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Songwriter Forum => Feedback on Finished songs => Topic started by: XtrmJosh on November 04, 2012, 11:30:22 AM
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So I wrote a nice guitar riff yesterday, pretty much the introduction to some form of song. My problem is I've tried writing music for both acoustic and psytrance styles in the past, and I can't decide where this sounds best. I don't have the facilities to record on the guitar at the minute, so I'll post a tab of it.
http://soundcloud.com/xtrmjosh/nice-riff
Against (Capo 2nd - sounds best):
e|---------------------------------------------------------------
B|----0---------------0---------------0---------------0----------
G|------------0---------------0---------------0------------------
D|---------------------------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------------------------
E|0-------7-------0-------7-------0-------7-------0-------7-5-3--
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-----------------------------0--------0-------0--------|
-0-------0-------0-------------------------------------|
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-----3-------3-------3-4-5--------5-------5--------5-3-|
Opinions please, and do excuse the psytrance styling, I know from lurking that most folk here are into acoustic guitar & vocals, I just pray all else isn't considered devilish.
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Welcome to the forum, Josh !
Don't worry, nobody here is gonna condemn you for the style of music you make. Get comfortable, make yourself at home, contribute and you'll soon see that this forum is a great place to hang around :)
Just listenend to your track, have to admit that it's not what I was expecting (I had to google "psytrance" ;) )
I played your guitar riff along to the Soundcloud track on my acoustic, and while the riff does fit in chord wise, I think acoustic guitar and an extremely electronic track in the background is quite a bold combination... I think it all depends on what you make out of it.
I thought that the synth sounds you used were a bit too harsh and anorganic, but that's just my personal taste.
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Sorry you've misunderstood my intentions. I'm not sure if I should leave the riff as a psytrance style mix, or take it back to its original roots as an acoustic riff. I don't know how you worked out that the chord sequence is different, the notes are all identical in the tab and the mp3. I guess if you played it over the mp3, you won't have realised that though, unless you were playing at some insane speed...
I like the idea of a bold mix of acoustic guitar and psytrance though, you've certainly gotten me inspired.