The 'Post Your Own Stuff' thread.

[Asterix]

There's lots of guys here that have stuff that I'm sure the rest of the forum would enjoy and be interested to hear and find out how it came about. I think we could all keep things to constructive criticism as, after all, it's all subjective when it boils down to our musical tastes.

I know we have everything from beginners to seasoned pros with all genres looked after, so let's hear your tracks and an explanation of how they came about.

I'll put my money where my mouth is, so here goes.

This was a track that blossomed from a jam.. In 1998 we were doing a B-Side session in a studio in North London putting down a number of tracks for what became our third single. We'd been knocking around the idea of what we wanted to do, something a little more laid back, and the keys came in first. We worked out the groove we wanted to underpin the track and the bass part came along shortly after. The singer disappeared to start working on the melody and writing lyrics to the ideas he had. I locked my self in a room with a rough mix of what had been done and started thinking about the guitars. The basic arpeggio on the acoustic, which runs through the song, came quickly (played on a Washburn acoustic). I underpinned the chorus chords simply on a Gibson ES 335 and then started thinking about the main guitar part (Les Paul Standard) that would compliment the vocals. Went for a slide feel with a bit of rhythm. We had a couple of runs through and then decided to put it down.

IIRC, the keys, bass & drums were done in the first take with the singer and I doing guide parts - perfect. I then laid down the acoustic, the underlying chords and then the slide part. That too was done in pretty much one take with a few drop-ins and with a few edits to remove a couple of bits I wasn't happy with or didn't work with the vocals.

One problem was that the song was far too long - remember it was fundamentally a 'jam'. We took out about a minute in the middle instrumental bit using old school methods - a razor blade & sticky tape. Every thing we did was analogue back then.

The mix came together very quickly and the track went beyond our expectations - it also went onto the album and such was the strength of the whole session, we released an EP instead with this as the second track - we couldn't relegate it to a lowly B-Side.

I hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7j8k8S1VnY

[kiteless]

I did enjoy that

[HateEvent]

I'm in a metal band up here in Aberdeen called 'Bisongrass'. It is a sludgy/stoner vibe, mainly influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Down and so on.

We've had a pretty good 18 months, releasing our self titled debut album through Sweaty Beef Records, getting a slot on the main stage of Les-Fest to play alongside Evile amongst others, winning numerous Fudge Awards (Best Newcomer 2012, Best Band 2012, Most Metal Of Metal 2013, Best Live Act 2013, Best Album 2013, Best Band 2013) and playing some great gigs!

The album is available on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify etc.

You can hear a couple of the tracks at www.reverbnation.com/bisongrass

If you like it, give us a like and follow for more info at www.facebook.com/bisongrassmetal

[Asterix]

That's cool - what do you play?

[mat13]

A couple of our covers:

Boys of summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdv0L6Y-G7M

Freebird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmeBdha1i0

[HateEvent]

Asterix said:

That's cool - what do you play?

I'm the 'widdly' lead guitarist. Mainly showcased on 'Seeds of Hate' & 'Square Turkey'

[Asterix]

Square Turkey was good.

One of the things I noticed is the three tracks I could listen to all started in the same key. Is that a tuning thing?

It's a personal thing for me but I've always tried to have differing starting keys for consecutive tracks - gives a greater feel of variation.

[HateEvent]

Yeah, they are indeed all in B. E positioning, but tuned down 2 and a half steps.

We've been writing in keys other than B for album number 2 thankfully haha!

[HateEvent]

Here is a new song we finished recently. A lot faster than our previous efforts (it is no thrash or grindcore, but a welcome change to up the tempo again!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l14giTzLS4

[Seeker UK]

For fans of electronic and instrumental music, my friend and I are releasing a CD shortly - a preview is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k2fOk6kKYc

I've also recorded a few things on my own too:

https://soundcloud.com/stuart-judd


I'm always grateful for feedback / comments / suggestions.

[tuscaneer]

nice thread this folks!!

i've posted this up in the heavy music thread before but any excuse!!

back in the mid 90's i had a band called "category d"....this was before the likes of limp bizkit and linkin park existed and was definately born from a love of stuff like biohazard/rage against the machine/downset and a couple of bands that seemed to be changing heavy music a lot in korn and deftones.

i always loved a rap element to vocals in heavy music(i'm deliberately not using the word "metal" because as much as i grew up loving it and being influenced by it i definately wasn't writing metal songs)...

i love choked/chugging cross rhythm guitar and drum parts and was always fascinated by bands like helmet who employed tempo changes and odd time signatures.(which is why i am obsessed with "djent" at the moment being that this style has taken it to the nth degree)

being that i was into all this stuff along with more unusual chord shifts we never really fitted in with anything going on around us(up here in the north west every bloody band was indie at the time) but had a lot of fun none the less

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t6g2O5nRdE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egkfh3zgbmY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVzVWE26U9g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLBpDPO_04w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lONT2lw4L0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1gevvRwys


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf5_O0DjMhQ

[andySC]

There's 3 tracks from my old band on here. Probably from about 2005 or so.

www.myspace.com/tractorfactory

Had a listen to it this morning & Mrs Andy quite liked it...a glowing recommendation in our house I tell ya.

