fromthebark
Experienced
i've been looking for a second guitarist since I started my band 10 years ago. (we broke up for 5 years and just got back together like 6 months ago) We are like Propagandhi (Thrash prog metal punk - they rule if you're looking for a new heavy smart prog band) / Zappa / QOTSA / Meets the jamming of Umphrey's Mcgee. And I think we just made the decision to tune down to D to sound a little more ominous and heavy, and make it easier for me to sing (I smoked too much. Quit now but I had a great on the pitch scream/sing that I sort of lost. It will come back the more we practice im sure)
Everyone you approach about playing guitar is either a novice, or the good guitarists that can handle our insane riffs is already scooped up in a band already. It'd really be nice to not have to play arpeggios and sing vocals at the same time.. fromthebark.bandcamp.com - I forgot we even had this.. it's like 6 years old. I'd say we're punk inspired prog rock that will play a moody blues song if it feels right... I really have strived hard to be the genreless band. Those three songs are 3 of our more rocking tunes though.
I actually do have a few patches in the axe, i've made with the harmonizer, Custom shift, and dotted 8th delays (the edge) that really fill up the spaces nicely when two guitars would be more apt to interplay and do their thing.
We just got a keyboard player though. He is not familiar with this style of music at all, but he has a Moog mini phatty and a nice weighted key korg that does it all.., I think he's just gonna be doing a lot of sawtooth lines during breaks on the moog, and either gritty electric piano or a B3 leslie sound to just play the chords and fill up the sound during verses and choruses, unless we come up with some cool harmony riffs.. It's only been a week so we don't really know yet. He's an amazing player, like prodigy style kinda kid.. but he's used to playing Bach and Mozart pieces. He is good at jamming funk grooves and stuff so he has the funk within him, therefore I don't worry that we made a bad decision. Just gonna take some time. So I am responsible to leading him into the world of blood sweat and shred.. I've been listening to a lot of queens of the stone age and umphrey's mcgee, really honing in on how they incorporate keys into their heavier songs. mostly the moog playing a Gnarly buzzsaw bass line, or just following the guitars with a rhodes or piano, overdriven a little bit.
Any other heavier bands that have keys I can listen to and see how they use it in their music?
I think Between the Buried and Me, the singer plays keys, but very sparingly... The eagles of death metal I think has a piano.. NIN.. which is almost all synth.. half the time.. I'd love to get some NIN patches for my arturia synths. Though I'm sure someone has written down intricate settings for real moogs somewhere on the internet to get that thick buzzsaw, but not harsh lead NIN'ish patch.
Check out the bands i listed above as our influences if you're not familiar.. I'm not really looking for Djent bands at all.. We're not heavy in that sense. We do beatles covers too. Maybe I should go back to the 70s and listen to some ELP, genesis, Rush... All those prog rock bands with the Gigantic Modular Moogs. But they sound a bit cheesy today. They worked then, of course.. I'm not knocking them, I love them, but We're going for a fresher more original sound. So I guess I'm just asking for help, what are some newer bands that are Rocking, not HEAVY METAL Or DJENT, and use keyboards, and they work and sound great.
Thanks guys!
Everyone you approach about playing guitar is either a novice, or the good guitarists that can handle our insane riffs is already scooped up in a band already. It'd really be nice to not have to play arpeggios and sing vocals at the same time.. fromthebark.bandcamp.com - I forgot we even had this.. it's like 6 years old. I'd say we're punk inspired prog rock that will play a moody blues song if it feels right... I really have strived hard to be the genreless band. Those three songs are 3 of our more rocking tunes though.
I actually do have a few patches in the axe, i've made with the harmonizer, Custom shift, and dotted 8th delays (the edge) that really fill up the spaces nicely when two guitars would be more apt to interplay and do their thing.
We just got a keyboard player though. He is not familiar with this style of music at all, but he has a Moog mini phatty and a nice weighted key korg that does it all.., I think he's just gonna be doing a lot of sawtooth lines during breaks on the moog, and either gritty electric piano or a B3 leslie sound to just play the chords and fill up the sound during verses and choruses, unless we come up with some cool harmony riffs.. It's only been a week so we don't really know yet. He's an amazing player, like prodigy style kinda kid.. but he's used to playing Bach and Mozart pieces. He is good at jamming funk grooves and stuff so he has the funk within him, therefore I don't worry that we made a bad decision. Just gonna take some time. So I am responsible to leading him into the world of blood sweat and shred.. I've been listening to a lot of queens of the stone age and umphrey's mcgee, really honing in on how they incorporate keys into their heavier songs. mostly the moog playing a Gnarly buzzsaw bass line, or just following the guitars with a rhodes or piano, overdriven a little bit.
Any other heavier bands that have keys I can listen to and see how they use it in their music?
I think Between the Buried and Me, the singer plays keys, but very sparingly... The eagles of death metal I think has a piano.. NIN.. which is almost all synth.. half the time.. I'd love to get some NIN patches for my arturia synths. Though I'm sure someone has written down intricate settings for real moogs somewhere on the internet to get that thick buzzsaw, but not harsh lead NIN'ish patch.
Check out the bands i listed above as our influences if you're not familiar.. I'm not really looking for Djent bands at all.. We're not heavy in that sense. We do beatles covers too. Maybe I should go back to the 70s and listen to some ELP, genesis, Rush... All those prog rock bands with the Gigantic Modular Moogs. But they sound a bit cheesy today. They worked then, of course.. I'm not knocking them, I love them, but We're going for a fresher more original sound. So I guess I'm just asking for help, what are some newer bands that are Rocking, not HEAVY METAL Or DJENT, and use keyboards, and they work and sound great.
Thanks guys!
