Dio Tribute "Long Live Rock and Roll" Song Discussion

[DanLights]

This thread is for discussion of all matters relevant to the song "Long Rock and Roll" to be recorded by a team of Sneap forum members as part of the Sneap Forum Dio Tribute album. Here the team members (preferably the team members only please, unless some cool idea is given by an external person) are to decide tuning/arrangements/whatever and trade the links to finished tracks, scratch tracks, tabs, etc. The person who will mix the final song is to be decided between the team members, be it a member already or not

Long Live Rock and Roll
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Rhyhtm Guitar: Gnash
Lead Guitar: Bormoleos Van Drill
Bass: Bormoleos Van Drill
Drums: Bormoleos Van Drill
Vocals: All Singer


Now GO!

 

[Max Morton]

Ok, gentlemen. So, the rythmsection is on me, and seems like the riffs depend on it.
So, shall we do it in original tuning and with original licks? If so (or not - but let's discuss) i'm ready to begin!

 

[jacare]

Ok, gentlemen. So, the rythmsection is on me, and seems like the riffs depend on it.
So, shall we do it in original tuning and with original licks? If so (or not - but let's discuss) i'm ready to begin!

Hey dude
I think it is much easier if we stick to the original licks. The thing is: We have to talk to the singers to see if we'll have to lower the tunning, since this song is hi-i-i-igh.

 

[Max Morton]

Ok, so the original tuning is G. Most of the respondents, including me, preferred tuning it halfstep down, to F#.
While i'm programming drums and before I begin with bass tracking, let's think of it once more. F# or?

Second topic for discussion: we're searching for the rythm-guitar player.

And the third one: who's gonna mix the project? It may be me or it may be some other guy.

 

[~BURNY~]

Hay Bormoleos, I have a decent version of the drums here. Let me know if you want to use it.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2973685/long live drums.mp3
Also, I could probably play the rythm guitar but I not sure I'll have enough free time.

 

[Max Morton]

Hello, Burny! Great drumtrack! As I understand, it is superior-family mapped, am I right? Anyway, I'll gladly use it. If you won't mind me reprogramming it just a bit for more agressive cymbals and blending it with Slate samples - it would be perfect. We'll do it "drums: Burny feat Bormoleos Van Drill"

 

[~BURNY~]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2973685/LLRnR.mid

It's just a midi file that has been floating around. I re-tweaked it a bit but there's still some errors and not much accentuation going on.
It is GM mapped, so it works with toontrack's gm extended mapping as well.

 

[Max Morton]

Thanx! Gonna use it!
So what's with the riffs, are you interested?

 

[superfreak]

Can we do it like it was done by Steel Dragon in the movie 'Rock Star'? The tuning and probably the style (minus the Zakk Wylde harmonics). Sounds badass.

 

[DanLights]

member Gnash has agreed to do the rhythm guitar for this song in substituion for Jacare. He should be popping in here soon

 

[Gnash]

I have to find the (Rainbow) song. I haven't heard this, since that live medley he used to do. My band is working on Rainbow in the Dark now. That solo...Gotta be my favorite guitar solo of all time!

 

[Max Morton]

hey man!
here's the original:
here's another one i love:
so, we're doing it a halfstep lower, comparing to the original.
the drums will be very soon (i hope, tomorrow), hope the bass will be tomorrow as well.

 

[Gnash]

Got it! I fuckin' love Blackmore! Let me know when those drums are finished, and I'll lay it down.

 

[Max Morton]

It took quite a time for me, sorry. But here we go:
http://www.maxmorton.com/LLRR_rythmsection.mp3

the tempo is 149
mp3 is in sync: one bar of silence, then the song. tuned in F#

bass is Fender Presicion Deluxe with Badass bridge. I played with fingers. The only thing i hate now is elixir bass strings. Never gonna put them on precision again But it seems to sound fine to me.

drums are Slate, and again, i'll mix it with some live samples later while we work - it will give snare some more life.

Cheerz!

 

[Max Morton]

damn, the link was broken. fixed it and added a mirror:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/eabwwr

 

[jacare]

Sounds awesome man, very solid bass playing... congratz!! The singers who'll participate need to jump in here and discuss who'll take which part of the song, or how we're gonna split the voices.

 

[Max Morton]

Thanks man. I think we all should sing along and then we might chose which part is performed best and by whom. Something like that

 

[DanLights]

I think Max's idea might work, but it would be better if everyone decided what part to sing and concentrate on his part specifically, plus some harmony parts could be done between various singers. I am going to pm all the singers of the tribute to ask them to come in to this thread and cite their opinions and start calling parts to sing

 

[superfreak]

I think we all should sing along and then we might chose which part is performed best and by whom.

+1

 

[jacare]

I think Max's idea might work, but it would be better if everyone decided what part to sing and concentrate on his part specifically, plus some harmony parts could be done between various singers. I am going to pm all the singers of the tribute to ask them to come in to this thread and cite their opinions and start calling parts to sing

This is for the best I think.