tel_nobody's forum posts 734

Ask her if she can practice at home. Run through all the parts and then get her to record all parts to all songs in one sitting.

What YOU can do for her is give her rough mixes. Download a metronome app with tap tempo. Record just you playing the song (in time with the metronome) start to finish. Get her to practice with that. Tell her she is awesome and you guys know she is the best choice.

For all their hard hitting, drummers are really fragile. Talk her up and give her a reason to want to be part of this with you guys.

I was going to say microphonics, but would like to change my answer to corrosion. I suspect corrosion on the windings of the pickup.

If the guitar is untouched for 5 years, pull apart and look for corrosion, (green, orange or white build up on anything metal... like the pickups UNDER the plastic covers.

What about a wooga dooga dooga dooga dooga dooga cloink? (that was a badump tsssst in the eighties)

The hard part is finding the right bar. Drummers are usually a couple of bars ahead or behind everyone else...

100% agree with Boom. It's not just drummers, it's every band member. You invest so much into getting a unit that is tight and works well together and it's all ruined over a few words. Get in touch with them, talk it out, find out what's going on.

On the way to record one of our demos, the guitarist and lead vocalist quit. Sadly that was me. The rhythm guitarist told me not to tell anyone and just do the best recording I could give them. After it was all said and done I told them and that was it.

The whole band actually got together and had a drink at a show about two months ago. It was the first time the four of us have been in the same room in 20 years!

My advice is still the same. Repair the damage now. There is an open wound now. Better to try and heal it now than let it Fester

Do me a favour. Ask the oldest person working in the music shop if they have any of them. You will probably have to sit back and listen to a story of the good ole days…

I guess it means, that should you decide the guitar isn't right for you, that people will buy a Martin A lot quicker and for a better price than a seagull or a Fernandez and will usually be excited to see one available secondhand. It sounds like a really nice guitar! Treat it to some really nice strings. It is been a long time since I have been very kind and spoilt an acoustic guitar by giving it a good set of strings, but I used to love putting Dr Thomastic purple wound on them. Is that even still a thing?

Congrats man! That is awesome!

Now for the tangent... I think beer is a bettet guitar practice beverage than wine or whiskey.... But at a show?

For me as a Guitarist/ vocalist... Milk or milk based product (an ice cream etc) inside of an hour before the show... allows for a bit of give between melodic and growls and screams and back again.

Gargle cola during and swallow in fizzed state to soothe during shows. Beer dries the vocal chords too much to allow real flexibility and beer also effects pitch.... It enhances your perception of your range without altering your physical range.

It cannot be about hours. People learn at different speeds

Play until you have:

A) done something to warm up... scales etc

B) practiced something you know.

C) noticeably improved on something you have been working on learning

D) found something new and creative that challenges how you play.

Repeat tomorrow.

The song needs audio grabs of old Apprentice Episodes....

Technically, Blixa wouldn't write a song about fireballs but would use a fireball as an instrument

I have added a really rough 160 BPM rockabilly version called RockaFoF to googledrive... doubt the lyrics fit anymore, as the music got a lot more serious...

Just thought you guys wanted something faster and more firebally....

And I think... without listening to any of the tracking to date, that I was focused more on the wordliness (or lack of) contained within the stupidity and redundancy of stating that the fireball was made of flames and played on a continuation of stupidity... rather than giving a nod to any physical manifestation of said glob of immolation...

This! Slow fireball!

rough guitar mix sent through. ignore the bass through the talk wah... just giving it some goof. You can have a voc sketch tomorrow hopefully.

recording before 8am? would you settle for electric guitars no vocals?

I really should be studying...

but I love Australians.... you're way more loveable than limeys... kinda like the scots!

Nawww. Sounds like somebody needs a shirtless cuddle!!!!

haha! back in the game!

The pickpockets don't bother the strippers...

while you boys hop in the cage with your sticks, I will take my sticks and grab a bow and pick you off from the crowd...

We are a nation of killers.

There was Australian bashing?

11pm here. I have had a house full of kids today sleeping over and therefore will tomorrow and some asshat smashed my car and I have been organising repairs, and getting over fricken cyclone floods.

I can slap something down tomorrow... maybe. It will be half assed and messy as shit but it will give a hint at the direction.

And I just listened to Jane says and it may actually be too close to how that is strummed...

pick a finger... any finger.. (choose the middle one!)

The app I used on my phone for on the fly recordings (that I could email from) has gone bust, and I don't have time or ability to drag out the mics.

Ditched the rockabilly feel. The lyric became a passage for other questions to stem from.

The original ad left me stupefied. I hate when language is neglected to the point of abuse.

guessing you have a different take on it?

Jim, this now has a "Jane Says" kinda strum pattern

Damn formatting

You snooze you lose...

Fireball of flames

G Swimming in a D sea of [D E D C A] ocean

B doesn't sound the C same C[ABCDCBA]

Just F don't go BANG

all C In your face

Like a A fireball of Bb flames.

The bold letter is the chord that occurs at the start of the adjoining word (as the accent). The [section] is a single note run to transition to next chord.

Repeat these chords throughout

Clocks at 88BPM

Fireball of flames

[Chorus] Swimming in a sea of ocean

doesn't sound the same.

Just don't go BANG

all In your face

Like a fireball of flames.

Why try to state the obvious

why can't it state itself?

instead of sitting back and waiting

like a shelfed Elf on a shelf?

[verse]

So many folks don't read enough

when they're reading into things.

