This song was a classic for me the first time I heard about GH3. It reminds me of things Mike Keneally. It 'really out there. Very difficult song to play! I had to transcribe an explosion and to practice them (TRY) and its execution. Some parts I'm trying to play what is playing Andy (drummer-AES), others do not even try, because they are too heavy, so I just do my own thing. I'm just happy to be able to get through it! It is a natural to play up the crazy time signatureChanges. Show me the transcript at the end of the vid with the comment. Thanks to Andy and Zach from AES. I am a big fan you are crazy! AES Everyone is coming up with a new album next month (November '09), so keep an eye on them ... Website: youtube.com anendlesssporadic.net YouTube MySpace: myspace.com Twitter: twitter.com And when the album will come out to support these brilliant musicians and buy! I definitely, and I'm sure we will not be disappointed. If you have not already done so, go to theirMyspace page or iTunes and pick up their former titles published. "Impulse" is one of them! Paypal also good music. Thank you all for watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDAFio_wXFs&hl=en
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Impulse - An Endless Sporadic - bang awning - GH3 Guitar Hero III
This piece was recorded March 2008 at Denton High School in Denton, TX, while I was the percussion instructor there. This song is just plain flat-out awesomeness. If anybody has known me for the past 2 years, they know I'm an obsessive Guitar Hero player, and that's how I discovered this piece, Impulse, by two badass musicians who call themselves An Endless Sporadic. You can check them out on MySpace, but they haven't been signed or released an official album yet. One of them works for Neversoft, the drummer Andy, and he got their song in the game Guitar Hero 3 as a bonus song. Once I heard it, I knew I had to arrange it someday. It was a challenge to get the marimbas and vibes to work in the original key, since some of the guitar parts are so low, but I don't like changing keys in my arrangements, so luckily we had two 5 octave marimbas and some mics to help on the low end. I gave my best shot at playing the crazy drumset part with a single bass drum pedal, but the real key was hiring the amazing Chris McQueen to play the guitar part. He plays with Oso Closo and Snarky Puppy (from Denton) and you should check them out too, they will rock your face off. This piece was fun to do as a percussion ensemble because in the original they used ProTools and had already added all of the small percussion instruments you'll hear, so I didn't need to add anything. I did cut out an entire chunk of the piece in the middle, because it would have been impossible to recreate all the crazy ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvuKBsKTd2o&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvuKBsKTd2o&hl=en
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