'Nuff Said?

I Technical FCed Painkiller. I feel so accomplished.

This morning I was like "I feel like trying the Painkiller solo". I got 99% (made stupid mistakes) but I FCed all the parts that I usually have trouble with (I think it's D and H, don't remember the exact names). So then I went back and FCed all the sections. So yeah, time to put it all together.

I got like...
108 FCs now?
53/84 Rock Band 2 FCs (lol)

Revival

Behind Last Place -
I need to start recording my part. Finally the long awaited EP will be released soon. :D

We still need to make songs for the EP. I think two more would be good for an EP. Current song (unofficial) that we're putting on there... credits are listed below.

Beginning To End
Lead Guitar - Brady
Rhythm Guitar - Me
Drums - Seth
Vocals - Alice and Connor (We need to get them the lyrics)
Bass - We'll see, probably me
Written by - Brady

So yeah, I'll be trying to write more songs and stuff, we'll see what we can do with Seth lacking his drums and stuff. Congrats to Brady for finally getting a new guitar :3

I got semi-ungrounded. Retook my failed stuff and got 100%s on them. In real life, I have no second chance. So I need to shape up more. Hahaha. Who am I kidding? Why am I so light hearted about something so serious? Maybe it's just who I am. Silly, obnoxious, sporadic, awesome me.

I really don't think I need a hair cut. My mom thinks so.

Random Fact : In the time it takes me to get 1 hair cut, Seth Wulbecker would get atleast 3.

So yeah, my cousins are coming NEXT WEEK! Sean is too. It's going to be epic. Having 10 people in a house that can barely hold 5. I wonder where they will sleep. One golden rule for my cousins that I probably will set straight with my cousins is... Don't toss my guitar up in the air nor bump it into any wall.. only I can toss it up in the air. I'm trying to keep my guitars in prime condition.

Random Fact 2 : I wipe my guitars at least 3 times a week to get all of the natural skin oils off and to keep it looking shiny. Helps keep the finish on my guitar stay nice.

Random Fact 3 : If it wasn't for the black pick guard, my guitar would be pretty girly since it has mini-sparkles in the paint.

Random Fact 4 : I probably take better care of my guitars than I do with my laptop... I mean this thing is filthy.

So yeah, I can't wait to get my clarinet back also. I gotta do some clarinet hero stuff with Matt. It's going to be epic as heck. Here's the list of songs that I'm going to do.
Bat Country - A7X
Critical Acclaim - A7X
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Yellow Submarine - Beatles

Well thats all for now I guess.

I pwnz you narb

The red pad for our drums kind of like... fell off? Well the rubber did, now we have a sock and a post it note that says RED on it instead of the red rubber. XCells plox. The pedal (RB2 stock) also kind of broke. It's unusable pretty much, it's like snapped on the base too. Now that is hard core. Our dad is finishing Seth's Titan pedal from Value soon. Also he's getting a Rock Pedal and MetalWorkz, so that will be exciting?

Me? I am doing pretty much nothing. Editing videos, laughing at videos, making videos. So on, I got the hang of Adobe Aftereffects. I editted my first video but gave Seth the credit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8IX95mOofs

Mr. Robert (for all of you guys who watched my videos on him) came over for dinner. He asked us if we had DJ Hero... hahaha... no. I don't even want DJ Hero that badly as long as I have Beatmania which is like the REAL DJ game :D

RawkSD finished off my cellphone SD card. So now we have to use Seth's SD card to upload Lego Rock Band on there.

I should get outside more, maybe start doing my daily jogging again up and down the hill. I am way too lazy. REALLY LAZY. Oh and by the way, all you "Asian Wannabes" have evoked the wrath of the Asian Queen.

New guitar design

I have been talking to the people at Ultimate Guitar and talking to the makers of Fender. I have decided that H-2 YSP will NOT be an Ibanez Prestige S. I have resolved in making the guitar a Fender Double Fat Stratocaster. I might have to buy some pretty cheap guitar body but kicking it up a notch, or two, or five.

