diceslinger

Really nice man. Do you know how I know your stuff is good? I sit listening to it with a grin on my face, and have to watch it a second time to listen to the guitar playing. I didn't realize that until now. Your daughter was awesome, what a good voice! Now I wish I had more songs like this to suggest! Glad you two could do that together! How did you end up solving the tempo change issue with your recorder?

I've been coasting too long, this is just embarrassing.

@Orkkongen you outwork people for your wins, you absolutely will be able to hold your own in advanced bass. I know, because that is my trick too Or was until @Rodman started distracting me with these side projects Steel sharpens steel, I look forward to crossing axes with you!

not much for me this week....too much going on I like this song.....never a big chili peppers fan, but they are interesting to play!

Billy Talent, meet I have no talent: Ah...arpeggios again. I can always use the practice

not much better..

@Rodman I finally got Symphony of Destruction laid down. Wow...you picked a tough one! I really struggled with consistency playing it fast, and after seeing the spectacular job that you did I realized that I was outclassed. So, I tried to make it my own instead. I went acoustic and slowed it down with a swing. I also tried out the slide I got, even using it for the solo. Lets see, I recorded it straight through, then recorded a second track with the slide parts. I laid the solo down separately as well. Then I put the vocals on. I am embarrassed to say that I left the metronome running while I recorded the guitar part, so is audible in some parts. And yes, the photo was taken last week, we still have snow Next up, as we discussed, Nena - 99 Red Balloons for me, 99 Luftballons for you. Mine in English, yours in the original German. Our respective daughters on vocals is mandatory Cool?

I feel like the student that didn't study for the test....

They day is yours, I don't have the time this morning to try to beat your score. I enjoyed this...nice job! It is fun to see my championship friends playing. I'd interested in your OBS setup, I haven't taken that step, but I'm getting close.

Dude....that was amazing! Your vocals, they made it for me. I can't believe you got the guitar and bass parts in one take. The consistency, very nice! As an aside, I was listening to the song, and I wondered how the guitar sound was so tight in the riff. I thought hmm...maybe they used a gate on it. The I was talking to my recording teacher and sure enough, he confirmed that most metal guitar has a gate pedal first off to minimize the noise, otherwise the overdrive distortion amplifies it all like crazy. So the gate cuts all sound below a certain level, cutting out all the incidental noise you don't want. Your picture is perfect. Seagulls are destruction wrapped in feathers. I've seen them poke holes in soda cans with their beaks. You rock man! Nice job!

Anything by Green Day is becoming a must play for me. So much with such simplicity....amazes me every time. Who would think punk would be economical? This one is easy to jump into quickly...going SA early Not the hardest 7 we have played, but this is the one has level up written all over it.

Played a little rhythm and a lot of bass last night Too small of mirror...the problem for cokeheads everywhere... Now I'm curious how Van Halen gets the drum/engine sound at the beginning. I read it was Eddie's Lamborghini idling then switching to to drums.

I knew you could do it! Sometimes the best thing to do is to sleep on it and let your brain do its thing.

Oooh....are you volunteering for the next one?

Tiny better... This one is just fun!

some improvements This one is growing on me

I thought I was playing rhythm...where the heck did that solo come from!

I thought I would share a project that @Rodman and I recently finished. I'm taking a recording and mixing class, and one of the assignments needed a one minute minimum recorded piece with three tracks, then we had to overdub two more tracks. Most of the class are music majors, so I assume it was no big deal for them, however I was at a loss for what to do. Rodman happened to message me, so I asked if he would record a few chord progressions that I could try to do something with. Man, he was all over it and within a few hours had a verse and chorus section recorded. I put some Band in a Box drums to it, noodled out a melody and a song started taking shape. I've been wanting to write a song for a while, so this seemed like a good opportunity. I wrote some lyrics about the coronavirus lockdown and recorded them as an overdub. I sent it over to Rodman and he recorded lyrics for the chorus, and we each recorded a solo. I mixed it using what I've been learning, and boom...a song! So here it is, Lockdown, and original song by Rodman and Diceslinger!

I missed this one

I feel like this song is 3 songs in one....always seemed odd. We used to play it in pep band at basketball games. a rare capo song "which one of you is Pink"....haha! Not sure I have the fight for bass this week

Thanks! For the drums, I use an app on my phone called I am A Band. It is free and you can upload a song on you phone and it will separate the parts. You can then play them on your phone, or export them. I use google drive for shuttling the file back and forth from computer to phone and back. It works well especially for drums, guitar and vocals, there are some odd artifacts, but in this case the drums were very usable. I used the same technique for the vocals (then distorted the heck out of them) on our Green Day Time of Your Life song if you remember. Oohh...Megadeth....Didn't own that one. Nice riff, a handful of sections repeated, should be learnable. That solo though.....gonna have to figure out how to fake something for that part! Sounds good, game on!

@Rodman Well, here it is, I finally got my lead vocalist scheduled and recorded. I'm getting better at recording usable takes, so I have two takes on guitar and panned one left and one right. The drums are the original stripped from the song. It wasn't as compelling to play as I thought it might be, but my daughter and I had a blast recording the vocals! The picture is one from my childhood photo albums. It is an abandoned steam locomotive, and I think it was one that the cement plant my dad worked for used to haul rock from the quarry. I'm asking some train enthusiasts about it to see if it still exists. I'm pretty sure there were two that the company owned, and the other is at a train museum in Colorado. I remember we got to climb on it and pretend to drive it, pretty cool for a six year old boy who loved trains!

I did it...I've played Rocksmith every day for three years! So I think I'll have a cigar