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Heavy Metal Collaboration

Thanks to everyone for participate. Hope you liked the backing and enjoyed playing. Now, the comments!!

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Enforcer: Very nice Wah touch, but I’d like you to turn it off on the fast licks. I really liked how you developed your solo and how the melodic work of the beggining became into more agressive lines, with an absolutly metal touch. I think that the only thing you missed is that I think that it needs a little bit of technique explotion in some moment, but, apart from that, I really liked it. Congrats for your work!!.


Dexxter: Excelent melody and very nice touch, You’ve created a mini instrumental tune inside a backing track. I’d like to see where you would take the solo if the backing would be longer. Technically is very correct, but I think that you should work on your sound (It feels like your guitar sound is needing some “Body” feeling, some mid presence). Very nice work Dex!


Marek: Very nice work. At the beggining, I had some doubt about how you started the solo, but you carried it excelent and you worked very good all the melodic and technical parts. You have to pay more atenttion in some rhythmic factors, for example, in the fast part, the bass drum is playing 16th notes and you’re playing 16th notes triplets on your phrase. This makes a sensation of a constant discordance with the drum, because of the beat difference of each other, but if you can correct these things, you’ll grow a lot as a guitar player. I’m waiting anxious your next participation!!.


Leedbreak: Very nice melody. I noted a lot of improvement in the cleannes of your sound. You should work a little bit on the rhythmic sections because there are some discordance in certain parts ( I know that it was improvised, but I had to say it!. Hehe). Also, you have to choose better the resolution of your fast licks, because they give the sensation that it never resolves and, in this way, the lose sense. Every time you play a fast lick, you have to search a melody that resolves the idea, so it’s not there just because you need to play fast. I think you’re missing a little bit this, but, as I said before, I’m noting some improvement there. Keep working on this way!


Jafomatic: I’m telling what I noted in every of both takes. In the first one, you’re trying to do a more melodic work but it’s very notorious that it’s improvised. Maybe you should give it a structure and record them when you’re sure of what you’re gonna play. Talking about the second one, I liked it a little more. It’s faster than the previous one, but I noted the same thing that I told you before about the first one. I’m sure that if you work more the idea until you like them and then record them, the final result of your work could infinitly better. Waiting for you on the next one!!


Outlaw: The most “typical-metal-solo” of all the takes. Your lines reminds me a lot to Kirk Hamett. The idea fist very well with the backing, but you should work a lot on the rhythmic part (the note duration you’re executing) and, technically, you should clean a bit your sound, but the rest is very very nice. See you on the next Collab!

 Heavy_collaboration___Final_mix.mp3 ( 8.84MB ) Number of downloads: 86

Feeling Inc Collaboration

This is the final mix of the "Feeling Inc. Collaboration". I'm very sorry for the delay, but there were some guys that asked me for a little more time to upload their takes. So, I gave me because my idea is to hear you all. If you have any doubt about the comments, just let me know. Thank you very much for your participations and hope you like it. See you on the next one!!!

 Feeling_inc_Collaboration___Final_Mix.mp3 ( 51.33MB ) Number of downloads: 76



Jafomatic (0:00 – 1:52) : Talking about the topic of the collab, I’d give a little more expresion to the vibrato. It’s not bad at all, but I think it needs a little more relaxed movement. The bendings are very well tuned, but I would recommend to add a little vibrato when you reach the correct note.
Now, the melody is excelent, but I noted that every time the melody “explodes”, it goes down and I feel like it didn’t defined the idea. Besides this, you’re very very close. Congrats for your work!!

NoSkill (1:52 – 3:36): The melodic work is very very good. You should pay more attention to some bendings that goes a little further than should and work a little more the vibrato, so it will turn wider. It’s not bad, but it’s too soft. Listening to some players as Steve Ray Vaughan or Satriani in their ballads could help you.

UncleSkillet (3:36 – 5:20) : Very nice melody (It sounded very 80’s hard rocker). I think you should close a little more the idea of the solo, because it seems that it never defines. But the idea is very very good. You have to correct some tempo problem that makes the solo undefined, but you’re very close. I listened pmñy a few bendings, but they’re perfect. About vibrato, as I have marked to the other guys, you should wide the movement, so it will sound more agressive. The rest is very good!

Berglmir (5:20 – 7:04): The melodic work is great, but you should check out some details. First, is the election of notes over every chord, because, besides we’re working on one same scale for the notes that makes every executed chord, there some notes that fits better than other. Generally, for long duration notes, you should choose a note that be part of the fundamental triad of the sounding chord. Second, you should pay atenttion to the tempo. You have some little delays that blackened a lot the melody.
Your vibrato is very very good and there wasn’t too much bendings, so I can’t really analize them. If you correct what I marked, you’ll note an enormous progress. Let’s get on work!!

