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cool song

 

 

 

oh yes ... havent heard that forever - very cool tune, Fatboy forever!!!

 

 

 

+ lead

 

 

 

way better

 

 

 

tallica

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Rodman said:

ok... definitely a few big lessons learned....

LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK - BAD RECORDING!

So... i only share this because it holds important educational info for me, and i spent 10 hours or so that week trying to somehow get things together there. Failed.
Well, that song caught me, and after spending those hours competing on it i could play the riff, the rhyrthm, the bass quite well, everything except the solo (which does in no way matter here). So before going to sleep i just hit record, did 2 or 3 takes on lead, 2 on rhythm, 2 on bass playing along with RS and sang some bad lyriclines for fun.... and was happy.
When i sat down that changed 🙂 .... Recording without starting clicks makes it a pain pain pain to sync the START of each track - when things start late (bass, vocals) and you have a song that has no (like here) clear 1-beats to hold on you are out in the shit from the beginning... i think it was 2 hours until i THOUGHT i had the tracks matched up.... then i added drums and was very very unhappy how not in tempo my guitar lines and even more the bass were thats because there was NO METRONOME while recording .... playing along RS made me think i am quite well following the rhythm, and as i am playing over my amp with hearable volume all the time - live it sounded really ok - but matched with any 2nd track it´s unusable to have a synced recording. Brrrrrr.
So i tried everything - low volume bass, rhythm, with any of the lead tracks - no decent result whatsoever possible. Sometimes i´m late, sometimes i am way earlier than the other track... ok - so to close the file i downmixed (no effects, no mastering or whatever) 2 lead guitar lines with vocals and drums, (and a bit brass at the end) to always remember

RECORD WITH METRONOME
START YOUR RECORDING WITH WHATEVER CLICK OR NOISE SO THE TRACKS CAN EASILY BE MATCHED

Rod.

Why the scream at 1:49 goes so hard tho?? Deathcore Rod needs to do some Slaughter To Prevail 🤣🤣

And the solo is impressive as hell 👏🏻 I def can’t pull that off

I figured out how to record Rocksmith with OBS this week and yeah the difference between using a metronome/drum track and just ripping on RS is very noticeable on playback 😅

 

Shooting Shark threw me off. I definitely don't have all the techniques of playing mastered! But I didn't completely lose confidence so its a win for me

 

rock on \m/

On 5/1/2025 at 11:29 PM, Rodman said:

.... yay here we go.

Well - my belief is that you cannot butcher a top song to death any easily and on the other hand you cannot bring a bad one to life - in other words you will not bring a Ricky Martin song to glory whatever you do and as we have one of the greatest written songs of all time on the table - any cover will bring the vibe.... So ... i wanted to make that the smallest version possible - acoustic guitar and voice only, i stripped it to a 4 chord song 🙂 - i swear, and not even the chord intervals are exact, only verse-chord, no pauses, no extras. I think i´m right.

Rod.

I agree with others, this was really good and had its charm! I've never heard this song in such an acoustic version and I admit I liked it! 👏

17 hours ago, Rodman said:

.... yay here we go.

Well - my belief is that you cannot butcher a top song to death any easily and on the other hand you cannot bring a bad one to life - in other words you will not bring a Ricky Martin song to glory whatever you do and as we have one of the greatest written songs of all time on the table - any cover will bring the vibe.... So ... i wanted to make that the smallest version possible - acoustic guitar and voice only, i stripped it to a 4 chord song 🙂 - i swear, and not even the chord intervals are exact, only verse-chord, no pauses, no extras. I think i´m right.

Rod.

Brilliant! It's simple and slower but still maintains what makes it a great song! Also congrats on keeping the duet going 🎸

I'm a sucker for any song that has some good slaps and pops, so I had to try it out 🤣

Only had time to play 2 songs today. But i usually suck at trash metal anyway.

 

Some improvement. That's all because I don't have more time.

