I am embarking on laying vocals tracks on ALL my new instrumentals! I have most of the lyrics done, but WOULD love to collaborate WITH YOU! GOT LYRICS? LET ME KNOW! Want to write some thing NEW? LET ME KNOW!
Blessing in disguise a plane no longer flies fear in your eyes no one dies fire in the skies time to realize we are not alone can no longer come home time to roam make LIFE your own
MUSIC and LYRICS copyright 2009 JASONGGABBOTT
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO all MY beautiful and beloved U G FRIENDS! YOU have made MY music and MYSELF, what I am today! I am sure we WILL continue to GROW together!
I actually fell off my strings for the first time I can remember, during this performance! I don't think you will notice, but if you do, let me know. I got stuck between two strings for a second! It felt like something, but it is too dirty to share here. P.M. me if you would really like to know.
I have been uploading a lot. Keep up as you can. I know I have a lot of music to listen to. I have two new band sites! "documenting the rISe" is my more experimental work, and "meconium" is my MASTERED VOCAL TRACKS! I don't want anyone to get burned out, but MY music will not be held back! Please also check me out on my other sites. By the way, what kind of speakers or headphones do you like most? Use most? Want most? I can only imagine what MY sound will be like when I can monitor it with a great system.
Well, I am constantly looking for motivation and inspiration to take with me into my guitar world. Here is something I have found that IS helping me on my solos and hopefully will help you also!
I misspelled the url name, but I can't change it now. I am going to put up ALL my new experimental works on this page, most will be exclusives. I am going to upload each stage of my new songs her.
It's not what you play, it's how you play it. BY Tom Hess
There are lots of ways to make guitar solos. Most guitarists focus on
'what to play' versus 'how to play things'. Fact is, the nuances of
phrasing ('how' the notes are played) often matter more
than the notes we actually play. How many times have you heard someone
play a solo 'without' much emotion? Often there was nothing wrong with
their choice of notes. The solo lacked emotion and interest because the
'phrasing' was weak.
Guitar Phrasing is the most important aspect to creating great guitar
solos, yet very few guitar players learn to develop this key element of
their guitar playing.
One of the best things you can do to make better guitar solos is to
carefully study your favorite singers. In the late 1990s, I began to
study the vocal styles of my favorite singers. I learned to play on
guitar every little nuance of their vocal phrasing and vibrato... and
most importantly, the 'musical contexts' in which they made various
phrasing and vibrato choices when singing. Singers cannot do many of
things that we can do on the guitar, but they can naturally and
effortlessly do things that are not common (but are still possible) to
do on the guitar.
Listen to your favorite singers and notice the difference between their
vocal phrasing ('how' they sing notes and phrases) and your guitar
phrasing ('how' you play your notes and phrases). Then listen carefully
to how these singers construct their phrases and compare that to how
you create your guitar solos. When you really pay attention to this,
you will probably make some very cool and powerful observations. This
can be one of the best guitar solo lessons you can ever have. It can be
a real eye (and ear) opening experience that can lead you to discover many new ideas that you can use to make you're your own great guitar solos.
Here are three things you can learn and implement into your playing
immediately so that you can consistently make better guitar solos.
Delayed Vibrato: Listen to how many singers sing a note (without
vibrato at first) and then begin to apply vibrato to it a few moments
later. The vast majority of guitar players don't do this when soloing;
instead they apply the vibrato immediately to the note. Although this
can also sound good, it gets old to always immediately apply vibrato
when you use it. So play a note on your guitar, let it ring out
naturally (without vibrato) for a moment, then apply vibrato to it. In
addition to creating a more 'vocal style of guitar playing' you may
also notice that the note you just played sustains longer (more on this
in the video below).
