Saturday 26 November 2011

A challenge Worth Doing

I've been listening to "Teenage Necrophilian Love" by "Blitzkid" a lot, and just before the main body of the song starts he asks the listeners to dance with their loved ones. This made me think, "What makes good dance music?" I came to the conclusion that dance music involves a fast steady beat, and a good bass line to hold it together. I came up with that conclusion from the lyrics of some dance song, "I like my beats fast, and my bass down low" I don't know what the song is but I don't really care.

While listening to "Teenage Necrophilian Love" I did realise that I most likely could dance to it (providing that I could dance in the first place). So my challenge is to create Metal dance Music. So now I just need to create the music and then test it on a dancer. Thankfully I know a dancer.

Friday 25 November 2011

Threads

I have recently viewed to absolutely ridiculous threads on forums.
Number 1 was some 12 year old kid wanting some girls to add him on skype because he couldn't be bothered to get a girlfriend any other way, so he just asks the people on planetminecraft.
Number 2 was someone wondering if animals felt emotion. We are animals and we feel it, and evidently he/she has never seen a dog in his/her life (they're always happy, how often do you find a depressed dog?), so they thought instead of searching for a dog they should just ask the people on goodreads.

Is this how low humanity has sunk? Damn. Now if you don't mind I'm going to go make Spaceman Cometh make sense.

Monday 21 November 2011

Possible Minor Depression

Ever since last Wednesday's revelation my life has slowly slipped down the shitter socially. Thankfully I had an "anti-depressant" on Sunday, By that I mean I went down my friend Jess's house and played a lot of Guitar Hero/Rock Band, the part that links that to an anti-depressant is that after raising my spirits they were quickly dropped again at school to a possibly lower level than before. The main problem is that now the rumours happily spreading around school (like all rumours do) have reached Jazz's family, they now hate my guts, meaning that me and Jazz have to be more ninja in order to get time together outside of school, that is where my buddy Bruce comes in. Jazz's mum trusts him.
The next part of this problem is a simple question: Do I choose Jazz or Dana?  Now I choose Jazz, no matter what my brain says, my acting heart says Jazz. I say "acting heart" because I'm not 100% sure whether or not I have a metaphorical heart, the "heart" which is used in the saying "follow your heart" or "listen to your heart". If you are wonder the rumour mentioned earlier are that I'm supposedly "using Jazz to make Dana jealous so I can get her instead" all FALSE not true. I'm happy with Jazz, very happy, but right now I can't see us going anywhere since the rumours have restricted her so much (her mother will rip her face off if she found out we're still together). This makes me confused, and confusion is part of the word equation for minor depression.
The next part is stress. Oh! Why did I choose Graphic Products as my D&T option? Put simply, because I'm an idiot who thought he could survive two whole years of it. So much work, dead lines to meet and a week of detentions for failing to meet those dead lines. Naturally, I'm failing to meet these dead lines and I have my teacher preparing to carve of my face with a compass (yes a compass). Brilliant.
To top it off tomorrow I must face the wrath of my geography teacher because my coursework is incomplete and today was the deadline for that, I can not do tomorrow's work now, most likely another PPP (pupil performance something or other, I can't really remember what it stands for), this will make three PPP's and it will put me in Isolation, where I'll have no friends. Especially since I'm second to bottom on the social ladder, (the last being about three or four people), everyone else in Isolation is usually towards the top of said ladder, and are "too cool" for me (basically it means that it will be filled with Dicks).
So here it is STRESS+CONFUSION=MINOR DEPRESSION, I wonder what it is that creates the next stage... in fact I don't want to find out.

As a completely irrelevant side note, I just read a comic one of my friends (Lucie) has been working on :P it's quite entertaining and funny, it's drawn in a Sonic The Hedgehog anime style.
here is the link: http://darkangel0006.deviantart.com/gallery/33413720

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Oh Crap!

Brilliant just bloody brilliant, the wires on my guitar tuner have snapped so I can't use it to tune my guitar, when i asked our music teacher to tune it it just kept slipping out of tune. Now I have a busted tuner and a guitar which is being a pain in the arse. Thankfully my amp isn't broken my jack was, I had a spare so I've plugged that in instead, and dumped the broken jack on my pathetic "friend" Danny.
I even have to re-resit a maths test tomorrow and I honestly don't remember anything that I did in year 9, so I think I'll be failing that. The only reason I have to re-resit is because the last time my results weren't taken down and the time before I was on holiday in Corfu (very nice place, go there if you get the chance. If you do go drop by La Palma and say Ayup).
I also have a really annoying social problem going on, well it's not really a problem it's still extremely annoying. Either way the people involved are informed and aware about what is going on in my head, hopefully they can make sense of it all and sort my life out.

