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Guitar Hero world Tour is one of the most popular games in the world right now. Guitar Hero World Tour (initially referred to as Guitar Hero IV) is a music video game developed by Neversoft and published by RedOctane and Activision. It is the fourth main entry in the Guitar Hero series. The game was launched in North America on October 26th for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles. A version of the game has been rated by the ESRB for Microsoft Windows computers, though Activision has not officially confirmed this version.
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While the game continues to feature the use of a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of rock music, Guitar Hero World Tour is the first game in the Guitar Hero series to feature drum and microphone controllers for percussion and vocal parts. Gameplay is similar to the competing Rock Band series of games. The game allows users to create new songs through the “Music Studio” mode, allowing custom tracks to be created for drums, rhythm guitar, lead guitar and bass guitar (although vocal parts are omitted from this mode for technical and legal reasons). Players may upload and share their songs, as well as download others’ songs through a service known as GHTunes. To get Guitar Hero World Tour Ringtones for your phone, click on the link below and sign up now:
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Guitar Techniques – Developing Your Style
If you are a new guitarist who is curious about the guitar techniques you will be learning in the future or if you are looking to develop a little more style in your guitar playing, this article will tell you about some commonly used guitar techniques. I am also going to describe how to play a flamenco guitar technique that I think you will enjoy playing around with. I am not attempting a complete list of the things you can do on the guitar because each guitar playing style has its own techniques but hopefully you will get some ideas of where to go next in developing your technique.
Left hand guitar techniques can pretty much be moved from one musical genre to another. One exception I can think of is the technique of fretting bass notes by wrapping your thumb around the guitar neck. This technique is not used in all genres even though you are welcome to try it out in whatever you are playing, but it is downright frowned upon in classical guitar playing.
One technique that is used in classical and rock guitar playing is the use of the right hand to damp the sound of the strings. You put the side of your hand over all six strings and then pluck with your fingers or use up and down strokes with the pick. If you try it on your electric guitar you will instantly recognize the sound from numerous punk or metal tracks. A variation on this technique is to have your hand “floating” above the strings and bring it down to damp your notes just after you have played them.
Common to all kinds of plectrum guitar styles is the invention and use of strumming patterns. The “pattern” is varied by whether you use up or down strokes with your pick and in what order. A basic pattern is made by just alternating up and down strokes across all six strings in time with the music. Once you are comfortable with this technique you can vary it by using two up strokes together or two downstrokes followed by upstrokes, or you can just play the three bass or treble strings.
Whether or not you are exclusively a plectrum or finger-style guitar player you should at least experiment with the flamenco strumming technique known as rasqueado. With this style of strumming you are making use of each of your four fingers alternately to produce a completely different effect from plectrum strumming. To start you can rest the thumb on the sixth string and just strum the fourth, third, second and first strings. Begin by having all the fingers curled up, then drag each one across the strings in succession starting with the pinky. Play slowly at first and just use downstrokes.
Once you are used to playing down strokes using this flamenco technique, you can stop resting your thumb on the sixth string and follow your fingers down with it. So now you are playing five down strokes in succession. You can play a series of these rasqueado and join them up by performing an upstroke with the thumb. To summarize, you do downstrokes with the pinky, ring finger, middle finger, first finger and thumb. This gives you a long continuous strum. Then to begin another rasqueado, you bring your thumb up across the strings and start again with the pinky.
So now you have some details about some common guitar techniques plus some info on how to play flamenco style strumming. That should keep you busy for a while. Remember to search YouTube for any of the techniques I have mentioned so you can watch a guitarist performing these techniques.
Ricky Sharples
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Music Review of Raise the Dead by Phantom Planet
“Phantom Planet” are a four-piece indie/alternative rock band from from Los Angeles, California. There are currently four members in Phantom Planet, they are Alexander Greenwald (Vocal and guitar), Darren Robinson (Guitar and Backing Vocal), Sam Farrar (Bass and Backing Vocal) and Jeff Conrad (Drums). Former members Jacques Brautbar left to pursue his interest in Photography while Jason Schwartzman decided to pursue his acting career. The band is widely known for their hit single, “California” which became popular for the TV series, The O.C.
Raise The Dead has an album title that kills. One would think that it’s a heavy or black metal album just by looking at the album title. Until you press the “Play” button, you would never know. Phantom Planet has really evolved and gotten stronger than before.