Movement between notes: As you know, when playing notes on a
piano there is no ability to 'bend' notes. Singers frequently 'bend'
notes in both directions (up or down in pitch), although downward
'bent' notes are more common in most vocal styles. Guitar players
frequently bend notes, but 99% of the time they only bend notes 'up'
(in pitch) Intuitive Emotional Expression: Singers often manipulate tension
and dissonance intuitively. They might sing the 9th of a chord because
it makes a very specific emotional feeling. Most (non jazz) guitar
players would naturally play the root while making a guitar solo
(especially at the end of a phrase). This happens because guitar
players typically are thinking about patterns and scale positions. And
thus the ear is conditioned to 'find the consonant notes' when
beginning and ending phrases while creating (or improvising) guitar
solos. Singers don't have 'patterns' and 'positions' to think about.
They are only focused on their intuition - the emotion of each note
they sing. This results in more natural options for the singer
(compared to many 'inexperienced' guitar players) particularly at the
beginnings and endings of phrases.
Well, I worked the Steve Miller show tonight! I bar tended for some real cool people and some real dumb a$$ drunks. Alcohol is a very potent drug, and should be used as such, nuff said. I was able to listen through the sound board in the lobby while I worked! I was also able to watch a little from the doors. He ALWAYS put on a magnificent show! I saw him back in the '90s a few times, the best was with "the GREATFUL dead"! Those where some times. I was thinking, DO YOU think our guitar hero's would like to just go onstage and "JAM" with our minds? Maybe play their hits, but then to just PLAY for us. I bet they get kind of tired of just playing for us, and NOT themselves. I think if I ever get in that position, I may just piss off a lot of people!
I got home to finally be able to download my NEW MASTERED version of "come my way future guitar". One thing I love as much as writing and recording new music and jamming, is listening to my work, MASTERED, BY THE MASTER sound ENGINEER, RAZOREDGEaudio http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/razoredge+audio /!!!! If you already are lucky to know him, then YOU already know what a tremendous talent he is. Not only as a brilliant sound engineer, but as a HUMAN BEING! He blows me away with what he does with sound. My songs go to him in a fairly "raw" state, and comes back crisp and clean and dirty in ALL the right places. I can hear things that I didn't even know I played. I can hear every little sound right where I wanted and HOW I wanted it. Sometimes it is hard to really hear your music, until someone does something to it. Something about this makes it more accessible to my own ears. Being a solo musician, I HONOR all who work with me, it is such a pleasure to have others hands on my creations. "come my way future guitar MASTERED" IS up now! ON my band page "MECONIUM" http://artists.ultimate-guitar.com/meconium/ I was wondering, is there any interest in me making another band page, with JUST mastered works? I notice, not many people go to my band page. I would upload more there, but there isn't a need. I think with ALL my songs in one place, it is making people just listen to the NEW, and MY OLD is JUST as good. YES I said MY music is G O O D. I finally have gotten to the point that I realize I enjoy MY music, and I don't care what you think (as long as you listen!). W E Don't forget to listen toWE ROK2 THE only station thatWE ROK 4 U
Hello all YOU beautiful UG people! Well I have been very busy playing my guitar and recording. I watched "WOLVERINE: Xmen origins" and for some reason it MOTIVATED and INSPIRED the hell out of me. Maybe it was 'cause it was such a bad a$$ movie, I am not sure, maybe it was just timing. I seem to have BURSTS of inspiration. This is the three songs inspired by the movie! "WOLVERINEjam(adamantium)" http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/jasonggabbott/m usic/all/play730786
It is that time! I said when I started playing guitar that I just wanted to be able to JAM! WELL I can! I also wanted to have music that WAS me and explained me in a way I was happy with. WELL I now have that! I KNOW YOU WANT IT! Send me YOUR e-mail anyway you want (p.m. is the best) or e-mail me at jasonggabbott@yahoo.com
and YOU will be on my mailing list of ALL my NEW music! PLEASE continue to make your comments on here and please listen to them over at UBETOO.COM as well, I MAKE $ over there for plays!
YOU can also make YOUR own "cd's" of my music! JUST send me the ones you want and YOU will get them!
