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Jan 5 2015, 12:57 PM
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So, who am I?
Well instead of making this sound like I'm looking for a date or something like that, let's focus on my musical background. My musical career started in the late 90s in a band called Taleswapper, it was a powermetal-band and featured Anders Broman (now in Bloodbound), Karl Svedåker (Gormathon) and Markus Albertson (Gormathon, ex-Tad Morose, ex-Bloodbound). I was the lead singer and also the songwriter in the band. While the other guys stayed in the same part of Sweden I moved away to a bigger city where I started sang in couple of bands until I found my home as the lead singer of a thrash metal band called Ratched. In this band I wrote the song melodies and lyrics. However I wrote less of the music than I normally did in bands up until that time. This was mainly because my riffing was a bit too simple. After a few years with Ratched the band split up and the drummer went on to play in a black metal band (which I for some reason can't remember the name of) while the others left the music industry until recently when the guitarist released a singel with Domino Majestic. I started a horror rock/punk band but left it when I felt that the songwriting was getting stale when the other members wanted to write songs in the rehersals, while I prefer to just sit on my own and write my songs to then add bits and pieces at rehersals. Apart from me playing in bands, I used to run a little indie-label, had a production company (did music videos, for indie-bands as well as for swedish label Sound Pollution), as well as ran a studio for a while and helped indie-bands get on to Spotify. As of right now I am playing guitar and singing in a project with Anders Broman from Bloodbound, this is a bit removed from our usual comfortzone and is more pure rock with a harder edge. Why GMC? Well since my Ratched days I have felt that my riffing, more specific my picking hand, needs to get better so that I can write more elaborate guitar riffs, instead of just good songs and rely on the guitarists to create riffs around the song. My main problem is that when I sit down to play guitar I aaaaaalways end up improvising and composing some songs, instead of working on techniques. So my hope is to find good exercises and riffs to motivate me to train my picking and riffing. Also a bonus would be to find people to help me with one or two of my projects, so that I can hammer out two albums this year. Oh, and I'm 34years old, living in Härnösand in Sweden. Some of the stuff I've done: Me in Ratched (doing the singing, writing the song melodies and lyrics, did the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4CNMZrnIc She Gods of Shark Reef (first of all, I hate the guitarsound and mix on this one, but that's how it goes with a band demochracy  I wrote the entire song and I do the singing on this recording and I also did the music video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ly7WTmMusAnd here's the same song in an acoustic version, I like this better just 'cause it's without the horrid sound of the studio version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YErOqsxCQ So yeah, nothing of me playing guitar. But that's what we are fixing herer, right? |
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Jan 6 2015, 01:21 AM
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Hi Taleswapper! That's an amazing introduction. You have a lot of experience with bands and also with music industry. I checked your bands and I like your voice, it sounds original, powerful, and fits great with both styles.
I think that the best way to improve our riffing skills and to open our minds to new idea is learning songs as well as GMC musical lessons. The more riffs you learn, the tighter your technique will be and the wider your "riffs vocabulary" in order to create your own ideas. A good way to work on both technique and creative stuff is using GMC lesson in this way. - Choose a riffing lesson. I recommend you to check my Teutonic Thrash Metal series, starting with this lesson: HERE. - Learn the first part, practice it over metronome or backing tracks. - Check out which scale is being used and learn it. - Play the riff as a loop over the drums and start creating variations. These are some ideas: Change the first notes, the last ones, repeat a small section, add something of your own, keep the same note values but change the notes, use another scale or key. Use the same notes but change the rhythm. - Record the ideas that you like and save them for working late on what could be your library of ideas. In this way, you will be training your technique but also your mind and creativity. The more you practice this, the more creative you'll be. Trust me.
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Jan 6 2015, 08:03 PM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Jan 6 2015, 12:21 AM)  Hi Taleswapper! That's an amazing introduction. You have a lot of experience with bands and also with music industry. I checked your bands and I like your voice, it sounds original, powerful, and fits great with both styles. I think that the best way to improve our riffing skills and to open our minds to new idea is learning songs as well as GMC musical lessons. The more riffs you learn, the tighter your technique will be and the wider your "riffs vocabulary" in order to create your own ideas. A good way to work on both technique and creative stuff is using GMC lesson in this way. - Choose a riffing lesson. I recommend you to check my Teutonic Thrash Metal series, starting with this lesson: HERE. - Learn the first part, practice it over metronome or backing tracks. - Check out which scale is being used and learn it. - Play the riff as a loop over the drums and start creating variations. These are some ideas: Change the first notes, the last ones, repeat a small section, add something of your own, keep the same note values but change the notes, use another scale or key. Use the same notes but change the rhythm. - Record the ideas that you like and save them for working late on what could be your library of ideas. In this way, you will be training your technique but also your mind and creativity. The more you practice this, the more creative you'll be. Trust me. Hey, thanks  To tell you the truth you nailed my plan as I had it in my head when I signed up it was your teutonic thrash series that made me hooked. I'm working on the songwriting for a thrash album with the bassplayer from Bloodbound, and since the songwriting falls on me I need to get my riffing up to par (mid-tempo riffing is no problem at all), the phrasing with my picking hand especially.So all your ideas are noted and will be heeded QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Jan 6 2015, 07:13 AM) LOVED the SHE GODS OF SHARK REEF VID Just killer stuff. Welcome to the land of GMC!! This place will make you a better player almost by osmosis!! Sounds like you are ready to take it to the next level so you have found the right spot Thank you for the praise! I think you're right, and the warm welcome from everybody here seems to prove it
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Jan 7 2015, 06:59 PM
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QUOTE (Taleswapper @ Jan 6 2015, 04:03 PM) Hey, thanks To tell you the truth you nailed my plan as I had it in my head when I signed up it was your teutonic thrash series that made me hooked. I'm working on the songwriting for a thrash album with the bassplayer from Bloodbound, and since the songwriting falls on me I need to get my riffing up to par (mid-tempo riffing is no problem at all), the phrasing with my picking hand especially.So all your ideas are noted and will be heeded Thrash Metal album? That sounds really interesting! Feel free to count with me if you want some feedback and comments about the songs in progress, and even a guest solo.  I think that you'll find this stuff interesting: Link 1 Link 2 -------------------- My lessons
Do you need a Guitar Plan? Join Gab's Army Check my band:Cirse Check my soundcloud:Soundcloud Please subscribe to my:Youtube Channel |
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Jan 12 2015, 10:48 AM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Jan 7 2015, 06:59 PM) Thrash Metal album? That sounds really interesting! Feel free to count with me if you want some feedback and comments about the songs in progress, and even a guest solo. I think that you'll find this stuff interesting: Link 1 Link 2 Yeah, I'm using my old Production Company to release a thrash album, so we are currently in the songwriting process. Will probably settle on an EP with an acompanying video. A guest solo would be great. However that might be better suited on an other album I'm working on. I was planning on asking around here if people had songs that could be featured on a metal album (no specific sub-genre) that would be a sort of a dual-singer album with me and Anders from Bloodbound. And on that album I plan on calling in favors from my contacs in the business to have them lay down some tracks on the songs. |
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Jan 15 2015, 10:02 AM
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Welcome to GMC
-------------------- Tomislav
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