Raise The Dead crunches us with the epic title track, “Raise The Dead”. A track that is so delicious that it will gobble you down when Alex explodes in the chorus. The title of this song itself raise our eyebrows and making us wondering what would it mean. Raise The Dead is definitely an enjoyable song for the unseen… Phantom Planet made this song an instant click that anyone would find it impossible not to like it. And i seldom see Alex yells so powerfully. Enjoy!
“Dropped” is simply amazing! Phantom Planet show their stuffs with the guitars and teamwork as well. In the verse, you can find Phantom Planet singing as a team and during the chorus is even better, they go, “Drop.. Whatcha.. Got.. Now.. Drop.. Whatcha.. Got.. Now..” It’s like they’re having a group of people backing up their vocals. The guitar is really deadly too, they have the tempo-building parts, and the exploding parts. Words aside, you’d definitely like Dropped, or better you’d be all over Phantom Planet.
“Leader” features a group of children helping Phantom Planet out. They’re having a good time together. From start to finish, the backing vocals provided by the children are really something to be remembered. They hit a new high when they joined Alex in the chorus, “Join our hands and come along, the day’s about to dawn, i feel it coming, on and on the hour’s upon you, now it won’t be long, i feel it coming…” Honestly i don’t think the vocals fit in quite well with the music in Leader, but Phantom Planet made it a song to be remembered. It’s simply magic!
“Do The Panic” is definitely one of the best tracks on Raise The Dead. It’s also a song from Phantom Planet’s fan club CD called “Phantom Planet: Negatives”. They did a more than fine re-work version of Do The Panic, and the result is simply infectious. It’s like having a craving for something. So listeners, beware! Their guitar riffs contain some really catchy and unforgettable hooks. Phantom Planet would go, “Ba, ba, ba…Sha du bi du…Ba, ba, ba… Sha du…”. It’s an invitation for you to sing along as well, and when the chorus comes, just loosen up and be panic.
Phantom Planet slowed it down a bit with “Quarantine”. Reminds me of the movie which starred Jennifer Carpenter. After following the lyrics, i can only guess that Quarantine is trying to tell the story of a man who was trying to save his loved one from some sort of contagious diseases. Hence the lyrics, “And it was you I did this for, i put the deadbolt on the door, understand i can’t see you now, realize it’s not to keep me in, but to keep all the sickies out…” A lovely and somewhat touching ballad by Phantom Planet nonetheless.
“Ship Lost At Sea” is cute, funny and good. At the beginning, it already creates the atmosphere of being lost at sea with the sound of ships sailing at sea. It also has some cute sound to it, which i find quite hilarious. If i’m not mistaken, there were some electronic elements in Ship Lost At Sea, making it more tantalizing. Ship Lost At Sea is really a good track with some friendly choruses and smart lyrics if you pay attention to Phantom Planet’s singing lips.
“Demon Daughters” has some dark elements to it. It tells the story about demon daughters with some great music and vocals along it. Often than not, Alex yells and explodes in the chorus, and switches to a lower tone when telling the story in the verse. I’m really fond of the bass line of Demon Daughters. The dark elements aside, Phantom Planet still manage to belt out a really great track that showcases Alex’s versatile voice.
“Geronimo” is explosive from start to finish, kind of resurrecting some elements from their previous self-titled album. Throughout Geronimo, Alex’s voice is somewhat drown out by the loud banging music. Don’t get me wrong, even with that, Geronimo still make a good listen. Showing how versatile and talented Phantom Planet can be. It feels great to listen to Geronimo, especially when you’re too sleepy or bored and really need a boost to get you right up.
Phantom Planet bring back their friendly guitar hook with “Too Much, Too Often”. It’s a cheerful track with some really good music along side with the vocals of Alex. 3/4 of the time, Phantom Planet were trying to create a memorable moment on Too Much, Too Often. They finally did it near the ending part where the remaining 45 seconds store some really great combination of music and vocals. I just like it.
