You play bass like a guitarist ? Glad you did not resort to the usual plectrum tho. ?
Excellent work on the video. Your drummer is excellent too.
Well done
Excellent work on the video. Your drummer is excellent too.
Well done
My most ambitious video so far...
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.Markal wrote: You play bass like a guitarist ? Glad you did not resort to the usual plectrum tho. ?
Excellent work on the video. Your drummer is excellent too.
Well done
Not sure what you mean about the bass tho. I thought the bass part sounds like a bass player ?
Cheers.
3 months later
I'm sure he was referring to string plucking vs tapping - keeping the fingers of the right hand straight and perpendicular to strings. Nothing wrong with whatever technique works for you... and it does!PJH wrote:Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.Markal wrote: You play bass like a guitarist ? Glad you did not resort to the usual plectrum tho. ?
Excellent work on the video. Your drummer is excellent too.
Well done
Not sure what you mean about the bass tho. I thought the bass part sounds like a bass player ?
Cheers.
On the video - yowza! Peter, this is brilliant! Ambitious, well arranged, polished, musically mature - nothing to add or take away. Great work man.
Thanks for commenting and for your feedback, fdlsysfdlsys wrote:I'm sure he was referring to string plucking vs tapping - keeping the fingers of the right hand straight and perpendicular to strings. Nothing wrong with whatever technique works for you... and it does!PJH wrote:Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.Markal wrote: You play bass like a guitarist ? Glad you did not resort to the usual plectrum tho. ?
Excellent work on the video. Your drummer is excellent too.
Well done
Not sure what you mean about the bass tho. I thought the bass part sounds like a bass player ?
Cheers.
On the video - yowza! Peter, this is brilliant! Ambitious, well arranged, polished, musically mature - nothing to add or take away. Great work man.
Cheers,
Peter.
Brilliant!!!
Love how it suddenly starts rocking out at 2:30! 8)
Wow this is amazing, both the music and video. Professional grade editing.
Thanks for watching and the feedback, Guidance.Guidance wrote: Wow this is amazing, both the music and video. Professional grade editing.
Cheers,
Peter.
OK here is my break down of that:
The good: Wow, a guitarist going past the craft itself and getting creative in the visual side and video editing etc, this in itself is already excellent.
Playing is clean and well rehearsed. I always look at two things to gauge your level of preparation, vibrato and bends, vibrato on the acoustic at times was a tiny bit wide but still in pocket, also well timed to swing in the groove. Bends and double stops were spot on every time.
Nice contrast between light and dark elements, acoustic vs distorted electric, percussion versus full kit etc.
Solid recording, didn't get to listen on the Adams and with a sub yet but it sits very well on M1s and headphones.
A very strong expression of many creative ideas in this vid.
The Bad: As you guys get to know me you will find out I don't blow smoke, and i do have some involvement in international music, particularly in guiding music policy and inventing suitable business models for SectionZ Records and finding them Savant, one of the worlds premier dubstep acts. You may contact Shannon McGill at SectionZ at any point to confirm this. So all my comments are biased in one way, and that is that I am thinking about commercial viability.
First thing to address is the lack of showmanship. Busting out a good tune is fine, but if you want to have people watch you do it, you have to give them something to watch. As an example, it is highly efficient economy of movement sticking to a single position. Looks boring though. Basically it makes it look like you are miming over a recording, to an audience minimal movement and huge sounds do not compute. Sucks but it is true. In electronic a where there is nothing to com people do stuff like wear a giant mouse head no BS. On guitar, you have pyrotechnicians like Steve Vai and Jeff Beck to steal some tricks from. Look at Beck, for example Freeway Jam. He uses a space of like ten frets to slide into ONE note that he is about to hit on a different string a second time in a much easier place. You can get a similar effect by sticking in one position and sliding in over two frets but hell it doesnt look half as good. Not saying you have to go monkey like those cats, but a little more flash is needed for sure. Take away the did and this matters none of course.
The song itself: Not my cup of chai, so the rule of "pinch of salt" applies strongly lol. I liked the intro, but got a little itchy for something to happen by two minutes in tbh. When it did happen I got bit of a fright, not too sure if it was the sudden pan to the drummer with a barrage of full kit at the same instant, or the strange juxtaposition of that leap in energy with the guitar misleading me into a totally different expectation by plodding along all gently still, but it was an odd moment for me.
It is a great idea, the jump in energy, my personal feeling is it needs to be lead into a little better though. What I mean is this: The first section does not rise into it, it stays pretty straight all the way, then with no warning or bridge section nada just explodes out. The acoustic detracts from this transition also, whereby creating an atmosphere where every element seems uncertain and out of place for a brief moment.
