Charvels, Hernandezes, and had a multitude of guitars. He didn't come into cash for it all. He bought items that were under market price and traded those items for higher end products that he wanted. Even if it meant him only playing on it for a month or two before sending it away again.

I don't think it would be that bad. Eventually, your research would lead to ebony and walnut being the best and you'd be seen as a hero among musicians.

You could do tone-wood argument/article. That would keep you typing for ages.

Ibanezes do well with cheap and have a lot of their models with tremelos now.

Epiphone Sheritan II

The first Fender I ever picked up

Jackson 5 string Ellefson signature.

A comparison of plectrum materials and the difference they make.

Settled. That's another way of saying he was going to lose to overwhelming evidence.

That's it boys. Type to throw random notes onto sheet music and hope someone makes a hit that's close to it.

I feel you on the later Mason. I have been wanting to do some super writing pow-wows this year, but I was told to wait until after Spring Break. Now that Spring Break is over, I am swamped and stressed the hell out with school.

My money is on the following ways to die via Outback.

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First you have to find an effect with a female XLR. Take some fret-ease... never mind. This will take too long to unroll.

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When I was three, I only fantasized about killing Arnold Schwarzenegger in the steamy jungles of South America, hip-tossing the Shredder into a garbage truck, and allowing Jack Nicholson to fall from the top of a church.

I think the cheapest option to give the girl without sacrificing play-ability is to get her a real drum set. It will be loud, but real. Then, Real loud!

tough break... I was in a band that went through 5 drummers during the first 2 years of our career.

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I was clearing out my emails and found this word document of bands I'd seen. Figured I'd post it. I'd like to see what you all have seen as well.

Bands I've Seen

A - All That Remains, Airbourne

B - Behemoth, Between the Buried and Me, Bullet for my Valentine (Kinda), Black Congress

C - Cannibal Corpse, Cerebral Bore, 36 Crazy Fists

D - Disturbed, Dragonforce, Dirge Within, DJ StarScream

E - Exhumed, Exodus, Eagle Claw

F - Faceless, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Five Finger Death Punch

G - GWAR, Goatwhore, God Forbid

H - Heaven & Hell, Hail Storm, High on Fire

I - Iron Maiden

J - Job for a Cowboy

K - KISS, Kill Hannah, Killswitch Engage, Kylesa

L - Laundry Mat

M - Marylin Manson, Machine Head, Megadeth, Mastodon, Mobile Deathcamp, MGMT, Municipal Waste, MercyMe, Micah Tyler

N - Negative 263

O - O.T.E.P.,

P - Peelander Z, Periphery

Q -

R - Red Chord, Ritual Killing, Ringworm

S - Static X, Suicidal Tendencies, Slipknot, Seether, Switchpin, Suicide Silence, Slayer

T - TOOL, Testament, Trivium, The Black Tide, Trans Am

U -

V - Vail of Maya

W - Within Chaos, Whitechapel, Walls of Jericho, Weird Al Yankovich

X -

Y -

Z -

Underestimate a beat-boxer? Is that even possible?

For the price of a session drummer, I'm sure you could buy an electronic drumset which would let her practice at home.

Ohh... it's a laday.

I would suggest letting her stay with you on the weekends or around recordings. Recordings don't have to be frequent anyway. Maybe once a week or further apart.

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Maybe Doogada Doogada?

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You get no, "Badump tsssst" because this thread is about not having a drummer.

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Perhaps the pole is lower than the rest. I don't think it would be an electrical issue if all the others work.

It will be easier to repair an already established relationship than start a new one and transfer all the data.

Part 3:

If it's not Metallica, it's p()$$% music

I played that little, Mexican guitar for years. I played it during all commercials on television. I would watch wrestling and try to play along to the entrance music. I would play commercials. I just enjoyed making noise on it any time my ears and hands were free. Being a teenager, that wasn't as much as I wish it had been. In the old converted barracks that my mother and I lived in, the doors had no locking mechanism. To gain some privacy, I would wedge my guitar under the doorknob and up against the body of a large, built in dresser. This worked well for a year or so until my mother finally broke the guitar down the sides. Still playable, but jacked.

