a little green day

[daronmalakianfan]

hey whats up this is us doing basket case..tell us how bad we suck

http://bandmix.com/profile.php?id=32204

[Guitar_fool202]

Wow theres a little machine called a metronome try using it.

Good:
Bass (kept it steady)
Drums (^^^^^^^^)
Remembered the lyrics (ive seen worse then you *gasp*)

Bad (theres gonna be alot here):
Distortion (turn the reverb off and turn the mid down)
Singing ( you can do better i bet you you can :thumb: )
Timing (did not see good timing on the guitarists part in the begining)
Speed (not too good at keeping it at one spot)
Hitting the notes ( in the intro i thought you were a 8 year old banging his skull into the pickups hoping to make noise)
Levels (if you have the time record everything sepreatly it helps )

Ugly:
The strumming of the guitar.

I noticed that alot of the time in the song you put palm mutes when i didnt need it and then took it off when it did need it. also it sounds like you use alot of down picking try alternate or sweep those work good.

Try to hammer out them problems youse gots up there and youll be flyin pertier then a summer hog greased up in a makeshift cannon dug out of fer pine tree you found in your back yard. :thumb:

[daronmalakianfan]

yea ..it was live so its hard to keep perfect timing and the guitar was supposed to be bad since theres was in fact bad on that song. i know i didnt sing the right notes at the beginning btu it was our first time practicing that song my bad but thanks for the response. we basically site read this song but i understand that it wasnt the best lol

[mikethecoug]

it doesn't sound live at all, infact it isnt youd be able to tell. do you mean it wasnt mixed or what? And the guitar was fairly good on the real song.

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

yea well ofcourse ud be able to tell but did u ever think maybe of the enviroment this was played at?? its not like it was a **** arena man, and the guitar quality on the real song wasn't bad exactly , but it wasnt that good either

[Local_Skater]

yea ..it was live so its hard to keep perfect timing and the guitar was supposed to be bad since theres was in fact bad on that song. i know i didnt sing the right notes at the beginning btu it was our first time practicing that song my bad but thanks for the response. we basically site read this song but i understand that it wasnt the best lol

That was awful at best. Before I get to the actually critique the song though, let me tell you a thing or two about your post. The guitar was not "supposed to be bad." Why would someone play a guitar part that is supposed to be bad? I will give you the live part, although it clearly isn't. I say this because noone in the audience cheers, but hey, I wouldn't either after that performance. To screw up on a ridiculously easy song, such as that one is really not excusable. Let me breakdown why it was so bad for you, so you have an idea of what you should work on though.

Vocals: Definatly not your thing. They were all over the place, and to be perfectly honest with you, complete ****. I would definitly get that new singer (as you mentioned), not even worry about back up vocals (because your voice isn't even good enough for that), and focus strictly on your guitar playing.

Guitar: I seriously doubt that you have been playing for five years, but with influences like Green Day and Simple Plan, one won't become very skilled at all, so I'm not really one to say that. The palm muting was totally random and made no sense at all. You also couldn't seem to hold a rhythm with your strumming either. Try listening to bands with more technical guitar lines and begin trying to play them, instead of just power chords. Sum 41's album "Does This Look Infected" might give you an idea of what I'm talking about. Judging by the other music you like that might be right up your alley. Playing these harder parts will make you a much better player over time than power chords ever could.

Bass: Nothing bad to say here.

Drums: Nothing bad to say here either.

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

um ok youre an idiot man. where do you think we were playing at? it was live in our studio not some concert. it was also our first time playing it so give us a break gosh its not like we sit there and studio green days songs all day like you probably do. i have way more influences then just simple plan and green day i like all kinds of music like shadows fall and hawthorne heights just about anything there is in rock. i know i suck at singing but if youre better ill suck your *****..and i say that knowing that you probaby suck and are some old man sitting down with coffee before work dreaming that you were good enough to get signed. not even good enough for background? wtf everyone can do background gosh you are a 100% ***

[Local_Skater]

um ok youre an idiot man. where do you think we were playing at? it was live in our studio not some concert. it was also our first time playing it so give us a break gosh its not like we sit there and studio green days songs all day like you probably do. i have way more influences then just simple plan and green day i like all kinds of music like shadows fall and hawthorne heights just about anything there is in rock. i know i suck at singing but if youre better ill suck your *****..and i say that knowing that you probaby suck and are some old man sitting down with coffee before work dreaming that you were good enough to get signed. not even good enough for background? wtf everyone can do background gosh you are a 100% ***

Go post about it in your live journal emo kid. If you can't take a critique, don't post. And for your information...I can sing a lot better than you, I'm 15, Green Day is terrible, I don't want you to suck my dick when you find out I am better than you, I don't dream of getting signed, not everyone is good enough for background vocals, and all that you accomplished through that reply was making yourself look like a defensive little bitch. How can you say I'm a 100% *** either? I gave you suggestions to improve. I didn't just bash your abilities, although I'm wishing I had now that I see what you're really like.

