Wood shredder excerpt... my fingers hurt =)

[t0neg0d]

Small excerpt from wood shredder tune... It's an experiment in deminised, cromatic and just straight up atonal. Not gonna be everyones thing... but I am just diggin' this atm.

Gotta love being able to smack someone in the face with your guitar and not have them press charges!

Wood shredder type thingie (http://www.itc2.org/Music/Heavy.mp3)

[PAF]

That's killer =) reminds me of Helloween :dude

[matte]

Line goes up......






Line goes down..........

[t0neg0d]

Lol Matte!!

Your powers of observation are truely staggering! :D

[matte]

Originally posted by t0neg0d
Lol Matte!!

Your powers of observation are truely staggering! :D When I clicked onto your link, I made the mistake of having lofty expectations. I was imagining Berg or Bartok. My mistake. You have certainly developed a modest degree of facility on the instrument. It's the end to which this ability is applied that doesn't resonate with me. That's simply an issue of taste and certainly not an absolute.

[t0neg0d]

Ummmm... ok. I honestly thought you were just kidding around. Is there a reason you had such "lofty expectations" of me? Or for that matter... is there a reason you thought that your less than favorable opinion of what I do for fun has any baring on whether or not I will still find it fun?

No real offense intended here Matte... but like every other post I have read from you thus far... you have no constructive critisism... just critisism. So, why bother?

I wouldn't mind hearing:

This is soooo not my thing... but I appreciate the effort you put out.

But the response you gave was just meant to be offensive. Though, I must say that I feel honored that someone who is so highly sought after in the music industry could find the time to troll one of my posts. How do you fit it all in your busy schedule?

[Deaj]

Originally posted by Matte
When I clicked onto your link, I made the mistake of having lofty expectations. I was imagining Berg or Bartok. My mistake. You have certainly developed a modest degree of facility on the instrument. It's the end to which this ability is applied that doesn't resonate with me. That's simply an issue of taste and certainly not an absolute.

What about the original post prompted you to set your expectations so very high and, in the same breath, where did you get the idea that the thread starter was soliciting feedback? Reading the original post I got the idea that the clip was posted because he dug it and wanted to share it. If you don't dig it - okay. Given the implied intent of the original post I see nothing constructive in yours.

My $0.02

[t0neg0d]

After careful consideration of your last post and hearing some of the brilliant clips out on your site, Matte... I have come to see the errors of my ways.

So, I scrapped the solo track I had on this song, broke out the auto-pan and "sprayed some Lestersecticide over it". BREW-HA!

Heavy ala Matte! (http://www.itc2.org/Music/HeavyMatteStyle.mp3)

You were made fun of a lot in highschool, weren't you?

[matte]

Originally posted by t0neg0d
After careful consideration of your last post and hearing some of the brilliant clips out on your site, Matte... I have come to see the errors of my ways.

So, I scrapped the solo track I had on this song, broke out the auto-pan and "sprayed some Lestersecticide over it". BREW-HA!

Heavy ala Matte! (http://www.itc2.org/Music/HeavyMatteStyle.mp3)
Seems I hit a nerve.


Originally posted by t0neg0d
You were made fun of a lot in highschool, weren't you?
Only in your version of my life.

[matte]

Originally posted by Deaj
What about the original post prompted you to set your expectations so very high and, in the same breath, where did you get the idea that the thread starter was soliciting feedback?

My $0.02 This is a forum, no?

[matte]

Originally posted by t0neg0d
Ummmm... ok. I honestly thought you were just kidding around. Is there a reason you had such "lofty expectations" of me? Or for that matter... is there a reason you thought that your less than favorable opinion of what I do for fun has any baring on whether or not I will still find it fun?

No real offense intended here Matte... but like every other post I have read from you thus far... you have no constructive critisism... just critisism. So, why bother?

I wouldn't mind hearing:

This is soooo not my thing... but I appreciate the effort you put out.




But the response you gave was just meant to be offensive. Though, I must say that I feel honored that someone who is so highly sought after in the music industry could find the time to troll one of my posts. How do you fit it all in your busy schedule? Constructive? Incorporate lines with wider intervals. Break out of diatonica once and a while. Avoid playing more than three notes in one direction.

