Putting yourself out there kinda sucks

[JiveTurkey]

Working on Roots this evening. I am not sure there is another metal song with more permutations of 1-0-1-0 riffs anywhere in the history of recorded music

 

[Dez]

Working on Roots this evening. I am not sure there is another metal song with more permutations of 1-0-1-0 riffs anywhere in the history of recorded music

Opeth's "The Moor" off of Still life has a killer riff that's mostly 0-1-0-1 goodness lol at the 4:14 mark. Is Roots the In this Moment song?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Opeth's "The Moor" off of Still life has a killer riff that's mostly 0-1-0-1 goodness lol at the 4:14 mark. Is Roots the In this Moment song?

Bro

 

[Dez]

Bro

Ha that was what I thought you meant but I was like "idk he just said Roots"

 

[dbagchee]

@JiveTurkey Need to add this to the setlist as well:

 

[JiveTurkey]

@JiveTurkey Need to add this to the setlist as well:

Max realllllllllly swears a LOT in this one


Related thought process; trying to figure out an "easy" Slipknot song we can throw together. No matter which way we go; we'd either be depriving the singer and/or drummer of oxygen or requiring boosts for our boosts to consistently nail pinch harmonics ever 3rd note in "Duality"

 

[MTB1973]

My vote.

 

[Dez]

 

[JiveTurkey]

My vote.

We used to play Slave New World

 

[JiveTurkey]

Bass player supposed to show up tonight

 

[HotRats]

My vote.

I love this song!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Bass player and I chatted and he wanted to have a few more runs at home with the songs under his belt before showing up to practice. Had a good jam with everyone else. At a point where we need to hammer some small details and probably drill the songs a bit more to be tight.

Went through Roots and Machine Head without vocals and they were surprisingly banging. Keep circling back around to what physical tuning I want to settle into. FAS VC is great but I would really like to just play a guitar tuned to the key at hand without any additional murkiness from digital latency. Ideally a guitar in C# standard and one in drop C# would be the way to. I don't want to lug that much gear. Transposing songs from drop D to drop B seems like too much of a sonic stretch as well. Moving things like Roots and Machine up to drop C# seems the same. Food for thought for 6 weeks from now

 

[FuzzyAce]

Bass player and I chatted and he wanted to have a few more runs at home with the songs under his belt before showing up to practice. Had a good jam with everyone else. At a point where we need to hammer some small details and probably drill the songs a bit more to be tight.

Went through Roots and Machine Head without vocals and they were surprisingly banging. Keep circling back around to what physical tuning I want to settle into. FAS VC is great but I would really like to just play a guitar tuned to the key at hand without any additional murkiness from digital latency. Ideally a guitar in C# standard and one in drop C# would be the way to. I don't want to lug that much gear. Transposing songs from drop D to drop B seems like too much of a sonic stretch as well. Moving things like Roots and Machine up to drop C# seems the same. Food for thought for 6 weeks from now

Robotuners. Definitely.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Bass player got back to us and said he didn't have time to dedicate to a new band.

We were supposed to have practice last week but work got in the way. Last night as well but again; different person's work got in the way.

What an unfortunate slog

 

[DrewJD82]

Ahhhhh that blows and I’m actually feeling a bit like your bass player right now, I had to cancel practice last week because someone else’s inability to properly plan DID constitute an emergency on my end and it was the 2nd time in a row it happened. I was able to make up the practice the first time but I actually haven’t heard back from her after cancelling the last one so it’s very possibly my job tanked this one for me.

Which, I’m not hugely bothered by…..while she’s an amazing singer, I realized this weekend while practicing a Flyleaf song, that I am nowhere closer to playing live, original music than I was several months ago. So even if she does reach back out I might shift direction a bit and see how she fares with some original material.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Max realllllllllly swears a LOT in this one


Related thought process; trying to figure out an "easy" Slipknot song we can throw together. No matter which way we go; we'd either be depriving the singer and/or drummer of oxygen or requiring boosts for our boosts to consistently nail pinch harmonics ever 3rd note in "Duality"

Wait and bleed is pretty easy.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Ahhhhh that blows and I’m actually feeling a bit like your bass player right now, I had to cancel practice last week because someone else’s inability to properly plan DID constitute an emergency on my end and it was the 2nd time in a row it happened. I was able to make up the practice the first time but I actually haven’t heard back from her after cancelling the last one so it’s very possibly my job tanked this one for me.

Which, I’m not hugely bothered by…..while she’s an amazing singer, I realized this weekend while practicing a Flyleaf song, that I am nowhere closer to playing live, original music than I was several months ago. So even if she does reach back out I might shift direction a bit and see how she fares with some original material.

It's...a bit disappointing. Even though I get it. A jam band where you get together and play classic rock/wtfever older man stuff that is generally speaking musically simple and prevalent in the minds of most people where you can wing it once every 6 weeks is one thing. Learning Slipknot songs (not that they are technical death metal or shred by any means) DOES require some work. And if you work it up then end up not jamming; it doesn't exactly glue itself to your brain for the next time when you can get together. Ugh.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Wait and bleed is pretty easy.

That's the one we chose. It's typical weird Slipknot riffs that sort of work with what Cory is doing but sort of not and he just makes them fit. It's a killer song and a quick ride either way. I learned the Godsmack tune (oops) and I was kinda looking forward to giving it a go. If only because it is caveman simple

 

[la szum]

The slog-a-thon builds up stamina and endurance. Really? It does.



There is this element of masochism in being a musician, isn't there?
Pretty sure every bona fide attempt carries with it the curse of some
self-inflicted suffering and angst.

The highest of the highs, and the lowest of the lows. And all the oh well,
maybe next times in between.

 

[la szum]

It's...a bit disappointing. Even though I get it. A jam band where you get together and play classic rock/wtfever older man stuff that is generally speaking musically simple and prevalent in the minds of most people where you can wing it once every 6 weeks is one thing. Learning Slipknot songs (not that they are technical death metal or shred by any means) DOES require some work. And if you work it up then end up not jamming; it doesn't exactly glue itself to your brain for the next time when you can get together. Ugh.

It's all true.

I put a few want ads up to start a Prog/Fusion Rock band in the past year. I am tired of "phoning it in" and
not working on anything, because no one else has the time or passion to do so.

See post above about masochistic behavior inherent as a "musician."