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Personally I just have my guitar in my lap whenever I do something at home, be it eating/listening to music/watching a movie/reading a book, usually I just play guitar while doing any activity and come up with stuff that way. I even have the guitar next to my bed so that I can pick it up and play whenever I feel like it (and I feel like playing guitar all of the time :v:) In short, I play guitar pretty much all of the time when I'm not working or with friends.
[QUOTE=CLungcancer;31326068]Imagelines plugins are just getting better and better. This one seems pretty cool.[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C3MbbpzPRs[/media][/QUOTE] Yeah dude, i dont understand why they get so much shit. Their VSTs are actually really good, for example I love their parametric EQ and newtone. And slicex is very nice too.
I need a better place to find good thrash shirts other then fucking Rockabilia.
[QUOTE=NuclearAnnhilation;31340398]I need a better place to find good thrash shirts other then fucking Rockabilia.[/QUOTE] Merchnow might have a couple, not sure.
Hey, if I've been playing saxophone in a band for 5 years and have been reading sheet music for that amount of time, understand time signatures and whatnot, do I really need a music theory class? What is in those classes anyway?
I teach music to myself. Always have, always will.
music theory is very important if you want to improve your sight reading, and even more so if you want to "write" music.
[QUOTE=neos300;31344508]Hey, if I've been playing saxophone in a band for 5 years and have been reading sheet music for that amount of time, understand time signatures and whatnot, do I really need a music theory class? What is in those classes anyway?[/QUOTE] I'm in a practically identical situation (also a sax player in several bands of many years) and I can say that whilst you don't need music theory, it helps. In the UK the contents of the lessons vary by curriculum and by grade difficulty and I imagine it's a similar thing in the US. It's mostly learning about chords and their inversions, chord progressions, cadences, rhythms, time signatures, writing lyrics to a rhythm and features of music in certain periods of music history. That sort of thing. There are loads of books on it however so you can probably learn yourself that way without having to pay for classes.
[QUOTE=neos300;31344508]Hey, if I've been playing saxophone in a band for 5 years and have been reading sheet music for that amount of time, understand time signatures and whatnot, do I really need a music theory class? What is in those classes anyway?[/QUOTE] Aw man saxophone is one of the coolest instruments I know, I wish I could play one!
Gonna play a gig with my jazz/funk/fusion band, this friday. I've also ordered this [url]http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/q3hd/[/url] . Hopefully, I can get some good drumcam action.
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Has anyone actually ever been banned in musicians gig room yet? I think there has actually been one or two mentions of warez and no one got banned
[QUOTE=Croix;31364708]Has anyone actually ever been banned in musicians gig room yet? I think there has actually been one or two mentions of warez and no one got banned[/QUOTE]nothing I've noticed
What is a good guitar fx station for $200-$300 bucks, never owned one and I don't know where to start
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;31385627]What is a good guitar fx station for $200-$300 bucks, never owned one and I don't know where to start[/QUOTE] Get cheap audio interface, get guitar rig for computer -> Best fx station ever
not sure how that work, I don't really want to play out of my computer if I can avoid it Does it end up coming out of my amp?
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;31385747]not sure how that work, I don't really want to play out of my computer if I can avoid it Does it end up coming out of my amp?[/QUOTE] Yes. You plug it in to the audio interface, tha audio interface is plugged into the usb on your computer, and then you take the signal out from the audio interface and into the amp. I don't get what you people have against computers, effectboxes are usually digital too.
I'd just prefer an actual amp over a program
Even though you're saying you'd prefer the real thing, I'd really recommend Guitar Rig. Very realistic sounding, and so versatile. Instead of having the one amp in real life, you can have all these different digitally modelled ones. Handy for trying different styles and tones. Makes stuff way easier for recording into your pc for songs too. Unless you're aiming to use this to play live, which changes things. What kind of effects were you looking for from said FX unit? [editline]28th July 2011[/editline] What a boring page king.
Hi all.I was learning guitar for a year,but teacher teached me just how to play notes.I have no idea how to play tabs.Could anyone teach me like a normal person how play em? :)
I recently had the idea to just throw an M-Audio Fasttrack onto my laptop and install amplitube and mic that through the PA for a show it worked out pretty well, I didn't have to carry near as much shit and got a few compliments on my tone [editline]28th July 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=overpain;31387137]Hi all.I was learning guitar for a year,but teacher teached me just how to play notes.I have no idea how to play tabs.Could anyone teach me like a normal person how play em? :)[/QUOTE][url]http://guitar.about.com/od/tabchordslyrics/ss/read_guitar_tab.htm[/url] [url]http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Acoustic-Guitar-Tab[/url] [editline]28th July 2011[/editline] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMb2kWTL1zE[/url] expertvillage, but he gives a decent overview of what tabs are and how to read them If he taught you how to read sheet music, that's probably better. If he didn't you should probably get a refund
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;31386155]I'd just prefer an actual amp over a program[/QUOTE] You can still use your amp. The program will be your effects box. And yes, it will do effects just as good as real stompboxes. If not better
I wouldn't say better but you certainly get some real freedom using a program
And besides Guitar Rig sounds really good. I'd personally go for that.
Has anyone done grade 5 music theory? Apparently it's fairly simple but I've not started it yet and I'm supposed to be sitting the exam in october.. I need it for uni so I can't afford to screw up. Any tips?
Concert with my jazzband tomorrow. Didn't get my Zoom HD-recorder, but I got to borrow 2 videocams(coupled with my old Zoom audio-recorder), which will give 2 different shots of the band playing. Can't wait!
What's a good website to get free to use samples and sound FX?
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;31396233]What's a good website to get free to use samples and sound FX?[/QUOTE] People ask this question all the time. Have you tried using Google? Anyway, here is my top three Loopmasters.com - My favorite. They've got everything, and it's all very high quality. Freesound.org - A very large database. Quality varies. Sampleswap - Fairly big. I think there's around 5gb worth of samples on that site. Quality varies
Urgh, been spending all day making a nice DJ template in Ableton Live, and I suddenly realise for everything to work as planned I need like two more sliders on my midi keyboard. Fuck it I'm getting an APC40 [editline]28th July 2011[/editline] Vengeance samples are amazing if you have some do$h
I tried some free samples from vengeance, didn't like them too much because the'yre already compressed and mastered, found it hard to make them fit into my tracks,
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