“Confess” started with a short bang and followed by some lullaby-like music and vocals. Confess is a mid-tempo track with some really smart musical arrangement. There are some ups and downs in this track, meaning some soft and loud elements. The chorus is really a good listen for your ears, where Alex goes, “Your number’s up, it’s by request, do you have something to confess? I’m out of touch, you’re out of breath, do you have something to confess?…” It’s just too good. In between, pay attention to the viola that comes on and off to help furnish Confess. Just love Phantom Planet on this!
“Leave Yourself for Somebody Else” is another track that resembles Too Much, Too Often. A cheerful and sun-shine pop/rock track. The best deal in this track is the repetition of “Leave yourself for somebody else…”, where the rest of Phantom Planet join Alex and make this track so much fun. A great team effort shown here!
Raise The Dead chooses to end with heart-broken “I Don’t Mind”. It’s a ballad where Alex almost sing as if he has no strength left in him, or perhaps he’s trying to tell us that he’s really sad and down when singing I Don’t Mind. “But I don’t mind … Just stay close by, like all the time, because either I’d bleed dry, or keep this thorn in my side, but I don’t mind…” The music plays a big part as well in making this song sounds so down, especially the viola (If i’m not mistaken). There is also a hidden instrumental in I Don’t Mind, where it filled the remaining 1 minute. From what i heard, it might have been produced by some flutes or synthesizers. Phantom Planet is ending Raise The Dead unwillingly i guess.
Rating: Raise The Dead is really enjoyable from start to finish. From their early days until now, Phantom Planet grew and evolved with every album. Raise The Dead proves to be by far the best album to date. It’s such a shame to see Phantom Planet signed by Fueled By Ramen as i don’t want to see them eventually and slowly become an emo band. I really hope they won’t become one, instead i just want them to continue write, compose and play good music. Most tracks on Raise The Dead are unbelievably catchy and possess some “instant-click” quality. And i found my favorites even at the first time of listen. Clever guitar riffs with great beat and rhythm, who wouldn’t like Raise The Dead. I would rate it 7.8 out of 10.
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): Raise The Dead, Dropped, Leader, Do The Panic, Ship Lost At Sea, Demon Daughters, Too Much Too Often and Confess.
Cheers!
Darren Tan
Darren Tan
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Music Review of Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
“Fleet Foxes” are a five-piece Seattle based indie band. Their genres include indie folk, folk rock, baroque pop, indie rock and indie pop. Fleet Foxes consist of Robin Pecknold (Vocal and Guitar), Skye Skjelset (Lead Guitar), Jay Tillman (Drums), Casey Wescott (Keyboard and Bass) and Christian Wargo (Bass and Keyboard). According to The Independent, Fleet Foxes described their music as “Baroque harmonic pop jams”. Before the release of their self-titled album, Fleet Foxes have released two EPs, “Fleet Foxes EP” in 2006 and “Sun Giant” in February 2008, and both EPs received positive reviews and praise.
Fleet Foxes somehow remind me of Okkervil River. 
I don’t know why. The whole journey of Fleet Foxes is like having fun and singing in a church. It has those that make you sing in church, with hands holding hands. And those which make you nod your head along too. Nice to have when in church, harmony will come when you have Fleet Foxes with you.
Fleet Foxes will keep your heart at peace with “Sun It Rises”. With some steady guitar and drum playing. It wouldn’t need long before you find yourself liking this song. From the lyrics where Robin went “Red squirrel in the morning, red squirrel in the evening, red squirrel in the morning, i’m comin’ to take you home, the sun rises over my head, in the morning, with the hold me, dear, into the night, sun, it will rise, soon enough…” I don’t really know what it meants, but one thing’s for sure. You’ll feel comfortable with this song. Simple lyrics, but with deep meaning.
“White Winter Hymnal” is really good i have to say. From start to finish, it has got me going. It’s like when you have an ice-cream, you would end up asking for more. This was what happened to me when i listened to this song. I got to say, White Winter Hymnal is really awesome! Robin made this song sounds so easy, but so good! I can feel Fleet Foxes’ harmony in this song. The vocal and the music were just too great to handle. Especially the “woo hoo hoo woo hoo hoo”. Unbelievable!
“Ragged Wood” comes in as the third track off the album. It is the longest song on the album and one of the crunchiest on the album. Somewhat again, reminding of Okkervil River. While Robin sings, you can hear the rest of the Fleet Foxes joined in and had their fun as well. They provide beautiful and harmonized back-up vocals, which nowadays, is one of the secret ingredients of any successful indie bands and artists. With some amazing guitar pluckings at the end, you can’t miss this song.
