Between the Buried & Me: Colors Live DVD.

Colors_Live Dvd Cover

"Colors Live, the first video album from Between the Buried and Me, was released on October 14, 2008. The concert was filmed at the Rocketown in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday, August 2, 2008. The album peaked at number 100 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The band played two sets during the concert—the first included the band's 2007 Colors album in its entirety and the second was of previously released songs as voted by fans via a special website. The DVD includes both sets. The audio CD contains only the band's performance of Colors."

Disc 1:

1. "Foam Born (A) The Backtrack"
2. "(B) The Decade of Statues"
3. "Informal Gluttony"
4. "Sun of Nothing"
5. "Ants of the Sky"
6. "Prequel to the Sequel"
7. "Viridian"
8. "White Walls"

Disc 2:

1. "Mordecai"
2. "Shevanel Cut a Flip"
3. "Backwards Marathon"
4. "Ad a Dglgmut"
5. "Aspirations"
6. "Selkies: The Endless Obsession"

Really looking forward to watching this the whole way through, I've watched several clips on youtube to learn some parts from songs and just watch it, but I'd love to see it straight through no gaps. I really hope they come over to Australia soon, also I heard they're being supported by Animals as Leaders at the moment, so if both of them came over I would be the happiest guy alive seeing BTBAM are my favourite band and AAL Are up there.

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7/8 Song I'm working on

So earlier today I was just messing around with guitar and played something that I really liked and worked on it, but I was trying to explore some more time signatures rather than the straight 4/4 and came up with this. The whole thing is in 7/8, I've worked out a bit after it which is in 4/4 but need to actually record it and lay it down first to get it sounding how I want, but heres just a video recording of me playing it.

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Chris Letchford's Guitar Technique Book

So today I received a nice gift in the mail, even though I purchased it.

Front Cover of the book.

It's Chris Letchford's guitar instruction book, he's the guitarist from scale the summit an instrumental metal band with a fair bit of progressive features and a lot of two handed tapping styled stuff. First time I heard this band I was amazed by the musicality, although I couldn't list to them over and over as it starts to kind of sound the same, but shuffled in with my other music its excellent, and really fun stuff to play. So I decided to buy his instructional book, I've had a quick look through and it looks really awesome, description and then the tabs, and gives 'bpm goal'.

I'm really looking forward to playing through it and hope I get something out of it, I've heard nothing but great reviews about this book, so I'll give a followup review in a week or so once I've properly gone through it.

• left hand and right hand technique 
• string skipping 
• scales 
• modes 
• alternate picking 
• chord stretching 
• chord arpeggiating 
• odd meter 
• metric modulation 
• sweep picking 
• sweep picking in odd meter 
• hybrid picking 
• sliding 
• legato 
• bending 
• grace notes 
• hammer on / pull offs 
• economy picking 
• arpeggios 
• rolling bar technique 
• tapping 
• tapping with multiple fingers 
• tapping with slides 
• visualizing the neck exercises 
• chromatic 
• combing multiple techniques 
• using octaves 
• melodic exercises 
• applying all 4 fingers 
• using tritones 
• right hand picking exercises and warmups 
• harmonic minor exercise


Quite an extensive list of techniques looked at through the book, and is really well set out and simple.

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