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How good are you at playing the guitar? I own one that I mess around with but never really got to learn. I have a lot of trouble sometimes holding down on the fret without touching the other strings and muting out the sound.

I've been playing for around 7 years so I've gotten pretty damn good, I'm not very versatile but I'm good at what I know how to do.

Here's a video that's 4.5 years old, I'm much better now than I was at this point but I don't record myself very often:



I played the guitar and bass parts in this recording, and here are two guitar solos that I did in one take, full of mistakes but they have their moments.

My gawd that's amazing. I can't imagine how good you are right now, you should definitely record yourself again playing some riff or something.

Oh wow. I'm no music guru so I don't know what mistakes you've done. This is pretty amazing though. Have you ever written music?

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Have you ever written music?

I've been writing music for about 8 years, those recordings I linked to are 100% me, not just the guitar parts. I have like 5 years worth of EDM that I've written, haven't really finished much work in the last couple of years and I don't like writing trance anymore but I have hours worth of experimental works in progress. those ones I linked to are just the ones that incorporate live guitar.

here's the most recent thing I've come close to completing, it's a fleshed out version of one of the guitar jams I linked to.

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My gawd that's amazing. I can't imagine how good you are right now, you should definitely record yourself again playing some riff or something.

got any requests? I don't have a webcam anymore but recording audio is really easy to do.

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I've been writing music for about 8 years, those recordings I linked to are 100% me, not just the guitar parts. I have like 5 years worth of EDM that I've written, haven't really finished much work in the last couple of years and I don't like writing trance anymore but I have hours worth of experimental works in progress. those ones I linked to are just the ones that incorporate live guitar.

here's the most recent thing I've come close to completing, it's a fleshed out version of one of the guitar jams I linked to.

You should try doing more with this, who knows you could git popular or something.

Yeah probably, I used to have a bit of an audience on Soundcloud but you need to actively network and advertise yourself or else people stop paying attention.

Feel free to check it out, though. I recommend starting with September, that's probably the best trance song I've ever written.

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got any requests? I don't have a webcam anymore but recording audio is really easy to do.

Aw man.... that solo from Knights of Cydonia? I freaking love that song.

Or Cliffs of Dover

Great choice, that's my favorite Muse song, I can play it beginning to end (along with about 20 other songs of theirs). Unfortunately I'd need to repair my guitar before I can record it, I dropped it on a chair and one of the tuning pegs snapped clean off so I only have 5 strings at the moment and KoC uses the 6th string a lot.

I really do need to fix it, maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

edit: lol I love Cliffs of Dover but god damn is it hard to play. I practiced it a while ago and I can play some of the main riffs but I'd have to practice a lot before it sounded halfway decent.

and before you ask no I'm not playing Raining Blood haha

Nah nah nah. Is alrigt xD cliffs of dover is a really damn hard song
KoC would be great to hear, get that 6th string fixed ♥~

I like to listen to all kind of music it just depends what kinda mood I'm in, If I'm animating I usually listen to calm music, If I'm working out I most of the time listen to rock.

All I can think of as a producer is, how do I make some money off Exilement?

But are you self-taught, man? And do you play solo or with a band? Give us a little more variety from the songs you've uploaded. I'll tell my soundcloud obsessed friends to check you out.

I'm just gonna post what I posted in Scarecrows thread here
I love the vibe in these

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But are you self-taught, man? And do you play solo or with a band?

100% self-taught aside from the shitty high school guitar course I took to get started. I also taught myself to play drums and piano.

I'm basically a one man band with my current setup, I have a keyboard and guitar going through several effects and into a mini-mixer, which outputs to a loop pedal, then finally an amplifier. I can play a percussion part on the keyboard, loop it, then add guitar/bass/whatever loops on top of it.

But for the most part I jam with my friend Matt using the above setup while he plays guitar and a micro synth, both going into a loop pedal of his own, so our stuff sounds very layered for just two people. By pure chance we play very similarly and love using weird guitar effects and tones. He has several of our older recordings on his soundcloud:

Everything Will Turn Out... Right
Pilot
Head Beat

He has a multitrack mixer that we used for those. First I made a drum loop, then we recorded the loop for 3-4 minutes so we had one percussion track as a reference. Then we added layers one at a time until it was done.

This one we improvised live in one take, he played drums while I played a split keyboard patch for the atmospherics and the bass later in the song. We just hit record and went for it, no planning or writing or anything ahead of time. That's pretty much the only way we do it.



As far as my solo stuff is concerned, I could show you the best bits so you don't have to listen to so much unn-tiss unn-tiss. The breakdowns in my songs are my personal favorite parts to write and listen to so I'll tell you where to listen.

Perihelion - skip to 4:30 for some epic orchestral trance.

September - skip to 4:00 for a guitar/flute breakdown

Particle Horizon - skip to 3:50 for a piano breakdown

Dream Machine - my mixing skills were shit back then but this is still my favorite trance track that I've written. Breakdown starts just a bit before the halfway mark as usual. Just sit back and listen once the keys start playing, I don't think I've written a prettier melody since this one.

And if you want an idea of what 3 years of improvement sounds like, I started a rework of Dream Machine that I never got around to finishing, but it's by far the most polished/professional sounding trance track I've made.

Vocal trance, remix of 'Satellite' by Oceanlab. This one was pretty popular around here back when I was posting music regularly to the forums. Almost 7 years old but I still like the way it turned out.

and for shits and giggles, here's the earliest song I wrote that I still have a recording of.

edit: scratch that, I do have a recording of my very first song, this was made the same day I downloaded FL Studio.

OMG Drone you have really good taste of music! *0*

You like that shit?
This is just the kind of music I listen to when I