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Deadhead intro cover

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:34 am
by OliK
I had the morning off work so I thought i'd give this a quick go. It's only the first 2 minutes because I'm incredibly lazy (getting this far was hard enough) It's not perfect and my guitar didn't like open c tuning but it's reasonable. No keys or bass :( My ambition is to one day actually finish a song!

http://www.atnr94.dsl.pipex.com/Deadhead.mp3

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:36 am
by geoff
Do you want your cover to be posted on the HDR site ? We plan to open a fan covers section soon ... let me know

Geoff

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:39 am
by OliK
I think I'd better finish it first to be honest! Give me a year or so :lol:

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:55 am
by Blazingmonga
Awesome work Olik! I would love to hear the whole song done in this quality.

Keep at it!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:10 am
by EphelDuath666
dude, that was good indeed! I wanna hear the whole thing too when it's done :)

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:00 am
by OliK
Thanks! I've replaced the other version and redone the guitars a bit. Around 4 and a half minutes is done. Should hopefully finish the rest tonight.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:17 am
by Greg Reason
That's pretty cool. You play it well! It's just the high strings that are a little out, I'm looking forward to hearing the new version.

Incidentaly, I was listening to AE for the first time in a year or so and it was up to Deadhead when I found your post, heh... Great song, one of Devin's very best.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:58 pm
by OliK
Okie dokie, just finished the guitars and drums! Not perfect (the stretch from 3 to 8 frets not clean at all) Anyone want a go at the vocals?

http://www.atnr94.dsl.pipex.com/Deadhead-full.mp3

Just redone a section and changed the guitar tone. I'm finished this time I swear!

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:38 am
by Archetype
Cool, I like the sound. I'm still trying to get drum sounds like that, but for me it's still midi shit.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:55 am
by Falk
So you really have to stretch from 3 to 8 to play this part ? Meeeh...
What if I shrink my guitar ? Will the sound be the same ? :lol: :lol: :lol: j/k
Like in that guitar video from Paul Gilbert, I think he streches from 4 to 10 or maybe 11... :?
And if you move the 8 to the upper string ?
E--
C-3
G--
C-3
G--
C-3

and alternate with
E--
C-2
G--
C-3
G--
C-3
it's not exactly the same sound...

And how do you play the intro ?
From the 12th fret ? The 7th ? With the strings open ?

And congrats, good job !^^

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:21 am
by OliK
Thanks, the drums are really basic, I just made them in leaf drum and slotted them all together. I ripped the snare sound somewhere off Neurosis-Through Silver In Blood and the kick drum is a DFH sample I think.

The guitars are just lined in with my amp recorded 4 times, Amplitube used on one channel.

The intro starts off on the twelve fret on the low C. There's a powertab available on the Powertab website thats useful.

BTW 3 to 8 is not that bad but you have to barre the 3rd fret as well. Killed my hands :(

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:48 am
by fragility
Is this a massive download or has my connection gone crazy, I really want to hear this :(

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:08 am
by OliK
I've upped a smaller 96kbps mp3 for those with slower connections!
http://www.atnr94.dsl.pipex.com/Deadhead-full96.mp3

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:27 am
by fragility
Is that Portsmouth UK or US?

It was obviously my connection at work...perhaps they've started limiting my bandwidth, haha

Great job :D

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:18 pm
by OliK
Thanks! I'm also in Portsmouth UK, studying at the university. Not there at the moment but kind of miss it.