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Getbig Main Boards => General Topics => Topic started by: Pete Lesperance on October 13, 2006, 01:22:05 PM
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I was just wondering if I could get your opinion on this.
Any criticism is welcome
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that you playing guitar, pete?
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Yes sir, it is. What did you think?
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Yes sir, it is. What did you think?
hasn't played yet. i have to register for youtube to view it. stops after 20 seconds, right before you start playing, if you're not signed in.
While I register to hear you play, here goes some clips of me playing!
http://240fm.com/vids/2.mp3
http://240fm.com/vids/4.mp3
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cool, very Satriani feeling. Very good tone for that genre. You play in a local band? Only knock is that the timing is maybe a little off at times - very common thing for bedroom virtuosos who don't regularly jam with a full band. that kick drum hitting in your chest makes you hit on every 1 and 3 thru habit.
but i'm just a bass player who likes to play Slash and SRV shit on my les paul :) your site looks good, you look like a creative guy. Keep sharing the good stuff here!
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I'm from a Canadian band called "Harem Scarem", you've probably never heard of it though as we've never broken through into the U.S., Alot of our market is in Europe and Japan. You should check out www.haremscarem.net when you have the time.
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Wow Pete, your look has changed through the years.. Checkin' out some of your stuff..
http://www.haremscarem.net/index.php?view=photogallery
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Pete, Good stuff man!! nice tone, good texture for your sequenced parts, lots of feeling!
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sounds fvcking great. no offense but it sounds like a love scene song. Like i can see people getting it on to this song. I would love it for my collection of ass getting tunes
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nice
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Thanks for all the compliments guys!!!!
Sorry, for not replying sooner but I've been really busy. We've just finished recording our 11th Harem Scarem album and I've been up to my nuts in a some other projects.
Thanks again y'all!
Pete
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hasn't played yet. i have to register for youtube to view it. stops after 20 seconds, right before you start playing, if you're not signed in.
While I register to hear you play, here goes some clips of me playing!
http://240fm.com/vids/2.mp3
http://240fm.com/vids/4.mp3
How do you think you compare to Pete yourself?
YIP
Zack
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Pete kicks my ass! lol...
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Pete kicks my ass! lol...
Mate, that's some brutal honesty.
Doesn't say much about you though.
Save Gilmour, and a few others, Pete kicks everyones ass. ;)
YIP
Zack
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Pete- Your playing is smooth and professional, but not my style of music.
Rob- Cool that you are well rounded with hobbies, but don't quit your day job! ;D
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LOL... I decided early on that the odds of getting a record deal and doing that for a living were too small to count on. Since then, music has just been a part-time thing to have fun. I'd rather do 5 jaeger shots and jump around all night playing an intense live show than dazzle 2 guitar players in the crowd who are just begging me to play a bad note so they can clown me to their non-musician friends.
Besides, if Blink and nirvana can make retirement $ by 30 using 4 chords and one strumming style, perhaps there is still hope for me!
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I was just kidding with you man. Congrats on the baby!
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thanks man. easier than i thought it would be!
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you look like kato
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Again, I thank you guys for your honesty.
240, keep playing for fun man. This is really the only job that I've ever had. I just recently turned 38 years old and I've been playing in bands ever since I was 13 or so. It's really a bitch trying to make money at it, but its been alot of fun and all is well right now. I am one of the few people who can actually say that they love their job.
P
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very nice. I especially like the wierd cute little expression at the end. :)
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very nice. I especially like the wierd cute little expression at the end. :)
Well, thanks.......that's just kind of the way I am at times.
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Sounds good, though I have a few critiques-
1) I'm not too much of an expert on that genre, but a lot of guys have a tone that sounds so similar, but that tone IMO is a little on the horrid side. Too many effects covering up what technique you may have- which one must have good technique to play like this, why not show it a little more? Guys like Eric Johnson (who does go for a different feel on many of his songs), have impeccable technique and a tone that is cool. EJ's tone would show a mistake instantly, kind of a catch-22 where his tone shows off his playing, but could also show how rotten he is should he not be too good!