Fleet Foxes continues with “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song”, which is a beautiful ballad and showcased Robin’s vocal. Robin sang, “Wanderers this morning came by, where did they go, graceful in the morning light, to banner fair, to follow you softly, in the cold mountain air”. I can’t tell what it means from the lyrics but i can feel the sadness in this song. Fleet Foxes sure do know how to take care of your emotions.
“Quiet Houses” had a very good music playing to it. I was amazed the moment the music started, steady drum beats and beautiful acoustic guitar accompanied by what sounded like a door-pounding sound. It’s just so simple, but this song is really good. Check out the music! Oh ya, i think Fleet Foxes are singing about ahem… The lyrics goes like this, “Lay me down, lay me down… Don’t give in, don’t give in… Oooh… Come to me…” Happy and cheerful track with some really catchy hooks! 
“He Doesn’t Know Why” started with Fleet Foxes beautiful and harmonized moans. This song has a few pick up points. Whenever Robin finished singing a verse, he had to catch his breath and build up his lungs and sing a new verse again. It’s such a hard song to sing if you were to try. Robin tried to make it as effortless as possible. At the end where Robin went, “There’s nothing i can do, there’s nothing i can say…”, it was the climax of this song and it was followed by a 30 seconds beautiful piano playing.
In “Heard Them Stirring”, you can hear Robin’s moans at the beginning, and slowly the rest of Fleet Foxes joined in, creating a beautiful platform for harmonized hummings and moans. They went, “woo hooo hoo..” And more! As if a group of choir were singing with Fleet Foxes. A beautiful one by Fleet Foxes. They were the music in Heard Them Stirring.
Wow, “Your Protector” is like some heroic anthem for a warrior. Interesting track by Fleet Foxes. There were some flute playing in this track, bringing a new instrument to Fleet Foxes’s music. The chorus was somewhat good and strong, i can feel it when Robin yell, “As you lay to die beside me baby, I’m the one in the shootin’ game, would you wait for me, the other one, would you wait for me…” With Your Protector, i can see that Robin is trying to tell us a story, i might not understand it. But with the music and the endless harmonized moans and hums, i can’t ask for more.
“Meadowlarks” is another beautiful acoustic ballad about meadowlark. If i were right, i think Robin is singing about his pet, a meadowlark. I just love the way Fleet Foxes hum to this song. It was just way too beautiful!
“Blue Ridge Mountains” started off really slow, but still managed to finish on a high note. There was a very unique instrument in this track, it sounded like some Chinese or Japanese instrument, which made Blue Ridge Mountains so good to the ears. Piano can also be heard in the background as Robin sang on. “In the quivering forest, where the shivering dog rests, our good grandfather, built a wooden nest, and the river got frozen, and the home got snowed in, and the yellow moon glowed bright, till the morning light” Brilliant stuff here.
The last track on Fleet Foxes’ debut is a beautiful acoustic track called “Oliver James”. At times when i listened to this song, i just wanted to sing along. The fact that this song is very easy to sing along to, it such a mesmerizing track. Only Robin’s voice and some guitars can be heard. Even if the guitar is not present, i have no doubts that this will be a big track as well. Just lovely. A peaceful way to end the album.
Rating: Wow, every song on Fleet Foxes’ debut has its own uniqueness and specialty. I enjoyed this album thoroughly. The instrumentals on Fleet Foxes were pure genius, i can’t help but listening to them all the time with my ipod. Fleet Foxes also tried to add some varieties to their music through using different types of instruments, which to me, they really did a fine great job. Nothing to argue about, there might be some flaws in between the album or some short boring moments on Fleet Foxes, but it’s still worth to spend your time with Fleet Foxes. 7.5 out of 10, i have to say. Cheers!
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): White Winter Hymnal, Ragged Wood, Quiet Houses, Meadowlarks, Blue Ridge Mountains.
Cheers!