[FishSauce]

Yeah people who posted pretty much nailed it.

Guitar (and singing) was rough. Try seeking some guitar/vocal lessons. It will be worth it.

I seriously doubt you have been playing for 5 years.

[Local_Skater]

Yeah people who posted pretty much nailed it.

Guitar (and singing) was rough. Try seeking some guitar/vocal lessons. It will be worth it.

I seriously doubt you have been playing for 5 years.

Thank you, but prepare to be insulted by someone who's never met you. *cough*cough* DBL Bass Hamma *cough*

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

dude if u even knew the situation ud understand why it was so ****ty, and just to you think ur making and evened out critique, well let me start by saying ok im the drummer ok, and i did a ****ty job, i site read the **** thing as well as the guitarist. my drums were very sloppy and not played well, and if we would have studied the music more and actually tried to play it for real it wouldve been 100 times better, and how u can u say green day is terrible man? we didnt spend serious time on it there is why it sucks, if we spend for real time and effort into something it turns out great and i can say that it does because we dont half *** **** when we try, it was a thing where we just site read and played we know it sucked but **** man there is no point in the **** insults as going as far as saying that hes terrible, lets hear you sing...anyway who are ****in rick rubin's son? no i doubt... and if ur so good why not the dream of getting signed having your music go out to millions of people so they can experience too? and no **** its gonna make me look defensive, ur being a dick about it, **** tell us stuff to help nt to bring us ****in down when u critique you try and help them with their problems not tell they have no potential, seriously man, and also when saying the guitar is bad have u ever heard of QUALITY??? not playing style, **** dude common sense, we know billie didnt **** up on the playing...

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

Thank you, but prepare to be insulted by someone who's never met you. *cough*cough* DBL Bass Hamma *cough*

yea ok u hipricrit

[Local_Skater]

Fisrt of all, who the fu(k is Rick Rubin?

"**** tell us stuff to help nt to bring us ****in down when u critique you try and help them with their problems not tell they have no potential, seriously man"

Did you even read the critique? I nor anyone else said you had no potential. I suggested many ways to improve. I also think you did a great job on the drumming for a site read, which is why I said "Again, nothing bad to say here". Quit balking and just accept people's opinions. I don't need someone I don't know make presumptuations about my abilities just because I try to help. Your singer even said he wasn't that good so why are you trying to defend him so much? All I suggested was that he begin to focus more strictly on his guitar playing than singing.

[Local_Skater]

yea ok u hipricrit

I never insulted you...

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

Vocals: Definatly not your thing. They were all over the place, and to be perfectly honest with you, complete ****. I would definitly get that new singer (as you mentioned), not even worry about back up vocals (because your voice isn't even good enough for that), and focus strictly on your guitar playing.


thats pretty condencending for not saying there is no potential, and hes an awesome guitarist, there hasnt been a thing he cant play and that includes a lot of stuff, and accept opinions, and also the guitarist site read to if u didnt notice, and you werent exactly, well ur doing the say thing cause i dont know you, and yea ofcourse hes gonna say he sucks hes not cocky, when he knows he not the greatest but hes not as bad you put him to be, and just a question how could you not know rick rubin dude?? lol seriously hes just an awesome producer whos awesome

[Local_Skater]

Yeah, I said his vocals arn't good. I didn't insult him as a person like you saying about me:

"um ok youre an idiot man. where do you think we were playing at? it was live in our studio not some concert. it was also our first time playing it so give us a break gosh its not like we sit there and studio green days songs all day like you probably do. i have way more influences then just simple plan and green day i like all kinds of music like shadows fall and hawthorne heights just about anything there is in rock. i know i suck at singing but if youre better ill suck your *****..and i say that knowing that you probaby suck and are some old man sitting down with coffee before work dreaming that you were good enough to get signed. not even good enough for background? wtf everyone can do background gosh you are a 100% ***".

