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.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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