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Naah, different tunings than standard is only considered very talented to use

Tip: tune the low E-string down to a D so that you can play a powerchord just by pressing the same fret on all the three strings. That way you can change powerchords much faster, and also do pull-offs and hammer-ons with powerchords

August burns Red - The Truth Of A Liar Because Red is in a really dire strait

Sure, I experiment with different styles, I might to a heavy metal lyric with lots of fancy words and imagery, and then I might write a desperate, more hardcore lyric which is more heartfelt, and then I might write a really easy-going and fun pop-lyric. But I can't use all of these in my band

I'm sorry to be negative, but that's a HORRIBLE website! I couldn't look at it for more than a couple of seconds!

Seems like someone thought so If you have a rather unknown band, what services would you like when it comes to promotion and gigs?

I'm bumping this post a bit.. I've got a delicate matter I'd like to discuss! My friend has recently started a company which helps local bands to record their music, and then he does all the mixing and mastering. We were talking yesterday and he thought that I should start a kind of promotional service which gives the bands a website, a myspace etc, and then helps them with getting gigs. The gig part is subject for another thread, but I started thinking about crosslinking when he spoke about websites. I'm gonna have each of the bands websites linking to all of the others, to gain ranking. Now, I'm not sure if I should only put up links to bands with similar music, e.g "if you like us you might also like..." or if I should just crosslink everything I can. I mean, if I come here with 5 websites and ask you to trade links, would you do that? How far can you take this? Anything else I should think about when promoting bands online? (should I start another thread for this? )

I'm kind of new to recording, and I wonder why everyone seems to be using headphones? In-ear would be better when it comes to sound isolation, right? I'm mostly wondering because I only have in-ear, and I don't want to buy new ones unless it's really necessary. I mainly record vocals.

It happens The goal must be to give the artists the money they deserve, and preferably without having to tour non-stop. I don't have much experience with labels, but from what interviews with artists and so on say that's not really on the labels' agenda, since less than 5-10% of the CD revenues ends up with the artists. Therefore I think that major labels should be "removed", the question is how to do so without taking away all cd sales from the artists..

No, iTunes still have DRM on the files, so you can only use them in iTunes or iPods (from my understanding).

Sure is interesting reading! So is this: http://downhillbattle.org/?p=594 That is my one reason for not buying music online, I want to be able to download it and save it as a file on my computer. It's gonna be exciting to see how Spotify developes, if they're gonna have a DRM or not. Since piracy really can't get any worse, they might as well release their music as the consumers want it. I download almost all my music, because most of the music I listen to is released through small labels (or no labels), and I have no way of ordering CDs online. If someone releases a music store that lets me pay for a song, and then download it do my HDD, I'll sign up right a way (or at least in two months, when I can get my VISA ).

Since I saw the movie "300" I've been looking for a name for the singing technique or style the singer uses in the song "Message for the Queen". I suppose some would call it waling, but it's a special order of notes on special intervals, it's like a different form of vibrato or something like that. You can hear it in 0:09, 0:18, 0:31, then the flute in 0:42, and then the singer in 1:07, etc etc. Does anyone know if there is a name for this excersice, or a name for the singing style in general (0:50-2:05)?

The reason I "picked" these chords is that I know several awesome songs with them, I love the feeling, so I wanted to write a song with the same chords. One of the songs is this one: (Horrible video, don't watch it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDjuKjHEvM I didn't understand most of that theoretical stuff, I'm not very good at that, but I did get the point. It does matter in what order you play the chords, but mostly you can still go by feeling. I'm pretty sure it's an A# and not an A in that chord. As I said I picked the chords from a tab, I know how to play them but I didn't know the names so..