Hey guitarists, lets collaborate!

[semitone36]

This thread was inspired by matthew's guitar thread.

For the songwriters out there who want opinions or help on their work, upload your music in the guitar pro/tuxguitar format for critique. When you post, tell us what genre you write for, your influences, the direction you want your song to go in, and anything else you want to let us know about. Ill go first in my next post.

Also, thanks to matthew for allowing the .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, and .tg formats for uploading!

[semitone36]

Heres my work.

Im a huge fan of melodic deathmetal with a lot of my inspiration coming from bands like Children of Bodom, Trivium, and Silent Civilian. For this song, I wanted it to start out with a really slow and dramatic intro, then lead in to more thrashy verses.

Im pretty happy with where the song has gone thus far but Im having trouble thinking of a chorus to come after the prechorus. Let me know your thoughts!

[Zimmer]

Bar 25 , you set it as 9/8 time, it sounds a bit 'out of synch', not necessarily too pleasing on the ear (well, mine, anyway :) )

Liked the previous 24 bars.
You enticed me to download Tuxguitar just to hear it!! I have never used Tuxguitar so, can you hitch an electric guitar to it via the soundcard in order to 'play in' your compositions, or is it just a composer ? I have previously recorded guitar through the soundcard to Audacity..

( My gear, BTW, consists of an old Nylon Classical, an Eko Ranger 6, an Ibanez Strat' copy , a Line 6 Variax 600 and a PODXT Live. I run that through the Home stereo :) or if playing elsewhere I have a Peavey Escort PA system.)

[semitone36]

Thanks for the reply! I changed up the time signature cause I felt that the song was starting to get a little repetitive and needed a change of pace but its all a matter of taste when it gets down to it I guess lol.

Nice rig btw! And tuxguitar is more for planning out a song and arranging it before you actually record. If you want something to record with I would try out Ardour (http://ardour.org).

But hey! Now that youve tried out tuxguitar you should tab out something youve written and post it back here! Id really like to see this thread grow into something huge :)

[jimi_hendrix]

first i think we need some hard rock rewrites of national anthems...then we expand from there...this project is approved by the rock god

[Bölvaður]

The song is quite good, no complaints.

I am going to attach a old song I made.. one of the first once I made actually, newly after I learned how to play the guitar and how to write tabs.

I once wrote a death metal song which I am very proud of.. but it got lost in a freakish backup accident. :(

[semitone36]

sorry to hear that Bölvaður I would have liked to hear it.

The lyrics of the gory story made me laugh! What inpired them? And do you play bass? The bass riffs were really good!

[semitone36]

@ hendrix

What did you have in mind?

[Bölvaður]

For this song, I wanted it to start out with a really slow and dramatic intro, then lead in to more thrashy verses.

Well.... with my help all hope for a slow dramatic intro is well out of the window and the trashy verses got a facelift and look like some princess/monster hybrid.

[semitone36]

WAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Holy **** Bölvaður that was AMAZING
:guitar:\\:D/

Not too sure about how fast everything all comes in with the intro but you nailed it with the verse. btw Ive been trying to figure out forever how to tab drums with tuxguitar. How did you do it?

[Tomosaur]

I'm far too impatient to tab my guitar stuff :(

[pol666]

Well, I have some songs not complete.

it's under CC.

[jimi_hendrix]

@ hendrix

What did you have in mind?

a series of anthems from contributer's countries similar to my star spangled banner

[Bölvaður]

Ive been trying to figure out forever how to tab drums with tuxguitar. How did you do it?


http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/formats/midi-drummap.html (http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/formats/midi-drummap.html)
what I use the most:
35 - bass drum
36 - the other bass drum (never use both types in same song)
40 - snare
(38 - ill sounding snare... I used to use it but now I use 40)
46 - hihat
44 - closing hihat (Pedal Hi-Hat )
42 - another closed hihat
49 - crash
57 - cymbal
51 - ride
41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 50 - tom toms (from low to deep)



I am happy that you like my perversion of your song. Can I force you to return the favor if I manage to dig up a semi death metal like song?