[Malam]

Some funky noodles from me using a Boss Loop Station. Give it chance as I begin by laying the backing chords down :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur61GSAnADQ

[Art0ir]

Malam said:

Some funky noodles from me using a Boss Loop Station. Give it chance as I begin by laying the backing chords down :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur61GSAnADQ

Very groovy!

I don't think I have anything recorded anywhere sadly although there were some videos of gigs floating around Bebo (remember that? Ugh) a number of years ago.

Ashamed to say I haven't even picked up the guitar since the beginning of the year, even after buying a smaller 50W Marshal for the purpose of taking to jams. Not enough time in the day sadly

[suthol]

A few bits and pieces recorded here in Oz between 1970 & 1980 hope the links work. Just recorded some new stuff but it's not released and I'm not about to compromise my mates copywrite by posting yet.

Hydra, 3 piece plus vocals and guest flute I was playing a Fender VI bass
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/02-its-my-music
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/01-nobody-cares-abou...
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/03-so-far-from-home

Kimberly Country Band, 5 piece and still on the Fender VI
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/05-sherry-wine
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/05-ocker-meets-the ( breathalyzer )

Georges River Ripples, 5 piece with 4 part harmony and now on a 3/4 scale Yamaha 4 string bass from some time in the early 70's ( I miss that VI so badly and even more so the 59 Tele I swapped it for )
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/13-suitable-tune
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/11-too-many-heartach...
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/12-ill-be-damned

[kiteless]

Malam said:

Some funky noodles from me using a Boss Loop Station. Give it chance as I begin by laying the backing chords down :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur61GSAnADQ

Good to see your work again on PH, chap

I remember your first (excellent) noodle using that Boss kit.

[tuscaneer]

some tasty stuff posted so far gentlemen!!

i'm going to go to the effort of recording some of my fingerpickey acoustic stuff when i get a minute to myself...

...but in the meantime here is pretty much the heaviest song i wrote....youtube doesn't really do the weight of sound any justice at all but hey ho..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pfSMB7FlTQ

...and here is the original song from years earlier distinctly lighter and more melodic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqddbh2WVg


thought the contrast might intrigue the song writers among us...

[Malam]

kiteless said:

Good to see your work again on PH, chap

I remember your first (excellent) noodle using that Boss kit.

Thanks kiteless

As has already been said, there's some great stuff on here. Have really enjoyed listening!

[Athlon]

Asterix said:

There's lots of guys here that have stuff that I'm sure the rest of the forum would enjoy and be interested to hear and find out how it came about. I think we could all keep things to constructive criticism as, after all, it's all subjective when it boils down to our musical tastes.

I know we have everything from beginners to seasoned pros with all genres looked after, so let's hear your tracks and an explanation of how they came about.

I'll put my money where my mouth is, so here goes.

This was a track that blossomed from a jam.. In 1998 we were doing a B-Side session in a studio in North London putting down a number of tracks for what became our third single. We'd been knocking around the idea of what we wanted to do, something a little more laid back, and the keys came in first. We worked out the groove we wanted to underpin the track and the bass part came along shortly after. The singer disappeared to start working on the melody and writing lyrics to the ideas he had. I locked my self in a room with a rough mix of what had been done and started thinking about the guitars. The basic arpeggio on the acoustic, which runs through the song, came quickly (played on a Washburn acoustic). I underpinned the chorus chords simply on a Gibson ES 335 and then started thinking about the main guitar part (Les Paul Standard) that would compliment the vocals. Went for a slide feel with a bit of rhythm. We had a couple of runs through and then decided to put it down.

IIRC, the keys, bass & drums were done in the first take with the singer and I doing guide parts - perfect. I then laid down the acoustic, the underlying chords and then the slide part. That too was done in pretty much one take with a few drop-ins and with a few edits to remove a couple of bits I wasn't happy with or didn't work with the vocals.

One problem was that the song was far too long - remember it was fundamentally a 'jam'. We took out about a minute in the middle instrumental bit using old school methods - a razor blade & sticky tape. Every thing we did was analogue back then.

The mix came together very quickly and the track went beyond our expectations - it also went onto the album and such was the strength of the whole session, we released an EP instead with this as the second track - we couldn't relegate it to a lowly B-Side.

I hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7j8k8S1VnY

That is awesome! Astrix is the album available anywhere? I will buy it in a heartbeat, very very good indeed

[qube_TA]

Me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FR6OBELUXU

One for fans of Tangerine Dream / Electronic Music I guess