[matte]

Originally posted by cpokay
heh heh heh . . . you guys are killin me. Heavy ala Matte . . . heh hheh hheh heh heh. Brutal, man. :bird It is flattering to be able to have such profound influence on someone that I've never met. :)

[matte]

Originally posted by t0neg0d
It's an experiment in deminised, cromatic and just straight up atonal.
Here's what I was working with when I clicked onto your link. What I heard was pretty diatonic. Not good or bad, simply misrepresented.

[Schmoo]

Despite whats being said, I personally still like the playing man...from what 'I' gather, all you were suggesting is that you probably just closed your eye's and went nut's and you liked the results. There's something to be said for that kind of expression, regardless of the outcome.

Peace,
Schils
:)

Edit: bear in mind, I'm a ham 'n egger compared to most of these guys, so take my comment with a grain. ;)

[scottl]

Originally posted by splatt
very muscular playing.
for myself, i found the tone rather thin, for a god.
*-)
but:
just for clarity's sake:
there's nothing atonal, in that piece;
on first listen, i hear a buncha pentatonic minor stuff, some dorian mode, one big obvious slew of arpeggiated diminished goo mixed in with a wad of chromatic passing tones;
this kind of stew does not constitute atonality, as the tonality of the piece was clearly diatonically based.

dt / spltrcl

This is why I luv ya Splatt!

Fwiw, I thought similar thoughts... Just not so eloquently swirling in the noggin. :p

[r9player]

... saw the threads .. saw the back and forths .. just had to listen to the clip.

Clip is very cool. Don't think I'll ever play that fast ...
As far as what it all is .. I know zero music theory ... :)

[PAF]

Originally posted by splatt

just for clarity's sake:
there's nothing atonal, in that piece;
on first listen, i hear a buncha pentatonic minor stuff, some dorian mode, one big obvious slew of arpeggiated diminished goo mixed in with a wad of chromatic passing tones;
this kind of stew does not constitute atonality, as the tonality of the piece was clearly diatonically based.



what he said, but i still liked it =)

[Ed DeGenaro]

Originally posted by t0neg0d
After careful consideration of your last post and hearing some of the brilliant clips out on your site, Matte... I have come to see the errors of my ways.

So, I scrapped the solo track I had on this song, broke out the auto-pan and "sprayed some Lestersecticide over it". BREW-HA!

Heavy ala Matte! (http://www.itc2.org/Music/HeavyMatteStyle.mp3)

You were made fun of a lot in highschool, weren't you?
Uhem...is that Heavy ala Matte Groening.

[melondaoust]

Originally posted by Ed DeGenaro
Uhem...is that Heavy ala Matte Groening.

I thought I heard a snippet of "Who needs the Quicky Mart" in there...:D

[Ed DeGenaro]

Originally posted by t0neg0d
Small excerpt from wood shredder tune... It's an experiment in deminised, cromatic and just straight up atonal. Not gonna be everyones thing... but I am just diggin' this atm.

Gotta love being able to smack someone in the face with your guitar and not have them press charges!

Wood shredder type thingie (http://www.itc2.org/Music/Heavy.mp3)
Cool in a 80s metal kinda way.

[Bryan T]

Originally posted by splatt
there's nothing atonal, in that piece;
on first listen, i hear a buncha pentatonic minor stuff, some dorian mode, one big obvious slew of arpeggiated diminished goo mixed in with a wad of chromatic passing tones;
this kind of stew does not constitute atonality, as the tonality of the piece was clearly diatonically based.

That is what I thought when I heard it, as well. I got a kick out of the piece though, kind of like watching a person run a sub 10 second, 100 meter sprint.

Bryan

[Marcello]

tough crowd man...

[t0neg0d]

Yep yep... I just figured after posting the original material that I spend most of my time on (which very un-guitar oriented) that this would be taken in the light that it was meant in... Yankin' it on a Friday night for giggles. :(

I really didn't know that anyone held the term "atonal" in such staunch regards. Sooo... without further dicussion, please let me extend my sincerest appologies for portraying myself as atonal when apparently I was nothing more than arpeggiated diminished goo mixed in with a wad of chromatic passing tones or diatonic or whatever it is that I was when I was when I did what I did to yooooouuuuuoooouuu oooooo. :D

I appreciate all the feedback as always... and Matte... you rock! Nothing I say or do will make that any different. I, even though I know the reverse isn't true, enjoy listening to the stuff you post!