I would go to school and when musicianship came up in conversation, I would lie and tell people I was a bassist. No one ever really challenged me on this. I would get jealous seeing how starstruck my peers would be for other kids that played music and it made me want to have those fans for myself. At the time, I wanted nothing more than to be a pro wrestler and the fandom given to musicians was very similar to the kind wrestlers got. I developed a sense of competitiveness towards bass players in particular. If I heard people swoon over how well someone else could play a song, I looked that song up, stole it from the internet like we all did then, and learned to play it better. I always fantasized about somehow getting into a situation where I would be able to outplay a local celebrity and steal their thunder. Looking back on it, I learned how to be a man from wrestling (no male role models around), and I treated everything like it was a gimmick for a title shot. I was such a mess as a kid, damn.

I did not attempt to play anything beyond Metallica until college, when I hit 17 and dropped out of high school. I began going to poorly lit drug houses and all nighters out in the desert. A couple of bands would bleed through my, "Metallica or NOTHING" mentality. System of a Down, The Mars Volta, Slayer, and Megadeth were a few. I idolized a couple of guys in town that were thrashers. To a young mind, they looked free, powerful, and full of energy. They had the greasy long hair, the over-washed band shirts, acne, and of course instruments. Any money they came across went to cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and instrument accessories. They typically had 1 higher end guitar or amp and everything else they had was trashed and covered in ash and sticky messes. For some reason, I wanted to be them. I started making myself listen to bands that I may have liked a song from before, but never got into, out of my attempt to live that lifestyle. Oddly enough, one of my favorite bands of all time, Megadeth, was one of these bands. I started making myself learn songs from these other bands.

Eventually, I got noticed. Not playing, but just owning a bass :)

I was walking across campus with my bass in my hand (I didn't have a case for it then) and a small pickup pulled alongside me. An old man with a grey beard and long hair was shouting at me from the passenger side and a young, douchey looking guy was driving. They asked me if I played bass. I looked down at my bass, back at them again, and said, "Nope." They asked me what kind of music I played and this series of questions continued on for a couple of minutes. It eventually lead to them saying they needed a bass player for a band that already had gigs coming up and wanted me to audition. They gave me a CD with burned songs on it and told me to come to their house in a few days. I went home and popped the CD into my computer. I was excited until the first few notes of, "When I Come Around" started playing. I skipped to the next song and heard Slither from Velvet Revolver. I kept skipping ahead and never found a band I listened to, many I had not ever even heard of before. I spent the couple of days learning all the songs and looked forward, nervously, to the day when I would take my place in the Olympus of musicians.

I arrived at the douche guy's house. His dad was very intrusive and seemed like he was the real motivation behind this "band". He said he was the manager. I head into the garage with my bass and then TINY Crate amp. I met the drummer, Gilbert. He was excited to meet me and started asking me want music I liked to play. When I said Metallica, he beamed. He was so excited man. He would ask, "Oh man, Do you know any Manson?" I would start playing a Manson song and he would drum right along with me. Every band he called out, we played together, and I felt like I found a long lost brother. Then Douche stepped in. The entire time me and Gilbert were hitting it off, he kept looking with disgust at what we were playing. He finally interjected and said, "Alright. Let's play the music we'll actually play at gigs. No one would want to hear that hard stuff." We started with Slither. We got through the song and Douche finally broke his sad face. He was getting into it. Next song killed it again. When I come Around was up. We got 15 seconds into the song before Douche stopped everything. "What are you playing? Did you look up the tabs on UltimateTabs.com?" I told him I don't use tabs, I play by ear. He told me to play what I was playing again. I played the "Deet, deet deet deedley dee, Deet, deet deet deedley dee, Boom, boooooom". Just the way it's played. Gilbert shook his head in agreement and smiled. Douche handed me the tabs he printed from the internet and told me Green Day didn't play it like that. It's just quarter notes in G, D, E, C. I told him that the tabs were wrong and that the bass plays it a little more talented than that. He got so flustered and kept returning to the notion that because the tabs on this site were GDEC, that I was wrong. Gilbert spoke up and said that he too thought the bass played it with more notes. Douche was not interested. By this point, his dad had gone back into the house. We skipped When I Come Around and jumped into another song from the CD, I cannot recall what songs were on there. We played through and then Douche put his guitar down and went into the house. Gilbert and I continued to play our name game with bands we liked and followed by playing them for an intro or so. Douche comes back into the garage after several minutes and says, "Well man. You are a virgin bass player. I don't think you are quiet good enough to be in the band, but maybe with some practice we can get together again in a year or so." Gilbert looked shocked. I must have looked confused because I certainly felt it. I shook his hand, gave my number to Gilbert, and packed my things. I don't know what power Douche had over Gilbert, but he had something. Maybe he gave him free drugs. A place to stay. I dunno. I could tell that Gilbert wanted me to stay and he wasn't able to make any decisions.

