Any Song Writers

[ghilliesuit]

Curious if anyone else is working on any songs?

Cooked this riff up tonight. The second part was kinda messing around .... but i think the first part is usable for a song. Anyways post up what your working on.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XGJ1nroqT4z_ZVcehmNXwJ81QN7HUZJI/view?usp=sharing

[Araphel]

Nice, sounds very similar to the opening riff of "prayer" by gorgoroth

[ghilliesuit]

Hmm I'll have to listen to that. Cant say I've heard of them before.

Edir: took a listen and they definetly have more movement going on. But I see what your saying in terms of general note selection. Similar, but thankfully, not the same.

[Araphel]

"Rebirth" by gorgoroth, my mistake.

[Rainmaker]

That is SICK! I love the sound you are getting out of your setup. What pedal(s) are you using?

[ghilliesuit]

Jackson SL2 Pro into Peavey XXX (crunch channel) into a Jackson 4x12 from 80a

No pedals or effects. Recording through Izotope spire microphone.

Edit: there is a second guitar track overtop of the transition parts. I think in terms if two guitars so I was trying to decide If that part would be harmonized or not. So I left the double track in because I thought it sounded good.

Rainmaker

[Araphel]

My main gigging amp was a XXX for a few years. They're vastly underrated metal amps, probably due to the cheesy faceplate (which i immediately replaced).

[ghilliesuit]

Araphel what do you play now?

[Araphel]

All of my current gear can be seen in https://www.mcarterbrown.com/forum/o...how-off-thread
I play through the Nu-x more than anything else at the moment. It sits on an end table next to my couch.
I live in an apartment and haven't played in a band in almost a decade (with no intention of doing it again) so I don't have a need for anything more powerful than a few watts. I also haven't picked up a guitar more than a few times a month in almost as long, so i'm probably going to wind up getting rid of most of it.

[Magmoormaster]

Sounds pretty good. I' be interested in hearing what it sounds like with drums.

Curious if anyone else is working on any songs?

I have 5 songs I'm working on right now... 2 are "done" (at least guitars), 2 need solos finished, 1 is still very early on. Only have lyrics for one; I suck at writing lyrics. Haven't really sat down to flesh anything out for a while though. It would be nice to at least have demos recorded.

[ghilliesuit]

You should post something! Love to hear what other people Re coming up with regardless of genre

[ghilliesuit]

C'mon guys post something. I was struggling today to write the next piece to this song. So I leave with an older song I was working on. This is my favorite solo I've written.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11oNuUlx8QAwh04V9mqqdlWmp0jcDDR7q/view?usp=sharing

I need some inspiration - post some of your guys stuff.

[Rainmaker]

That sounds good man!

This is a completely different vibe, but here. I recorded this today.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/162Qv91ub_YO-k-niihUOkz-JYXLKQMbM/view?usp=sharing

[ghilliesuit]

Damn man - nice! Ukulele, or are you just hanging out above the 12th??? Either way, that sounds really good man. Very relaxing but also kinda a nice swing.

[Rainmaker]

Yep you got it. The wife got me a Uke for Christmas.

[ghilliesuit]

Rainmaker well you have a great natural flow with the ukelele. Very cool..

[ghilliesuit]

Alright, switched some stuff to clean because it's easier to write (for me) that way. I think I got the foundation of riff 2. Maybe lol

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Ispq0qlDdOppg_vRO6Yp8_6MJKbJ2yN/view?usp=drivesdk

[Rainmaker]

Alright, switched some stuff to clean because it's easier to write (for me) that way. I think I got the foundation of riff 2. Maybe lol

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Is...w?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p5i...ew?usp=sharing

My tin whistle got bent by my kids the other day so the sound is terrible, but you get the idea

[ghilliesuit]

I was not expecting to here my track when it loaded haha. Very freaking cool. You record that with a mic?

Noodle B Phrygian and it should sound pretty damn tight. C over E followed by E over B. That's pretty much it. The runs are C B G F# OR A B E(bend up .5 and release)

[Rainmaker]

Haha, your track sparked a thought. The cleaner sound of the riff gave me a whistl-y vibe. I just used a headset mic and BandLab

[ghilliesuit]

Rainmaker it sounds great. Very clean, but the top end is nice and tame. I appreciate it. Hard to write music solo because it's all internal... there is no collaborative process like when I had my band as a kid. So it's actually nice to hear something set to the track without any input from me.

[ghilliesuit]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/110_fSwIDQ9Aakz4W9bdEe_8u34Eq0Qg0/view?usp=drivesdk

well it's not perfect. And I have overlapping parts but this is the general concept I am going with. Time to pull out the tracks and start adding drums at so I can shape the song more before doing more strings.

[Rainmaker]

Added a little to your previous one... Uke with reverb and distortion sounds pretty slick.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GOZUB3fv-s2JHF8OYt03vFKrPgZ47BRu/view?usp=sharing

[ghilliesuit]

Wow that ukulele sounds perfect. The Shimmer on the notes is great. I may need to get that isolated track from you lol

[Rainmaker]

ha- i'd probably want to re-record it. it was a spur of the moment. But yeah, definitely if you want it!

[ghilliesuit]

Rainmaker Well that's up to you if you want to record it again. You were hanging with the melody (well my attempt at melody haha) quite well. Plus right now I am just trying to glue this together into a song demo that I will use to then record as a whole idea. That way it will be recorded performances instead of copy and pasted cuts once its done.

Meant to comment ... but posted. Oh well.

[Rainmaker]

No worries man. It actually worked out better for me because the Tapatalk app doesn't show any comments.

Here's the track by itself:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZQCJm5Jvn6hGSJ1u0viqclTPwjtNsKN/view?usp=sharing