Small improvement:

This week was pretty fun,
As for the lead, its quite enjoyable to play the clean sounds, but at 95%+ its really hard to keep up or to keep the tempo up. I keep fumbling and theres no catch up on that.

Rhythm was alot easier, but not on the wrist, I had to warm it up a bit to get it consistent. But, the pattern repeat over and over again.

 

 

On 5/1/2025 at 11:29 PM, Rodman said:

.... yay here we go.

Well - my belief is that you cannot butcher a top song to death any easily and on the other hand you cannot bring a bad one to life - in other words you will not bring a Ricky Martin song to glory whatever you do and as we have one of the greatest written songs of all time on the table - any cover will bring the vibe.... So ... i wanted to make that the smallest version possible - acoustic guitar and voice only, i stripped it to a 4 chord song 🙂 - i swear, and not even the chord intervals are exact, only verse-chord, no pauses, no extras. I think i´m right.

Rod.

I liked it a lot. Actually went to youtube to listen to the original just to compare 🙂  I really like a retake rather than just a copy, thumbs up!

A little feedback for your sake, do what you want with it:

- playing the same chords for 1mn was too long for me, especialy in the age of Shorts 🤪 . I've found an unplugged performance of aha and he starts singing after 15s.

- i would have changed a little the melody to accomodate the singer's voice, it felt a couple of notes were too low pitch for her range.

- Last one I'm not sure at all since I've never processed vocals but maybe adding a tiny bit of reverb? what do you think? 🤔

 

Fell asleep for a second there lol

hey @ Classicoz ! just now noticed your scores didnt have the streak image, make sure to take the picture when that screen shows up as that's what counts as a valid score. I've added them anyways this time since you are newish 🙂 
 

new week is up

 

On 5/2/2025 at 11:26 PM, drand said:

Why the scream at 1:49 goes so hard tho?? Deathcore Rod needs to do some Slaughter To Prevail 🤣🤣

And the solo is impressive as hell 👏🏻 I def can’t pull that off

I figured out how to record Rocksmith with OBS this week and yeah the difference between using a metronome/drum track and just ripping on RS is very noticeable on playback 😅

Hahahaha.... well it was in the middle of the night and i had to be quiet  - so i quietly recorded 3 vocal lines - a "normal" one, a really high one and a growling/shouting one.... as soon as i accepted i was in the shit i was freeeee 🙂 so the growling one that would have never made it - made it to the show 🙂

Yap and thank you - the solo there is my ankor also - it get´s even more impressive when you listen that there are 2 guitars (seperate left and right speaker) and they play very very much the same in the solo section. Not all hope is lost 😉

Rock hard and give us new covers soon!!!

Rod

3 hours ago, Willyam said:

I liked it a lot. Actually went to youtube to listen to the original just to compare 🙂  I really like a retake rather than just a copy, thumbs up!

A little feedback for your sake, do what you want with it:

1) - playing the same chords for 1mn was too long for me, especialy in the age of Shorts 🤪 . I've found an unplugged performance of aha and he starts singing after 15s.

2) - i would have changed a little the melody to accomodate the singer's voice, it felt a couple of notes were too low pitch for her range.

3) - Last one I'm not sure at all since I've never processed vocals but maybe adding a tiny bit of reverb? what do you think? 🤔

Oh thank you! Please keep that coming!!!!!!

1) No - that was on purpose ... it´s one verse and one chorus - we play guitar here so you will be hearing guitar. That the minute there feels a bit long is the tribute to purifying it to 4 chords. I normally would have played the signature piano melody there - but as stated above experiment was as tiny as possible.

2) Yes - and as she sang after i did the guitar recording that would have meant going back to the starts which is always an option. Thx for having good ears and lending them.

3) checking whats on there...

 

small project overall

on the vocals there is only subtle mixing with a bit of reverb also

Mastering is also subtle mainly avoid clipping and background noises, and a bit of finetune

Yeah... i´m only starting on all that - i shall try to push on vocal effects a bit

Thx

R.