If you really like my music and want to support me getting new equipment so I can record better for you, please send me a donation to the cause! Not really expecting any, but I figured I would throw it out there.
Mixing music can be an incredibly inspired process.
It is my conviction that it is best to get all of the managerial work
out of the way to help facilitate a far more inventive and exciting
mixing experience. Use these steps as a guide, make them your own, and
I promise you that your final mix will be far more productive.
1. Organize Your Tracks
It is helpful to group your tracks on the multitrack by instrument.
Typically, you may have drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keys and
other samples or instruments, and vocals. When my colleague worked on
the latest Moneen album, he ended up with a ton of guitar tracks. He
would blend guitar amps with several mics on each amp for major guitar
sounds. It was common for him to have 40-50 guitar tracks per song. As
such, organization was key to a successful mix. In the end he ended up
grouping the guitar tracks into four unique groups, rhythm and lead
tracks for Kenny and Hippy.
2. Edit Prior to Mixing Music
Ensure all of your tracks are appropriately edited before you begin
mixing. In today's digital world, we are constantly utilizing playlists
and comping the best performances together. Make sure that every edit
point has a crossfade as this will aid in avoiding any unwanted clicks
and pops.
3. Consolidate
Once you have edited all your tracks it is advised to consolidate
them to your session start time. This will guarantee all of your
regions will have the same start time which will be a huge benefit if
you are going to hire a mixer to work on your music. It will also
decrease your computer's processing time. Processing hundreds of
crossfades and edits is very hard on a computer. By consolidating your
tracks, you are taking away all of the edits and crossfades, by doing
so you will free up processing power that can be used for effect
processing during your mix. Plus, your computer will run faster during
the mix.
4. Clear Unused Regions Before Mixing
Once you have consolidated your tracks it is a good idea to
eliminate any unneeded regions or tracks from your session. Keep only
what you want to have mixed into your song. This will be helpful if you
are hiring a mix engineer as it will ensure that no unwanted sounds end
up in your mix.
5. Print Effects
Record any cool effects you are using to their own tracks. You will
end up with your original dry track, plus a new, wet track. It is often
hard to recreate effects during a mix, especially if you use plug-ins
that your mix engineer does not have.
To illustrate this, my
colleague was working with a band called A/Collision and they had given
him demos of their entire record that they had recorded in cubase. He
loved the sound of some of their vocal treatments, so when they were
finished recording the vocals, he gave them the consolidated lead vocal
track which he had them run through the same cubase plug-ins they used
on their original demos. Unfortunately, he was then unable to use those
effect tracks during the mix -- hitting this point home.
While
there are many more strategies to achieve a professional music mix, if
you begin with these five, you are off to a great start.
I thought this would be helpful, hope it is for you.
Well, I just NOW started doing something completely new to me and I am sure to others! I am using TWO picks at once! Hold two picks together, just like you hold one. You can have one hard fat pick and a t h i n pick at the same time! Or any combination possible! NOW, slide the picks while you strum and pick! Have any questions? JUST ask! It really is making a new sound for me and NEW sounds INSPIRE the CRAFT out of me! NEW sounds are like the guitar gods having a new voice to speak to us with.
I had to share this message to razor, with U enjoy!
Re: U ROK WE ROK
oct 3, 2009 3:16 AM
jasonggabbott wrote on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 1:11am : DUDE you just blew MY mind!
It was great hearing my first songs (collaborations) on the radio. Great isn't the word,AMAZING doesn't even cover it!
Just
N O W I listened to MY first SOLO radio PLAY! HOLY crap, man! I almost
had a heart attack! Why does it sound so good? Is it just me or is this
song GOOD? Must be 'cause of the killer producer! RAZORFIED!
I am serious, it sounds almost as good as my mp3! Thank you bro! You are amazing.
thank you,thank you,thank you. but it was YOU who made it!it was YOUR passions and soul that brought it to LIFE!
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