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Theme: Sinners & Saints/Heaven & Hell Record a cover of a song about religion/spirituality/religious or spiritual figures/afterlife/what have you. It can be critical or complementary, or neither. If you think it fits, it probably does.  There are myriad examples of songs with religious themes. Here are a couple of links to start your search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_critical_of_religion http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_about_spirituality_or_religion.php Deadline: Monday, April 20th 2015  I'm not saying that your entry should be a stoner doom jam, but I'm not saying it shouldn't be! poo poo, what was I saying? Rockstar FAQ: quote:What's Rockstar? How do I Rockstar? Do it! Have fun! Make music! Praise Jesus! Hail Satan! Let's go!
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Alternative Pants posted:I'm actually already done with The World is a Thorn by Demon Hunter... May I just say, drop tuning Floyd Rose equipped guitars sucks. Alternative pants fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 17, 2015 02:42
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Haha, I bet. You pulled it off, though. Think I'm going to go for Jars of Clay - Flood. As doom-laden as possible.
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Mar 17, 2015 02:51
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The World is a Thorn... Might want to actually post the track...
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Mar 17, 2015 03:54
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Just claiming "Prayer" by Disturbed in the new thread.
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Mar 17, 2015 08:22
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Might do "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" but seems sort of ambitious at this point.
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Mar 18, 2015 02:20
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Think I'll work on Thor's "When Gods Collide."
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Mar 18, 2015 02:38
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Going to claim "Hallelujah" by whoever sang it first, it's been covered a million times already. "I heard there was a secret chord" etc.
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Mar 23, 2015 10:41
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I think I'm gonna do Spirit Needs A Spirit Tool by His Name Is Alive. Glad to see some familiar names posting here.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:08
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Radiapathy posted:I think I'm gonna do Spirit Needs A Spirit Tool by His Name Is Alive. I always love your entries. Hopefully it won't take too much to get back to having a dozen entries every round.
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Mar 24, 2015 16:10
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Alternative pants posted:I always love your entries. Hopefully it won't take too much to get back to having a dozen entries every round. Thanks, and the feeling's mutual! I think I might not have actually finished a complete track since my last Rockstar entry over a year ago? Having Rockstar deadlines (fluid though they may be) was a huge creative motivation for me. Without some kind of goal I end up starting project after project, but hardly ever finishing anything.
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Mar 24, 2015 17:28
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Let me see if I can get a version of NIN - Heresy banged out in the next week or two
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Mar 24, 2015 17:38
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Radiapathy posted:Thanks, and the feeling's mutual! I know the feeling. I've got a ton of sketches and chord sheets written out but only one or two completed tracks.
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Mar 24, 2015 20:27
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I haven't looked at Rockstar in a little while. How did the last one go? I'd like to claim "Heaven Can Wait" by Meatloaf for my entry
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Mar 24, 2015 20:38
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Didn't soundcloud use to have a way to upload new files into an existing track as an update?
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Mar 26, 2015 17:03
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Alternative pants posted:Didn't soundcloud use to have a way to upload new files into an existing track as an update?
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Mar 26, 2015 18:33
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Radiapathy posted:If you have one of the pro plans, you can edit your track and replace the audio file. Is that what you mean? Yeah. I guess they gave me a free trial of pro a while back because I know I did it with one of my regular demos.
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Mar 26, 2015 22:34
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I'll be trying my hands at Prayer in C by Lilly Wood & The Prick. None of that Robin Schulz Remix crap though.
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Mar 27, 2015 20:33
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Started making some tracks for Like a Stone by Audioslave today. I think it's gonna be real interesting.
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Mar 31, 2015 01:39
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T-15 days and all quiet on the western front...
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Apr 5, 2015 15:47
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Alternative pants posted:T-15 days and all quiet on the western front...
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Apr 5, 2015 19:12
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I can't really complain at anyone except myself. I got all excited about the theme and had my entry pretty much finished before the thread was even up.
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Apr 5, 2015 21:31
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I'm still working. Got the arrangement together, and tomorrow I'm gonna sit down and record it all. Probably mix it the next day, too.
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Apr 5, 2015 21:36
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I'm about 25% there. Hoping to finish the arrangement today. Will record the vocals in the coming week, and then it's all mixing after that.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:14
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I made some good progress today! Most of the actual writing of notes is done and I have a good idea for the rest. Soon I get to move it out of Gadget to the real instruments.
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Apr 6, 2015 06:23
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Going to try and bang it out tomorrow night at band practice, crossing my fingers it goes well.
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Apr 6, 2015 18:44
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Haven't started. You guys are nuts.