Just stop argueing and chill out. You guys have plenty of potential, and I'd like to hear some stuff you actually put effort into. I was posting about that specific song, not your band as a whole.

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

yea and trust me we really want a different singer cause like i said hes awesome at guitar thats what he wants to do the most, yea so what he may like that thats easy but he likes everything like me and hes awesome, but we live in a town with no music lovers and its gay we try and were not gonna stop doin what we love cause some people think he sucks yea maybe hes not the best at green day but oh well

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

and just to add i didnt put that post, that was the guitarist i left my self signed in on his comp today

[Zmev]

Work on the voice/guitar.

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

but yea trust me im not using it as an excuse, we didnt really try on this before u all actually do think we suck just please realize that if u wanna hear somestuff we spent some time on go back look for a yellowcard cover and a taking back sunday cover

[Local_Skater]

Is it on the same site?

[DBL BASS HAMMA]

yea

[daronmalakianfan]

its on here somewhere unless tehy got rid of it..my emails guitarist_4life1@hotmail.com so add me or something if you wanna hear something else ...i am sorry for telling people off it just sucks to know i suck that bad lol i do want lessons really bad for singing but im a lot better at guitar then i put off there its just it was weird the first time through the song. i do see the constructivness in your post it just seems as if you added some extra things that werent necessary but i wouldve probbaly done the same so thanks anywayz

[HeLLmO]

guys, come on, calm down, Basket Case is a sucky song, this was a suckier cover, and if it wasn't at at concert, it isn't live, it is recoreded, get that straight. now, if u work harder and songs that challenge, song that aren't emo, because i never like to see a guy in girls pants. but yeah, get off the internet now and go practice

[Local_Skater]

guys, come on, calm down, Basket Case is a sucky song, this was a suckier cover, and if it wasn't at at concert, it isn't live, it is recoreded, get that straight. now, if u work harder and songs that challenge, song that aren't emo, because i never like to see a guy in girls pants. but yeah, get off the internet now and go practice

It looks like you need to get your facts straight mister. I don't like Green Day either, but anyone can tell you that they are not emo...

[Phototropic]

Alright that was just crap

:confused:

Why did you put this here?!

The guitarist is unbelievably bad

The vocals are just whiney and lag in most parts

The only person who sounds decent is the drummer

May as well give up man, seriously

If not be prepared for years of hard practise

[Arucard]

Wow, that wasnt very good. The drums were ok, but the guitar tone was terrible and out of time abit, and the vocals lagged alot.

Vocals = too whiny as well.

Basically, practice more with a metronome, and get tighter.

[MegaMustaine]

Arucad, watch your back, hes going to go crazy now.

Seriously Threadstarter, just keep playing, and dont get extremely mad when someone doesnt say your a guitar and singing god and youll be the next billie joe.

And yes, I think most people here are going to have their opinions about green, which is they are sellout whiny punks who dont deserve to be called a band.

[Arucard]

I was just stating fact. You don't get big by people telling you your good when your not.

[MegaMustaine]

I know you were stating fact, I'm just saying, he's(threadstarter) probably going to get mad.

[hybridreality]

I have no doubt about the 5 years playing, but very committed seems to be exaggerating a little. Why post a song that hasn't been practiced, in fact why even record it?
The vocals weren't horrible, there is potential there, I used to sound like that a few years ago and after practicing I did improve a lot. Practice more complex guitar lines, and improve.

Before posting saying your the best guitarist, you can play anything, know this: Due to the nature of the internet, everything is based on proof. No one will believe you without it, so either admit you were lying, or prove your amazing guitar skills.

[HeLLmO]

"It looks like you need to get your facts straight mister. I don't like Green Day either, but anyone can tell you that they are not emo..."

see, i was talkin' about the other stuff he played like i think he mention Hawthorne Hights, i was talkin' about that stuff, i know green day isn't emo

[Local_Skater]

Alright man, thats ok.

[daronmalakianfan]

thanks for all the posts..idk why some of you think it isnt live cause it was..yes it was recorded no ****e how else would you hear it? but we did play it live through a mixer plugged to the computer..idk how else to put it well anyway ill try to improve on the whiny part and i didnt say i was an amazing guitarist but ok