The OCUK Guitar Warriors Competition

SexyGreyFox · 1 Mar 2006 at 17:18

OK, lets get this on the road.
I will be the judge, jury and executioner and my decision is final.
Why me?
Because I'm now in my 36th year of playing in bands and auditioning 1000's of musicians both in my bands and other peoples bands.
I will be listening for a talent that I think is good enough to play alongside me in a band of my choosing (in other words if you are a brilliant classical guitarist then my band is classical and so on).
(At this point some will say that the guitarist in my band at the moment isn't that good but believe me, we've tried Vai/Satriani/Wylde soundalikes and none of them fitted and he does a great job at the music we play).

I expect two things -
1 - a recording of you sitting down, picking up the guitar and pratting about for around a minute.
2 - a recording of you with a band/home studio that you are so impressed by that it will impress me.

I accept that some of you may not have number 2 so I will accept number 1 if its exceptional.

I will host all the tracks on my site so you can send the MP3's to my email address below. Start auditioning.

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SexyGreyFox · 1 Mar 2006 at 22:49

At last, first one in -

Calls himself Richt and he has been browsing in for a couple of weeks before joining.
He's been playing guitar for 9 months but has no recordings as such.
Richt pratting about

Quite a nice rhythm hand there but lead needs working on.

QABoy · 2 Mar 2006 at 09:16

Disgusting.
Dozens of guitar warriors and only one entry.
Perhaps they ought to keep shut in the future.

Andelusion · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:19

QABoy said:
Disgusting.
Dozens of guitar warriors and only one entry.
Perhaps they ought to keep shut in the future.

Rofl..Maybe some people just don't have the capacity to record?

Anyway.

If you click on my sig you can hear me playing guitar with my band, there's 8 short demo clips. I'll record some noodling later on.

djbenjo · 2 Mar 2006 at 13:46

C'mon guys :cool:

Phoenix211 · 2 Mar 2006 at 13:57

dmpoole said:
At last, first one in -

Calls himself Richt and he has been browsing in for a couple of weeks before joining.
He's been playing guitar for 9 months but has no recordings as such.
Richt pratting about

Quite a nice rhythm hand there but lead needs working on.

9 months.... :eek:

if hes had lessons, and you get that good in 9 months...I need lessons

SexyGreyFox · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:16

Andelusion said:
If you click on my sig you can hear me playing guitar with my band, there's 8 short demo clips. I'll record some noodling later on.

Can't get anything. Tried in both Firefox and IE.
I've entered the site and tried to download from the list but nothing there :confused:

GordyR · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:18

Great idea this. I have sent my entry in to dmpoole just to keep things moving but I decided to play some acoustic guitar with a little classical thrown in rather than a squeeling electric rock solo, I thought it would be good to add some variation in styles here. It probably wont be 'flashy' enough for most peoples tastes but that doesn't bother me.

Just got to wait for him to put it up now.

SexyGreyFox · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:54

Heres a very quick web page where I'm going to put them all -

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Andelusion · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:57

dmpoole said:
Can't get anything. Tried in both Firefox and IE.
I've entered the site and tried to download from the list but nothing there

Turd, there's the media player on the homepage which streams them automatically but it appears we've reached out bandwidth limit

EDIT:

Forgot we had a myspace page, go here: http://myspace.com/thefreefallband to have a listen to 4 ultra low bitrate demos XD

I'll record noodling tonight after i've finished work.

GordyR said:
Great idea this. I have sent my entry in to dmpoole just to keep things moving but I decided to play some acoustic guitar with a little classical thrown in rather than a squeeling electric rock solo, I thought it would be good to add some variation in styles here. It probably wont be 'flashy' enough for most peoples tastes but that doesn't bother me.

Just got to wait for him to put it up now.

Heh LittleWingtastic

Nice one.

Hilly · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:08

Great idea, only been playing about 2 months though, so no need for me to enter. How about sticking up an example of your work dmpoole, always interested in what you would sound like

SexyGreyFox · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:17

hilly said:
Great idea, only been playing about 2 months though, so no need for me to enter. How about sticking up an example of your work dmpoole, always interested in what you would sound like

I can't audition for myself

I might put something up later.

Andelusion · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:21

Eh, this isn't a serious audition though

It's just a show and tell really..

I don't want to audition :confused:

Tax Evader · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:22

GordyR said:
Great idea this. I have sent my entry in to dmpoole just to keep things moving but I decided to play some acoustic guitar with a little classical thrown in rather than a squeeling electric rock solo, I thought it would be good to add some variation in styles here. It probably wont be 'flashy' enough for most peoples tastes but that doesn't bother me.

Just got to wait for him to put it up now.

Hehe, nice

Can't beat a nice bit of Broonzy (I play that but slower tempo).

I need to get into this home recording lark, but I don't know where to start.. and that's something for another thread!

GordyR · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:50

Tax Evader said:
Hehe, nice Can't beat a nice bit of Broonzy (I play that but slower tempo).

Lol yeah you can blame Clapton for making me speed up the tempo of that one.

Tax Evader said:
I need to get into this home recording lark, but I don't know where to start.. and that's something for another thread!

Drop me an Email some time, I would be happy to help in any way I can.

Hilly · 2 Mar 2006 at 19:05

dmpoole said:
I can't audition for myself
I might put something up later.

No but surely you can set the tone

Gordy very very good mate, was very impressed at your recording

Hopefully i can get that good one day !

SexyGreyFox · 2 Mar 2006 at 19:06

Andelusion said:
Eh, this isn't a serious audition though It's just a show and tell really..

I don't want to audition

Tough - you just may be in my band and I always call the shots.

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Tax Evader · 2 Mar 2006 at 19:24

GordyR said:
Drop me an Email some time, I would be happy to help in any way I can.

Many thanks, I may just do that!

GordyR · 2 Mar 2006 at 19:39

hilly said:
Gordy very very good mate, was very impressed at your recording

Hopefully i can get that good one day !

Cheers dude, glad you liked it.

The quality you can get from a home setup is incredible nowadays if you know what you are doing. Though to be honest that little piece I just recorded doesn't show off the recording quality at all. I just plonked a mic a couple feet in front of me and played. When I am doing a proper recording I go through a good hour or so of mic placement setup and isolate the mic with blankets etc. to stop reflections and of course I turn off most of the fans in my PC, if you listen you can hear them quite clearly in that little "pratting about" recording.

Anyway if you keep working hard mate you can be as good as you want to be. I was lucky and had a fantastic tutor from the age of seven. He was the kind of guy that knew his own limitations, knew he wasn't that great a guitarist himself but he was an incredible teacher. He pushed me on to get my ABRSM Grade 8 classical guitar (with distinction) by the age of twelve. I owe him an awful lot. Shame you don't live in Essex or I would recommend him to you.

I don't play classical anymore really but i'm glad I went through the motions and put the effort in to learn it. If you can play classical guitar to a good standard then you will have covered just about every aspect of the instrument and nothing should be out of your reach. I thoroughly recommend learning classical guitar to anyone serious about the instrument, whatever style they really want to play.

SexyGreyFox · 2 Mar 2006 at 19:41

hilly said:
How about sticking up an example of your work dmpoole, always interested in what you would sound like

You can hear my voice if you click on the link on my sig, go to the media page and download some videos.

I've now put my entry on the web page of recordings I did in my studio a while back but I don't confess to being a musician but somebody who prats around a bit.

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