Like when they have to get some cash

from an ATM machine...

Now an Automatic teller machine machine

sure sounds like it is fun

But will you put cash

in your cash purse

when your auto telling's done?

[chorus]

Some people dont ask questions

they just do what they want done

dont even question why it is

feet smell and noses run

or why we go bake cookies or

cook bacon just the same.

or yell at wheel of fortune

when they just dont get the game

[Chorus]

Why did they make dyslexia

so gosh darn hard to spell?

But if they're gonna mess it up

it's probably just as well

Language skills are valuable

not something you should dump

You all just need a dictionary

It's too damn hard to

[interruptive chorus]

I am on double deadlines for assignments... no music for me!

I hate when you manipulate me and I comply!

Lyrics will be with you in a sec... sorry, just saw the challenge.

I will give you a rundown, you guys can build on it from there...

This will be a Country/ Rockabilly/ blues feeling beast, and the lyrics will be sung with a hugely country drawl and will be undeniably in the theme of Weird Al.

I will post the lyrics here in my next response... give me a few minutes.

Yes. Nothing silly or remotely dangerous... take down your red flag young son! While I was writing, casual play ranged from just holding it, feeling its weight, how it moves when you move, the sound it makes through the air, pressing it against my skin or being aware of resistance against various foods while preparing dinner.

Ask a blind man to tell you about a tree, a dog or a colour and you will only receive a partial explanation because some of the senses have been denied. Yes, Others are enhanced but there will be facets that he could describe and others he could not without having experienced it in such a way.

The song required an intimacy with this particular weapon that I struggled to describe convincingly without experience.

It helped the song... it was a good experiment.

This is a daunting topic.

It most certainly is!

It is amazing how many people sit within their own heads afraid to bring out ideas, or find themselves repeating their same few riffs because they doubt their abilities or they feel they have reached the end of their creativity.

They have not reached the end, just an end to a creative strand they were following.

The logic behind this post is to help people, not by copying other people's ideas directly, but by giving them a different angle or avenue to explore... to help them find a new strand.

This could be as simple as picking up a different instrument, trying a new sound making object (pedal, capo, cymbal, vst, triller, bow, beater).

A new avenue of sound invites new inspiration and fields to explore.

Another fantastic source of inspiration for me personally, is people.

Watch people wherever you are, when you have a chance. I do not mean this with malicious intent or in an obtrusive or discomforting way... But we have all heard the quote "Dance like no one is watching"...

Observing people when they react to music reveals a lot about the person. But instead of the person... focus on the reaction! What part of the song triggered it?

Are they mumbling a lyric... what was the draw card? a repeated verse? are they air guitaring? tapping a foot or a spoon at a coffee house? What can we (as songwriters) learn from these observations?

The cadence (flow of the song... how it modulates and intonates, it's rhythm and tempo) has dramatic and primal effects on people. While not every person will be your target audience, observing how every person reacts to songs in public places is a great songwriting technique to be able to adopt.

Primal instincts can carry across many different soundscapes. When you begin to identify what it is that people are reacting to... you begin to find different ways to look at creation.

These are obviously just some techniques...

I have written horror themed stuff while sitting and casually playing with a large knife, I have written tributes to people who have passed by flipping through photographs. I have written entire songs in my head and then come home and picked up instruments and played them.. I have set time limits... I have written a song where to play the chorus you reverse the verse because that was a fun play on words...

I would love to collect a share pool of ideas that we can all look through and learn from...

Daunting? Hell yes! but exciting too!

Are you looking for complete instrument cables or are you looking to make your own cables?

If making your own, like for pedal patches and stuff, I would avoid the braiding of the woven covering on the Kirlin and the Spectraflex, because will be a nightmare to keep neat.

If buying complete cables, I like the look and the specs of the spectraflex better. The moulded rubberised plastic ends on the Kirlin means less control if you ever have to try and find breaks in the cable, the Spectraflex allows you a bit more area to work with.

From the examples I have found at least.

Challenge time!

I just saw an ad for WORLD'S MOST AMAZING VIDEOS, and they told us how an oil tanker at sea burst into "a fireball of flames".

At first the statement got me thinking what other things you could have a fireball of... but I think we should all try and write a song or riff or lyrics entitled: Fireball of Flames

GO!

An interesting one I tried....

I wrote three verses.

Three completely different and distinct pieces of music go with each verse.

But, at the end of each sung verse, while still playing that section of music, I sing a chorus.

Each time the chorus is sung exactly the same way, same lyrics, same flow, same pitch... identical.

But each time the chorus is sung over a completely different and distinct piece of music.

What is your standard songwriting trigger?

Are you a lyrics first, music second, or an acoustic and then pass on to the band, are you a solo songwriter, if so what is your process???

I have been challenging my songwriting in the last year, really driving myself in different directions, with some very pleasing results.

I thought it would be helpful to all the writers on the boards if we (as a community of dedicated musicians) to share our writing tips, with the goal of building a stronger, more diverse musical culture.

Doesn't need to be an essay, but if you can seriously contribute to this post with something you feel may benefit other writers.. please share.

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.

This is SOOOOO far from my world, but will expose my ignorance to become educated.

Acronyms... I guess CCM is Christian Country Music and P&W is ummm Pountry and Western? praise and western?

So Christian music is essentially an offshoot of country music? but allows for different horizons and landscapes obviously, because oceans and stuff.

makes sense!

That's very sad to hear! Having the Breeders and still no Deal…