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I played all the instruments.. everything is first take...no mastering..solo's were improvised..lets see anything else? Oh yea, the drums were a drum machine with just a straight 160 BPM beat that I am too lazy to make more unique. In the song when we play (our drummer is ****ing incredible) there are fills in those empty spots that sound sooo good, plus the drums vary, unlike this.

I recorded this on my tascam digital recorder that I showed on the other thread that Detty made about recording. This is straight from the recorder to my computer through a usb cable, no software was used to edit this. Nothing was used to edit this.

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Some people have told me that if I am goign to showcase to inform people that I have no knowledge of music theory. I dont know any scales or letter notes on the guitar. I didnt even know the names of the strings up until 3 months ago

It would make sense to tell everyone that the vocals arent on the recording yet . thats why it sounds kind of empty. Should have them on by tuesday or wednesday.

Drizzt wins at guitaring.

(keep in mind this is all nit-picking. nice job)

sounds swell on each track. the harmonies need to be tighter togheter. use a metronome. feels like the left and right guitar are off time. even though the notes fit.

you need to put more feeling into the single notes, clamp them strings. (1:50 ish)

your solo ending notes sound empty. it's not because it's an ending that you have to let it die out, wham those notes. you have a floyd rose? use it. if not, press hard, remove your thumb from the neck and just whack that note however you feel like it. even if it hurts your fingers.

careful with your chord shifts. i can hear some wierd 1/4 step off roots compared to the rest of the chords.

at 3:00 the guitars definitely sound offtime, this isn't nitpicking.

just a bit noisy in the solo. not bad for a first take. watch out for your bends. they're out of tune. the kind of low/high harmony before the improvised solo has some wierd notes.

careful with your notes again around before 5:00. and your bends.

good composition. but you need to rerecord it.

last note. don't let them die out too early, vibrato the hell out of it.

but like i said. good playing. needs some working on, but the basic idea is there. just get it tighter and it'll be sweet. i think you need to get rid of your habit to use the blues note into your melodic solos. bend into it to create a small chromatic movement, but don't stick on it. you seem to play mostly in A / E minor, (look up those scales, also known as C major and G major scales)so try to avoid the D# note when you're playing in E minor blues style pentatonic, sounds wierd. (i did take in note you don't know theory. hint, theory helps improvising.)

hint #2 (theory was meant to improvise on)

(ps i'll reply properly to your request someday. i'm overwhelmed these days, but these tips should help. tone is more important. a wrong note ringing with plenty of feeling and emotion will sound better than a flat right note.)

seb ownz

Sounds very cool. To me it sounds like very good guitarwork, though I'm not a lead player and so I don't have as critical an ear as Seb. You need a better drum machine though. Lay down some Phat Beatz.