The Weekend

I must say I've had an interesting weekend, well fun weekend. Started off on Friday bored until I got a message on Skype telling me I can finally go (to Jess's) and when I got there we all played guitar hero for six hours (I was mostly on the drums, there really hard for me).
Next comes Saturday, I woke up, went to my brothers house, helped him to do a "tombola" sign for his mate, went back to my brothers house, played that awesome Dearmmond guitar (that will be mine), went to see my brothers fiancée, had tea at a vicars house and befriended his daughters. There was a lot of motorbike riding that day... I loved it, and one day I'll own my own motorcycle, a Kawasaki Ninja 750R. For now my goal is the Dearmmond M75-T.
Sunday was a bit more relaxed, I basically sat down playing guitar, Jamming with my Bro. and on the way home from his house the car broke down, so I spent two hours and fifty-eight minutes sitting on a seat which is only comfortable for an hour and a half. didn't get home until about half two this morning.
Today I was playing a random four chord riff on guitar, and putting on a ridiculous cowboy styled accent while I monologued to it, I even sung a song for Jazz (which was completely improvised). With it being Hallowe'en I went Trick-or Treating, you may say I'm too old to trick-or-treat, but I say "you're never to old to have fun". either way i got fifty tasty treats and seventy-one pence.

METAL

Well I've been blasting metal down my speakers almost constantly for the past seven days, I've even found a very nice and heavy version of "smells like teen spirit" by "Nirvana" who I think are crap, but the cover by "Bruthal-6" is completely awesome. I've also had a nice amount of "Metallica" pumped into my skull, mostly "whiskey in the jar" which is a tribute to "Thin Lizzy" which is a cover of a boring folk song by "The Dubliners". The weird part of this is the amount of "Nightwish" I've been listening to, the reason it's weird is because I introduced Dana to them and she got me into them, or isn't that as weird as I initially thought?
I've also decided I'm not going to play bass for the school production since I'm getting confused with traditional notation and the fact that Guitar Pro 6 won't convert it to tablature, this is just getting annoying. I guess I'll have to find something else to do for my music GCSE.
i also had a very interesting day with Jazz and my southern cousins (they thankfully didn't annoy us too much and left us to happily kill zombies) but I found her weak spot and then watched the latest "Shrek" film. All-in-all a good day, and tomorrow I get to annoy one half of my social circle.

The Attack

This isn't as dramatic as it sounds. The attack I'm referring to isn't really an attack it's just a crap load of furry caterpillars along a section of the old train tracks, but seriously there was a lot me and Dana kept needed to dodge them (because we didn't want to get attacked by a swarm of furry caterpillars), but that isn't the highlight of my day.
The most entertaining thing that happened was Dana tried to straighten my hair, she didn't do a bad job, but her mum had to redo it and not it's awesome. I now have a fairly straight mop to head-bang with. From behind I look like more of a girl than before but oh well, it's the price you have to pay to look like an idiot.

Bass Time

Finally my new strings had came for my bass guitar. When I saw the packet in my room I was strangely ecstatic, I quickly stripped the old strings of my Vintage Metal Axxe Wraith and rushed downstairs to get something to clean and polish the fretboard/body/headstock, Cilit Bang! that'll do. Turns out Cilit Bang! is a lie, can't clean the small stains off my fretboard the way Mr Clean would, but I didn't realise that until it had fully dried and I already had one string replaced. Damn.
Now my bass is fully strung, tuned and ready to rock. thicker strings than before, now I'm using Ernie Ball Power Slinky Bass, the thicker strings give a heavier sound which is great for metal. The fact they are shiny as well just makes me smile since they don't have a black layer of crap on them.
So after my bass was fully sorted I decided to go on a walk with Dana and nothing special happened, except this Cyclops Kitty we saw and I scared. Since it was a cat sitting on the other side of a window I thought I'd raise my hands like a monster in an old film and say "ROAR", the cat retreated of the window, it was back on the window when we walked past again so I scared it off in the same way.

Damn

I've just read through all my previous blog posts, and I've realised that the entire thing is filled with bad grammar. this isn't good news at all considering I was planning on doing A-Level English. I guess I'll have to pay more attention to what is written and put more thought into it.
On the upside I've improved the little riff which was giving me problems, The only problem is the way I've done it means I need to get better at singing while playing (especially since I'll be rapping while playing in the Year 11 Concert).
As a side note: rainbows are wonderful, YAY!

