My First Original: Frantic (an instrumental)

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:40 pm

Did this a few weeks ago one night and decided to dig it up and post it here. Rhythm, leads, and bass on this one:

http://dmbtabs.gregblasko.com/frantic.mp3

Lemme know what you think!

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:49 pm

i liked your overall progression, it was really cool

but here's where my real analysis comes in:

your lead overall was pretty good, but it just lacked any real heat. the only real "heat" i saw was around 2:30. it started out rather choppy, and then you went into a lot of bends that went slightly off key.

i used to, and for the most part still do, have a problem with not varying my rhythm in my melodies. i usually ended up doing straight eighth notes and that gets rather boring. you may be playing different notes but your rhythm stays the same throughout the entire song. i feel like a hypocrite for saying this cuz i still do this a lot, but i'm well aware of my problem and i saw a lot of it in your playing. in fact, the lead i would have done for this song would have ended sounding pretty similar.

just work on being more fluid and varying the rhythm of each line

firedancer86 · Unread post by **firedancer86** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:12 pm

fatjack wrote:
just work on being more fluid and varying the rhythm of each line

mattf wants to know what kind of fluid? :roll:

NETWORK ERROR BEEF

what kinda beef? :roll:

DMBFan63 · Unread post by **DMBFan63** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:03 pm

Sounds good RB. At 1st i thought you were posting Tim Reynold's Frantic.. :-p

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:04 pm

sounds good, but the bass sounds almost distorted or is it just really low. I like it as a whole

mbgreen · Unread post by **mbgreen** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:09 am

hey not bad at all...I too think the lead needs to be a little more dynamic. It sounds like you were struggling in a couple places. And the bass is pretty low, but on the whole you've got a nice little progression going there. Put some lyrics to it...I'd be really interested to see what you do with it.

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:24 am

DMBFan63 wrote:Sounds good RB. At 1st i thought you were posting Tim Reynold's Frantic.. :-p

Didn't know Timmy had a song called Frantic... :oops:

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:42 am

Thanks for comments guys. Yeah - I suck at leads and was struggling at points. I basically only know one scale - E Pentatonic Minor and I tend to buld every improv I do off of that formation. I should really learn more scales...

That impov was done in one take after fooling around with it for like ten minutes so there are a lot of misses and such. Again, I've never really sat down and took the time to learn how to solo. Any advice there would help!

dmbguitar718 · Unread post by **dmbguitar718** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:37 pm

i liked it alot. i loved the slaps at the beginning. the lead got very cool towards the end.

only one complaint really: shorten it. i just felt like it dragged on too long. if you are going to make it 4:48, add a new part or shorten it. (actually sorry, that came off really harsh)

and one more thing...i think it would sound awesome with a different ending, you know, spice it up a bit. make up a riff to end it, if you catch my drift.

i really liked it though. kepp up the good work. and btw, what kind of preamp are you using, if any?

VTDreaminwithDMB · Unread post by **VTDreaminwithDMB** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:34 pm

Sounds pretty cool. Kind of like what it would sound like if Dave jammed with Alice In Chains.

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:03 pm

dmbguitar718 wrote:what kind of preamp are you using, if any?

B-Band A1/AST

VTDreaminwithDMB wrote: Sounds pretty cool. Kind of like what it would sound like if Dave jammed with Alice In Chains.

Ha. Two of my favs...

dmbguitar718 · Unread post by **dmbguitar718** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:15 pm

Roastbeef wrote:
dmbguitar718 wrote:what kind of preamp are you using, if any?
B-Band A1/AST

ahh thats right.

so if i get my little mono to mono reducer, (just that) and plug my guitar in, i can get sound quality like yours now? (with the exception of the cleaning up in cool edit)

Appfro · Unread post by **Appfro** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:22 pm

i really liked the progression. not as fond of the lead as i was with the rhythm, but it wasn't bad. i still enjoyed it a lot. id like to hear vocals and lyrics to it. good job man.

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:45 pm

dmbguitar718 wrote:so if i get my little mono to mono reducer, (just that) and plug my guitar in, i can get sound quality like yours now? (with the exception of the cleaning up in cool edit)

In theory, yes. Still depends on what type of electronics you have and the type of sound card.

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My First Original: Frantic (an instrumental)

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