i've seen many rehearsal rooms so far.. and most time you can tell what kind of "musicians" are practising in a certain kind of rehearsal room
when there's a fridge, a sofa, a big table and so an, most time the guys are pretty chilled..
it's always a mess in the room, nobody feels obligated to take out the trash or what ever.. you'll find many objects from the street (like a cone) in there, because it was once funny to steal it
they are happy to play about 6-7 songs pretty well, to make shows about 4-5x in a year in a not too big distance (about 20-30km)
for most time their rehearsals are more like chilling with best friends.. the music isn't the real deal, everyone is looking for the beer after... and smoking different stuff.. they nearly always bring their girlfriends or some other kind of good friends with them..
so making music is about 1/3 of the time and hanging around about 2/3
needless to say, they aren't very productive but still can have high potential, if only they take it more serious
best for a relaxed evening when you want to get down
some other kind is a rather big room, with some sofas, no fan-merchandise, equipped with the important things (amps, PA, good drumkit but no "extraordinary" stuff)
only small, normal amounts (for musicians) of trash
the room serves it's only purpose, to practice the stuff.. not really to create stuff, it's just there to meet to learn playing together as a whole band.. normally every one is well prepared, knows his parts and is on time..
the sofas are there for resting and sleep, because most time such bands a spread over a huge region and it takes some hours to drive for some members.. they do this, because they take it serious, they are eager and want to get somewhere
those people normally know what they want and their thinking is based on effectiveness but they also can make party AFTER rehearsal, which can take 4-5h
an other kind of room is "the talented guy's room"
it's a clean tidy and bright room with sound absorbing walls.. there's much money in it because everything has to be right.. you'll find there every kind of instrument, keyboard, drums, guitars, basses, some special percussion things and so on.. a good PA, a mixing console, a Mac Computer.. it's a room without any sofas or fridge.. maybe some fanstuff like a poster but in a small amount.. this room is used to create music and to practice straight forward.. there's no hanging around and chances are good you're not allowed to smoke or drink softdrinks (because of the sugar -> sticky stuff)
it's big enough for a band to rehearsal, but there isn't space for any comfort or hanging around..
those guys are really into music and they usually play a lots of instrument and take it serious.. but they also are very fast butt-hurt if you don't appreciate they work they way they like to.. or if you're better on an instrument..
good guy's to work with, great success and a good future!
but not always the easy-going-personality, they often have some issues (mostly with them self)
i spend much time in my younger years (around 19-20 haha) with good friends in a rather big room.. it was a shelter for civilians in a case of nuclear attack or somekind of natural desaster.. you'll find such rooms in every house in switzerland..
we could use it for free, the city gave it to us with the condition we must be able to clear the room within 24h if necessary.. well no problem..
we put much work in it, to make it sound absorbing (with this egg-container-like-stuff) and decorated it well..
today i would describe it as an fan-rehearsal-room.. we had MANY posters of our idols and played only songs from them together.. we didn't want to have an own band, we just wanted to play songs we liked.. our equipment was sufficient, no PA because no singing..
we had a fridge, nice sofa and really hard parties in there.. smoking allowed... we took care of the trash..
a real good freetime place for young people who likes music and play instruments!
and last a picture of our (my main band's) most recent room.. it's a bunker from WW2
no, not a new guitar or anything
i'm just busy working on my bachelor in electrical engineering.. sooo..
and yes, little traveling, visited a concert of the mighty "Verdunkeln" in Mannheim on Friday.. i guess many visitors didn't even know, which interessting person (in history of german black metal) were live on stage
i used the opportunity to check the city a bit.. nice food, nice weather (thunderstorm, yeah) nice clubs.. would go back again!
Verdunkeln played fucking awesome, very intense concert, really good sound
at the moment i'm in Mainz, i like the quiteness in this apartement here.. no excuses to not work for my bachelor (except writing blog :P)
i'll be back home tomorrow.. let's hope i'll find time and new guitars to test them..
or something familiar!
new week, new guitar?
or another guitar..
for my second band (demons of decay..) i'm playing usually on a simple jackson guitar.. i even don't know which model it is
we're playing on baritone-tuning, it's 5 steps below standart tuning, death metal has to be very low and heavy
because i don't want to change the tuning on my main guitar (the ESP one) i've got this non special jackson from my friend.. put some thick strings on it and you can drop the sound
i never was a fan of jackson, i never found the "thing" behind them, even many, especially death metal-guitarists, really like jackson..