It fueled me to continue to learn these songs, the first two anyway. This is why I remember them. It also gave me a taste of working with bands. It won't always be friends hanging out. It would eventually be people who want a bright light on them and to feed their ego. My goal for a few years was to be amazing and wait for the opportunity to take the pride of the later. I was a bully for a few years in school, unintentionally, and that predatory drive to make others suffer just swells when it comes dicks in hobbies. The next time I saw Douche, his dad had died. He had mentioned that they never got to start gigging and he lost contact with Gilbert.

Whichever feels nicest. Like super slippery satin feel

Ebony wins again! Good, it's settled.

It was said that any skill takes 10,000 hours to master. If you believe this, it's a matter of how long you want to wait before mastering the skill.

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I'm not familiar with either brand. Mogami is considered one of the best though.

Wow. Seems my avatar change is relevant now; great timing.

DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!

It comes differently each time to me. I also encourage myself to try new ways. I may start off with lyrics written to rhyme every second sentence. The next, rhyme each sentence, then not at all. Music, I just play riffs as they come to me and see if they link up with each other. I'll often sing the notes first and see what feels natural for the melody to do.

Contemporary Christian Music. Praise and Worship can be a bit broader, but CCM is only the modern stuff, probably the last 15 years or so.

An old school, traditional church will consider their music P&W and what they mean by it is older hymnals; mostly negro spirituals and southern poems played to old tavern songs and marching music. This would be stuff that is more recognized like Amazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, and When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder.

CCM would not count any of the older music. Only the new age, guitar/keyboard/boom-tist-boom-tist kind of music which is generally a mix of country, hip-hop, and only a bit of borrowing FROM the old hymnals, but not enough to consider it a modern cover of the hymnal. The churches that play CCM also call their music P&W as well.

A lot of the more traditional churches do not accept the modern music. It is considered "of the deh-boh" but out of ignorance. I've met many preachers of different denominations who have said Christian Rock "as they call it" is evil because of a number of things, but none of them make sense from a musician's stand point. They will say, "It's the beat. The beat makes it evil." These people don't usually have any formal music background though and are unable to explain exactly what about the beat is evil. I've heard some really ridiculous statements on it. My "go to" statement to them is, "So, if I played Old Rugged Cross at 132 BPM, it becomes Satanic?".

It's generally considered the worst cover of all time in CCM. I'm pretty sure people show it to all new comers just to point out what you should not do.

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I don't really write anything extra for Oceans. However, I do enjoy going lower than the others on it. During the breakdown part where the lyrics say, "Spirit lead me", I like to hit the first fret of the low B and let it ride before I start playing the 4 notes afterwards. I think it makes the song sound a little darker and gives it more depth, pun intended. Only well known songs I've written large bass parts for are "Your Love Awakens Me" and "At The Cross". A lot of the songs I find don't feel right for super crazy bass parts and I am a fan of serving the song when it comes to bass parts.

I would like to write some kind of.... fun... motley crew'esk type of song to allow for more bass and heavier rhythm guitar.

When my band leader had me in orientation, he showed that video of the oceans drummer and said it was our new drummer, "Cinto". I believed him and thought it was hilarious. Only recently at a poker game did I discover that it was not Cinto.

Oh, and THIS one will make your soul hurt.

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On Topic:

I never owned an instrument with a maple board until I got my Atelier Z so I cannot attest to how it actually differs beyond appearance. It only looks appropriate to me on instruments with a bright, natural finish. I'm only a fan of rosewood on guitars with bursts or dark natty finishes. Ebony for everything else. It's more durable. That in itself should win everyone over.

If you ever get a chance to order or customize a guitar or bass, I would suggest you get an ebony board and stainless steel frets. It will be forever and a day before you need to pay to have the board and fretting redone. Built to last.

Yeah, I haven't read any comics in a long while, so I didn't have any connection to the white lantern logo anymore. Broken Matt keeps coming up in conversation though and I'm finding him pretty entertaining.