[QUOTE=Efrim;17545198]its also a place in Ontario, but you might have heard the band. You'd probably like them.
http://www.myspace.com/brucepeninsula[/QUOTE]

I'll check them out once I get through ripping these hundred CDs or so.

Finally got my music properly organized after my harddrive crashed a couple of weeks ago, but realized that I still have CDs to rip because the guy I got my music off of doesn't have all the stuff I like.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17545227]I'll check them out once I get through ripping these hundred CDs or so.

Finally got my music properly organized after my harddrive crashed a couple of weeks ago, but realized that I still have CDs to rip because the guy I got my music off of doesn't have all the stuff I like.[/QUOTE]

Let me know if you need anything from me, I gots mad uploading capability.

If you have any Nick Cave, I'll take pretty much any of it except for No More Shall We Part (I have it on disc). Preferences include Murder Ballads, Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus, and Dig Lazarus Dig.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17545243]If you have any Nick Cave, I'll take pretty much any of it except for No More Shall We Part (I have it on disc). Preferences include Murder Ballads, Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus, and Dig Lazarus Dig.[/QUOTE]

Sure I'll upload it all tonight/tomorrow. Nick Cave with Warren Ellis as well?

I've got White Lunar (listening to it right now, in fact), but if you have anything else, I'll take that.

Man, kittens are sweet.

My band's new tuning is C#, G#, C#, A#,C#.

It's getting confusing replicating standard scales...

I only play in standard tuning. I never find it limiting or anything.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;17545335]I only play in standard tuning. I never find it limiting or anything.[/QUOTE]

We have one song in drop D, but that's really only for the guitar. Since I'm rocking a low B, I don't ever need to change my tuning.

It's a combination of wanting to sound really deep and heavy and this tuning and due to having 3 strings tuned to C# makes for a nice droning harmonic. Also our drummer kept wanting us to be more theory based and learn chords and notes and ****, and we figured this will screw him up.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17545348]We have one song in drop D, but that's really only for the guitar. Since I'm rocking a low B, I don't ever need to change my tuning.[/QUOTE]

We did one song in drop D on our first album, but since then everything has been in standard.

I picked up my guitar yesterday and this song just kind of fell out of me. Whenever I write, it never really happens that quickly. I can't wait to show it to the band.

[QUOTE=karmapavementplan;17545355]It's a combination of wanting to sound really deep and heavy and this tuning and due to having 3 strings tuned to C# makes for a nice droning harmonic. Also our drummer kept wanting us to be more theory based and learn chords and notes and ****, and we figured this will screw him up.[/QUOTE]

What kind of music do you guys play? Have a myspace or something?

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;17545378]We did one song in drop D on our first album, but since then everything has been in standard.

I picked up my guitar yesterday and this song just kind of fell out of me. Whenever I write, it never really happens that quickly. I can't wait to show it to the band.[/QUOTE]

Nice. That's always awesome. I don't really get that as a bass player, since I'm not really writing the songs, per say, but when I sit down with my keyboard, sometimes I can write something without really even having to think much about it.

All the instrumentalists in Capital H write songs. I guess we can all play two or three instruments each, so everyone can bring all kinds of different ideas to the others.

I'm not overly handy with guitar, so my only writing tool outside of bass is keys, and we've decided to cut the keys in our songs and replace it with a second guitar instead.

I see. Well, it still shouldn't stop you from coming up with chord progressions, melodies, etc.

I think I play more guitar at home than bass, but I've never played guitar in a band or on a gig.

Guitar is just to easy to write on, I love it.

My friend writes a lot on bass. He just plays with chords and such, like a guitar. He's just a bit too clumsy-handed to play guitar.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;17545470]I see. Well, it still shouldn't stop you from coming up with chord progressions, melodies, etc.[/QUOTE]

I could, but after 4 years of writing my own songs and all of the parts for them, I'm quite content to let someone else do it for now. :p I still make changes to things and arrange the songs and progressions and whatnot, but I mostly just focus on writing with my own instrument.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;17545382]What kind of music do you guys play? Have a myspace or something?[/QUOTE]

Nah, not really. We recently changed drummers and it's become a completely different band to what it was.

Think kinda babes in toyland with nirvana and bits of queens of the stone age is how I suppose I'd describe it.

[quote=gaslight;17545472]I think I play more guitar at home than bass, but I've never played guitar in a band or on a gig.[/quote]

I'm the same way. I'm really not a strong enough guitarist to be able to play in a band setting. I do a lot of the band's writing for guitar, though, and then write basslines to that.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17545477]I could, but after 4 years of writing my own songs and all of the parts for them, I'm quite content to let someone else do it for now. :p I still make changes to things and arrange the songs and progressions and whatnot, but I mostly just focus on writing with my own instrument.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's cool, too. More responsive writing than starting from scratch. With the way we work, I do that, too; writing to something that is already structured and has a progression, key, etc. There are various ways I write with this band because I either write on my own, or I have something brought to me, which may be on one of three or four instruments, so I end up approaching each one differently.

If I write a riff for the band I just do it on bass using route notes and let them decide how they want to play it in terms of chord structure. Lazy writing, I know.

Even with no instrument to hand you can always write true D&D style.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17545488]I'm the same way. I'm really not a strong enough guitarist to be able to play in a band setting. I do a lot of the band's writing for guitar, though, and then write basslines to that.[/QUOTE]

I think I'd be a useful rhythm guitarist but I wouldn't want a lead spot.

I've only been playing guitar for about two and a half years. I think I've come a pretty long way... I remember what it was like thinking I'd always be awful.

I just have a hard time using the bass as a lead instrument...especially with two guitarists in the band.

Yeah, nothing wrong with taking a lead roll sometimes but routinely wanting to take the spotlight at the expense of the ensemble, that's a sickness.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17545502]I just have a hard time using the bass as a lead instrument...especially with two guitarists in the band.[/QUOTE]

There are a few songs that I take a 'lead' role in spots, playing melodies or driving the song along, but I don't ever do it at the expense of the band. There's one song that we're just finishing that has a bass solo, and I had to be convinced to do it. :lol:

Haha I hate being given too many solo spots as well.

When people are stuck on their writing and they're like "Oh, just do a bass solo here for a while" and I'm like, ffs...