The Next Concert

I will be honest, when it comes to my guitar playing I have been an idiot. Instead of actually practising songs for my exam I have been working to improve my guitar playing as a whole, which is good in a way, but not right now. Now there is a Concert in less than three weeks time, and I haven't practised for it. Crap!
I suppose I could perform some of the songs I've already done before like My Dying Bride and Helena, but I don't really feel like doing Helena again because I've performed it recently, so I'll choose another Blitzkid song, maybe En Infinitus Sleepus (Lullaby). Blitzkid songs are easy enough to play. but I have to do two more songs as a group, currently Walk Like A Zombie and Are You Gonna Be My Girl, I may have to change Walk Like A Zombie to Smells Like Teen Spirit though.

A Trick

I was watching a live video of Love Like Blood - Blitzkid, and part way through the song Argyle Goolsby unstraps his guitar and plays it more like and upright bass by throwing his guitar in the air and catching it on the right note, and dropping it and catching on the right note. The bass is only supported by his left hand, so I'm thinking, "that is freaking awesome, I'm gonna have a go!" so i have a go and within about 60 seconds my left arm has died and I can hardly play the simplest of bass riffs. Need to practise this, because showmanship is key.

The Video:

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.

Squealies

Now that I'm done with my geography detentions I can concentrate on my graphics detentions. Oh joy! Any way that's actually two subjects off my back because I realised that Imogen is six times better at singing than playing the bass guitar (and she's barely average at singing). this means instead I can teach Dana bass and she is willing to learn it as well.
Squealies are really what I wanted to talk about because I've now worked out roughly how to do them but I can't yet get them done quickly there is about a second delay between the initial note until it becomes a squealy, or pinch harmonic if you prefer. I ended up rushing from my geography lesson to the music practise room at lunch just to claim it before anyone else can, which involved saying no to Jazz, and when I got my guitar and got in to find the EPIC amplifier I was using earlier still there someone else came in then left because I beat him. I connected my Lodgestone guitar to the amp and started playing "pumpkinpatch murders" by "Blitzkid" and after god knows how many tries I hit the squealy in the intro and it sounded so epic with the effect of the amp (it was all a bit high pitched made it sound like stereotypical metal, a bit like "3 Inches of Blood") and I was very impressed with that.
Overall it was a good day too.