just wanted to say that your crawlers clip -together with ratrod's- are the reason why i leaned toward those pups.
That's some nice Crawlin'! I've been struggling to get a good metal tone myself, but you seem to be nailing it.
I really like this Garageband has some pretty good sounds it seems.
Ratrod's clips played a big part in steering me towards the Crawlers! They don't get as much press as the Mules or the higher gain metal pups, but are certainly some of the most versatile in the BKP arsenal. I love the combo of vintage vibe with extra power! They'll give a great metal tone even with low-budget amp sims like GarageBand's (which aren't really too bad if you tweak around with them a little -- though I use the stock "Classic Rock" preset on the lower volume lefthand rhythm guitar track, I use my own settings on the louder righthand rhythm guitar and the lead parts). Not that I'd want to recommend that over a decent proper amp, but one works with what one has! :)
The Crawlers clean up very nicely, too (not surprisingly), but I'm not skilled enough to show that side of them off very well! :lol:
It's got a good atmosphere to it, it's slightly like Jethro Tull, and even Ian Brown in bits!
This kinda reminds me of Tool in some places.
Definitely (undeserved ;)) compliements. :)
Some Tullishness is bound to creep in, since I'm a long time Tull fan -- and most of the song is in 3/4, with occasional side-trips to 2/4 or 4/4.
Ian Brown! :) Though the Stone Roses never really hit it big in the States (where I lived when they were big in the UK, though I think they might have eventually caught on in the US if they'd toured hard and played it right), I definitely have some in my collection that must have seeped into my brain.
Tool! Fab band. of course! :)
There always seem to be some vibes in the compositions I wouldn't have guessed at! :)
Might be easier if you give me the chords you're using and I work out a version that is less belting...
I'll have to see if I can figure out what chords I played! :lol:
My starting point was the hoary old Steeleye Span version, itself based on a version by Maurice Blythman (aka the Scots poet "Thurso Berwick") that combined trad lyrics from Sir Walter Scott's collection
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border with a traditional Breton tune called "Alar'ch" ("The Swan").
I rely heavily on the "modal drone" of folk music :) singing much of the melody over a main riff in D, with the little hammer-on kinda wibble a G-to-A thing, I think. (Everything tuned down a whole step, here ....) The bit in the verse where it goes up (e.g. "... the tane unto the t'other did say-o ...") is, I think, going from the main D then up to F, G, A ... A, G, F, A, G G ... and a slide down to finish the verse riffing on the D.
The little vaguely Sabbath bridge bit that crops up and the end of some verses is my own invention, just a little figure going:
D Db A D Db A C ...
D Db A D Db A F ...
D Db A D Db A C ...
A Ab F A Ab E D ....
Your voice is awesome,
No, what's awesome is the amount of reverb and echo that I piled on there to gloss over the flaws. :lol: (I think I remember a quote from Billy Bragg about that! :))
I'm a bit lower than you, range wise. Plus I have an idea to play it just as heavily on my acoustic...
Oh, yeah, there is much heaviness in acoustics! I wish I could play properly, with finger-picking and all. I remember going to see Martin Carthy once and he was just brutally heavy -- musta had strings like telegraph cable on that thing, and he just ripped and clawed at it like anything. Frightening!
Someday I'll learn to play ... someday!