Here's the specs :
Body = Fender Stratocaster (Routing Style HSH) - Alder - Dark Red
Pickguard = Fender Stratocaster - Black white black
Neck = Fender Stratocaster - Maple - 21 Frets (Scalloped) - 9.5'' Radius

Bridge - X2N by DiMarzio
Neck - Evo2 by DiMarzio

Bridge System - SuperVee Floating Tremelo
Neck Nut - SuperVee Locking System

Extras - Two Volume knobs for toggle switch (Routed similar to Tom Morello's)

I need to start saving my money for this. I was told that I could make one of these with an American Standard Stratocaster and buy a HH pickguard from GuitarFetish.com, however, they don't have the color I want. It'll end up costing me a lot more money if I start buying every part individually. I might have to buy the pre-wired set, replace the pickguard and the pickups.

I figured out that my computer has a performance setting. Helps a lot for FoFix. I finally 5 starred Get Out of My Yard by AngelHero. I need to download the other version.

Finally forced myself to write another entry.

I am not really that responsible at writing these entries as much as I would like too. I stopped writing in my personal journal for a little bit because I got tired of wasting the paper saying everything miniscule that happened... "today, I went to go eat food. It was tasty. I layed around all day and played some guitar. Bla bla bla bla".

However, a few new things DID happen over the past 2 weeks.

Firstly, I got a new Digital Camera. 10 megapixels, thats amazing. I have a 4gb memory card for my camera, so I can record up to 2 hours of high quality video. The video quality isn't as good as the Sony, but it is a lot more smoother quality and doesn't auto-focus as much.

The auto-focus got really annoying for my Sony, so I now use it for photography more. Since I have Adobe After Effects and Rock Band 2 back, like no joke. PiP, PiP,PiP. Super crazy, super fun to play around with. I blew up my own mind with the amazing things I created with it. I experimented with a Bodhisattva Gold Star video, turned out really nicely...ish.. The new set-up for camera angles are going to be more direct. Thats better.

We learned how to import custom songs on RawkSD for the Wii, but since our Wii isn't set up yet, we can't do it yet. Props to my friend Matt for FCing View From The Afternoon even though the chart was half incorrect. Hahahaha. So yeah, we're working on 2 projects right now for RawkSD.

Francis Hates L4D - Full Band custom (drums is done, amazingly fun but hard)
Asian Girl Song - Full Band RBN Custom (free on Wii, nothing is recorded yet)

Speaking of recording, I found the copy of Magix Music Maker in a pile of stuff, I popped the CD in and started recording a random song. I call it... The IHOP Song, dedicated to those who go to IHOP to fool around... Matt... AGAIN. It's hilarious, there's so many really fast licks in the song and the song ends in a really fast progression. When I wrote it, I was trying so hard not to laugh while recording. So yeah, I also created a video introduction. You can see it on my YouTube channel...
http://www.youtube.com/user/XAlphaZeroX


I finally thought of a cooler stage name than "Sammy Boy". I just decided to use my real name, which is Hyunwoo. It sounds a lot cooler than...
"NOW INTRODUCING! THE NEWEST BAND MEMBER OF BOO BEAR KILLEM AND COMPANY! SAMMY BOY ON GUITAR!!"
Like, I get it, we're a jazz band. But... really.. Sammy Boy is not going to cut it. Hyunwoo is mildly better than Sammy Boy. Atleast it keeps me away from confusion with the song "Danny Boy".

The new band is coming along very good. We just practice during school, Desean brought his gigantic keyboard the other day. It was absolutely crazy, it reminded me of the one Jordan from Dream Theater had... and yes, it is THAT big. It sounded amazing too, almost like a REAL piano playing.

