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Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Aug 14 2010, 07:22 PM

Finally a new song done...this time you might recognize the backing! wink.gif



I had a lot of fun recording this tune as I like to have a steady beat to "bounce" my lines against! (if that makes sense) The song is called brutal bump for many reasons, hopefully some of them will clear after you have watched the video! wink.gif

Also Tony here at the forum mastered the track and I am very happy with the result.

NOW HERE IS THE THING:
I know that if you try hard - you will come up with something amazing over this backing. That's why I want you to join http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=36185 right now!

Thanks a lot for watching!

Posted by: thefireball Aug 14 2010, 07:36 PM

Cool job man! Nice video and take!
Sorry about the "brutal bump" tongue.gif

Posted by: Azzaboi Aug 14 2010, 07:58 PM

Interesting contrast lesson smile.gif
Your brain and musical talent must be just getting too big for your hair!
Pretty catchy fun sounding tune, I like your amusing youtube vids.

Posted by: Mudbone Aug 14 2010, 08:24 PM

Nice tune dude! Your bald spot ain't that brutal, at least your forehead doesn't look like a McDonald's sign tongue.gif I've been shaving my head for years and last month I decided to let my hair grow... and not much grew out lool Last I remember I had a full head of hair sad.gif

By the way, you don't lose hair - it just relocates to another part of your body, i.e. your back, nose and ears smile.gif

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Aug 14 2010, 08:40 PM

QUOTE (Mudbone @ Aug 14 2010, 09:24 PM) *
By the way, you don't lose hair - it just relocates to another part of your body, i.e. your back, nose and ears smile.gif

hehe thanks - that's what I needed to hear! biggrin.gif


QUOTE (Azzaboi @ Aug 14 2010, 08:58 PM) *
Interesting contrast lesson smile.gif
Your brain and musical talent must be just getting too big for your hair!
Pretty catchy fun sounding tune, I like your amusing youtube vids.


Hehe thanks a lot - that's a great way to put it!

QUOTE (thefireball @ Aug 14 2010, 08:36 PM) *
Cool job man! Nice video and take!
Sorry about the "brutal bump" tongue.gif


Oh well I survived at least! =)

Posted by: Marek Rojewski Aug 14 2010, 08:50 PM

In Poland we have a saying "on a wise head, no hair will last". I must say, I hate it:P

Posted by: JamesT Aug 14 2010, 10:07 PM

Kris! Dude! ... that video was a great surprise. Not only is the tune and guitar playing fantastic, but your section on how to think about songwriting was truly educational. I like how you describe contrast as an important part. Very useful I think. I remember once thinking a little on those same lines that a song needs to "rock" but it also needs to "roll" (otherwise you can't call it Rock and Roll. tongue.gif ) But the idea is the same in that you've got to have contrast and even conflict within a tune and that's what keeps it interesting. ... and the song in this video is an excellent example. smile.gif cool.gif

You've gotta tell us how you got such great video shots too. Very nicely done.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Aug 15 2010, 11:40 AM

Wow thanks for the awesome words James - also you are right about rock n roll, well put!

The video was done shooting different angles against a light blue wall (with some kind of pattern). When editing I found that I could use this wall to create a decent chroma key effect (remove background). I did some research to find a cool background video and I found the rotating globe. With a little effects I could make the globe somewhat "follow" the chorus which I think created a cool effect... Video editing is a lot of fun and there is always new things to learn!

QUOTE (Marek Rojewski @ Aug 14 2010, 09:50 PM) *
In Poland we have a saying "on a wise head, no hair will last". I must say, I hate it:P


hehe is it because you have got a lot of hair on your head? =)

Posted by: tonymiro Aug 15 2010, 11:55 AM

QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Aug 14 2010, 06:22 PM) *
Finally a new song done...this time you might recognize the backing! wink.gif
...
Also Tony here at the forum mastered the track and I am very happy with the result.

...



Fun video as ever Kris and a great tune to master smile.gif .

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Aug 15 2010, 12:55 PM

QUOTE (tonymiro @ Aug 15 2010, 12:55 PM) *
Fun video as ever Kris and a great tune to master smile.gif .


