The Escapist Jam Session

[DoW Lowen]

I'm still waiting for the rick roll...

 

[DukeBishop]

Fair enough.

Here's our band playing For whom the bell tolls from Metallica:

I'm the one on the right with the red Metallica T-shirt. Good times.
I know I look like a homeless cookie monster, that's yet another sacrifice if you want long hair.

You guys need to put on some pounds. So thin!

Nice cover nonetheless. Vocals would've made it nicer

 

[Diablini]

Fair enough.

Here's our band playing For whom the bell tolls from Metallica:

I'm the one on the right with the red Metallica T-shirt. Good times.
I know I look like a homeless cookie monster, that's yet another sacrifice if you want long hair.

You guys need to put on some pounds. So thin!

Nice cover nonetheless. Vocals would've made it nicer

I can do the vocals now, but I was still practicing them then. I think I have a video of them but it's on an obscure site.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I'm still waiting for the rick roll...

What do you mean by that?

 

[Inverse Skies]

This video is of Bach's - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. It's a beautiful song, and it doesn't translate too badly across from the camera phone either.

To Emipreth, I know you wanted to see my left hand but I promise I'll do that in the next piano piece I upload! (should be Chopin's Prelude in C minor).

 

[Raven's Nest]

Okay I was working on doing a cover of the Street Fighter theme but I've had a very cunning plan...

Rather than just doing me playing guitar, how's about we attempt to form...

THE FIRST EVER ESCAPIST BAND!

Yep, anyone remember the youtube orchestra? Well maybe we could attempt to form a song using audio and footage from several users? Then this would truly be a Jam Session...

We would each agree on a song to play, then record our individual parts to a click track. Then with the help of some studio engineering, we can put these pieces together and form the *worlds first song recorded by a band who were all in different places?* It would be even more awesome if videos were recorded during recording so we could even splice together a funky video...

*[small]may already have happened but fuck it[/small]*

What d'ya reckon?

EDIT: I just realised that was my gonzo post... Not bad...

 

[Raven's Nest]

I'm still waiting for the rick roll...

What do you mean by that?

He thinks someone might have posted a video which leads to a Rick Roll...

It would have been funny but this thread is too awesome for such things...

PS While I've got your attention, check out the above idea...

 

[Inverse Skies]

Okay I was working on doing a cover of the Street Fighter theme but I've had a very cunning plan...

Rather than just doing me playing guitar, how's about we attempt to form...

THE FIRST EVER ESCAPIST BAND!

Yep, anyone remember the youtube orchestra? Well maybe we could attempt to form a song using audio and footage from several users? Then this would truly be a Jam Session...

We would each agree on a song to play, then record our individual parts to a click track. Then with the help of some studio engineering, we can put these pieces together and form the *worlds first song recorded by a band who were all in different places?* It would be even more awesome if videos were recorded during recording so we could even splice together a funky video...

*[small]may already have happened but fuck it[/small]*

What d'ya reckon?

EDIT: I just realised that was my gonzo post... Not bad...

Haha! Nice Gonzo post! I actually think that would be an awesome idea, but it'd be hard to do. I have no idea of the technology involved or how to manipulate the videos or anything like that. If someone does and is willing to do it, hell yeah! It won't be my type of music, but it would be fun!

15-minute drum solo! (cookie for reference).

 

[Raven's Nest]

Okay I was working on doing a cover of the Street Fighter theme but I've had a very cunning plan...

Rather than just doing me playing guitar, how's about we attempt to form...

THE FIRST EVER ESCAPIST BAND!

Yep, anyone remember the youtube orchestra? Well maybe we could attempt to form a song using audio and footage from several users? Then this would truly be a Jam Session...

We would each agree on a song to play, then record our individual parts to a click track. Then with the help of some studio engineering, we can put these pieces together and form the *worlds first song recorded by a band who were all in different places?* It would be even more awesome if videos were recorded during recording so we could even splice together a funky video...

*[small]may already have happened but fuck it[/small]*

What d'ya reckon?

EDIT: I just realised that was my gonzo post... Not bad...

Haha! Nice Gonzo post! I actually think that would be an awesome idea, but it'd be hard to do. I have no idea of the technology involved or how to manipulate the videos or anything like that. If someone does and is willing to do it, hell yeah! It won't be my type of music, but it would be fun!

15-minute drum solo! (cookie for reference).

I've got it mostly figured out, it shouldn't be too hard...

Say we had a drummer, bassist, singer, guitarist, and a pianist.

