Some of my original stuff

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- May 19, 2008 at 4:01 am
jthompso
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Hey guys – heres a link to some of my original ideas. Listen to “demo 1” first and then the others, let me know what you think!

Heres the link – http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=655780

Cheers,

Julian

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- May 19, 2008 at 6:18 am
Rick Graham
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Hey Julian

Some great playing there bro!
Listened to ‘Demo 1’ – I liked how creative you were with your ideas and you certainly have some chops man!
What are you using for recording – drums, guitars etc?
- May 19, 2008 at 6:45 am
jthompso
Member

@Rick Graham 3398 wrote:

Hey Julian

Some great playing there bro!
Listened ‘ to Demo 1’ – I liked how creative you were with your ideas and you certainly have some chops man!
What are you using for recording – drums, guitars etc?

Hey Rick,

Thanks for listening, glad you liked it! Im just using a Zoom 808 digital 8 track recorder with onboard drum machine and guitar emulators. The guitar emulators are just ok but certainly good enough to put down ideas with – I have a Podxt which sounds much better but unfortunately with the Zoom you can only use the built in guitar sounds. I think with that track I used a Schecter Hellraiser 7 string – its an awesome guitar, Its the best guitar to shred on!!
- May 19, 2008 at 11:57 am
Trev
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Serious chops man and love the rhythm tone – nice and heavy! Dig it!
- May 19, 2008 at 11:57 am
Bill
Member

Listening to Demo 1 now and its really really good and you have some great chops as Rick said!! 🙂
Demo 2 is awesome!! I like the breakdown section at 00:50 great playing there Julian 🙂
- May 19, 2008 at 4:04 pm
jthompso
Member

Thanks for the kind words guys!
- May 20, 2008 at 3:56 am
shredmandan
Member

Liked it especially demo 2.Its got that great Thrash sound i like!
- May 20, 2008 at 4:33 am
Sean Conklin
Member

I’m definitely digging this stuff Julian. Great job! I really like what you have going on with “Unfinished” as well.

Keep it up!
Sean
- May 20, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Gollum
Member

VERY impressive. It’s scary to think what you could do with a full band in a real studio.

Tone is good, even more impressive once I found out you’re using the Zoom’s built in sounds. The construction is very well done. The composition is melodic and expressive, while being interesting.

Demo 1 and 2 are great.

Something I noticed while listening to “Cell 1” that didn’t stand out so much on the other ones is that the rhythm guitars tended to make the song monotonous. Maybe once a drum track is laid down it’ll be better.

You’re much better than me so don’t think I’m attacking your playing or anything. I just figured you might want some constructive critisism.

Keep posting and I’ll keep listening.

I really like “Unfinished” btw. 😉
- May 21, 2008 at 12:24 am
jthompso
Member

@Gollum 3422 wrote:

VERY impressive. It’s scary to think what you could do with a full band in a real studio.

Tone is good, even more impressive once I found out you’re using the Zoom’s built in sounds. The construction is very well done. The composition is melodic and expressive, while being interesting.

Demo 1 and 2 are great.

Something I noticed while listening to “Cell 1” that didn’t stand out so much on the other ones is that the rhythm guitars tended to make the song monotonous. Maybe once a drum track is laid down it’ll be better.

You’re much better than me so don’t think I’m attacking your playing or anything. I just figured you might want some constructive critisism.

Keep posting and I’ll keep listening.

I really like “Unfinished” btw. 😉

Hi Gollum, thanks for listening and your comments, I appreciate it. I agree with you about Cell 1, thats really only up there so our new drummer can get a copy to learn from – the song needs to be reworked and there are breakdown sections and dynamics that dont really come across from just the rythm guitars, hopefully these elements will come out with drums and bass added!

Cheers,

Julian
- May 23, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Epilogue
Member

Hey, great stuff there! This is awesome! I like your heavy rhythm guitars, they sound really good.
The only thing that bothered me is the focus on the guitars. I mean, the drum tracks are decent but as a guitarist, I think you should put your mind into the other insturments more than the guitar! Or at least evenly.

What you did isn’t bad of course, because those are your GUITAR compositions, but I think it is important to try writing creative stuff for other instruments too. Drums for that matter. Piano, saxophone, tubular bells, flute! If you will also listen to non-guitarists compostions (piano or flute or trombone or horn or sax or cello!!!) you could write better stuff for those instruments, and ALSO you can apply non-guitar techniques, melodies and concepts to your own GUITAR compositions. You can achieve creativity and innovativeness (is that a word??), and make your playing much, much more interesting.

I guess I got a little carried away.. sorry! hehe
- May 24, 2008 at 1:31 am
jthompso
Member

@Epilogue 3469 wrote:

Hey, great stuff there! This is awesome! I like your heavy rhythm guitars, they sound really good.
The only thing that bothered me is the focus on the guitars. I mean, the drum tracks are decent but as a guitarist, I think you should put your mind into the other insturments more than the guitar! Or at least evenly.

What you did isn’t bad of course, because those are your GUITAR compositions, but I think it is important to try writing creative stuff for other instruments too. Drums for that matter. Piano, saxophone, tubular bells, flute! If you will also listen to non-guitarists compostions (piano or flute or trombone or horn or sax or cello!!!) you could write better stuff for those instruments, and ALSO you can apply non-guitar techniques, melodies and concepts to your own GUITAR compositions. You can achieve creativity and innovativeness (is that a word??), and make your playing much, much more interesting.

I guess I got a little carried away.. sorry! hehe

Hi, thanks for your comments! I probably should have pointed out that these are by no means finished songs and are only rough guitar and drum tracks to record the basic idea. The main purpose was so I could play them to other people who might be interested in putting a band together. The finished versions of these songs will sound very different with full instrumentation ie – guitar, drums, bass, keys, vocals etc.

Cheers,

Julian
- May 24, 2008 at 4:50 am
tjchep
Member

Wow..

Unfinished is really good man..

Great stuff man.
- May 24, 2008 at 6:02 am
Epilogue
Member

@jthompso 3476 wrote:

Hi, thanks for your comments! I probably should have pointed out that these are by no means finished songs and are only rough guitar and drum tracks to record the basic idea. The main purpose was so I could play them to other people who might be interested in putting a band together. The finished versions of these songs will sound very different with full instrumentation ie – guitar, drums, bass, keys, vocals etc.

Cheers,

Julian

I see. It’s okay then.
well good luck!