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Happy Birthday! Rawk on!
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Thank you everybody! :Alex: :cheers:
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Hey! I resemble that emoticon. Thank you!
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In the long ruuuuuun!
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I have a couple of recent entries that I would like to present, the first one is a kindle offering but it is available in paperback. Wool: The Omnibus Edition. I picked this up because it was super cheap, $5.99 and highly recommended.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cga9q7zFL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-69,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
from Amazon...
This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.
The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.
This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
Good mid-level SF.
It is a neat book to start this thread because to me it has a faint echo of 2112. The Priests of Syrinx are not in robes but they are present in their coveralls. It is a gritty post apocalyptic tale set in the near future with believable characters. People survive in underground silos. Wool is simply written. Pacing was a little off in the beginning, this work started out as three short stories, the last 2 episodes are more novelettes. By the middle and end that quibble of pacing dissipated and it became a real page turner, so much that I purchased part 6, First Shift - Legacy another $3.99 and read it in a couple of sittings.
First shift from Amazon:
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.
To my buddies and buddettes in SOCN. The dem/libs are the bad guys!
No this book does not dwell on politics and the bad party could be easily interchangeable so do not let this little factoid misrepresent the fun of this little SF adventure.
Next up, I think, because it is a tough one to think about "reviewing"... Hegemony by Mark Kalina. It is another cheap kindle buy $.99
Currently reading: A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Just finished Wool and Am starting Shift. Quite liked it. .
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A simple tool called "the key" gets the job done easily.
http://www.stewmac.com/product_images/1lg/0022/The_Key_sm.jpg
Just got one of these in the mail and intonated my Epiphone Pro fx in no time. Sooooooooo worth it. :dweez:
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Subdivisions.
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Reverb, chorus, and active pickups. Maybe some compression on there too.
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Thanks for checking it out. Cheers. :hail:
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NIce job again Sir Lerxt!
Here's my cover done with GianFranco Fiocco's Backing track and my half assed vocals. :D
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As I understand it they did for real, but he was harnessed with wires for saftey and they were removed in post. But the whole thing smacks of digital composition.
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Hi everyone. I wanted to share with you my cover of the fantastic song, The Garden, the last track on the Clockwork Angels album. I was using this as a project to teach myself how to use my new home studio setup. I got rather carried away I think!
Other than guitars and vocals, the rest of the music was produced using the Reason 7 factory sound banks and a midi keyboard (that's drums, orchestration, bass, drums, piano and effects). I used my old knackered Squire Strat and..well my voice.
Love to know w.hat you think. Please feel free to share.
https://soundcloud.c...h-cover-version
Thanks all..of and thanks to Rush!
Simon
Sounds good man! Nice programming and playing. Only nitpick I have is this; The lyric is "Forever dwells in that moment." Sounds like you're saying whatever dwells... I know nitpicky but that's a Rush fan for you. :P
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Happy Birthday man! :dweez:
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Back in the late 80s and throughout the 90s I was in a series of bands in Austin. We mostly did original tunes, but everyone once in a while we'd have fun butchering Rush songs. Here's an example of that.
Nice job and nice Carvin.
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Voice is great and love that he got the words wrong in In The end just like atwas. :D
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Spotted in San Diego.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/biffmalibu01012/20130729_101730.jpg
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Cm11:
—X--
—3--
—1--
—3--
—4--
—1--
Bb sus2:
—X--
—1--
—3--
—3--
—1--
—1--
With the top representing the low e string.
Yep that's them except,
it's this chord at least as Alex plays it.
Cm11:
—X--
—3--
—1--
—3--
—1--
—1--
It's really easy to play. F bar chord, Move your pinky to the Bb on the G string 3rd fret and that is your Cm11, Move your ring finger to F on the D string 3rd fret and that's your Bbsus2, then back to the F bar chord. Just keep your middle finger where it is on the A throughout the progression so you get that nice transition back to the F chord.
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The verse chords are F, Cm11 (Could be thought of as F7 sus4), Bb sus2. Will post more when I have time. Look on youtube for covers and see if you can pick it out too.
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Here's mine. :)
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Opening riff to Spirit of Radio. I tried to teach myself that back in my guitar playing days and not only was it fun it was really hard too lol
I still don't have this to this day. I gave up a long time ago on this riff and never revisited it. I "cheat" when I do play it - non-guitarist/non-rush fans can't tell the difference, but it's not right. I should tackle this again someday.
If I recall, I couldn't quite get the picking right to hit that open E after the fretted D and have it sound smooth.
Yeah, I know what you mean! I could never quite get it down either. A lot of people "cheat" on it, I have found, though. The actual lick goes like this:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2rxf86s.jpg
But, so many people, including me, play it like this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/5460sn.jpg
One day, I'll get it!
That's just it, the first one is what I thought it always was, but according to Alex himself in that video - that is not what he is playing. He never hits that open E (or open B) at the end of each quarter phrase.
BUT (a big but) - that is just a "teaser" video. Perhaps he builds on the "lesson" until he shows you the full phrase. Anyone see this video in it's entirety? Can you solve this question? I hate to spend $6 just to learn that the tabs have been right all these years for a song I'm frankly not all that interested in playing anymore...
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/biffmalibu01012/sortab.jpg
This is a screenshot from the video. You're right he plays it slow without all the open Es (in parans) but then gets it up to speed and I'm pretty sure he's playing the tab.
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They're all fun to play but Natural Science is a stand out. All the movements are quite different and the chord voicings going on in the Permanent Waves section are an prime example of what is so great about Alex's playing. Most covers I've seen miss these voicings completely.
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Bless the saints, it's an ashtray! I've been thinking of taking up smoking. This clinches it!
Neil Peart - April Update
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