We would all decide on a song to play together. We'll all record ourselves playing our parts to a click track. Which everyone would play to and it'd be set to the same tempo. That'll hopefully mean anything that is played will be in time. Also a key would needed to be chosen etc.

Once I have all of the recorded tracks I can mix them together on a program. Tweak some knobs here, fiddle with my cock there et voila, You have a song. This is how songs are recorded anyway.

Now if we were to video ourselves at the same time, so no mistakes I'm sure someone could make a cool music vid out of it.

Trust me, if enough people are willing and committed to it, it'll work.

You can count me in for the vocals or bass, if we do a song with vocals that is. But I'm thinking we should do an iconic game soundtrack first like Street Fighter for example.

Plus as long as bits are in time, we could make a song that featured any instrument from any number of willing Escapist's. Plus with keyboards we can replicate any instruments that no one can play. I sense some huge potential in this idea...

 

[Inverse Skies]

I've got it mostly figured out, it shouldn't be too hard...

Say we had a drummer, bassist, singer, guitarist, and a pianist.

We would all decide on a song to play together. We'll all record ourselves playing our parts to a click track. Which everyone would play to and it'd be set to the same tempo. That'll hopefully mean anything that is played will be in time. Also a key would needed to be chosen etc.

Once I have all of the recorded tracks I can mix them together on a program. Tweak some knobs here, fiddle with my cock there et voila, You have a song. This is how songs are recorded anyway.

Now if we were to video ourselves at the same time, so no mistakes I'm sure someone could make a cool music vid out of it.

Trust me, if enough people are willing and committed to it, it'll work.

You can count me in for the vocals or bass, if we do a song with vocals that is. But I'm thinking we should do an iconic game soundtrack first like Street Fighter for example.

Plus as long as bits are in time, we could make a song that featured any instrument from any number of willing Escapist's. Plus with keyboards we can replicate any instruments that no one can play. I sense some huge potential in this idea...

Well I'm up for it, it sounds like great fun! What about a song like Starlight by Muse? Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar and Piano. I'm sure we'd easily find people who could put something like that together very easily. I don't know how you'd advertise it though. I mean the only way you can see it is through this thread and it wouldn't be right to make a new thread just to promote it. But if enough people saw it on here maybe...

Let's keep it in the memory bank and see if people are willing to do it. I think it'd be awesome, we just need some others to help.

 

[Raven's Nest]

Well I'm up for it, it sounds like great fun! What about a song like Starlight by Muse? Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar and Piano. I'm sure we'd easily find people who could put something like that together very easily. I don't know how you'd advertise it though. I mean the only way you can see it is through this thread and it wouldn't be right to make a new thread just to promote it. But if enough people saw it on here maybe...

Let's keep it in the memory bank and see if people are willing to do it. I think it'd be awesome, we just need some others to help.

Hmm Starlight's vocals eh? I'm pretty confident I can handle them *sings along to song*, yeah I think that'd be alright. Cool, I'll assume you'll handle piano duties? I'm actually very impressed you've heard of them, I'm glad to hear they're getting around. Muse have been one of my favourite bands for years. I first saw them before way before they got big in England. In fact, the speaker in one of my old bass cabs came from Marshall, (whose factory is down the road from me) it was actually part of a set that were supposed to be reserved for Muse's bass player. Snooze you lose ha ha!

We could look through the thread for suitable candidates and either quote them into this conversation or PM them. Given the nature of the endevour I don't think the Mod's will mind a thread advertising for members if we can't find them. It is from the community, for the community after all...(could even be submitted for the film festival if we're quick enough) Or you can modify the thread title temporarily.. Escapist Jam Thread - Now Recruiting, See Post 186 or something. Or put the idea in the OP, it's your call.

My only concern would be drums but they can be programmed if need be, but I don't have any decent 'virtual drumkits'. So i'd rather hang on for someone willing to do real drums. It's just notoriously hard to record a drumkit properly is all...

 

[Inverse Skies]

Hmm Starlight's vocals eh? I'm pretty confident I can handle them *sings along to song*, yeah I think that'd be alright. Cool, I'll assume you'll handle piano duties? I'm actually very impressed you've heard of them, I'm glad to hear they're getting around. Muse have been one of my favourite bands for years. I first saw them before way before they got big in England. In fact, the speaker in one of my old bass cabs came from Marshall, (whose factory is down the road from me) it was actually part of a set that were supposed to be reserved for Muse's bass player. Snooze you lose ha ha!