many years ago, my best friend also got a jackson and he couldn't imagine a better guitar.. so, maybe i just don't get it
the guitar i'm playing here has really nothing special, it does it's job, not less and not more.. the sound is also.. yeah you can use it, but i couldn't recommand it to someone, because i wouldn't know what to point out, there is nothing to point out
the stringposition is not very nice.. maybe i could make it better, if i want to, but it's sometimes such a frustrating work with this floyd rose... i'm just happy with the fact, that the tuning keeps in tone!
i'm not a real death-metaller, but for this band i try to be, so why not jackson? it does what it should, but i wouldn't get happy with just this guitar
i can imagine so many wordplays for this picture.. it's about exactly 5 years old
the beauty and the beast for sure :p
today's guitar is a B.C.Rich Beast, NJ-series
since i made plans to learn and play guitar, i always had an eye on guitars from BCRich, they just look so fucking metal..
it's the same discussion all the time, so either you love or you hate the shape, most time there is no "inbetween"
with good luck i got this one for the third of the regular price! well i was a happy boy hehe i was wandering through the old city of schaffhausen and suddenly there was a musicshop.. there where only "normal" looking e-guitars and acousticguitars in the window, but i had time and took a look inside
at the very end of the shop, in the last corner, there was this guitar which didn't fit in at all to the sortiment
but naturally it got my full attention and i played with that baby
so the shop owner joined me and it was obvious i had fun with that one.. he told me that they have this guitar since 2004 in stock and it was involved in a fire accident once (no burnings, just smoke and ashes).. there are no customers of him, who'd bought such a guitar.. they stick to the normal ones
now seeing me with this beast he said, if i take it now, i can have it for 500CHF with the bag.. regular priece (at this time) was about 1500CHF, so i didn't hesistate long and took it with me..
still it's for me one of the most beautiful guitars ever!
but there are two mayor disadvantages.. the first one, it's heavy like shit.. (well it's supposed to make heavy metal :P) it will break your back! i think it's about 7kg
and the second negative point (since 2 years) are the strings!
it's a special system, called "speed loader". you don't have to trim the strings, they come already in the right lenght, you just snap them in and you're ready to play.. super fast, super easy
but not very common, so the company decided some time ago to stop producing those strings.. too bad, but i still have many as replacement
the guitar itself has passiv pick-up's from b.c.rich, they sound quite well. it is a real bass monster, the deep tones are quite dominant and give a warm clean sound. the output is not that high (normal for passive pick-up's) so you'll have to turn your gain up to 10 for a brutal distortion sound!
what i like the most about playing this guitar is, how well the neck is made.. the string position is perfect, it's so near the neck but it doesn't touch it where it shouldn't.. it feels really great and you're able to play quite fast with almost no need to use force to press down the string.. it's a dream hehe
i recorded our complete first album with this guitar, it also does not de-tune, even after months not playing.
my producer is very firm with all kind of guitars and even he was impressed how playable this one is.. he always said "die fickt junge, die fickt richtig gut" haha, translate it yourself
even it's not my main-guitar anymore, i'll always love this beast..
just look at her
and it really looks great on stage, but there are many people who'll tell you're a poser.. so you have to play good, and show that you can handle a beast and not just carry around :P
oh, girls fancy it ;D
today was an awesome day, i was at the rhine with some friends
i'm not a sun-person but i like the fresh air and calmness found there
it's really hard nowadays to find a spot at the river, where are no other around
good thing we'll always find one
spot of today:
u jelly?
The time shall come...
On Saturday 19.5.12 i'll play the first time live with my second band "Demons of Decay"
it's a very small club, but i enjoy them much more.. you're much more connected to people when it's narrow, hot and sweaty
we've recorded a song in our rehersalroom, so quality is not that UBER, but you'll get the taste
i like soundcloud, so why not use it?
http://snd.sc/JS7izu
since it's the band of a friend of mine, i "just" play guitar, i don't write any music and i'm really happy with that
because i have enough to do with my one band and the music of DoD is not the one i could produce.. i really like to play it, but sympho death metal is not my "heart" music
and yeah, there are still people using myspace
http://www.myspace.com/demonsofdecay/
oh god, bandpictures, hahaha..
ah yes, focus on the drummer... he's god-tier
it looks like i'm into guitar's somehow
so a crappy picture with a schecter from a friend
It's a 7 string piece, and i really don't need the extra string.. in my opinion this is just for guys so they can say "oh look i've got a 7 string guitar"
the tone is really a good fat sound.. i can't really remember which pick-up's were built in.. if i guess.. EMG Hz's? don't know
handling is also very good, not too heavy and a nice balance
but what i really dislike is the colour of the neck.. you can't see it on my super cool skilled-photoshoped photo, but it's an aweful yellow.. like you use on wood to build concrete-walls...
Seriously not my case... a brown or black tone, i'd love it!
but i must say, i'll consider a schecter next time i'm looking for a guitar.. and got money...
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