Right as this sound settles into my head the distorted guitar comes in and once again atmosphere takes a huge shift. Contrast gives way to imbalance for those moments Sir. I feel this section can benefit hugely from some lead ins and perhaps a bit of a build into the transition. There are many options for this, a second layer of guitar in the 16 bars before the transition, a few chords thrown into the head here and there to fatten in up and prepare for the drop, a riff working up into 16ths and 32nds to bring a rising feeling of intensity, a modulation in the keys, short breakdown with drums and bass, so many options, you can even go the Brian May style half bar riff route. Some fast squiggles into the drop if you catch my drift. Any kind of ornamentation leading in will help immensely. Not too sure about that acoustic carrying on, it is a fantastic idea, taking a negative of the classic lead in on electric. I was impressed at the creativity, not so much the end result.
OK right I am already looking like a right twat here and let me pre-empt what I know is coming with this: No I would not have done a better job at this, it is not my art and ultimately has nothing to do with me. Here are merely the things I would have liked to see differently (in other words how it can be different in order to stay on my personal playlist).
The good: Wow, a guitarist going past the craft itself and getting creative in the visual side and video editing etc, this in itself is already excellent.
Playing is clean and well rehearsed. I always look at two things to gauge your level of preparation, vibrato and bends, vibrato on the acoustic at times was a tiny bit wide but still in pocket, also well timed to swing in the groove. Bends and double stops were spot on every time.
Nice contrast between light and dark elements, acoustic vs distorted electric, percussion versus full kit etc.
Solid recording, didn't get to listen on the Adams and with a sub yet but it sits very well on M1s and headphones.
A very strong expression of many creative ideas in this vid.
The Bad: As you guys get to know me you will find out I don't blow smoke, and i do have some involvement in international music, particularly in guiding music policy and inventing suitable business models for SectionZ Records and finding them Savant, one of the worlds premier dubstep acts. You may contact Shannon McGill at SectionZ at any point to confirm this. So all my comments are biased in one way, and that is that I am thinking about commercial viability.
First thing to address is the lack of showmanship. Busting out a good tune is fine, but if you want to have people watch you do it, you have to give them something to watch. As an example, it is highly efficient economy of movement sticking to a single position. Looks boring though. Basically it makes it look like you are miming over a recording, to an audience minimal movement and huge sounds do not compute. Sucks but it is true. In electronic a where there is nothing to com people do stuff like wear a giant mouse head no BS. On guitar, you have pyrotechnicians like Steve Vai and Jeff Beck to steal some tricks from. Look at Beck, for example Freeway Jam. He uses a space of like ten frets to slide into ONE note that he is about to hit on a different string a second time in a much easier place. You can get a similar effect by sticking in one position and sliding in over two frets but hell it doesnt look half as good. Not saying you have to go monkey like those cats, but a little more flash is needed for sure. Take away the did and this matters none of course.
The song itself: Not my cup of chai, so the rule of "pinch of salt" applies strongly lol. I liked the intro, but got a little itchy for something to happen by two minutes in tbh. When it did happen I got bit of a fright, not too sure if it was the sudden pan to the drummer with a barrage of full kit at the same instant, or the strange juxtaposition of that leap in energy with the guitar misleading me into a totally different expectation by plodding along all gently still, but it was an odd moment for me.
It is a great idea, the jump in energy, my personal feeling is it needs to be lead into a little better though. What I mean is this: The first section does not rise into it, it stays pretty straight all the way, then with no warning or bridge section nada just explodes out. The acoustic detracts from this transition also, whereby creating an atmosphere where every element seems uncertain and out of place for a brief moment.
Right as this sound settles into my head the distorted guitar comes in and once again atmosphere takes a huge shift. Contrast gives way to imbalance for those moments Sir. I feel this section can benefit hugely from some lead ins and perhaps a bit of a build into the transition. There are many options for this, a second layer of guitar in the 16 bars before the transition, a few chords thrown into the head here and there to fatten in up and prepare for the drop, a riff working up into 16ths and 32nds to bring a rising feeling of intensity, a modulation in the keys, short breakdown with drums and bass, so many options, you can even go the Brian May style half bar riff route. Some fast squiggles into the drop if you catch my drift. Any kind of ornamentation leading in will help immensely. Not too sure about that acoustic carrying on, it is a fantastic idea, taking a negative of the classic lead in on electric. I was impressed at the creativity, not so much the end result.
OK right I am already looking like a right twat here and let me pre-empt what I know is coming with this: No I would not have done a better job at this, it is not my art and ultimately has nothing to do with me. Here are merely the things I would have liked to see differently (in other words how it can be different in order to stay on my personal playlist).
Thanks for taking the time to "crit" this production in such a fine detail.MrFacepalm wrote: OK here is my break down of that:
The good: Wow, a guitarist going past the craft itself and getting creative in the visual side and video editing etc, this in itself is already excellent.
