For those of you who are unaware, I am a musician and a metalhead(but I love a lot more than metal)! I play mainly guitar and only dabble around with pianos and keyboards. I've been playing since the summer of 06' or so. I had always played on my father's acoustic when I went to his house every other weekend prior to that, but it was nothing serious. Believe it or not, what got me into playing is winning my very first guitar(which I still have to this day and sits in the music shop I work) at a local Guitar Hero II competition. It is a Michael Kelly and it is a "HELL YEAH!!!" guitar, cooked out with flame inlays and a flame bridge(pictures later possibly).
Being a guitarist, I love covering other band's songs. Covering is how I started to learn. I don't have much knowledge of the theory or composition, I just know what I know. Covering has taught me the basic structures and techniques and many other things. I started out playing As I Lay Dying and Killswitch Engage's riffs. It started a good foundation for my playing and as I've matured with age, so has my taste in music. Now I like to consider my self to be in a much higher tier of guitar playing.
A few months back I bought a PreSonus FireStudio interface, a Sennheiser e609 microphone and a Shure SM57 microphone and I've been using them to create high quality covers. The covers I've been working on recently have been of my most favored band.. my most listened to band.. my idol band.. Between the Buried and Me. I would like to show you guys what I've been up to! (:
This is my most recent cover and is tied for my favorite cover and favorite song overall. I'm extremely proud of this one.
Between the Buried and Me - "Specular Reflection"
[link]This is the song that ties with the previous one.
Between the Buried and Me - "Sun of Nothing"
[link]Between the Buried and Me - "Informal Gluttony"
[link]Between the Buried and Me - "Foam Born B: Decade of Statues"
[link]Here are some other covers that I've done so far using only my camera and no mics or interfaces.
Explosions in the Sky - "Your Hand in Mine"
[link]Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
[link]Lamb of God - "Laid to Rest"
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[link]And I have a Facebook page for my photography as well!
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