MR BIG REUNION!

...of course I hold my thumbs for a gig in Sweden. That would ROCK!

Music is way too fun

Rock!

Yesterday I downloaded a demo for the software Effectrix. With this software you can crush, stretch and loop the audio in all kinds of wierd ways. It's easy to use and way too fun..

The cool interface looks like this:


I also got another tip about an alternative called LiveCut. I havent tried it out yet, but I will. Seems nice!

LiveCut looks like this:


/Freddy

More songs and more rehearsals

Howdy Hoy!

Yesterday we had a soft rehearsal with Point zero. Mackan is still over in McDonalds land, so I guess it went well considering.

I've been writing on FOUR new songs for pz, actually three new ones and one 'old'...

I'm writing lyrics for two of the newer tracks and I have lyrics for the old track already, but I'll try to re-write some parts of it. The last track I'll leave the lyric spot open for the other guys.

The songs I have lyrics for are called 'A Secret Place', 'The Reckoning' and 'No Angel'.

/Freddy

Dream Theater - A Rite of Passage

As most people who know me knows ;) I'm a big Dream Theater fan. Seen them live five times and have all their CD's and DVD's. Here's a video for their first singel of the new album:



I like the chorus and the video looks great! /F

Hellrider six-pack

From time to time there's a musicial competition at the studio forum. Before, I have just entered the competitions/festivals on kontrollrummet (similar type of musicial festivals over there). But since the theme for the coming competition on studio forum is death metal I just had to participate. I'm hoping that I will get it all together before the deadline (24 May), I'm aiming to finish two songs, fingers crossed. I've talked to some guys that might help me out with the vocals and stuff as well. I will put this evil music online somewhere when the competition is over, so you can bang a bit with me.

But for now I will just sing the first riff for you - daaa-dududu.....daaa-dududu. Hit warning?

...anyhow..

stay metal.. or.. something.

Cheerz! /F

PZ break - Working on a few new songs

We'll have a few weeks break now with Point zero since Mackan has gone to U S and A. Maybe the rest of us will rehearse a bit during his absence, we'll see.

As I have said earlier we are rehearsing eight full tracks atm. I got into 'writing mode' last week as well. So I've written some parts for a couple of new tracks. As it seems new it will be around three different tracks, all of different styles. One track is almost completley written. I hope the guys will help me out with lyrics, ideas, arrangement as usual.

We did some basic recordings on our last rehearsal (Monday this week). Just used one mic and recorded seven of the eight songs. The total time for these songs - 33.4 minutes according to Itunes. Give and take.

We'll use these recordings to refine the songs and make them even better in arrangement and musical details. Or something of that effect.

We talked briefly about starting the real recordings in July/August. That might change as we go along, we'll just have to wait and see.

Stay on the right side of the rock! /Freddy

Music in Speech

In 1984, one of my guitar heroes, Steve Vai, released an album called 'Flexable'. Featured on this album was an amazing track called 'So Happy'. Steve Vai translates a womans speech into guitar tones, rhythmically and tonally. I remember that I heared people talk about this actual track before having a chance to hear it myself. It was something else.

Here you can listen to that track, be patient, because it dosen't start right away:



Today I got to see a video on youtube entiteled 'Marco Minnemann feat. Monty Pythons'. Marco plays drums to a Monty Python sketch, much like Steve Vai did back in 1984. What a musical memory to be able to pull of something like this.

Check it out: