2 Cover Songs

I've listened to these yesterday. They sound good - a lot of improvement. Have you thought about adding vocals?

oktay

You're getting there. 8)

Are you doing all up and down strokes?

How are you recording?

i like both those songs allot

i think you're doin a good job you pretty much have the SLTS solo nailed. My only suggestion would be to add delay when doing the solo it's gonna make it sound much fuller - for any solo really.

Also i've found adding chorus (not 2 much though) to the solo also gets close to the tone they have on the record.

Now what about doing some metallica covers hey ;)

Minus

you don't have the rhythm right for smells like teen spirit, although what you're doing sounds pretty cool if you listen again. it just sounds harsh because it's not quite what you expect to hear.

sounds like they're coming along! I'm learning Heart Shaped Box myself.

Thanks for the feedback. I might re-do them using my RP50 instead. My mic tends to make things sound fuzzier than they are and my Digitech Grunge is on the fuzzy side, even with the gain all the way down.

I'm still having troubles with the rhythm of SLTS. That's part of the reasons I wanted lessons. So someone could show me the strumming and all, but no one wants me as a student, so I'll have to fiddle around till I get it.

Anyone have suggestions for playing that song?

:( sorry cant here anything it says loading but nothing happens :?

OWA i don't know what kind of amp you have. BTW what kind is it?
Personally i prefer not to use pedals and other stuff when it comes to distortion. What I've noticed is whether I'm using a marshall mod or rectifier the sound i get when recording is pretty similar.

Although there IS a big difference in sound when listening to the amp of the floor.

Try and use the distortion from your amp only, without going through a pedal or anything like that.
You could also try turning the down the input line coming into your PC (I assume your using this for recording)
You might also want to try windows media encoder if you haven't done so already. I find it useful because it gives me a volume bar measuring my input volume.

You can do this on the fly, if it's green occasionally yellow the recording usually sounds pretty good once the volume bar starts hitting red your sound get distorted.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

Minus

I have a 15W Crate. And how to a change from clean to dirty mid song without a pedal? I don't own a footswitch and there is no place to plug one in.

SLTS was one of my 1st song. When I first got my guitar I was like "man i gotta learn some nirvana"

my strum pattern was
d=down u=up m=mute

F5
d d u d dm um dm um
Bb5
d d dm um
G#5
d d u d dm um dm um
C#5
d d dm um

for The F and G# do the mutes holding the chord
for the Bb and C# you gotta do them on the way back to the F and G#

Also he probably did this song tuned down a half step so really id be in G#, not sure though.

your definetly getting better

Ok so you are suggesting:

E|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|---------------3-3-0---------------6-6-0-|
D|-3-3-3-x-x-x-x-3-3-0-6-6-6-x-x-x-x-6-6-0-|
A|-3-3-3-x-x-x-x-1-1-0-6-6-6-x-x-x-x-4-4-0-|
E|-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-------4-4-4-x-x-x-x-------|
D D U D U D U D D D D D U D U D U D D D


Is that right?

That riff is all about the timing, and there's no sense of that in the tab you've posted. My advice would be to practice along with the record - just playing single notes/mutes until you're playing it just right and not thinking about it too much, then go back to getting the full chords in there.

the only way to truley write music out with the timing is on the classical 6 line staff otherwise in guitar you just write out the notes and approximate and then listen to what you are trying to copy to get the exact timing, that kinda goes without saying i thought.

And sorry no yours isnt quite what I was saying, the second down stroke is kind of a mute as well, you can skip it and just give it very slight pause instead of playing the second down stroke.

like this

E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------3-3-x-x--------------------6-6-x-x-|
D|-3--3-3--x-x-x-x-3-3-x-x--6--6-6-x-x-x-x-6-6-x-x-|
A|-3--3-3--x-x-x-x-1-1-x-x--6--6-6-x-x-x-x-4-4-x-x-|
E|-1--1-1--x-x-x-x------------4--4-4-x-x-x-x-----------|
---D--U D-D-U-D-U-D-D-D U D U D D U D U DD DU

It was hard to get that to line up lol thats the strum pattern though

Dneck, use the 'code' button to line it all up - best option is to write it notepad (or something similar with a monospaced font), then cut and paste to between the code tags...