My music — Page 4

DominicCobb said:

The other possibility is that you're an amateur musician and people in general are uninterested in amateur musicians because there are so many. Again, the talent doesn't matter. People like listening to people that are popular. Again, don't take it personally.

 I think that's the biggest part of it honestly.

And yes I do make them for me, but at the same time I put alot of my feeling and how I think into them so it'd be nice for others to appreciate it.

Although I will be making some non-metal covers soon.  (Already did one of That's the Way by Led Zeppelin) which I think could get more appreciation.  And I'm not doing this BECAUSE I want more appreciation, I guess I'm just tired of the limitations of the style of music I've been doing, and lately pop/rock with a slightly metallic attitude toward them is just what I'm feeling more lately.  I can say more with them.

Teehee.  It's mostly in honor of Conker's Bad Fur Day anyhow.

The second album is available as a playlist on my soundcloud page if you can't bear to wait until I get around to sending you the email with it, but of course the quality is ALOT less than the full version I'll send you.  (192 kbs 44/16 mp3 VS Lossless FLAC 96/24)  I'm telling you this just in case you are somewhere where you don't want to download large files but still want to hear it.

The first new thing I've actually recorded in several months.  As I earlier indicated I would do, this one features a MUCH bigger emphasis on the music, tone, and actually sounding good, and a much smaller effort was put to badgering you over the head with intensity.  :)  Enjoy.

Retro-gamers might enjoy the fact that it's from a video game.  I'll let you figure out which one.

Haha, I guess it isn't really very retro.  It's a PS1 game.  And it's given away if you look at the tags I gave it.

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The first new thing I've recorded in about a month since the computer I was using to record things with went down.

I wish I could listen to it, but my Flash player seems to be blocked and I'm not sure how to unblock it, especially since it isn't shown as blocked under chrome://plugins/....

Just for you.

Just for your own reference I've decided to re-record the lead guitars in the first segment of this (Up until the tempo changes to a mid-paced hard rock type thing) because they don't have very good intonation, meaning they are slightly off-pitch.  (It's the guitar, I need to have it worked on.  It's the only part I used that guitar on and it's the only part that sounds like that, so it has to be the guitar.)

Possessed said:

Just for you.

 Haha, thanks. I quite like it. I think I have several tracks from the soundtrack of Doom (never played it, though), most of which I like a lot. I don't think I've heard this one, though. I assume it's from the same game, anyway, based on the title and the sound of it....

Nope, it's from a final fantasy game called 'mystic quest' for SNES, not really that wonderful of a game to be honest but I've always LOVED those songs.  (it's a combination of two songs).  The song that's the beginning and the end of it is from a level called "Doom Castle".

Amid a seemingly endless stream of (internal) emotional distress, I made this one.  Not that it reflects it or anything, just thought it was cool.  At least my production values are getting better.   https://soundcloud.com/jacob-martin-28/x-1

Thanks man!  I do try to play with some local acts when I can, but I just really don't feel it.  None of them are very good...

I know what you mean.  There's a metal band around here that is just DYING for me to join them.  And it's honestly annoying the shit out of me.  Every member of the band messages me on facebook like 5 times a day trying to get me to come play with them.  If there was only some way I could get them to understand that every time they pester me they are hurting their chances of getting me.  They are actually pretty good, but while I love metal, I like to do more.  Of course the music I play is very metallic, but I like it to have influences of pop, blues, symphonic, and possibly even ambient all slapped on top of a metal base.  (as you can probably tell).  Of course, all my songs are covers as well, so far anyway, but I still try to do things original with them to incorporate all of my elements.  If it's a purely metal song I want to cover, I will try to find a way to bring symphonic and pop elements to it.  If it's a classic rock song, I find a way to heavy it up but also make it symphonic.

The real dealbreaker for me with this band that wants me is that they were always pestering me to write a song for them.  Well I wrote one, and none of them can play it, and to me it isn't hard at all and I can't teach it to them.  It's not that they aren't good enough to play it, I just can't seem to get through to them, and I learn songs extremely fast so I get impatient, and I don't want to be that guy that bosses and bullies the other band mates around, so I just feel it's best if  I stay solo unless I can find somebody else that learns fast.  Or I might just record the song myself and send it to them and maybe they will understand it.  I know all this sounds like I'm an egostical, stuck up asshole but it's really not the case.  I don't *want* to be condescending, and it's not so much that I play things better than other people, it's just that I can learn new things way quicker than most people so I have to fight really hard to not get impatient, and I don't want to be impatient with people.

I've been really into recording songs from the mega man games lately (as evidenced by the last song I just posted), because even though they are from nintendo and playstation games, they perfectly capture the feeling I like to create.  They have a metallic base, but they have a symphonic edge and the melodies have lots of pop feeling.  I love it.

Bands are a real mess.  I've just about had it with these fuckers that won't leave me alone.  Last night the drummer got snippy and said something like "I'm getting really tired of you ducking us".  So... STOP FUCKING ASKING ME.