Tim - Week 1

Tim here. After having a plethora a problems with sloppy playing, trying to find a decent tone, and having Reaper crash every 20 minutes, I have finally been able to upload my sick riffage.

A is probably the craziest of the 5. If the guitar sounds off in the right channel, then good...because it's a based off of a looping phrase in 17/16, while the rest is in 4/4. Also, the bass is the only thing in the center channel, and I'm tapping root note octaves with my left hand, and tapping double stops with my right hand. This whole thing kind of reminds me of a mix between Ashes from Pain of Salvation, and Scarred from Dream Theater. Kinda spooky.

B is a just a cool little cheesy, jazzish thing in 5/4 in A major. Yea, I know it's not really metal, but SHUT UP! On the other had, C and D are pretty metal, with D wandering into 5/4 and 6/4 territory. And for E, we got the John Petrucci-esque blues riff to round out the week.

Sorry about the wait. Also, I'm still not crazy about the tones, but metal waits for no man!

Edit: Just noticed one of the guitars cut out in E near the end. I have no idea how this may have a happened, as I did each track in 1 take, and there were no edits. I'm probably not going to fix it, as you get the point from the rest of the riff. I guess this is just proof of the frustrations I had to endure to get my post out to everyone. :)