The Roth Army All Star Band Jams thread..

[SunisinuS]

Well, the writing has to come first in a way.

Heck I dunno....All the guitar players come up with a riff or two, vote on which ones to use, then which ones go where.....verse? Chorus?

We need the main groove first. Intro, lead solos, actual bass line, vocals all can come later. Just need to know what the basic vibe of the song is gonna be first......it could be a bass riff even.

And even once we have a basic idea, we can modify it as we go on...just need to figure out what the arrangement will be...how many verses, choruses, A parts, B parts, how many times repeat each riff...

Once Kwame knows what kinda direction we are going in, and once we have a rough arrangement, he can lay down some drums and we can begin recording for real.

Oooooooooooaowohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Blaze]

Ok... I have sound. Lets see if I can import.

It is just over 6 mins long. I have never been able to confine myself.

There are significant breaks for instruments.

I am a firm believer in the first 120 takes are thrown away.

This is a first take unedited.

I just have to figure out how to extract it.

[Diamondjimi]

Ok... I have sound. Lets see if I can import.

It is just over 6 mins long. I have never been able to confine myself.

There are significant breaks for instruments.

~Data~

I am a firm believer in the first 120 takes are thrown away.

Mmmm, K.....

[Blaze]

Grr. Make fun gypsy Jimmi... I have tried three services.... uploading is not easy for me.

[Diamondjimi]

Jus' kidding...

[ashstralia]

i'm still offering this as at least an intro. e flat is fine with me. someone write the next bit!!!

http://www.supload.com/listen?s=mLt19R

[chefcraig]

This a track I never finished, but pretty much points in the direction I feel things might go. I need to find the track in my collection and upload it with Supload, but this will work for now.

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[Etienne]

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Am I not part of it?

[SunisinuS]

Am I not part of it?

"The Masses are Asses"---Winnie.


Lol of course you are! This is music by committee......have fun!

[Hardrock69]

Hey Kwame, how are you with a double-kick shuffle?

I just came up with a rough sketch of a song. One of my fave ways to write is to sit in front of the TV with legs up on the coffee table, mindlessly jamming on guitar while watching some crap on the tube. Today's edition of "let's write a song without trying" brought to you courtesy of Epiphone Guitars, Marshall Amps, JVC Televisions and the TV show "Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force".

We all are here because we are Van Halen fans. One thing Van Halen has done (among many) that is unique in the hard rock pantheon is Alex Van Halen's double-kick shuffle.
No other band I can think of in the history of rock music has used a double-kick shuffle in a song (though of course I could be wrong). I have never heard any other band do such a thing, anyway. So I came up with some riffs with that in mind, complete with 2 different sections for guitar solos (in different keys), a sorta quiet breakdown, three verses, and some other rubbish.

Am getting to work right now on my VS-1680 and my drum machine to come up with something. Will just do a basic drum track, rhythm guitar, with a couple of rubbish solos to show where the solos go.

Will post it later this evening.

[jhale667]

Now we're getting somewhere...a riff tossed out soon? Cool!

[Diamondjimi]

Am I not part of it?

Never said that, buddy. All are welcome!

[SunisinuS]

I lost my recorder (Roland) as well in a divorce....so I will have to phone it in...but we can all play it together if we show up. 2:53 seconds long would be fine with me.

[Hardrock69]

Coming along fine. Got drums programmed up to first chorus. Which means I have enough patterns to pretty much create the whole drum track. So it is a matter of sitting there figuring out chord progressions, how long, then programming the patterns into the drum machine to fit.

For writing purposes I am using my Epi Les Paul studio plugged into the Roland, using the Amp Sims....when I track in a little while I will get out the real deal - Flying V with EMGs into Marshall Half Stack with Shure 57 through Art TubePac Preamp. Gonna be scratch, but at least it will sound good, lol.

Here is my recording setup - pic taken 5 minutes ago....

[Hardrock69]

Drum track done. Decided I won't bother with Marshall and the real deal until I am ready to do final guitar tracks (if I wind up doing guitars at all, lol). For now the Amp sims in the Roland will do.

Have to get some reasonably decent guitar tracks on here, then a bass, then upload it to somewhere and post a link to it here.

Time to eat something, though. Mmmm....dinner!