Playing is clean and well rehearsed. I always look at two things to gauge your level of preparation, vibrato and bends, vibrato on the acoustic at times was a tiny bit wide but still in pocket, also well timed to swing in the groove. Bends and double stops were spot on every time.
Nice contrast between light and dark elements, acoustic vs distorted electric, percussion versus full kit etc.
Solid recording, didn't get to listen on the Adams and with a sub yet but it sits very well on M1s and headphones.
A very strong expression of many creative ideas in this vid.
The Bad: As you guys get to know me you will find out I don't blow smoke, and i do have some involvement in international music, particularly in guiding music policy and inventing suitable business models for SectionZ Records and finding them Savant, one of the worlds premier dubstep acts. You may contact Shannon McGill at SectionZ at any point to confirm this. So all my comments are biased in one way, and that is that I am thinking about commercial viability.
First thing to address is the lack of showmanship. Busting out a good tune is fine, but if you want to have people watch you do it, you have to give them something to watch. As an example, it is highly efficient economy of movement sticking to a single position. Looks boring though. Basically it makes it look like you are miming over a recording, to an audience minimal movement and huge sounds do not compute. Sucks but it is true. In electronic a where there is nothing to com people do stuff like wear a giant mouse head no BS. On guitar, you have pyrotechnicians like Steve Vai and Jeff Beck to steal some tricks from. Look at Beck, for example Freeway Jam. He uses a space of like ten frets to slide into ONE note that he is about to hit on a different string a second time in a much easier place. You can get a similar effect by sticking in one position and sliding in over two frets but hell it doesnt look half as good. Not saying you have to go monkey like those cats, but a little more flash is needed for sure. Take away the did and this matters none of course.
The song itself: Not my cup of chai, so the rule of "pinch of salt" applies strongly lol. I liked the intro, but got a little itchy for something to happen by two minutes in tbh. When it did happen I got bit of a fright, not too sure if it was the sudden pan to the drummer with a barrage of full kit at the same instant, or the strange juxtaposition of that leap in energy with the guitar misleading me into a totally different expectation by plodding along all gently still, but it was an odd moment for me.
It is a great idea, the jump in energy, my personal feeling is it needs to be lead into a little better though. What I mean is this: The first section does not rise into it, it stays pretty straight all the way, then with no warning or bridge section nada just explodes out. The acoustic detracts from this transition also, whereby creating an atmosphere where every element seems uncertain and out of place for a brief moment.
Right as this sound settles into my head the distorted guitar comes in and once again atmosphere takes a huge shift. Contrast gives way to imbalance for those moments Sir. I feel this section can benefit hugely from some lead ins and perhaps a bit of a build into the transition. There are many options for this, a second layer of guitar in the 16 bars before the transition, a few chords thrown into the head here and there to fatten in up and prepare for the drop, a riff working up into 16ths and 32nds to bring a rising feeling of intensity, a modulation in the keys, short breakdown with drums and bass, so many options, you can even go the Brian May style half bar riff route. Some fast squiggles into the drop if you catch my drift. Any kind of ornamentation leading in will help immensely. Not too sure about that acoustic carrying on, it is a fantastic idea, taking a negative of the classic lead in on electric. I was impressed at the creativity, not so much the end result.
OK right I am already looking like a right twat here and let me pre-empt what I know is coming with this: No I would not have done a better job at this, it is not my art and ultimately has nothing to do with me. Here are merely the things I would have liked to see differently (in other words how it can be different in order to stay on my personal playlist).
If you go back and read my very first post, you'll see that I mention that this video forms part of a "making of" DVD. Not a video for MTV or VH1. It is merely a "fly on the wall" look at what went into the recording of the track in the studio.
Of course movement would have been nice -depends on what you're going for and the circumstances in what was available at the time. The most important thing when recording is always - get the take perfect. Anything else is just a bonus. Having actual video of the recording is a big bonus.
As far as the actual audio production and arrangement is concerned, well as you said upfront - "not your cup of chai". I hear everything you're saying and of course you're entitled to your opinion.
I beg to differ and that could be because we're so far apart in what kind of music influences and appeals to us. That's the beauty of what we do. There are no rules and what appeals to someone may not appeal to others.
Commercial viability? I think not. A nine minute piece of music will not have commercial viability in this day and age. Never mind the fact that it's instrumental as well. Something which I realised a long time ago. Will it stop me from doing what I do? Definitely not.
Cheers,
Peter.
5 days later
Sounds stunning!!!!
a month later
Thanks, Crafty.Crafty wrote: Sounds stunning!!!!
Cheers,
Peter.
3 months later
Beautiful and inspiring.
4 days later
wow, this is so smooth. The recording is done so well and the drumming is very good. Well done!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment guys,
Much appreciated.
Cheers.
Much appreciated.
Cheers.