hariossa

riders on the storm - the doors

I'm glad to read that you're recording again!! looking forward to hear the new tunes!!!

Most of the times lyrics is the last thing I worry about when making a song, I do write text and I have a copybook where I put down all my crazy ideas, sometimes I write without thinking, letting the words flow freely, most of those writings are crap but I feel good when doing it. When I need lyrics for a song I can improvise them when recording or pick my copybook and improvise melodies using the lines I find in it. Sometimes I improvise both things and then I have a terrible time trying to find a way to continue the recorded idea... I started composing instrumentals and did that for a lot of years, songs with voice and lyrics are still a new thing for me.

Hi boys and girls! I just found this lovely video of , Bill Withers - "Grandma's Hands" and "Use Me" live with band. Enjoy!

I knew it!!

Hey! I love SR-202, the bass line on my track "Ron Do Janeiro" was done with it and some samples that came with the CM cd, in the CM cd you can find various kits and sounds for the SR-202, but also you can download very useful samples here: Skeptical Drums enjoy!!

I think I have exposed my beloved Pearl Custom before... but I love it so much that I'm going to do it some more!! This guitar belonged firstly to an angry teenager that smashed it on the floor when his father told him to turn down the amp, it broke the head off the neck. Next another guy bought it with the guitar head in one hand and the rest on the other, glued it on and then added some reinforcement to the joint. I worked a whole summer in La Serena, Chile, selling leather stuff with a hippie friend of my mother who made shoes, bags, belts wallets... all made of leather, it was all day under the sun selling this stuff to the tourists... I made enough money to buy a cheap new guitar or an ok used guitar, I choosed the last one and sent all the money to my friend Miguel who had more guitar knowledge and he was lucky to find this beauty for me. I changed the original pickups for Dimarzios 10 years ago and it had a Roland GK-2 MIDI pickup for a bunch of time, so the bridge was cutted to a half to fit the GK-2 in (now removed). the circuit was done by myself and features: - an on/off switch - a 3 position switch that controls both pickups and gives out singlecoil/humbucker, humbucker/humbucker and singlecoil/singlecoil. - a tone switch that stays out of the circuit when off. - a cap on the volume pot that bleeds some high end out when lowering the volume. the volume pot it's a bit noisy nowadays, too busy to change it... I was going to post pore images but got an error, something about dynamic pages?!!

hmmm... the fattest "analog" VST synth that I've heard is Native Instruments Pro-53. HERE you can download a demo and hear some examples.

my friend said the lesson was ok, but he first needs to know how to tune the guitar... cheers!!

The original Mothers of invention at the BBC in 1968: King Kong

well, that's just my name for the three basic functions in music: Tonic, sub-dominant and dominant... next lesson should be done in "the future"

A friend of mine asked me about some guidance for playing guitar and I came up with this "Lesson"... Guitar & Music Lesson

updated link: Ursula Martinez

Yes, Mr. Mark Volman is offering help for musicians on the business side of music: Music Biz Consulting

yes, my case is because most of my english comes from listening to Frank Zappa, I still remember the day I went to my english teacher (a nice lady) and ask her about the meaning of "blowjob"...

great!!!

I've been working a little in my myspace profile, now I dress in black (as usual) and added a new song for everybody to listen, I had it before as a short preview in my site, but now is on full lenght and nice sounding... I personally hate previews!! www.myspace.com/hariossa

I'm back!! my ears are dead, we played for 3 hours... it's incredible how my chops are gone after a long time without "real" playing!!!. we did Zappa's "pygmy twilight", Mahavishnu's "be happy", a very long Rock/blues vamp improvisation and some other ideas by mr. Martin Muollo (bassist). it was a lot of fun!!! damn, I miss having a band...

today I'm going to jam with some friends, they have a band called "Trac" here you can see them playing King Crimson's "21st century schizoid man". none of them speak english...

I have a little copybook to write on my ideas when I'm at work, also I try to remember and develop ideas in my head when doing mechanical stuff. sometimes my wife asks me what are you thinking? when I'm too quiet, and my answer is always music. use any time you have to make music, no matter if it is 5 minutes or half an hour. some years ago when I had just one dayjob I used to awake half an hour earlier in the morning to practice guitar everyday; it made me feel way better because I was a bit depressed not making any music...

this is a site full of freeware audio stuff: www.dontcrack.com from rhodes pianos to organs, fx...

ok, this is a full powered "world music" tune featuring Pat Mastelotto on drums, Trey Gunn on Warr guitar, finlanders Kimmo Pohjonen on accordion and Samuli Kosminen on samples.

Ladies and gentlemen: The magnificent Larry Graham

exellent show!

there was a time when I wanted a Parker Fly Deluxe, but then I played one and didn't like it, I play really hard and the piezo bridge didn't handle it, the sound was very harsh distorting, also I realized that the weight of the instrument was very important for my playing and this is a very light guitar... so, I love my cheap guitar. as for acoustics I surely go for a Benito guitar, he used to work for Taylor guitars: