Listening Backlog
A horde of new exciting releases the past week/weeks, all on Spotify: Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events Opeth – Heritage Evile – Five Serpent’s Teeth Mastodon – The Hunter Machine Head – Unto the Locust
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10 Tips for Great Guitar Mixing
1. Filter out the low end When recording guitars some inaudible discord is always included in the low end. The only thing it does is collide with the bass, so filter it out. One way of doing it is adding a filter and raising the cutoff frequency until you hear a change in sound, and […]
Read moreShare AmpKit Setups on MyShareKit
There’s a site devoted to AmpKit setups – MyShareKit.com. Setups are really easy to share, you can export them right out of the app and send them by email or just copy the file. Besides the setup file you can also attach sound samples uploaded to SoundCloud and register you profile. A lot of talented […]
Read moreBrilliant Megadeth Cover
Jimmy (of Swedish power metalers Falconer) does one of the most impressive solo covers I’ve seen:
Read moreRehearsal really peps my practing
Since I started rehearsing with another guitarist, my own solo practice sessions are so much more fun. Unfortunately too much fever and crap today forced me to cancel. Hoping I’m better next week.
Read moreWill I become good before I die?
Often times when playing or practicing feels tedious you refer to it as having lost your motivation. I found a very insightful post on Ultimate Guitar about this – and that the obstacle might actually be something else. What if you are actually getting scared? Scared of that you are wasting your time put into […]
Read moreMore Chord Theory: Power Chord Variations
Power chords are three-string chords which use can use to play almost any rock or heavy metal song you can think of. You usually write them down as fives, like E5 that you play like this: E — B — G — D -2- A -2- E -0- The template for a power chord is […]
Read moreSome Chord Theory
There are numerous sites and phone apps to lookup chords, but there’s still a point to knowing the theory behind how chords are constructed. And it’s really not that hard. Pick a key and start with its major scale, and then just follow the templates to which notes of the scale are used in the different kinds […]
Read moreThree Virtual Bassists – One Bass VST for Each Size Wallet
To make a song as a bedroom guitarist you need someone to play the other instruments, you know the ones us guitarists don’t care so much about: bass and drums. For drums there are excellent VST plugs, foremost the Swedish Drumkit from Hell (which I use myself) and it’s big brother Superior Drummer. There are […]
Read moreSongs That Sound Like Other Songs
When I come up with an amazing riff, I pull out my phone and record it immediately using SoundCloud (I hum or sing or something) and then I map them out on the fretboard when I have more time. Frighteningly often I realize it’s a Metallica riff I’ve hummed :-/ At least I’m not alone:
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