Threats

I'm scared shitless right now...
Why? Well it started about 6 months back I was getting annoyed and bothered by this girl complaining about my fashion sense, when we have a school uniform, she was also complaining about my hair and how I wear my trousers. One day when she was being an excessive pain in the arse I said "shut up or I'll kill you, then I'll eat your kids" as a joke to shut her up, which is said a lot in my family but without the I'll eat your kids at the end, I thought I'd add that as improvisation. she asked how i was planning on killing her so I said "I was thinking gas."
About twenty minutes ago Jazz goes to talk to one of her mates (who I have never met) and his mate (who I also haven't met) the guy she talks to is going out with the girl I threatened as a joke to shut her up, his mate walks up to and says "'Ey! If you ever threaten my families girlfriends again, 'cause I treat him as my brother, I'll put a knife in your throat!" at first I didn't get what he meant so I asked him what he meant so he said "you threatened you'd stick a petrol bomb through (censored name here) door!" Now I have never threatened to use a petrol bomb before because if you want to get away with murder you have to kill them quietly and dispose of the body quickly and with a petrol bomb you have noise and a big fire and its hard to get to the body your trying to dispose of.
Then he added "Do you get me?" and repeated that a lot until I finally got out "Yeah I get you but I don't remember this" and at the time I didn't remember, it's only just got back to me.
Now that I'm sitting here feeling like death and listening to Slipknot I have no idea on what I'll do while I wait for the time I can go to Jazz. I'm thinking I will just murder people on Oblivion.

Challenge Accepted

OK it's not much of a challenge.
Anyway what I have to do is master twenty-two songs (all the songs from the wedding singer) on the bass guitar. My only problem is that everything is in Traditional Notation which until about five minutes ago I didn't understand (I barely understand it now) but either way i will master these songs, I will play them as part of the school production and they will count towards my music GCSE.
I'm expecting my music teacher would have a big ol' troll face when I see him after the play.
Five weeks, twenty-two songs, four strings, six fingers, three pick-ups, one cable, one amplifier, one band, one production, one school and I'm just going to leave it there because I'm out of things to number.

Information Gathering

Well today I found out a few things, two of which I found quite interesting and fairly entertaining. The first thing is that I have a really big arse, I don't know if that's an insult or not (if it was then it was a terrible insult). The fact this was brought up is strange I was happily playing "Ace Of Spades" on my guitar (which I left at school, damn) when a voice appears somewhere behind me saying "George, you have a REALLY big bum."
The second thing is that I did absolutely terrible with my biology coursework, I'm not surprised really, Miss didn't explain it very well.
Finally that my mate Sam can't stand the sight of blood, we were dissecting a heart in biology and he just fled the room and puked his guts out. So me and me other mate Tree decided to annoy him by talking about ways to prepare hearts for a meal.
All in all a fairly boring day since Dana was ill and Jazz had a trip leaving me with very little to occupy myself with at break and lunch.

A Little Dilemma

I've ran into a small problem where I have an intro riff and i can't think of anything to follow it. This makes me sad and I don't like it. I have the start of a song, and nothing else, no lyrics, no verse riffs, nothing. However the intro sounds a little magical so I expect the lyrics to be about unicorns and elves.
As a side note I may consider putting the old keyboard that is in the spare room to use. Nothing wrong with being a multi-instrumentalist. (If that isn't a word it is now).

Winning

The first part of this is about the violin, it's a small high pitched instrument which can be played with a bow or by plucking the individual string, and I've been playing one. The reason I've been playing violin is because they are awesome and since Dana plays violin I asked her to teach me to play(especially since I'm teaching her guitar and bass). They're a pain in the neck missing the frets so it means you have to guess where to put your fingers, luckily there are little dot stickers on her violin which mark out the points to place your fingers. So far the only thing I don't like about violins is how much of a pain they are to tune, it took me most of my break time tuning it, leaving me with about five minutes left to play, long enough for Dana to teach me how to play "My heart will go on" which is simple enough at least. Now I shall have to get myself an electric violin... but for the time being i can just take my brothers acoustic.
The next part is about my graphics work, which was great since our usual teacher was away we had a cover lesson held by the queen of derps (and I think she's ace because we get nothing done with her). this meant I could quickly finish and print out my graphics work which needs handing in in lesson instead of after school. Win.
Finally I had a day with Jazz which naturally went well. Unfortunately I can't think of a way to describe it in an interesting way (for you readers).

Shark

I've just wrote a new song which is entitled "Shark". Conveniently the song is about a shark who terrorises the local fishermen because he thinks that all fishermen are complete and total dicks which must be annihilated (or something along those lines) but does it matter why a shark is trying to kill someone? of course it doesn't its a shark and they don't like people.

Download tab here: http://www.mediafire.com/?g324c3noj72b36y
Tab includes lyrics and is saved as a .PDF so you just need Acrobat Aeader (which is free) instead of guitar pro 6 (which isnt free)

When Will The Spaceman Cometh?

I just thought I'd post a brief update on the current status of "The Spaceman Cometh" (for those that don't know it's the song I wrote around the last week of August). Originally it was just one electric guitar using the clean pick-up, but I'm now thinking of using an acoustic guitar for rhythm and an electric guitar (distortion) as the lead and a bass line. This will involve some changes.
My first idea was to add a harmonic recreation of the "2001: A Space Odyssey" intro theme just before my current introduction, and the recreation does sound pretty good at the moment. I'm also planning on adding squealies (pinch harmonics if you insist) to the solo, which I'll most likely change from the current creepy sound to a more EPIC METAL solo.
So when will the spaceman cometh? Technically he never will come, however, the song will must likely be uploaded to my YouTube when I have a camcorder (which I'll hopefully get for Christmas) and when the song is finished (which I'm aiming to do before Christmas). I'll hopefully get it uploaded in January. So when the spaceman is arriving I'll update the ETA on here.