Mood: Tired
Listening To: Nothing

 

 

 

At least the computers here are fast compared to the single-internet lab back in Penang.  Things here are less screwed up in terms of management, but the connection here equalises the standards of both college.  What a happy family.

Anyways, I just finished one of my classes just now.  A 1 hour class, to be exact.  I've got another one coming up in an hour's time, so I decided to spend some time here in the internet lab.

At least I didn't oversleep today.  I didn't pay a taxi RM6.90 unlike yesterday -_- ..

And coming here, is like..Living in another dimension ..I saw two of my classmates that resembled two of my friends, namely Rooshie Tan and DebraDieded.. O_O

I think homesickness is getting to me?  Lol.

 

 

 

 

Hmmm.. Nothing much to blog about.. Not having a personal printer at home kinda sucks.. And those dudes back in PG who sold me the laptop..I'll kill y'all bigtime once I get back.. I could've sworn that I told you that I'm a student yet you didn't provide or advice me to install Microsoft Office 2007 seperately -_-...

Thank goodness I can make as many stops I want through RapidKL .. I'll stop by The Curve a little bit later on ..

And I checked out Riff Interactive last night.  It's some pretty good stuff.  I thought it was just some cheap Ah Beng promotion when they said it's something about Steve Vai and Joe Satriani lessons.. But it isn't.  The shit is, they do teach you the sort of thing what Vai and Satriani would play.  And..It's not easy, I have to admit.  The techniques being used are simple, but tough to get them clean, and neat.

This is guitar talk:  One of the techniques would be that you hit a note on a cetain string, then you lower your Floyd Rose whammy bar (works well, but flat-tails would be harder?) until your strings starts to rattle, tap/touch/hit (still unsure which one it is... Which makes things even tougher) the string you want it to ring, then slowly raise the whammy bar.  It works easily on the normal harmonic spots; 5th, 7th and the 12th fret.  But try it on the 14th fret and you'll end up breaking your guitar into 2 if you don't have the patience.. But the sound is horribly wicked!

The other would be the usual Steve Vai slide.  Very huge intervals over here, and although it's just sliding, you might either over-slide by a note, or under-slide by a note ..

That's when practising comes in handy..

Wooo..hard rock blues XD.. Finally learning some secrets of scales and modes.. Vai's style is truly unique.  This person (I forgot his name..the one who teaches you through this programme) said that Vai will use every scale known to man when he gets the chance to.. Which makes things a little bit harder to study and identify..

I just found gold.. Huahuahuahuahua..

 

 

 

 

I'm hungry..and I'm on budget... Have to tahans................ x(

I purchased his latest album up to date that was released last year, entitled Super Colossal. This title is also the title for his first track. In this album, it consists just about 13 tracks of his mysterious ways of the guitars. Unlike some guitarists there who plays without feelings or without a soul, he's done it again.

I just read through the inlay, that came along with the CD, of a summary of what the songs in the album meant. Through this inlay, I understood the songs even deeper, and better.

I see that like many other musicians, Joe Satriani messes around with a lot of instruments to complete his songs. One of his songs, titled Ten Words, which was written one day after the September 11th incident while he was playing the piano. He ceased to continue writing the song because it was too heartbreaking due to the grief of the death of the thousands that perished in that incident.

Besides that, he tends to show some inspiration caused by former great guitarists or musicians from the past. In the album, he mentions about Bob Marley, how his songs were so powerful yet the musical arrangements were so simple. He tried that out and he made a very interesting composition. It was the 3rd track, and I can't really remember the title. What he did was that he recorded 3 layers of guitars. One playing the picked rhythm, then melodic rhythm, and a riff-based rhythm. All three combined into one, you get a very odd combination - but a unique sound.

And as an artist, a music artist, he has managed to capture my attention in delivering his message or story through his songs. In terms of composition, where he lays down the theme of his story, and in terms of melody, where he lays down what happens during that part of the song.

Of course, Joe Satriani may be the mentor of many great guitarists out there (where people don't know his students at times..), like Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett (Metallica), and many more. But what's so unique? If you listen to his students, you can't tell that they were once under him when it comes to guitars. And Joe Satriani, truly, has his own style that can be easily recognised - through skills, and through sound.

Being a guitar wizard, he's done it again. I was never a major fan of Joe Satriani, but I prefer his playing style now. It's somewhat in the midst of commercial playing, and still sticking to what the underground would provide.

Then again, it would be kind of useless to read this review as I can't explain much regarding his extraordinary sound. I don't support both piracy or the original, but you get the proper inlay when you purchase the original copy. So if you can, pick a copy of Super Colossal and you'll definitely enjoy.

In fact, the first song, Super Colossal, is superb. So many layers of guitars, and it makes it so thick and powerful.

And the mixing.. ooo...ooo lala..... I'm in love again.

Mood: Tired
Listening To: Nothing









At the moment, a friend of mine tossed me a very odd project; but the sort of project that I was supposed to work with sooner or later.  Especially when I kind-of-owe Ddie a number of beats 8-)

This is going to be one of those sentimental Mandarin songs.  The ones which are draggy, emotional, but somewhat - nice.

But the problem rises when the sample draft recording is not based on a metronome.  It makes everything harder as you don't know which part of the bars to insert chords, or whatsoever.  Buh.

But then again, music is an expression of creativity.  Although assumption is not exactly the best method to make music sound good, but you add in your own ideas to make the song sound good....










.. I don't know.. my mind's having a lot of ideas at the moment, but I'm way too tired to mouse-click them out onto Reason.. I wish I had a midi keyboard now.. gah.










Them wimmin sound schweeeeet XD