[John Ziegler]

tough crowd indeed! but bravo for that!
you should really worry a lot more when all us cretins don't say anything about you!:eek:

ya gotta believe that if you're going to let anyone check out your "art", be it at a live gig, on a recording, clip on the internet, etc...
ALWAYS be prepared for the worst criticisms!
at least that's how i look at it personally. c'est la vie.
Originally posted by t0neg0d
Gotta love being able to smack someone in the face with your guitar and not have them press charges!and sometimes you're the windshield......sometimes you're the bird.:jo

i liked your playing on the clip...please do more, especially without all the harmony shtuff.
i'm always a sucker for an aggressive shredder....especially in 2005.
they're a dying breed......

and maybe i see why!?!
whoa!:rolleyes:

rock on!

[Bassomatic]

Well played, t0neg. You've got some nice chops there.

I'd love to hear you play in a more interesting, less diatonic style.

Who do you listen to for inspiration, these days?

[kipknee]

Great clip! Although not normally what I listen to, I really dug the shred-fest.

I guess I didn't take your original description of the clip so literally. To me, it was more "I threw everything against the wall and this is what stuck." As a result, I was listening more for what was there rather than what wasn't.

Bob

[rkstarr]

:dude

[rkstarr]

:dude

[sosomething]

I like the playing and the tone. Very cool, despite sounding musical or any other unmentioned faux pas.

[nemp]

I dig it...allot. As good if not BETTER then anyone else's stuff. :dude :dude :dude

[KHK]

Originally posted by John Ziegler
tough crowd indeed!
.....
rock on!

No kiddin'... I was thinkin' "new teaching technique?" but concluded it's probably just the user name that offends...wonder why/how? Too pretentious??

Anyway, keep posting...the masses will appreciate and Preparation H might make your new a@!#ole...err hurting fingers feel better.

[Deaj]

Post more, post more! :dude :dude :dude :dude :dude

[t0neg0d]

Eeeep!

I cringe everytime I see this thread resurface. And now I'm doing it too...

"This is the thread that never ends... it just goes on and on my..." - I believe something like this plays through my mind everytime I see it.

Why am I posting to it? Somebody stop me!! Please!!!

http://www.itc2.org/Music/ouch2.jpg

[t0neg0d]

Thanks Chris! I got truely pissed at my guitar a couple nights ago... and since I can't afford to break one... I lit a fake one on fire... does the body good (can't say the same for the neck though).

This thread shall LIVE FOREVER!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Blindspot]

This thread is older than Space Food Sticks and I'm sure I will be flamed for having the nerve to resurrect it again with a comment, but - it cracked me up!:rotflmao

[MusicGearGuys]

Sh_t! I wish I was able to play as good as either of you.

Maybe in my next life.:D
How about a brew among friends guys? :BEER


Gregory

[MusicGearGuys]

BTW, Ed D how the hell are you?
I wanna hear Ed do speed playing again.

Do you remember those days?

Gregory

[chetsmith]

Differences!!!!! Its what makes this forum so much fun to read,Yeeeeeeah Haaaaaa!!!!!!!:dude

[MusicGearGuys]

:BEERNot sure what you mean.
I just added to your post bro.
Anyway, I paid props.

:rolleyes:

Gregory

[chetsmith]

tough crowd indeed! but bravo for that!
you should really worry a lot more when all us cretins don't say anything about you!:eek:

ya gotta believe that if you're going to let anyone check out your "art", be it at a live gig, on a recording, clip on the internet, etc...
ALWAYS be prepared for the worst criticisms!
at least that's how i look at it personally. c'est la vie.
and sometimes you're the windshield......sometimes you're the bird.:jo

i liked your playing on the clip...please do more, especially without all the harmony shtuff.
i'm always a sucker for an aggressive shredder....especially in 2005.
they're a dying breed......

and maybe i see why!?!
whoa!:rolleyes:

rock on!Dying Breed???? Have you gone to the guitar9.com site it seems a majority of those guys are shredders. Nothing against them just not intersted in Shred my self. Your logon name being ToneGod... I bet you would have gotten less flack if your name was something else.

[randy morser]

:crazyguy bump

[spindlergallery]

NIce! great playing.