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My page has seen a lot of activity lately as I am sharing around some fun cover tunes I am building off backing tracks I got online. I expect to do a lot more of these, but only some of them kinda fit into what I charitably call my vocal range: The stuff at the top is super new, I posted like four things in the last 24 hours and took two down that were getting a lot of plays but weren't finished. https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777 Mary Had a Little Lamb Basket Case Interstate Love Song Love Rears Its Ugly Head ... are the four I have finished. I have Drop Dead Legs and 5150 started, but I can't sing that poo poo. I've got Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, Tom Petty, Weezer (Say It Ain't So is my personal alcoholism song, even though my Dad never drank) and a few other things I could find. More than enough to keep me playing and recording. Those new tunes show that my hands are starting to shape back up after about three months of off and on playing after a very long break. E: I had to take Basket Case down after I listened to the source material again. I gotta a: make those C#min chords pop. And also the guitar is solo hard right on the intro, then doubled hard-stereo for the rest of the tune, and the little octave ride at the end is actually overdubbed over the doubled rhythm guitars. Thing is, that is a lot of downstrokes in a short time. Like. A LOT. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Awesome! The Jonathan Coutlon "Thing a Week" (can I produce on a weekly deadline) experiment. You already did it, wow, amazing! I agree, might as well keep up the work ethic but you've done 53, give yourself two weeks per now but make them more elaborate, perhaps? I'm definitely hearing improvements in my production after just these last three tunes I put up. https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777 The goal of course is to move up from old, familiar cover tunes to new ideas. I have a growing folder of riffs and hooks and little song-y bits that I started in July. There is definitely enough in there for a couple original songs. I'm gonna stick with the covers until I run out of songs that fit my pitiful vocal range. I completely re-recorded the guitars on Basket Case. It's a lot better than v1. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Dec 31, 2021 20:18
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Something new, the last SRV cover for my Dad: https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777/empty-arms-srv-cover
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Jan 28, 2022 16:45
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Finally finished this one, which I've been working at off and on for months now. It's my take on an epic boss battle or something like that. Has several different segments with some different styles in it. At nearly 9 minutes it's definitely the longest thing I've made.
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Jun 1, 2022 19:14
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well gently caress me
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Jun 2, 2022 02:39
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Great use of space. I like the way it dances around the back-beat, and how that sets the little runs apart from the beat. Very musical. It does sound like some kind of background music, as there isn't a particular hook present (though the bass line makes it compelling anyway.) In the absence of a hook/main riff/thematic melody I'd build it up to something a little crazier and let it spool out after. It's a little bit level at the moment. Still obviously musical, with a voice.
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Jun 5, 2022 02:42
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:I like it, and the beat is great. No idea what I'd classify it as either. The sounds are goofy to a person who usually only works with the real thing but that's part of the charm of this arrangement. Reminded me of "Axel F" a little bit. Production is really clean and crisp. duck.exe posted:Uploaded some DnB I finished up today after sitting on it for a while Barely related: Here's an ostinato that immediately jumped into my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyYZmMOIJn4 Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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Jun 5, 2022 21:34
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ProperCoochie posted:I made a house track, did 5 takes of playing guitar licks and solos over it, took the best guitar bits, and spent a lot of time mixing n mastering trying to make it gel and sound together. Multiple firsts for me and I learned (and winced in pain) a lot. Happy to finally release it Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jul 14, 2022 04:51
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Worked on this for a couple of weeks, pretty happy with how it turned out.
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Aug 1, 2022 05:04
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Nition posted:Finally making some new music after ten years away. But I am a sucker for anything down around 60bpm that marches like a heartbeat, and this leans way into that in the beginning. The material though, is quite special. It's compelling. Operatic at the end. My hat is way off.
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Sep 4, 2022 16:58
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What the gently caress? I wrote a song? Don't ask me how or why, all I know is I was playing around with a preset with Bad Cat and Powerball models in stereo. It just made me want to chug chug chug and pinch harmonics. Next thing I knew this was recorded. This is often how it happens, for some reason. Two hours, tops, and that was mostly loving around with vocals. The guitar is my Strat-style home-built and it is ALL Pearly Gates. The bass is my Spector Legend 5 Classic through the Dug PInnick Tech 21 preamp pedal, just basic. The vocals are sad and I am sorry, but my bassist is going to put a real bass part on this and also sing the chorus for me (I wrote it for him, in fact.) Sorry the lyrics are marble-mouthed, that will get fixed if we finish the tune. In the meantime I just really really enjoy the chugga chugga. That rig sounds loving mean. https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777/we-face-it-alone-demo-3-with-bass-normalized/s-U8FyUOspFdv
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Oct 3, 2022 14:34
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:This is sounding really good, love the chord progressions. Can't wait to hear it finished! I was playing this for my girlfriend and trying to explain: there's a person who's happily making money to live on in an unrelated field, then they come home and to nothing but a hard drive full of instrument samples, a MIDI grid, a mouse, and an unrelenting ability to look at that blankness and, note-by-note, expression by expression, turn it into a huge piece of great music. And all they get for it is goons saying, "Wow!" She kinda got it, I think. She says, "That is impressive, babe." I still say, "Wow." So now I'm listening to Cinematic Feels again and wishing my bassist would get back to me with the vocal part I need. I don't like mine. That's my own scratch bass part and I am fine doing that myself if he doesn't come through; but my enthusiasm for the tune is waning because I don't like what I did with the lyrics so much. Typical second-guessing that I always do and I try to ignore it. At least I re-sang everything so there's not as much obvious hackery in there. I've put down an entire song of drums again, but the muse eludes me today.
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Oct 10, 2022 17:26
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I really enjoyed this! It felt both old and new to me at the same time, somehow. And I dug the lyrics. Impressionistic, dare I say angry. My last new tune that popped out of me, vaguely similarly to yours, came out with this impressionistic accusatory theme that I'm totally leaving alone because it was cathartic. Your synth rhythm reminds me a little of what I like about Nonnonchalant's tracks, too. I'm gonna play this one again now. If I knew how I'd put a trippy King Crimson guitar part with this. Something sparkly that Adrian Belew might play on a Strat. Or something contrapuntal with that 80's pop-synth guitar sound like, say, Roxette. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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Romulan Hippie posted:https://soundcloud.com/andrew-257897150 
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