Bad Romance Cover W-I-P
I know I’m a little late to the party, but I totally want to do a ROCK ANTHEM version of Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.
Good Jam Session
Had an awesomely fun 5 hour jam session today with Colin and Conrad, here’s some highlights.
A Week of Practicing Drumming
Playing some more drums, recorded to see my progress. I played the crappy guitar riff separately, because I haven’t figured out how to play guitar with my nose yet.
Damien Plays the Drums
I wanted to record myself on drums, then record myself playing guitar…but the video got kind of fuxxored. :/
Custom Wound Guitar Pick Pickup
While I was building my first guitar, I got interested in winding my own custom pickups. I experimented with a few things, made a bunch of oddball pickups. Including this teeny tiny one mounted on the back of a guitar pickup:
More info and a video after the jump!
A Song a Week
I’m gonna try and write a song a week. Whether it sucks or not. I vow to produce something each week, and move on! Theoretically I will get better at writing songs… Theoretically… At the least it’ll keep me from playing the same riffs over and over for a month. In the unlikely event that [...]
Things I learned about building guitars
Here is a poorly written, hastily compiled list of things I learned while building my first home made guitar. Not exactly a How To, more like a Be Sure To Remember.
Guitar Building Pt. 4: Drippy
Well my home made guitar is done, and named. She’s called Drippy, named after either a bad experience in the 70’s, or my (lack of) lacquer spraying skills. I can’t believe this used to be boards!
Adrian Belew is Fucking Awesome
Adrian Belew (Guitarist of King Crimson fame) is really, really, really good at what he does. o.O
He make look questionable, and play the silliest looking composite guitar ever, but god damn. If you’re not up on Adrian Belew, or guitars, everything you hear in this is him, he’s not just playing over a backing track, [...]
Building My Guitar Pt. 3
Continuing saga of my custom guitar build… Les Paul ish, less than spectacular looking, but pretty damn good for my first try. I shaped the neck and glued it in, and I’m trying finishes out on scrap wood (and the first crap neck I built that got scrapped). Aniline water based dye, and then nitro [...]
Building a Guitar
Well, I’ve been locked up in a room making sawdust for the last week. I’m building a guitar. From scratch.
Some pictures of how it’s coming so far: (Ignore the dates, I’m using some cheap old camera so I don’t have to worry about the sawdust killing it)
Invitation to the Punkin Festival
I was out playing guitar around town today, I got 45 cents (45 WHOLE cents!) and an invitation to play at the “Pumpkin Festival”. Ha!
How To Play Angel’s Son
Here’s how to play Angel’s Son by Sevendust. It’s in a funky “limp floppy string” low tuning: C#-G#-C#-F#-B-C#
