The Show Your Work Thread

[flappo]

don't give up the day job , fail

[jhale667]

That means SO MUCH coming from YOU...!






More important people than you or Joe Rogan beg to differ, sorry. But do keep telling yourself popgears require more talent!

[jhale667]

Had kinda overlooked this one in favor of some others...still needs a bass track and drums, but I don't remember tracking this lead...and I sorta like it, might keep it.

Slide Lead by Jay Hale - Guitarist

[jhale667]

#Interview with @SmashingPumpkin's Jeff Schroeder via @jhale667 @SeymourDuncan http://t.co/ovzbJMCxfJ— JustStrings.com (@JustStrings) August 26, 2013

[jhale667]

New SD blog up on The Art of the Hammer-On.

[jhale667]

My hate of programmed drums is well documented, but I broke down & checked out a 6-hour Eyal Levi tutorial on programming in EZdrummer and am starting to get it. The guy explains everything about how to alter loops to fit your needs, create your own, how to do drum mixes, MIDI editing, the whole deal. Very informative.
I was having trouble finding a beat in my sample library that worked for a certain track, but after watching that and having learned how to edit the MIDI itself I was able to get one working. For example, there was a (ratty sounding) cymbal crash on every 4 that I HATED... gone. Also added an extra hit in the fill that brings it back to the main riff so it worked. I still have to add an intro and some more fills, and I'd like to change it up in a couple of spots, but I like where it's going. And it was giving me fits before taking that course. Cool thing is once I figured out getting the mechanics of it down in Pro Tools getting this far from no drums took about a half an hour. Which means it's only going to get easier from here.

"Bubble" tracks by Jay Hale - Guitarist


The course is available on Creative live and is called Digital Drums with EZdrummer... highly recommend it...

[jhale667]

New Duncan blog up on picking techniques.

[jhale667]

Recently interviewed Scott from Skeletonwitch for Duncan:

http://bit.ly/1iwPlDx

[jhale667]

Started working on a drum track, bar-by-bar for an older tune....had to since it switches to half-time in spots (and is possible because, click-track...lmao ) , still a work in progress but getting there.



https://soundcloud.com/jayhaleguitar/obsessional-guitar-tracks

[vandeleur]

J , I like the tune mate . Hard to get a proper grasp on the drums as they are a bit low in the mix . But I guess thats the point they dont stand out which is a good thing.

[jhale667]

J , I like the tune mate . Hard to get a proper grasp on the drums as they are a bit low in the mix . But I guess thats the point they dont stand out which is a good thing.

Thanks. With fresher morning ears listening back they were a little too low in the mix, so bumped 'em up a bit and uploaded a new MP3 (link didn't change). I still need to replace a couple of fills, and I may switch out the more splashy/crash cymbal thing for the more straight-ahead beat I alternated with in the main riff. Pretty much keeping the half-time parts, but will tweak them a bit. Still need to go into the MIDI and add some well-placed cymbal accents - like coming into the half-time sections - and fuck with the velocities a bit, but it's getting there.

[jhale667]

Got down a 2nd EZdrummer track for another tune...

[jhale667]

I'm on a roll over here... things are going so well I decided to tackle probably the most orchestrated of my tunes, "Angry Girl", and re-doing the drums to it is giving it a whole new life... now the actual arrangement I intended stands out, kind of unmistakably so. The layering of the guitar tracks is more noticeable when the drum beat switches to half-time where it should, too - who knew? Bass track's still a place-keeper. I was going to re-do the leads but I've gotten quite a few compliments on the ones that are currently there, so I think I'm leaving them.

[jhale667]

Since those went so well, I kept going... re-did the drums for another of the heavier ones:


and something on the lighter side:




I've got drums done for 2 more tunes as of tonight too, but one needs a bass line, and another I have to re-track a lead that got lost in the HD crash last year... fortunately I re-learned it off an the MP3 I bounced of it, just too burnt to record tonight.

[jhale667]

Another one done...