diceslinger

better Late start on bass

@Rodman, Here it is, my version of Audioslave's Like a Stone. Man, this was a project in itself, but I wanted to do the song justice. Drums and bass are standard Band in a Box tracks. I laid down two rhythm tracks and panned one to the left and one to the right. I then recorded the single note guitar part from the first half. I broke out the Digitech Whammy pedal for the solo. Then I got stuck on vocals. Today, everyone was out of the house, so I put on headphones and just belted it out. I spent a few hours adjusting, EQing, putting on compressors and here it is. I'm able to apply some of the stuff I'm learning in my class, so I'm pretty happy with that. Whew....what a production!

After working on Kerosene all week, much respect for that 100%!

Is that an emulated bass try? Heh heh....welcome to the dark side!

Finally moved the needle

Finally put it all together.

If we have time before the new week...

Finally made it through with no strikes! Yeah!

not much progress but more here

F**K yeah dude! That was awesome! Man, so much torment in your voice on the chorus, you captured the pain! I think that is your best vocal work so far, I just felt it. Nice tone on the guitar, the two parts integrated well together. Great selection on the drums too, that steady unrelenting beat propels it forward. Yeah, real nice version!

I had been slacking off, only playing the contest songs a handful of times each week. I'm trying to put in more effort. Now I'm getting a bit of a practice regimen. I am learning the Beatles "In my Time" for the final recording and mixing project for my class. So I start with the bass part and the rhythm part of that song. Then I've been playing our Audioslave "Like a Stone" song on rhythm trying to get that solidly in my head. Then I jump into the contest songs and play them a couple times apiece depending on who is in the room and if I've burned them out on that particular song

Maybe this is a true GoG bass part?

Big jump on lead...not sure if I'll be able to beat it, but there is some time. This song is a lot more relaxed on rhythm path Another big jump. Still not very clean on it. So fun with the fingers flying!

That's the spirit!

some starts Oooh...this one is going to be fun

That was too fun though! You got my blood pumping this morning.

Lucky run!

@Mikson I thought you might be coming on

ran through this one a few time

Had fun with this song this week, still don't feel very clean on it. I may switch to jazz III picks for a while to work on my precision.

I am impressed at your persistence on this song! I played it twice and my hand hurt so bad! Good to see someone having success at it.

My wife and I were talking about these versions of Two Black Cadillacs. In our discussion we both thought that the original by Carrie Underwood has a "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" vibe with a very powerful fury. My version we both agree is a lonely story told long after the fact. I picture dust and tumbleweeds blowing across a grave with no one around. In fact the faint chorus I pushed to sound faint and ghostlike like voices in the wind. Your version made us both realize that the song could be about more than the cars, grave, or even the two women. The quiet family laughing and talking in the background evokes thoughts of happy times that are now rent asunder. The children are crying as two families are both ripped apart. I never thought about whether on not there were kids involved in the story! You manage to capture an innocence lost. Powerful stuff. I liked the two guitars, I'm always impressed at how cleanly you play, and your brother's playing really added to the song. You provided a good base and his playing moved around on top of that. That had to be so cool to record something together! Your new vocal mic does sound nice. What kind is it? Audioslave....nice choice. I watched a masterclass by Tom Morello a few month ago and he talked about Chris Cornell being one of the best at fitting lyrics to an existing melody. I bought the Audioslave DLC after that masterclass, but haven't really given them the study I want to. Looks like here is my chance! This pick brings me full circle on our challenge, because one of the points that Tom Morello made was to start expressing yourself. You don't have to wait until you can play someone else's songs, play your songs. He said he tried lessons and hated it. Years later he listened to a punk album and was in a band the same day. He said there were 3 bands in the school, one was good and played all of the pop songs everyone liked, one played metal, and his played their own songs because they couldn't play anyone else's. So anyway, that bit is what pushed me to accept your challenge, and what pushes me to keep putting myself out there and make the music mine.

I like this one...never heard of them.

@Rodman I've been working on this for a while, finally got a chance to lay it down. I only listened to the original a few times so I didn't just end up playing it. I ended up just playing around with the chords, making notes about what I liked. I add some chords changes, I may have changed the A chord to Am, or the tab I had was wrong. It sounded better to be with Am. This was a blast, I think I ended up pretty far from the original, but I am pretty happy with it. Still some buzz on the guitar, I think I need to replace the bridge, but I like being able to use the piezo mic on that guitar. The vocals are all chopped up to remove some pops and clicks. The diaphragm mic is a lot more sensitive, so there were more of those.