So you master it already?! wink.gif

Posted by: tonymiro Aug 15 2010, 01:08 PM

QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Aug 15 2010, 11:55 AM) *
So you master it already?! wink.gif


laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Posted by: maharzan Aug 15 2010, 02:25 PM

Really nice Kris! Bravo!

Posted by: Fran Aug 15 2010, 03:14 PM

Great Kris, powerful sound & nice tips! smile.gif

Posted by: Fingerspasm Aug 15 2010, 03:55 PM

Hey Kris that was incredible! Very entertaining as always. Its rare that you get such great playing along with such an entertaining video. After viewing this and seeing your great explanation on how you do things I can only say that its a shame we do not get more instructional material out of you every once in awhile. Especially on how you come up with your arrangements etc. Of course there are only so many hours in the day and I know things like this take many many hours to produce.

By the way there were parts in your playing that reminded me of John 5. Probably because it had such a country flavor in those parts. He loves to use chicken picken and country lines in his guitar playing. He just uses more distortion. Thanks for the cool vid. The best I have seen in quit a while.

Posted by: SensE Aug 15 2010, 05:51 PM

Thank you for the song writting tips, Kris!
KRISTOFER, WE TRUST !!!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 15 2010, 06:16 PM

Amazing video Kris and great song! I really liked your licks here and specially the incorporation of hybrid picking! Your instrumental music is getting better from song to song! Great job!!

I'd like to add that this could be the soundtrack of my life! I had a brutal bump two days ago when I was trying to scape from a thief that wanted to steal luciana and me... I hurted my face (in my forehead) and also a bit my hand... I feeling a bit better now so I think that I will start playing guitar again tomorrow. The thief just stole my phone but we had a really bad time. sad.gif


Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Aug 15 2010, 07:10 PM

Hope the experience won't affect you for too long, Gabriel. Those are always some bad experiences, which could last quite long in your behaviour and perception. Good luck...!

Re the song, personally I could have written that 11 years ago (text wise, not musically biggrin.gif )... But somehow the baldness didn't proceed with the same speed, so hopefully I'll have another ten year or so with some hair on my head smile.gif

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 15 2010, 08:59 PM

QUOTE (Rik Veldhuizen @ Aug 15 2010, 03:10 PM) *
Hope the experience won't affect you for too long, Gabriel. Those are always some bad experiences, which could last quite long in your behaviour and perception. Good luck...!


Thank you Rik! smile.gif

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Aug 15 2010, 09:44 PM

Wow this is an amazing tune! Very fresh sounding and interesting! Also the second part is very insightful smile.gif

Posted by: Fran Aug 16 2010, 12:39 AM

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Aug 15 2010, 07:16 PM) *
I'd like to add that this could be the soundtrack of my life! I had a brutal bump two days ago when I was trying to scape from a thief that wanted to steal luciana and me... I hurted my face (in my forehead) and also a bit my hand... I feeling a bit better now so I think that I will start playing guitar again tomorrow. The thief just stole my phone but we had a really bad time. sad.gif



Ouch! sorry to hear that Gabe, hope you recover soon... and make a great song out of it some day cool.gif

Posted by: audiopaal Aug 16 2010, 11:08 AM

I'll give this a listen once I get back from work smile.gif
I've been away for too long on vacation and work trips,
so it's nice to see some are still productive biggrin.gif

I'll check out the collab as well!

Posted by: Trond Vold Aug 17 2010, 12:57 AM

What an awesome song! biggrin.gif ..and video smile.gif

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 19 2010, 10:46 PM

QUOTE (Fran @ Aug 15 2010, 08:39 PM) *
Ouch! sorry to hear that Gabe, hope you recover soon... and make a great song out of it some day cool.gif



Thank you Fran! I'm better now! biggrin.gif

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Aug 20 2010, 08:24 PM

Sorry for the delay in getting back - there was such cool feedback here I didn't just want to reply something quick.

QUOTE (Fingerspasm @ Aug 15 2010, 04:55 PM) *
Hey Kris that was incredible! Very entertaining as always. Its rare that you get such great playing along with such an entertaining video. After viewing this and seeing your great explanation on how you do things I can only say that its a shame we do not get more instructional material out of you every once in awhile. Especially on how you come up with your arrangements etc. Of course there are only so many hours in the day and I know things like this take many many hours to produce.