[semitone36]

I am happy that you like my perversion of your song. Can I force you to return the favor if I manage to dig up a semi death metal like song?

I would be honored. Bear in mind though that I have only been playing for a couple of years though and Im not very good at writing yet lol. It took me over a month to write that piece

[semitone36]

dude, pol666 I like your style! what do you call that genre? Its like jazz fusion mixed with speed metal and played on a middle-eastern scale lol.

The intro on the first one was genius
=D>

[Bölvaður]

I wasnt happy about sending anything, as I rarely left unfinished songs lying around. So here are few riffs I made last week.

[BbUiDgZ]

, upload your music in the guitar pro/tuxguitar format for critique.

would be cool, if i could get a sound out of tux guitar :(
rosegarden with qsynth and jack work fine.. can u point me at a thread or some info on how to get tuxguitar going? the help button on tuxguitar is broken too...aaarg

[semitone36]

Ive found that tuxguitar can be a little difficult to get up and running but head over to their forum. (http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/forums.html) Ive posted there a few times and they usually can help solve whatever problem Im having.

[semitone36]

@ bolvador

Sorry for the long pause before responding (midterms). Anyways, for your riffs what direction were you looking to take them in? Any particular bands that inspired you?

[pol666]

dude, pol666 I like your style! what do you call that genre? Its like jazz fusion mixed with speed metal and played on a middle-eastern scale lol.

The intro on the first one was genius
=D>

Thanks, I don't know what genre can be these.

[Bölvaður]

@ bolvador

Sorry for the long pause before responding (midterms). Anyways, for your riffs what direction were you looking to take them in? Any particular bands that inspired you?

well to be honest my old long lost death metal song was what inspired me. I couldnt member how it was but I remembered how I structured one of the riffs... so that was what I was thinking of when writing this. Well along a thought about making the first 4rth note of some riffs be the first 4rth note of the next riff... that's why it is difficult to move the riffs too much around without modifying or adding new stuff in.



but yea... just go crazy.. surprise me.

[semitone36]

Ill try my best man! It might take me a while but Ill definitely give it my best.

[ibuclaw]

I thought I might stop by and chip into this thread. ;)

This isn't guitar orientated (at least, the bits I'm showing), these are just some random ideas that have been floating round for the past 2 years until I make something of them. ;)

Prologue is the intro song, as you may have guessed that leads into a "Metallica - Unforgiven" sort of style song.

and Epilogue is actually the first part of several sections that makeup the end song (Goes into Dream Theater etsqueness).

Overall theme is dark and mirky, yet uplifting, and the concept is about my Grandad, not that you'll notice anyway :)

It would be interesting to hear what you think.

Regards
Iain

[cmay]

here is something I did for the fun of it in one afternoon some years ago.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/carsten_may

I have until now only this first track uploaded but more old tracks to come within that long. I have written and played own songs since I was fourteen and I do it for recreational purposes only.

I like to play around with all sorts of funny experiments and up until 2007 I did not really have a good mic or anything other than a fourtrack cassette recorder but I got a hold on a nice eight track hard disk recorder after that.

so I have recorded a lot but most are too poor quality to listen to and the other stuff on hard disk is in a period where I make the transistion between using open tunings and ordinary tunings and I also start playing and recording some more folk country blues oriented stuff as well as making my punk rock more extreme than before.

[Zoot7]

This thread could do with a revival. :)

Here's 2 of the later pieces I put together.
The first one is my own cover of Mike Oldfield's version of In Dulci Jubilo, and the second is an original I wrote myself. The vast majority of both are done with me playing VST instruments in real time. :)
http://rapidshare.com/files/301855201/Life_Volume_2.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/301854945/In_Dulci_Jubilo.mp3

[Zoot7]

Said i'd bump this thread because I've a new addition for it. :)

Here's a rock cover of the Metal Gear Solid theme I put together myself. It's a byproduct of a day with nothing better to do and also a bout of randomness to cover it in the first place.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wzduwznzyjn