Curse the Darkness
Thanks! I learned a lot trying to engineer and master it myself but feel like I have a lot to learn.Mix is tight and the guitar parts are chunky goodness dude!
It is when we want to do something outside of our comfort zone when our level is challenged.
I am currently challenged trying to play Chopin Nocturne 20 in C# minor. First I thought it was going to be easy, but it is taking me a lot of effort
I will share it here, in case that you also want to take the challenge:
The objective is to record two guitars playing the right and left hand parts respectively.
1) Learn to pay both parts. Be faithful to the original composition. I attach the MIDI file with right and left hands on separate channels, for easy reference (I use the piano roll mouse-scroll audition function to listen the notes).
2) Find a nice and pleasant clean tone. No high gain or shredding!
3) Play the trills picking or fingering. No tapping
4) Pay attention to the dynamics (check the attached score and listen carefully to the performances)
5) Record the two guitar tracks at the DAW
6) Do not record with a metronome. The tempo must flow. That is the magic of performing this piece (indications at the score)
7) You can record over the attached MIDI (it has tempo and dynamic changes), use an existing performance to play over it (there are several performances to chose on YouTube, all of them different) or start from scratch at your own pace.
Think it is easy? Record it and listen to yourself
I've been playing for about 40 years. When I was a teenager I saw myself as a super guitar hero. But the more I've learnt, the more I've realized how lame my playing is.
However, I become a better player with every new FW version. And today I enjoy my tone more than my playing. I don't give a damn about technique or perfection
Definitely too generic. I would consider both John Petrucci and David Gilmour advanced players, even though their style and technique is radically different.
Very well put. Some people are great students of the instrument, and there is nothing wrong with that. What people forget is that many of those that they are studying and trying to emulate are people who found their own voice and went with it and learned to express the feeling and emotion. While I can enjoy and appreciate the highly technical players, the ones that make me feel something are the ones that I remember the most. Blackmore and Page would fail miserably at metronome precise sweep picking, but I prefer the way they push the timing and the bends around to create the tension and release far more than the guys who can keep perfectly timed hyperspeed runs that don't really say much. Impressive? Maybe. Do non-musicians give a rats ass? Not usually. They want to listen to something that gives them an escape from the mundane, or makes them feel something other than impressed by someone's athletic abilities. Metronomes are for practicing technique, not for real expression. And if a singer really needs autotune, they should just be a dancer. (That's a jab at all of the pretty dancers dominating the pop music industry.I agree. You can be advanced in rock but totally suck in jazz. Even Petrucci can not play classical guitar like John Williams. You don't have to be able too sweep like Yngwie to be advanced. Is the Edge advanced? Fripp can't play downstrokes like Hetfield and so on. You don't have to be advanced in everything to be a great player.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy3AXflhoubefHvyqQSpRuA
All Axe-FxIII on the guitars and bass
@Denny99:
I think your first few items could use adjusting.
Re: 200pbm: Are you talking about quarter notes, or sixteenth note septuplets, at that tempo?
Re: Sweep Picking Like Crazy: I think this is too specific. If it's a given that the "vanilla" (commonplace) form of playing is alternate picking, then, to qualify as "advanced," a player should demonstrate performance-competence in at least one other "rum raisin" (unusual) kind of playing. It could be tapping, it could be sweeping, it could be chicken-pickin, it could be uncanny use of legato. Stanley Jordan doesn't sweep pick; but surely he qualifies as "advanced?"
I'm not trying to be mean! Please take this as friendly suggestions of improvements. It's a good list overall, but I think those items need tweaking.
I think you know this but you were wrong when you said you suck.