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City: Detroit
State: Michigan
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/14/2007

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

NEW WEBSITE!!11
Category: Music

My personal website is in business, which is a portfolio/blog of sorts and features all of Eternal Champion's songs to date, and will also be the host of future video projects. Check it out at loltima.net!

8:38 AM

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

"No Hard Feelings?"
Current mood:

busy
Category: Music

*I recorded a new version of the solo. Here is a recording of me recording it! Meta.

This is a little late, but yeah. Totally made a song called "No Hard Feelings." It's technically supposed to end with a question mark, but we all know how file names and websites tend to treat those sorts of things. The title itself came after little to no deliberation, as I wanted it to get away from my usual epic-fantasy-battle-gigantic-theme title stuff. I figured I'd go with a saying, and it was originally called "It's Nothing Personal," but I decided to change it into something slightly ironic. Like as if to reply to your assailant, "no hard feelings, right?" Or maybe you just got dumped, and they were all like, "hey I like you as a friend, no hard feelings?" And then you're totally thinking, "yeah, no hard feelings eh...I should kill you. Seriously." But anywho, on to the song.

This song in particular stands out from the rest of my catalog because everything is better situated in the mix. I was messing around with eq and my very own guitar tone for this song, and I seemed to strike a great balance for the song, where all the instruments fall into their own sonic spectrum, which was probably a fluke -- I assure you. So no more bass or drums getting drowned out by my boosted lows and highs.

My guitar tone is pretty much the opposite of what it used to be, I rolled back low and high, and just boosted the midrange like nobody's business. I have five seperate guitar sounds in this song, the main rhythm is a J-2000 with Brit V30's, the tiny tone at the beginning of the second verse is a J-2000 with a Mini-T, the lead sound rolls in with the chorus, which uses a J-2000 with Brit T75's and a bunch of digital delay, The Breakdown section with the keys features both the lead sound formerly mentioned, as well as a J-2000 with Green 25's (+delay), and my acoustic sound that appears right after the wicked stuff is modeled after a Blackface Lux on clean settings. So, lots of Marshall.

I think the drums are particularly important to point out, as they sound amazing. Don't mean to sound conceided or anything, but yeah. They're pretty sweet. The whole song is pretty tight, especially considering how loose I usually play. There's pretty much three guitar parts playing at any given time, minus the tremelo / solo section, which features four parts. Typically though, one guitar 100% left, one 100% right, and one dead center. The center part would typically be a double of something, which depended on what was the most important part of that section.

Overall, this is some of my best playing, and most of these riffs are one-takers, which means I recorded it, and said yeah that's good, and then left it. I also never copy and pasted any clips, and all my doubles and such are legit, so when I rolled around to chorus three, I was actually just recording those parts yet again. A lot of people try to get away with recording the three main riffs for a song, and then just pasting them all over the place. Just sayin', that's dirty.

A friend of mine pointed out that I have a "knack" for composing, but I needed work on my leads. Which I can pretty much concur with. Although it would probably help if that solo section wasn't a single take of me sliding up and down the fretboard in random intervals, but shhhh, can't let it get out that I have no idea what I'm playing. Seriously, if you told me to play that solo part again, I'd probably just laugh in your face. But other than that. A great song! 11/10

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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

"A Drop of Miasma"
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accomplished
Category: Music

So I figured I'd start posting blogs about my songs when I release them. So here's the beginning of that tradition, or something.

"A Drop of Miasma" was once just a cool title, the word Miasma in particular has some stigma. So after coming up with a sweet song title, I just had to do something cool for the actual song, out there a bit maybe.

The song itself combines a lot of different elements that I enjoy in music, including odd-meter rhythms, saturated guitar solos that go down smooth, and a grinding ankle-exploding attitude (Gojira comes to mind for one particular part). The whole song is very staccato, and very intentionally so.

I decided to approach the guitars in minimalist fashion, ala Starscraper -- since it worked so well in that song. This is my first song using a horn section, pizzacato strings, and my second song to not really have a normal structure. In my mind I can imagine that this or that is the verse or chorus, but the only melody that really returns is the one from the introduction; which just serves as a bed for the solo at the end.

I recorded from start to finish, in about eight hours. That's sitting in one spot the whole time too, NO bathroom breaks. My right leg actually went numb at one point, so I hope you appreciate my undying loyalty to you guys. Really. Now I'm going to get a sandwich. Feel free to tell me all about your experiences with my songs! Please. I'm dying for attention.