Lake of Fire - Recording Guitar Tracks

In continuation with my project, recording Lake of Fire from Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York album using Samplitude audio recording software, these are the videos of two backing guitar tracks. I planned to record three guitar tracks, two for backing guitars and one lead guitar. The two backing guitar tracks are recorded with the bass and drum tracks at the background. The two guitar tracks are "panned" left and right to produce that "stereo effect" in the final product. They are also in different tone (equalizer settings). So here are the videos of the recording process for guitar tracks.

Recording backing guitar 1

Recording backing guitar 2

Lake of Fire - Recording the Bass Video

To continue the recording of Lake of Fire as popularized by Nirvana in their Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York album, I have this video recording the bass track of the song while the drums track plays at the background. The drums track was prerecorded in Samplitude in "Drums Track", a single track. The bass is then recorded onto the second track and I named it "Bass Track". When you watch the video and listen to the sound, it's not yet perfect and further processing and tweaking will be done on the audio recordings. After this, the guitar tracks will be recorded. Watch the video and listen to the bass....

Lake of Fire - Drums Track

This is the second of the series of posts on my cover of Nirvana's versions of Lake of Fire. As I've learned from my previous experiences, watching through televisions and browsing the internet, it's easier to record song if you started from the drums part of the song. Well, the first, though, is you have to record the basic track of the song, and in this case, since I have to cover the original song, including the arrangements, etc., I record with the original song as the basic track. So, I started recording the drums track playing the original song in the background. I have used a midi drums software with the WAV output of the sound card recorded directly to my Samplitude software. Here is the picture of the recording...

The next part will be the bass track to be shown on my next posts.

The-Muzic.com

I like to promote a website for music lovers.. I believe its a good thing to promote one's site even though you are, in many sense, competitors. I just love the way their website offers many things. All you have to do is sign-up, the easiest sign-up procedure that I ever had, hehe. And then, voila, you can start sharing your music.
I don't want to throw my readers off my blog to that website, though, but it's just interesting. However, since my site is a blog and my personal views of music that I love, you can make comments, good or bad comments, you can read my posts, but at the end of the day, I still have the power to remove them and not hear from you, hehe.. But I like critics. They can help me to achieve my goal for this site, that is, to interact with music-minded people.
Back to the topic, well, you can have your daily blog there, photos, radio & tv and even fans and friends. It's like the music counterpart of friendster, perfspot, etc. I have only signed-up just a while ago but browsing through the site, it's just amazing.
Check out the site at The-Muzic.com.

New Poll in my "Poll Box"

All those concert-lovers out there, check out my new poll in my "poll box".. I've compiled four of the most historic concerts of four of the most influential bands, artists or group of all time. The poll goes like this:


If you are given a chance to go back in time, what concert are you going to attend to??

A. Beatles' historic Shea Stadium Concert 1965

B. Elvis Presley's "Aloha From Hawaii" 1973 Concert

C. Rolling Stones' Bigger Bang Concert Tour 2005-2006 Copacabana Beach, Brazil

D. Led Zeppelin's US Concert Tour 1973 at Tampa Stadium

If you would like to have another poll like this with other bands on the list, just make a comment and I'll try to put it here.

Writing a new song.. (2) - Lake of Fire

I've been busy for the past few days and haven't got any time to write a blog. In reference with my previous blog, I was to write a new song, I have the chords all ready, some lyrics line and have already idea on how the song will go, however, as what I've said just a while ago, I'm quite busy, hehe.. Here's what I'm planning now, I will record a song, specifically, a Nirvana song in their Unplugged album so I won't have to start from scratch. I will put the recording process on video and you will be able to see it here in my blog, including the tabs and chords that I used. Hopefully, though, I'll get it done and good, hehe..
The song is Lake of Fire, originally, a Meat Puppets' song in their 1983 album, Meat Puppets II. Here's a copy of the song, it's chords, and a YouTube video as played by Nirvana in Unplugged in New York...

Lake of Fire
(Meat Puppets)

Intro:
G - - F - Bb-;
G - - C - Bb-;
G - - F - Bb-;
C - - F - G-;
G - - F - G-(2x);

Refrain (Chords same as Intro)
Where do bad folks go when they die
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
see them again 'till the Fourth of July

Verse (Dm-Bb-Dm-A-Dm-Bb-C-Dm-;)

I knew a lady who came from Duluth
Bitten by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
Flew and lay down on the yellow moon

Repeat Refrain

Verse (Dm-Bb-Dm-A-Dm-Bb-C-Dm-;)

People cry and people moan
Look for a dry place to call their home
Try to find some place to rest their bones
While the angels and the devils try to make 'em their own

Repeat Refrain

G - - F - G-(2x);

Guitar Solo (Riff: G - - F - G-;)