My old band, Behind Last Place is on hiatus, however that does not mean that all work stops at BLP. Currently I am trying to get an endorsement from DiMarzio pickups and Tama drums after we release our EP. I saw the Monkey Lords do it, so why can't we if we put our hearts in it? Plus we might get colorful low resistance cable cords! If you play electric guitar, you gotta go for DiMarzio. Nothing really beats DiMarzio in my oppinion.
http://www.dimarzio.com

I am proud to be playing HS-3s and the YJM (HS-4s). Best pickups I've played ever.

I have 2 projects to work on. All are featuring DiMarzio pickups and straps. There is "H-1 S", my main guitar. It is going to have a Super Vee installed for floating goodness, and some HS-3 and YJMs. That will be settled very soon. Now, the other project is going to be the complete opposite of "S" in some sort of way. I am going to call it "H-2 YSP". It's going to be an S Prestige Ibanez in red and black, it is going to have 2 humbuckers (X2N and EVO2) and a single coil (Super Distortion). It'll give the guitar more of a crisper and brighter tone than "H-1 S". I could probably make a white "YSP" right now if I have 38000 more yen,Friesta has a S Prestige Ibanez for 40000 yen.

Thats all for now, I gotta sleep. I have school.

Woah

My parents bought a huge TV. It was too big for the car.

Some thoughts?
Woah... Rock Band 2 on a big TV that takes like 30% of the wall. Thats crazy. We also got the small TV for the study room! Woot! So if we can't use the big TV for Rock Band, we can take it to the study room where there are SPINNING CHAIRS!!!

So yeah, Team Cena.. hmm... I want to join Team Cena really really badly. There's barely any Wii players, we gotta step it up to the plate and show that Wii players are just as good as any other player. There's only 5 members left on the Wii. When they open up, I'm going to re-enter for the Guitar spot.

If Drew or Stephen or Matt ever reads this. Lets try out for Team Cena together! We'll show the world that Wii is easily as awesome as all the consoles!

Boobear Killem AKA Desean Rogers

My friend from advance band (his name is Desean Rogers) turns out to be an amazing piano player and singer. I was amazingly impressed at his ability to make really catchy chord progressions and mix hip-hop into a jazzy smooth theme.

So today, I brought my guitar to school with a goal of practicing sweep picking in the band room. When Desean goes to piano, he starts playing and stuff and I'm practicing what I want to practice (arpeggio sweeps and random songs that I haven't played on an amplifier before). Thats when it hits me, I wanted to solo along with his newest song.

It took me a while to figure out what to do for the solo, what notes to play and how fast he was playing. First try was an improvision, I had no clue what I was doing. Half of it sounded amazing, half of it sounded like crap. Took us 4 tries for me to get the solo right. When we finally finished a full go of the song, one of the people in the room was like...
"That was hot man! I could sleep to that music!"

I thought it was amazing to, I was suprised at how good we sounded. My friend Desean, who's stage name is Boobear Killem, asks me if I had a stage name. I think to myself, "Stage name? Who needs a stage name except Avenged Sevenfold who picks pretty awesome stage names.". I end up saying "No" and thats when he gives me my own stage name "Sammy Boy". Hahaha, I think my custom guitar line up will be call "Sammy Boy Custom Fender Stratocasters". He told me that I have to drop by his house (which he has a studio in it) to record with him for his new album. Its going to be pretty tight. We might release the new song as a demo.

Don't worry, the Beginning to End EP will come out eventually... as in after I get my stuff back from America.

Anyways, it was the first time I plugged "Yusuke" into an amplifier. The tone is amazing, I love how smooth and clear the tone is for the upper pick-up. I also love the huge different tone I get from the HS-3 on the bottom pick-up. I am definately going to be getting an HS-3 sometime soon for "S". I can't wait to get "S" back from America. I also need to buy a case for "Yusuke", I have a feeling that I am going to be using "Yusuke" and "S" a lot at the same time. I love how I have bright colored guitars, maybe I should get a red guitar instead of white.