Saturday 12 November 2011

Smeghead

My step-mum Lyudmila decided she likes this 3 year-old stray cat that's living in our back garden and for the past month she has been trying to keep him healthy. The other day she decided to get him neutered when she gets back from Russia in January, the we adopt him. But yesterday she realised that he wasn't named and that he needed one (but for now he has no official name and gets all benefits of a homeless cat), so we all came up with various names, I took the approach of naming him what he'll most likely be in a few years time "Sausages", dad took the racist approach of naming him various things that mean "Black", Lyudmila just went for various Russian names including the most popular name for a cat in Russia, I can't remember the name. We gave up arguing and sort of agreed to just name the cat "Smeghead".

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Lies

I have just wrote another song, called "Lies". Seems to sound fairly mainstream but oh well. It's about a guy without a name who gets dumped and depressed, especially when he see's his ex with some American guy. He ends up getting a new sexier girlfriend which he can boast to his ex about... until he finds out that she has a penis. he runs off angry at God and decides to kill himself, only to find his ex at his side while he dies...
i won't tab it since the entire song is just power chords (G,A,B,C,B) same as the chorus of "The Spaceman Cometh".

Saturday 5 November 2011

OK I lied... But Now It has Drums.

I didn't like leaving "The Spaceman Cometh" without a drum beat. So I decided to get the sound banks for Guitar Pro 6, and then use that to create drum beat. I would of used a real drum kit if I had one, and if I knew how to play drums, but I don't and I can't. I also did a slight edit before the solo and under the solo, the acoustic guitar was also replaced with an electric running on the clean pickup. This wasn't enough so I slightly Edited the lyrics so they all fit together better and then added them to the tab. The lyrics follow the lead guitar, basically every syllable is sung on top of every quarter not played. Only the chorus and the outro are different, as long as you spread the lyrics out enough for the chord change you should be fine singing.

Download (.PDF): http://www.mediafire.com/?8hg13k5wwmle9q7
Download (.GPX): http://www.mediafire.com/?lw4c5691pikbyl6

The other Downloads have been taken down because "Shark" needs re-writing and that was an outdated version of "The Spaceman Cometh".

Oh, the harmonic introduction is very badly tabbed, I put the right finger positions but the timings off, I just thought I'd make it easy for me. Laziness I know. It's basically the "2001: A Space Odyssey" theme tune. If you play the song on Guitar Pro 6 it sounds weird, and harmonics sound crap on it.

Thursday 3 November 2011

Completion

The Spaceman Cometh is complete! Will be hitting YouTube when I can get all instruments together for a recording session (and when I get a Camcorder). New features include: harmonic introduction, rhythm and lead guitars, bass, improved lyrics and a better solo.
Download here (.PDF file shows all instruments... feel free to add your own drum riff since I don't have a drum kit, but remember to give me credit): http://www.mediafire.com/?ma74g5g22nr7pei

Lyrics and structure:
[intro]
[verse 1]
I've been livin' up in space
I don't know whats goin' on
I just wanna go back home
Still don't understand the ship
Hoping to be rid off it
I just wanna go back home
[chorus]
they'll recieve me greatly
when the spaceman cometh
but from the first sighting
the spaceman will runeth
[verse 2]
Entering the hyperdrive
Maybe we'll be home on time
I just wanna go back home
Hurtling through the slipspace
Flying fast and flying far
I just wanna go back home
[chorus]
[verse 3]
Something has attacked my ship
Taken out all the engines
I just wanna go back home
deflector shields are down
I can here them boarding
I doubt I'll be goin home
[solo]
[chorus]
[chorus]
[outro]
i lay here bleeding
slowly dying
i'm not going
not going home

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Expenses

Conveniently enough with me trying to save £380 to buy that Dearmmond M75-T, I'm finding more things to spend money on. The list so far: guitar amp, bass amp (because mine has died), full size violin (I'm going to get an electric one which costs £99 instead of a £40 acoustic vilonin because I'm only going to buy it anyway so why waste the extra £40), Christmas, My mums birthday, my brother Charlie's birthday and my brother William's Birthday. That just takes me up to Spring, but out of all those the violin and bass amps are my lowest priority.