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Apr 7, 2015 01:17
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I did the piano and vocs for the two first verses. Piano sounds like poo poo, when I record, it sounds spot on, but when I play back it is off tempo. I got frustrated and haven't worked on it in like a week.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:02
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Koivunen posted:I did the piano and vocs for the two first verses. Piano sounds like poo poo, when I record, it sounds spot on, but when I play back it is off tempo. What program are you using to record (Ableton Live, Audacity, etc)? ALSO: Mostly finished my arrangement last night. It's pretty close to what I had in my head before I started working on it, so at least it feels like I'm on the right path. Just hope I don't f*ck it up on the vocals.
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Apr 7, 2015 17:43
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Radiapathy posted:If it's consistently off tempo (like always behind the exact same amount), that could just be a latency issue and you can fix it post-recording by just shifting the audio clips on your timeline. (Or you could possibly be recording with record quantize enabled, which can mess up your timing on playback if you weren't trying to follow the metronome/grid exactly when you played). I will look into that, thanks for the tip. I use Avid Vocal Studio which isn't the best program for fine-tuning. I play with the metronome, and the program is rather strict on how far it allows you to shift audio clips before auto-pasting it to the next bar. I'm sure there's a technical term to describe it but I don't know what it is. Edit: Didn't see anything goofy, maybe it's just a combo of my computer being kind of old and only paying $80 for the software and mic. My piano sometimes cuts out as if I'm not pushing the pedal down too. I fixed the problem by just re-recording the entire piano track in one take. Also started working more on the vocals, and realized my best take has my cat meowing twice in the background. Do I take it out or leave it... Hmm. Koivunen fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 20:32
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Koivunen posted:I will look into that, thanks for the tip. I use Avid Vocal Studio which isn't the best program for fine-tuning. I play with the metronome, and the program is rather strict on how far it allows you to shift audio clips before auto-pasting it to the next bar. I'm sure there's a technical term to describe it but I don't know what it is. Also, definitely keep the cat.
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Apr 7, 2015 23:02
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Radiapathy posted:Also, definitely keep the cat. Agreeing with this. I have my (now long dead) dog barking starting at around 37s in this old demo. Kinda cool being able to still hear her now.
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Apr 8, 2015 00:56
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Finished mine today. Might do a bit of a remix tomorrow, as my ears are super fatigued (as is my throat!). Audioslave - Like a Stone https://soundcloud.com/someguybrian/like-a-stone
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Apr 8, 2015 05:45
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Finished recording last night, pretty happy with the way it's turning out. Now I just gotta totally blow it with the mix. 
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Apr 8, 2015 12:11
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CaptainViolence posted:Now I just gotta totally blow it with the mix. In all honesty, this is one of the reasons I love doing this. I'm still far from brilliant at recording and mixing, but the feedback I've gotten has produced a definite improvement from when I was sitting in a dorm room running my guitar into a cheap pedal board directly into my mixer. Speaking of, that could be something fun: Take an older entry, redo it and make an album out of that.
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Apr 8, 2015 12:32
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Alternative pants posted:In all honesty, this is one of the reasons I love doing this. I'm still far from brilliant at recording and mixing, but the feedback I've gotten has produced a definite improvement from when I was sitting in a dorm room running my guitar into a cheap pedal board directly into my mixer. Speaking of, that could be something fun: Take an older entry, redo it and make an album out of that. That's definitely my favorite part of the whole process, just beating out learning how to pick apart and rearrange songs by other people. It's one thing to read about and study all this stuff for recording and mixing, but Rockstar lets me try things out and get feedback.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:04
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The Mystery Date posted:Finished mine today. Might do a bit of a remix tomorrow, as my ears are super fatigued (as is my throat!). drat, that's nice! Anyone who can cover Chris Cornell, and do a good job, is pretty impressive. I did something pretty weird. This is a song about the baby Jesus. https://soundcloud.com/slippyhat-1/space-lord SlippyHat fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 21:00
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The submissions so far have been awesome. Really nice work. Here's my entry, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. This is technically my first draft but I found out yesterday that I'm going out of town for a while for work, so it's going to have to be my final version. Would have liked to fix some/a lot of stuff but OH WELL. See if you can hear the cat (he sounds like a duck). https://soundcloud.com/koivunen/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-cover Koivunen fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 20:54
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Here's my cover of Prayer by Disturbed! Now I can catch up on listening to the other entries.
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CaptainViolence posted:Here's my cover of Prayer by Disturbed! Now I can catch up on listening to the other entries. Disturbed ukulele. Wow.
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