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Seven seeeeeeeas of sandwiches

By haleja on March 20, 2022 11:01 pm

-Self reflection-
Prior to starting weeklybeats I hadn't recorded my guitar playing for many years.
Since week 1 I've noticed how horrible my timing is. 99% of the time I'm rushing.
I wonder if it's because I'm out of practice, or if I've always been this way and never reflected on my playing enough to realize. I suspect I've always been this way (eek!). No time like the present to practice and overcome.

-Sailing the seven E's-
Disco beats and riffs. Wasn't really vibing with what was happening until I came up with the chorus melody. Sliding from E to E to E to E to E. It uses 7 different E's on the guitar, probably unnecessarily difficult, it's great fun to play haha.
[It sounds like a pitch shifter but it's not]

Simple mix this time.
Drums
Clean + dirty bass
Double track rhythm guitars
Lead guitar

Impressive guitar work. well done.

This is great, nice shreds. You're right it does sound like a pitch shift!  I have found that weekly beats has been improving my playing which is great. And also that sometimes I'm not sure about what I've recorded, but hey if its fun, thats something no?

myfirstpunksong wrote:

This is great, nice shreds. You're right it does sound like a pitch shift!  I have found that weekly beats has been improving my playing which is great. And also that sometimes I'm not sure about what I've recorded, but hey if its fun, thats something no?

It being fun is a massive part of it. If something isn't enjoyable, why subject yourself to it?
^^ A phrase much easier said than done I think haha.

Been there, rushed that lol. But your playing is always, repeat ALWAYS clean. And after recording enough guys over my years, rushing a little is a feel thing too, i bet looking at your notes on a grid, youll always be consistent in the rush, then is it really rushing? Awesome track as usual broseph.

Nyarlos wrote:

Been there, rushed that lol. But your playing is always, repeat ALWAYS clean. And after recording enough guys over my years, rushing a little is a feel thing too, i bet looking at your notes on a grid, youll always be consistent in the rush, then is it really rushing? Awesome track as usual broseph.

Thuunks Bruuuuuh. It's funny you mention "is it really rushing?". If I play from my gut and just go with the flow, I'll be rushing for sure, but I wont know it - (not until I listen back). But if I play from my head, focusing on lining up notes etc, I wont enjoy playing it, but it will sound better listening back.
I guess it's kinda cool that I can do both, now I need to merge them into one skill.

awesome guitar work! second dope metal track with shredding I heard on week11, mad what skills you folks have on this website gosh

dunno what to say about the timing thing, I guess feeling comes with experience and playing a lot, but I think it's totally fine that the tempo changes as long as it doesn't feel wrong. Thinking about that video of a guy who tried tempo mapping a Jimi Hendrix solo and found that the tempo was all over the place, but it felt groovy anyway and you wouldn't care about the tempo when hearing the track.

You're still rushing, but man, that's some fiery fret work.

Don't blame yourself... maybe your interface has negative recording latency!

When I play to a click I'm almost always ahead of the beat, so you're in... company. Maybe not good company, but you're not alone. Really nasty guitar playing. Super clean.

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