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Record some vamps and work on your improvisation for a while. Jazz fusion is the key to musical enlightenment, my friend ![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Record some vamps and work on your improvisation for a while. Jazz fusion is the key to musical enlightenment, my friend![]()
Record some vamps and work on your improvisation for a while. Jazz fusion is the key to musical enlightenment, my friend![]()
yea i mean inevitably your influences will come through in your music regardless. i think i just get a bit over critical of myself. i don't want someone else to hear it and say "that's clearly just a remix of __________'s song!"
Going slightly off-topic here, but this and similar remarks make me cringe. Unless you're running out of space, I say keep every recording, no matter how unoriginal, messy, or flawed it might be. You'll probably never want to let anyone hear that stuff, of course, but it's such a cool feeling to go back into your several-year-old collection of trash clips and listen to where you came from. You might even be re-inspired by an old silly riff and come up with some crazy variation that blows everyone away. (That's usually how I'm inspired; I hear a simple riff or progression and think "Wow... If they did this instead, it would sound so awesome." The same thing can happen with your old riffs.)I never feel like it's good enough for teh internetz so I delete it.
yea that is trueWell I think theres always going to be people saying 'that sounds like ______' no matter how original you are.
most brilliantly original bands start off as ripoffs of their favourite bands.
look at Meshuggah - they started off as a Metallica homage band.
Some of my stuff sounds like an Iron Maiden ripoff, but I think that's a good thing most of the time.
I have no desire to be terribly innovative or groundbreaking... the weird shit you have to do to be original these days is so bizarre that to me it sounds like crap, so I stick with the stuff that I actually like.
is that why contradictions collapse sounds like that? i always said they sounded so much like metallica in their earlier stuff. wow, you really do learn something every day.
Going slightly off-topic here, but this and similar remarks make me cringe. Unless you're running out of space, I say keep every recording, no matter how unoriginal, messy, or flawed it might be. You'll probably never want to let anyone hear that stuff, of course, but it's such a cool feeling to go back into your several-year-old collection of trash clips and listen to where you came from. You might even be re-inspired by an old silly riff and come up with some crazy variation that blows everyone away. (That's usually how I'm inspired; I hear a simple riff or progression and think "Wow... If they did this instead, it would sound so awesome." The same thing can happen with your old riffs.)
As for your polyrhythms sounding too much like Meshuggah, try listening to some math rock for inspiration. Try Hella, Tera Melos, Don Caballero, and Rumah Sakit (fanpage), which are pretty much all instrumental. Most of it is polymetric, not polyrhythmic, but you'll have some of both.
Going slightly off-topic here, but this and similar remarks make me cringe. Unless you're running out of space, I say keep every recording, no matter how unoriginal, messy, or flawed it might be. You'll probably never want to let anyone hear that stuff, of course, but it's such a cool feeling to go back into your several-year-old collection of trash clips and listen to where you came from. You might even be re-inspired by an old silly riff and come up with some crazy variation that blows everyone away. (That's usually how I'm inspired; I hear a simple riff or progression and think "Wow... If they did this instead, it would sound so awesome." The same thing can happen with your old riffs.)