rock and roll instrumental

[mixmkr]

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=648242


guitar music found at the link ... specifically the "Police-ish" one....

 

[ido1957]

A lot like the Police at the beginning, maybe use the arpeggios at 2:42 instead......
The rest of the piece is fabulous. Excellent guitar playing overall, smooth with great tones. Cool harley Nice backups on keyboards/guitars. Drums sound good and punchy, nice playing there too. Top quality stuff......

 

[Dogman]

Sounds pretty good....and I hear the Police type sound. Nice playing man...

 

[cmhansen]

I don't really hear to much of the Police influence but I do like the song. Nice playing. I agree with ido1957, there needs something like four note melodic riffs there in that part. I could hear it while listening. You just didn't play it.

 

[SnakeDog5050]

Cool sounds overall, good musical tension in there. Stays interesting.
Mix sounds good too, nothing really to recommend from my ears... just that I enjoyed the tune. Nice work

 

[DavidK]

Excellent stuff, quality music making all around. Very inventive, top notch playing. I gotta admit that I almost srarted singing "sending out an S O S" when I heard the first lick

I like the effects. Really, there isnt anything in here I didnt like, great stuff.

 

[mixmkr]

I gotta admit that I almost srarted singing "sending out an S O S" when I heard the first lick
.

that's the lyric!!! I couldn't remember the line, but the riff was stuck in my head. I never did any Sting stuff in a cover band, but a couple of his licks were favorites in my book, and this one popped out of nowhere. Just going from "feel",... and I don't remember how the rest of the song went.... hence wandering off into "whateversville" with the rest of the tune.

thanks for listening all.
It seems really low volume level to me, and I don't know how you guys smash your mixes to get them so loud.. and it sounds a little mid-rangy dull to me also.. no "sizzle".... not too mention clutter, although there are really only one bass synth, two guitars, drums and some ear candy junk. I drop out ONE of those instruments, there is a hole... add it back in.. almost too much space filled. I struggle in making the spaces. The synth part is purely to "rest" the ears... and keep the piece from flat lining too. ..as in linear from start to end.

 

[XLR]

Atmospheric in mood; tight rhythmically. Excellent gtr playing. The harley and churchbells work well, especially when the bike is driving across side to side. I could do with less of the other artificial instruments but that's just my own taste.

 

[mixmkr]

I could do with less of the other artificial instruments but that's just my own taste.

thx for the listen, Tim. I am not sure what you mean by the artificial stuff. Of course the bells and harleys are sound effects, but are you talking about the synths and stuff? You dang acoustic purests!! It was all tracked live and not sequenced. I did pitch bend the church bells however

 

[Freudian Slip]

Very cool! I'm not big on the whole distant dark guitar tone that you have on the lead in places, but alot of people are. I would personally make those parts closer and brighter. That being said the way you did it does make it interesting and gives it that certain flavor It's strictly a matter of taste.

Playing sounds great!

Good Job.

 

[XLR]

...mean by the artificial stuff... are you talking about the synths and stuff? ...It was all tracked live and not sequenced.

I guess I tend to crudely categorize everything synth or sample-based as artificial, more on the sonority than the performance aspects. Probably just because I haven't played those instruments much.

 

[mixmkr]

I guess I tend to crudely categorize everything synth or sample-based as artificial, more on the sonority than the performance aspects. Probably just because I haven't played those instruments much.

I did hunker out in the woods, chop down my own guitar and strummed the bark off of it!