We could look through the thread for suitable candidates and either quote them into this conversation or PM them. Given the nature of the endevour I don't think the Mod's will mind a thread advertising for members if we can't find them. It is from the community, for the community after all...(could even be submitted for the film festival if we're quick enough) Or you can modify the thread title temporarily.. Escapist Jam Thread - Now Recruiting, See Post 186 or something. Or put the idea in the OP, it's your call.

My only concern would be drums but they can be programmed if need be, but I don't have any decent 'virtual drumkits'. So i'd rather hang on for someone willing to do real drums. It's just notoriously hard to record a drumkit properly is all...

The only problem I can see is there will be too many people wanting to play one instrument (ie guitar). Unless some of those guitar players play bass or something. Or handofpwn might want to do bass for us or something. I'm not sure. There haven't been any drum players yet... but I'm sure they're out there.

Um.... do you think it's best to mass PM/quote some people who we think might be interested? The only problem is I don't want to invite heaps of people to do it, then have to turn some people away because we've already got five guitar players or something. Or we get them to play a bit each or something maybe. I think it might be best to quote some people into this conversation, as this is the sort of thing where PM's flying back and forth probably won't work, especially if it's a group discussion on what we want to play and how we're going to organise it. What do you think?

Haha! Starlight vocals - just add a massive breath sound between each line!

 

[Raven's Nest]

The only problem I can see is there will be too many people wanting to play one instrument (ie guitar). Unless some of those guitar players play bass or something. Or handofpwn might want to do bass for us or something. I'm not sure. There haven't been any drum players yet... but I'm sure they're out there.

Um.... do you think it's best to mass PM/quote some people who we think might be interested? The only problem is I don't want to invite heaps of people to do it, then have to turn some people away because we've already got five guitar players or something. Or we get them to play a bit each or something maybe. I think it might be best to quote some people into this conversation, as this is the sort of thing where PM's flying back and forth probably won't work, especially if it's a group discussion on what we want to play and how we're going to organise it. What do you think?

Haha! Starlight vocals - just add a massive breath sound between each line!

Well, I think the best thing would be to advertise via the thread, and subtley plug where appropriate in others, then organise ourselves from there... I don't think everyone will want to do the same songs, so we can make a list of who wants to do what, then do auditions I guess. If there are several guitarist that want to split duties then thats more than do-able, but it's not alway's for the benefit of the song. I don't mind directing multiple songs either, even If i'm not involved in the playing. I'm unemployed at the moment so I'd jump at the chance to actually do something for a change lol.

When organised into 'bands' we can keep track of eachother using the User Groups tool.

Ya know, that's the second time I've heard someone point out Matt's excessive breathing... I never really noticed it before. A lot of producers will edit out some breath noises, or at least make them quieter. I guess he wanted to keep them in.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Well, I think the best thing would be to advertise via the thread, and subtley plug where appropriate in others, then organise ourselves from there... I don't think everyone will want to do the same songs, so we can make a list of who wants to do what, then do auditions I guess. If there are several guitarist that want to split duties then thats more than do-able, but it's not alway's for the benefit of the song. I don't mind directing multiple songs either, even If i'm not involved in the playing. I'm unemployed at the moment so I'd jump at the chance to actually do something for a change lol.

When organised into 'bands' we can keep track of eachother using the User Groups tool.

Ya know, that's the second time I've heard someone point out Matt's excessive breathing... I never really noticed it before. A lot of producers will edit out some breath noises, or at least make them quieter. I guess he wanted to keep them in.

I never noticed it either until one of my friends pointed it out saying "He's the only singer I know who can turning breathing into a lyric". Haha!

I'll go and quote everyone who has contributed to this thread and see what kind of response we get from there. So keep an eye on this space to see what kind of response we get.

By the way, you're quite right about everyone not wanting to do the same music, but not many will want to do classical with me!

 

[Raven's Nest]

I never noticed it either until one of my friends pointed it out saying "He's the only singer I know who can turning breathing into a lyric". Haha!

I'll go and quote everyone who has contributed to this thread and see what kind of response we get from there. So keep an eye on this space to see what kind of response we get.

By the way, you're quite right about everyone not wanting to do the same music, but not many will want to do classical with me!

Oh there's always Jack Black and his crazy ways [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA39LcYkY3Q]... It's actually pretty funny.

It would give me wet dreams to direct a symphonic movement on the Escapist. It's a shame I can't play any 'classical' instruments. I'm willing to bet there's more than a few people who can play violins, flutes, clarinets and brass instruments etc. It's about time all those school lessons were put to good use...

