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Post by TheHierophant on Aug 19, 2010 20:41:30 GMT
I opened this examination room for any patient in the hospital who wants to share & learn guitar horrible chords and basically anything related to techniques behind discordance.
I have a question for The Axis: what kind of stuff did you learned to make the Axis sound like it does ? I guess some jazz chords could have been helpful... Did you study musicology or what ?
I worked a lot on some Axis songs by ear, I cannot guarantee a flawless, but I decoded some riffs pretty well that I might share with patients if the axis agree...
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Post by Mike on Aug 30, 2010 12:31:53 GMT
We didn't study anything in particular, just harvested chords from a few disparate sources (see the Influenza thread for details) and generally just experimented to try and find unpleasant note combinations and techniques. It was very much a case of fumbling in the dark intuitively until we started accumulating a body of scales and strategies that we've gradually refined over the years. While we can cope with tab neither me or Brooke are particularly "up" or especially interested in musicology. I've got an MMus but concentrated entirely on post-vernacular compositional techniques at the expense of learning anything formal. I've got tabs kicking about from the live show of a few songs which I'll be happy to share once I dig them out from wherever I've got them saved.
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Post by TheHierophant on Aug 30, 2010 19:14:54 GMT
I've got tabs kicking about from the live show of a few songs which I'll be happy to share once I dig them out from wherever I've got them saved. hummmm... glad to read that. I would have liked to receive live treatments, such a shame I missed it. What songs did you play by the way ? |
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Post by Tyranor on Aug 31, 2010 8:59:48 GMT
I can answer you this, if you don't mind. The songs were A Ruined Nation Awakens, Born Under Knife, Live in Pain, Chained in the Damnation Asylum, To Walk the Corridors of Hell and In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, plus some noisy introductions.
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Post by TheHierophant on Aug 31, 2010 10:01:41 GMT
I can answer you this, if you don't mind. The songs were A Ruined Nation Awakens, Born Under Knife, Live in Pain, Chained in the Damnation Asylum, To Walk the Corridors of Hell and In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, plus some noisy introductions. Ok, if The Axis share tabs, it would be great. I have my own way of playing "In The Hallway of Crawling Filth", I'd be glad to compare with the original. I am surprised by the number of the early Axis era songs... Perhaps modern songs with 4 different guitar tracks were a too heavy compromise to be adapted in live version... It would have been epic if Brooke & Myklon had picked up their guitars and joined the two other guitarists. ;D |
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Post by Tyranor on Sept 13, 2010 10:08:13 GMT
It would have been epic if Brooke & Myklon had picked up their guitars and joined the two other guitarists. ;D It would be a mess. A wall of chaotic sounds  If talking about tabs, I made To Walk the Corridors of Hell version which was not very accurate if compared to the original. By the way new live version of this song was significantly modified in some parts. I don't know why really. I also made Disturbance in Perpetual Screen with help of few hints here and there. Some bits are missing and/or might be not entirely correct, but it looks pretty close. I picked some parts from Heaving Salvation in the Paradise of Rust but stuck for the moment. |
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Post by Darkcrawl on Sept 16, 2010 22:28:04 GMT
If I may, Myklon did indeed pick up his guitar for the final number- In the Hallway of Crawling Filth but the other guitarists exited stage leaving just the 3 core Axis members. This track made me shiver as it had better clarity to it, and is a creepier song anyway.
I beleive I recall Brooke saying The Axis were planning on playing a purely ambient track but due to time restraints (and the sanity of the audience presumably), it was not possible. Have I remembered ths correctly Tyranor?
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Post by Tyranor on Sept 17, 2010 6:31:56 GMT
That's right, they were planning to do this, but only did cool lengthy intros to the first and the last song.
Indeed, In the Hallway of the Crawling Filth played by only two guitars and different preset allowed to distinguished parts more easily. Also, given that I had opportunity to stay at rehearsal the day before, it was very interesting to "see" how look the lead parts of this song. Tremendous, really.
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Post by Darkcrawl on Sept 17, 2010 21:38:33 GMT
Mike certainly did pull off some guitar dynamics that I can't say I've seen in other metal gigs!
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Post by TheHierophant on Sept 21, 2010 8:38:31 GMT
I think the best part to watch in that song is at 05:11 for it is also the most difficult part. There is one chord in particularly that seems to be done to hurt your hand when you play it at 05:21, and the next one too (that is basically the same increased of a tone and a half).
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Post by Tyranor on Nov 10, 2010 11:27:43 GMT
The part from 5:11 is awesome. It was the first thing I took to learns from that particular song. It took a bit to train a muscle memory, but now it is fun, though I overstretched my left hand because I was practicing it on 7stringed guitar:) I feel pretty much used to chords used in there, because I was fascinated by styles similar to this for quite some time now. I think Emperor, Thorns, Ved Buens End, Void, Deathspell Omega made huge impact on me before I got into The Axis. All these used interesting and weird chords on some occasions. And you would find some of them very similar to those that are used by The Axis.
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Post by typhon on Jan 4, 2011 3:11:42 GMT
TheHierophant, Ive always been curious about some of the filthy musical structure of Axis. I would be forever in gratitude if you could share some of this. You wouldnt happen to have any of this in tabs would you?
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Post by TheHierophant on Jan 5, 2011 9:13:00 GMT
I wish I could write tabs easily, but I don't have any descent software to do this right. What kind of software would you recommend ?
I can make a kind of master class video when I've got time to do it. (It depends if my scenario at my cinema school is chosen to be the ONE for the end of the year film).
I'll give to you my humble knowledge of the mystical art of crawling chaos or die on my knee like a one-legged and hydrocephalic thing.
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Post by TheHierophant on Jan 5, 2011 9:19:03 GMT
I know how to play some Undying stuff too, mostly in "Dark Winds Howl"
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Post by typhon on Jan 16, 2011 4:35:01 GMT
Guitar pro 5 is probably your best bet for tab software, powertabs also works just as well. believe me its much quicker than trying to type it out.
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