2) Learn to deaden a note instantly. There are many places I heard where you should have just killed the note, but you let it ring as you slid up/down the neck. Basically, you would be playing a dotted quarter where it should be just a quarter or eighth note after a rest.
Aside from those two minor critiques, you sound like you know how to play-not some chump that overdubbed a track and is calling it his own.
I also have struggled as a professional musician, but after making 9k in one year, I said "Forget this." Just playing occasionally now, but always practicing.
Keep up the good work. :)
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Sounds good, though I have a few critiques-
1) I'm not too much of an expert on that genre, but a lot of guys have a tone that sounds so similar, but that tone IMO is a little on the horrid side. Too many effects covering up what technique you may have- which one must have good technique to play like this, why not show it a little more? Guys like Eric Johnson (who does go for a different feel on many of his songs), have impeccable technique and a tone that is cool. EJ's tone would show a mistake instantly, kind of a catch-22 where his tone shows off his playing, but could also show how rotten he is should he not be too good!
2) Learn to deaden a note instantly. There are many places I heard where you should have just killed the note, but you let it ring as you slid up/down the neck. Basically, you would be playing a dotted quarter where it should be just a quarter or eighth note after a rest.
Aside from those two minor critiques, you sound like you know how to play-not some chump that overdubbed a track and is calling it his own.
I also have struggled as a professional musician, but after making 9k in one year, I said "Forget this." Just playing occasionally now, but always practicing.
Keep up the good work. :)
Thanks for your honesty.
I can tell you that I did not overdub someone elses stuff and I'm trying to pull it off as my own. This was written and recorded in 1993 and was put out on my band's (Harem Scarem) second studio album Mood Swings. I agree Eric Johnson is an amazing guitar player.
P
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Here's a few more that you may find amusing LOL!
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Piano/Vocal
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From the "Big Hair" days
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I can tell you that I did not overdub someone elses stuff and I'm trying to pull it off as my own.
I didn't think you did overdub, I was commending you on that fact. It's obvious to my eyes, that you are really playing there.
There is a video on youtube.com where a guitar player is faking "Sabre Dance" by Dave Edmunds. You can tell the timing of the fingers are off, the tone of the guitar is exactly the same as Dave's recording, and the guy does more antics of jerking around than playing.
I know it's you recording that, just to be clear.
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I didn't think you did overdub, I was commending you on that fact. It's obvious to my eyes, that you are really playing there.
There is a video on youtube.com where a guitar player is faking "Sabre Dance" by Dave Edmunds. You can tell the timing of the fingers are off, the tone of the guitar is exactly the same as Dave's recording, and the guy does more antics of jerking around than playing.
I know it's you recording that, just to be clear.
I apologize, I must have misunderstood what you wrote there.
You mentioned that you've struggled as a musician, how long have you been playing for?
Sorry,
P
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I apologize, I must have misunderstood what you wrote there.
You mentioned that you've struggled as a musician, how long have you been playing for?
Sorry,
P
Hey pete... cool song...check it out...i love guitar and i wanted to play...i started and i found that since im double jointed (my fingertips go beyind 180 when pressed against something ...like say a guitar neck) and i find myself muting strings that i dont want muted....have you heard of anything like that??
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Hey pete... cool song...check it out...i love guitar and i wanted to play...i started and i found that since im double jointed (my fingertips go beyind 180 when pressed against something ...like say a guitar neck) and i find myself muting strings that i dont want muted....have you heard of anything like that??
I can't say that I have heard of anything like that before. I may just be reading what you wrote wrong as I don't fully understand what your trying to say by "my fingertips go beyond 180". If you'd like send me a pm explaining it a little more.
Later
P
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you look like kato
Do you mean Kato from the O.J. Simpson case?
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Here's a few more that you may find amusing LOL!
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Piano/Vocal
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From the "Big Hair" days
Good stuff Pete,
The music video was priceless. You guys did have some big hair. You are a very talented guitar player. I actually own the Album Mood Swings which the song "No Justice" is on.
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Good stuff Pete,
The music video was priceless. You guys did have some big hair. You are a very talented guitar player. I actually own the Album Mood Swings which the song "No Justice" is on.
Thanks for the kind words man
Later
P