Okay, give me a shout if we're making progress. I gotta hit the road now so I'll chat to you later.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Spoiler: Members contacted for band idea

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Firstly, if I've missed anyone who has posted a video I'm very sorry. I think I've gotten everyone though.

Basically the reason I've mass quoted you is to ask if you would be interested in joining myself and Ravens Nest in the idea of making an Escapist Band. Basically we'd all record our own respective instruments and Raven can mix them all together to make a coherent song out of it. If you don't want too that's fine, but if you're interested that's really cool!

The reason I've done it this way rather than a mass PM is I think this is the sort of thing which requires a lot of discussion, such as who plays what bit, what song we do, how we upload and mix it etc, hence discussing it on here would probably work better than through PM's going everywhere. (Note: If quoting people en mass is the wrong thing to do I apologise but it seemed the most logical step to take with this particular endeavour).

So please let me know your thoughts on this idea and if you're up for it. Hopefully we can actually make it happen, that would be an amazing event to have happen to the Escapist!

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Well I'm up for it, it sounds like great fun! What about a song like Starlight by Muse? Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar and Piano. I'm sure we'd easily find people who could put something like that together very easily. I don't know how you'd advertise it though. I mean the only way you can see it is through this thread and it wouldn't be right to make a new thread just to promote it. But if enough people saw it on here maybe...

Let's keep it in the memory bank and see if people are willing to do it. I think it'd be awesome, we just need some others to help.

Hmm Starlight's vocals eh? I'm pretty confident I can handle them *sings along to song*, yeah I think that'd be alright. Cool, I'll assume you'll handle piano duties? I'm actually very impressed you've heard of them, I'm glad to hear they're getting around. Muse have been one of my favourite bands for years. I first saw them before way before they got big in England. In fact, the speaker in one of my old bass cabs came from Marshall, (whose factory is down the road from me) it was actually part of a set that were supposed to be reserved for Muse's bass player. Snooze you lose ha ha!

We could look through the thread for suitable candidates and either quote them into this conversation or PM them. Given the nature of the endevour I don't think the Mod's will mind a thread advertising for members if we can't find them. It is from the community, for the community after all...(could even be submitted for the film festival if we're quick enough) Or you can modify the thread title temporarily.. Escapist Jam Thread - Now Recruiting, See Post 186 or something. Or put the idea in the OP, it's your call.

My only concern would be drums but they can be programmed if need be, but I don't have any decent 'virtual drumkits'. So i'd rather hang on for someone willing to do real drums. It's just notoriously hard to record a drumkit properly is all...

I have a Roland, electric drum kit. So recording drums is fairly straight forward(and fairly real sounding) for me. The problem being...my drum skills are entry level, check my 2 vids to see what I mean...I think Muse is going to be beyond my drum capability.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I have a Roland, electric drum kit. So recording drums is fairly straight forward(and fairly real sounding) for me. The problem being...my drum skills are entry level, check my 2 vids to see what I mean...I think Muse is going to be beyond my drum capability.

It doesn't have to be Muse, we could really play any song we wanted to. That's why we're having this discussion, to work things out about well... everything I guess. It's a big project!

 

[Inverse Skies]

Spoiler: The long list

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NOTE: I know that the long list of quotes is offputting and it shouldn't be done in that way. However, if you quote someone within a spoiler box the message to say they've been quoted doesn't send. It's an interesting glitch, so until it's fixed this is the only way to mass quote someone to bring them into a discussion. Thankyou for your understanding.

Firstly, if I've missed anyone who has posted a video I'm very sorry. I think I've gotten everyone though.

Basically the reason I've mass quoted you is to ask if you would be interested in joining myself and Ravens Nest in the idea of making an Escapist Band. Basically we'd all record our own respective instruments and Raven can mix them all together to make a coherent song out of it. If you don't want too that's fine, but if you're interested that's really cool!

The reason I've done it this way rather than a mass PM is I think this is the sort of thing which requires a lot of discussion, such as who plays what bit, what song we do, how we upload and mix it etc, hence discussing it on here would probably work better than through PM's going everywhere. (Note: If quoting people en mass is the wrong thing to do I apologise but it seemed the most logical step to take with this particular endeavour).

So please let me know your thoughts on this idea and if you're up for it. Hopefully we can actually make it happen, that would be an amazing event to have happen to the Escapist!

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Wow, crazy idea, but it might work I guess, if it ever starts, I'm in!