By the way there were parts in your playing that reminded me of John 5. Probably because it had such a country flavor in those parts. He loves to use chicken picken and country lines in his guitar playing. He just uses more distortion. Thanks for the cool vid. The best I have seen in quit a while.


Wow thanks for the amazing feedback! It definitely stimulates me to try and produce more material!

About my teaching - my aim is to spend my time on areas where we don't have a lot of coverage by GMC instructors. That is why I tried a more spoken type of lesson format with hints about songwriting (I am also testing these "new" kind of video collabs).

I feel that my time is currently best spent this way (for the sake of GMC) - however my goal the last years has always been to get back to a schedule where I have more time for my own stuff, and currently things are looking ok for this fall. Let's see what happens... Thanks again for the awesome comment!



QUOTE (SensE @ Aug 15 2010, 06:51 PM) *
Thank you for the song writting tips, Kris!
KRISTOFER, WE TRUST !!!


Don't trust me - I might be lying to avoid competition ph34r.gif

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Aug 15 2010, 07:16 PM) *
Amazing video Kris and great song! I really liked your licks here and specially the incorporation of hybrid picking! Your instrumental music is getting better from song to song! Great job!!


Thanks a lot Gabe - I could also sense things happening to your chops. Can't wait to hear the new Cirse material.

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Aug 15 2010, 07:16 PM) *
I'd like to add that this could be the soundtrack of my life! I had a brutal bump two days ago when I was trying to scape from a thief that wanted to steal luciana and me... I hurted my face (in my forehead) and also a bit my hand... I feeling a bit better now so I think that I will start playing guitar again tomorrow. The thief just stole my phone but we had a really bad time. sad.gif


Horrible to hear- I have been never been unfortunate to experience this kind of "bump"... I hope I never will!

QUOTE (audiopaal @ Aug 16 2010, 12:08 PM) *
I'll give this a listen once I get back from work smile.gif
I've been away for too long on vacation and work trips,
so it's nice to see some are still productive biggrin.gif

I'll check out the collab as well!


Cool - would be awesome to have your take!

QUOTE (Trond Vold @ Aug 17 2010, 01:57 AM) *
What an awesome song! biggrin.gif ..and video smile.gif


I hope we can get your take as well Trond - I know it would completely rock our socks of (if that is an expression):

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Aug 19 2010, 11:46 PM) *
Thank you Fran! I'm better now! biggrin.gif


Good to hear! Judging from your take in the collab the robbery might have had a positive impact on your chops ph34r.gif

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Aug 22 2010, 12:57 PM

I checked it already on youtube, whole song is done as to keep your attention, and it really does so, very attractive and amusing!

Posted by: Kristian Hyvarinen Aug 22 2010, 07:57 PM

Great job, Kris! biggrin.gif I've been yearning to hear new material from you... awesome!!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Aug 23 2010, 08:36 AM

QUOTE (Vasilije Vukmirovic @ Aug 22 2010, 01:57 PM) *
I checked it already on youtube, whole song is done as to keep your attention, and it really does so, very attractive and amusing!


Thanks Vasilije that's great to hear as it's one of my ambitions when writing stuff!

QUOTE (Kristian Hyvarinen @ Aug 22 2010, 08:57 PM) *
Great job, Kris! biggrin.gif I've been yearning to hear new material from you... awesome!!


Thanks a lot for the constant support Kristian! biggrin.gif

Posted by: audiopaal Aug 23 2010, 08:44 AM

I finally got around to watch this, and I should have done it earlier!!
Awesome song Kris biggrin.gif

Cool video as well!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Sep 11 2010, 05:04 PM

I really enjoyed your playing in this one!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Sep 12 2010, 09:24 AM

Thanks a lot Daniel - great to hear this from you! =) I have been trying to get my chops back the last months!

Posted by: evhwannabe Sep 22 2010, 08:14 PM

Hey Kris! I'm a new member here at GMC, and I just found this link. Is it too late to submit a take?

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Sep 23 2010, 10:26 AM

QUOTE (evhwannabe @ Sep 22 2010, 09:14 PM) *
Hey Kris! I'm a new member here at GMC, and I just found this link. Is it too late to submit a take?


Yes the collab is closed - but fear not, I am already planning the next one in the back of my head! =)

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