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I now finally have an adequate computer to make music... I started playing guitar about a decade ago, but gave up almost immediately, thinking I could just get by on my voice. Well, while I have plenty of original songs that I have written, I figured I would ease my way into this process by doing a set of covers....
I am currently working on 3 covers: "Ovirt" by Skinny Puppy (from Handover), "New Dawn Fades" by Joy Division, and "Take It Or Leave It" by The Strokes.... all of these are currently in the works, but I do have an extremely rough mono guitar track for "Ovirt" that I have been showing to friends with the hope of input.
This is the original track:
and here is a link to my extremely rough, one track one take acoustic guitar take on the song (it's going to be about a minute longer, if things work the way I desire): www.sendspace.com/file/7aj9v9
These are all to be mostly acoustic, with a little electric bass thrown in and later on my vocals on top... the New Dawn Fades isn't close to my approval on an arrangement level, and the Take It Or Leave it is barely in its infancy.
Essentially, in reference to the Ovirt cover, I want to know if the staccato/palm muted part near the end is appropriate or if I should just have the part be sustained chords, repeated.
This is extremely rough, and while I have attempted guitar over the last decade, I didn't get serious until the last few months... I am a bit more solid on bass, considerably better on piano (which I'm debating whether or not I should use piano at all), and singing is my forte. So play nice, huh? I'm inviting of constructive criticism, but go easy on me, peeps... I'm no Prince.
I now finally have an adequate computer to make music... I started playing guitar about a decade ago, but gave up almost immediately, thinking I could just get by on my voice. Well, while I have plenty of original songs that I have written, I figured I would ease my way into this process by doing a set of covers....
I am currently working on 3 covers: "Ovirt" by Skinny Puppy (from Handover), "New Dawn Fades" by Joy Division, and "Take It Or Leave It" by The Strokes.... all of these are currently in the works, but I do have an extremely rough mono guitar track for "Ovirt" that I have been showing to friends with the hope of input.
This is the original track:
and here is a link to my extremely rough, one track one take acoustic guitar take on the song (it's going to be about a minute longer, if things work the way I desire): www.sendspace.com/file/7aj9v9
These are all to be mostly acoustic, with a little electric bass thrown in and later on my vocals on top... the New Dawn Fades isn't close to my approval on an arrangement level, and the Take It Or Leave it is barely in its infancy.
Essentially, in reference to the Ovirt cover, I want to know if the staccato/palm muted part near the end is appropriate or if I should just have the part be sustained chords, repeated.
This is extremely rough, and while I have attempted guitar over the last decade, I didn't get serious until the last few months... I am a bit more solid on bass, considerably better on piano (which I'm debating whether or not I should use piano at all), and singing is my forte. So play nice, huh? I'm inviting of constructive criticism, but go easy on me, peeps... I'm no Prince.
The idea of doing Skinny Puppy with an acoustic guit makes me smile! This could turn into something really interesting. Totaly different vibe, but I think of the Punch Brother's cover of Kid A kind of thing.
I think you're on the right track but I personally couldn't advise you whether playing staccato or legato works better at this primitive a stage of your work. My opinion would depend on what else you add to the guitar mix. Keep on keeping on and post your results
One small bit of nit-pickery on my part, and it might just be me. But I'm not familiar with sendspace and it took me a minute to figure out how to DL your file. Every link I clicked on kept wanting to install some sort of plug-in. That could scare allot of people off from ever even bothering to hear you. You might want to consider sound cloud or youtube but make the youtube video accessible only to those who have a link to it(i.e. the folks in this thread where you posted the link).