Project 'Make It Sing'

TokyoP0P · 2015-07-06T19:51:40+00:00

Inspired by Briang's writing/recording project and the monthly challenges, I've decided to start my own personal challenge. Having not been in a band for years now, I haven't really needed to exercise any creativity as far as lead guitar work goes. I've gotten lazy with that stuff. The guitar players I always looked up to weren't necessarily the ones who were setting their fretboards on fire with speed and technicality, but rather the guys like Marty Friedman, Joe Satriani (more his earlier stuff) and even Jeff Beck who were/are great at making their guitars sing while throwing blistering runs mostly to enhance the melodies. I like solos that tell stories of their own. Little songs within the songs. So, I've decided to exercise creativity and force myself to sit down and write stuff to go over pretty basic riffs, partly just to see how rad a solo can be over something short and repetitive. I'm going to attempt to pump these out as regularly as possible, keeping the tunes fairly brief. Here are three from this past week. My favourite is It Squeeks ? I've been using the Van Halen Eruption guitar tone for the lead stuff. Please let me know what you think and also if the volume and clarity is ok. It sounds fine in my headphones but I have a feeling it could be shite from a speaker set. So far I've been recording on Audacity and with these three tunes I've compressed each track. I guess that does something...

TokyoP0P

Hey ya'all ? I've got a band in the works now and we've just started a soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/playgroundza

It would be amazing if you could follow and like. Every bit of support helps.

Cheers!

studmissile

TokyoP0P wrote Hey ya'all ? I've got a band in the works now and we've just started a soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/playgroundza

It would be amazing if you could follow and like. Every bit of support helps.

Cheers!

A1!

wern101

Liked and followed! Beautifull stuff!

V8

TokyoP0P wrote It would be amazing if you could follow and like. Every bit of support helps.

Done!

Great track...vocal production & guitar harmony works for me! Nice one, you've been busy 8)

TokyoP0P

Thanks guys! :goodtimes:

TokyoP0P

This is the guitar part for a song in the works with the band, but I really like the guitars on their own so I've just thrown it up on my personal SC.

Foottapiologist

Really cool tune.
By the way I bumped into Claire on a movie shoot the other day. I had watched a video of the two of you jamming and one or maybe two days later I saw this blonde number walking along on set and thought my mind was playing tricks on me. "Scuse me are you a singer?"

TokyoP0P

Foottapiologist wrote Really cool tune.
By the way I bumped into Claire on a movie shoot the other day. I had watched a video of the two of you jamming and one or maybe two days later I saw this blonde number walking along on set and thought my mind was playing tricks on me. "Scuse me are you a singer?"

Thanks Foot.

Haha ah so that was you. Yeah she told me about it. She messaged me saying something like "I got recognized!! Did you post us online or something?" ?

But thats not me in any video. Or at least none that I'm aware of... unless she ninja filmed me.

Foottapiologist

I was listening to a track of yours on soundcloud and noticed the two names up in the corner and googled your names or googled the song/band name or whatever, don't remember, and came up with some songs on youtube. See when you're an accomplished artist the fans stalk you :?

TokyoP0P

Foottapiologist wrote I was listening to a track of yours on soundcloud and noticed the two names up in the corner and googled your names or googled the song/band name or whatever, don't remember, and came up with some songs on youtube. See when you're an accomplished artist the fans stalk you :?

Oh thats a different Barry. They jammed together back in Natal where she is originally from. Hes actually the original bass player from the Rudimentals.

I guess shes just collecting Barrys.

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