Leedbreak (7:04 – 8:48): Excelent tempo on the phrases. Talking about bendings, you have some problems on the bendings tune (You stay a little behind of the note) and the vibrato is not bad, but you should work wider, so it will be more agressive as I already said. The phrases you’re working in the middle fits very very good. That makes the melody very tasty, but you should pay attention on what I marked you before to have a better result.

JamesT (8:48 – 10:32): Very nice Vibrato and Bendins. The melody is also excelent. You just have to correct some Rhythmics misses in the end of the phrases and some technical details (some notes doesn’t sound very clear), but all this is to make your work perfect, because the take es really good. Congratulations!!

Marc_Maiden (10:32 – 12:16): Good job with the vibrato and bendings. The melody lacks a little of explotion (It sounded like it’s all calculated) and you have to work a lot on the cleannes of your sound on the fast licks, because there are some little noises that comes from not muting the strings correctly that turns your sound quite dirty. The rest is very nice.

Sollesnes (12:16 – 14:00): Excelent combination between technique and melody. Very nice vibrato and expresivity. Also, your control of the Rhythmic figures is great. Definitly an awesome job. Congratulations!!.

Kaznie_nl (14:00 – 15:44) : At the beginning, very nice melody and election of notes. In the second part, the are some notorious mistakes of notes and scale, specially on the fast parts. Your vibratos is very good and the bendings are almost none, so I couldn’t analize them properly. You should pay more atenttion on the executed notes and the bendings, because these are the only things that blackened your work.

Dexxter (15:44 – 17:28): Very nice Vibrato, but you missed the first bendings, where you have some detunes (Listening to all the track, I doubt it could be the guitar’s tune or any intonation problem). Talking about the melody, you catched perfectly the concept of working the slow parts applying vibrato. But I think that it needs a little more explotion in some parts, and, as I said before, correct the bendings.

Audiopaal (17:28 – 19:12): Excelent melody, it reminds me some movie’s music or something similar. Very nice vibrato and general concept. I think you missed some bendins, so I couldn’t really analized them properly to see how you’re working on this technique, but, you’ve made an exclenet job on the melody and vibrato. Congratulations!!

Enforcer (19:12 – 20:56) : Talking about the topic of the collab, it’s very well executed. Vibrato is very nice executed. The same for the bendings, with a perfect tune. The thing that you should specially work on are the duration of the notes and the cleannes on your fast licks, because they have some tempo problems and, in some techniques like Sweep Picking, you’re having problems to control the sounds that left the strings you already played. With only correcting this, you’ll develop a lot your final sound.

Nimrandir (20:56 – 22:40) : Very nice sound, also the melodic work is pretty good. You should pay more attention on the bendins and work a little bit more on the tunes in some cases (Some bendings are perfect and in some, you a go a little further). Vibrato is very well, but in some cases you could do it more agressive. As I said before, try to listen and copy the technique of Steve Ray Vaughan, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc. Very well done!

Crazyfret (22:40- 24:24): You should work on the bendings. The positive of it is that it looks like you note the detune of it in the moment and you instantly correct them. You should work on them so you can get the afination in only one stroke, without that extra movement. About Vibrato, is very nice. Also the melodic work is very good. But, as I said before, you have to give it a close, and end to the melody. It sound like it never explodes. But, in general terms, is very very good.

Sensible Jones (24:24 – 26:08) : Great melodic work and phrase. Vibrato could be more marked (wider) but it’s not bad at all and the bendings are very well. About rhythmic session, I found some mistakes that I think they come from an improvised work. However, you should pay attention on this because it’s a shame to blackend an awesome work with these little details. Great work, Congratulations!!.

Tolek (26:08 – 27:52) : Excelent melody and very good rhythmic work. You should work a little more on the Vibrato, so the note will have more “feeling”, and there weren’t too much bendings to analize, but, what I already heard, they were fine. I recommend to work on the Vibrato. With this, you’ll fulfill a lot your sound. Nicely done!

Heavy Metal Collaboration

Melt my brain with your takes!!!

Heavy Metal Collaboration

Hey everybody! How’s it going? In this new collab we’ll work on a Heavy Metal backing track influenced by bands such as Judas Priest, Accept, etc. The backing is in the key of Em, and the idea is to work with the pentatonic or the minor scale of this key. I highly recommend to you to listen a lot of material of all the most well-known bands of this style, so you can get a guidance and influenced on their ideas. The ones that are used to this style, the track may sound familiar, and the ones who aren’t, is a nice chance to add another style to handle, because you all know that the better musician is the one that can play any style.
The backing is in 160 Bpm
So, let’s get on work guys!!.

Deadline: 24th September

 heavy_collaboration.mp3 ( 1.89MB ) Number of downloads: 151


Metal Gmc'ers currently active on this collab:

1-Jafomatic (What a surprise!!, Jajaja)
2-Outlaw2112
3-Raph
4-Enforcer
5-Leedbreak
6-Dexxter
7-Hammerhead
8-ZakkWylde