Darren Tan
Darren Tan
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/music-review-of-fleet-foxes-by-fleet-foxes-692084.html
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Music Review of Such Fun by Annuals
Annuals is a six-piece (Indie) band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Their band members consist of Adam Baker (Songwriter/Vocals), Kenny Florence (Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals), Mike Robinson (Bass/Backing Vocals), Anna Spence (keyboard/Piano/Backing Vocals), Zak Oden (Drums/Guitar) and Donzel Radford (Drums/Percussion). Their genre are mostly Indie rock, Alternative rock, Indie pop, Experimental rock. Their first album “Be He Me”, was released when they were just around the age of 19. And according to major Music critic from Rolling Stone to NME to Pitchforkmedia, “Be He Me” received incredible positive reviews. Very impressive if you ask me. Such a young band, but already so big at such young age. What more would I ask for if I were a part of Annuals!
Such Fun contains a variety of musical arrangement and landscape, from relaxing country to orchestra ballad.
Their title track, “Confessor” starts off with Adam Baker singing “Pack up and leave…” When it comes to the chorus, everything seems so right, Adam sings in a voice that somehow sounds so soft to my ears. And with the delicious music that blend in so well with the vocals, anyone will have to confess to any mistakes/deeds that he/she committed after listening to song. The guitar of Kenny can also be heard on and off. Wonderful opener from Such Fun!
“Hot Night Hounds” has a cheerful and fun piano sound to it. It kinda reminds me of my sister’s younger days where she played piano in our house every weekend or during her free time. This song can arguably be separated into 2 parts, where the first part is the piano-playing and the second part is the jamming and riffing of the guitar. 2 parts of this song make this song hot and cool!
“Springtime” is a slow and indie pop ballad where it starts off slow and steady. It gradually picks up in the chorus and the tempo of this song suddenly explode and all of a sudden the music background is getting richer, make this song sound so full and rich! Like Annuals are performing at an orchestra show! When Adam is not singing, the rest of the Annuals back it up with “Ba, ba, ba ba ba….” It’s beautiful, and it made me want to sing along!
“Down The Mountain” Wow! This song sounds like a song taken from a Cowboy Motion Picture. When I plugged in my earphones to my ears and listened to this song. I was imagining myself in a cowboy movie where I was riding on a horse and chasing, catching and hunting a group of cows/deers/goats/ or other wildlife. It’s such fun and cute song to listen to. You can bet to play this song when you are having a game of “getting to the seat when the music stops”! It’s just a suggestion. But this song is definitely cute and funny! It made you wanna smile and sometimes, laugh.
“Always Do” made an impression on me that it is a beautiful love song. It’s a love song, but angry love song. It seems that this song recalls the old memory of the love between 2 people. Annuals made an impact by exploding in this song. Remember “Brother” from their previous album, “Be He Me”? Well this song recalls me of “Brother”. Where it started off slow, and gradually picked up and exploded near the end of the song! It’s like building the momentum of this song, or even climbing up to the top of a hill or mountain and screams at his/her peak upon reaching the peak. Those who love “Brother”, will definitely love “Always Do”.
“Talking” is a fast track where the sound of the guitar can be mostly heard throughout the whole track. The chorus is the only part of the song that made an impression on me, where Adam sings, “Don’t let your love decay…” It sounds like Adam is really tired of talking. Honestly, I really think Annuals play and perform perfectly when they are doing a ballad orchestra or in other words, a slower tempo song. “Talking” is a good effort and it ended in a sudden after the riff of the guitar, but if you asked me, I prefer Annuals on indie pop, indie ballad or even indie orchestra if there’s such a genre. 
“Hardwood Floor” This song is just so awesome! And I really mean it! It’s supposed to be a sad song but I can’t help but feeling good whenever listening to this beautiful song. Adam starts off with “I’m so scared I just can’t go anymore, I keep patching my rooftop…” From the first listen, it’s like singing about a wound that hasn’t healed completely. But in reality, after listening to this song, all my wounds are gone, this song is capable of doing so. The part where Annuals sing what sounded to me like, “didn’t told dai yo”, it is one of the best moment on Such Fun. Well, if you asked me what does it mean, frankly I don’t know but it really sound like some African langauge.
“Hair Don’t Grow” From the beginning to the end of this song, Kenny’s guitar is awesome! Again, it resembles “Down The Mountain” as if it were taken from a Cowboy Motion Picture. But only this time, “Hair Don’t Grow” sounds packer, heavier and louder. It’s best when you play this song when you’re watching some Cowboy movies when the good Cowboys are fighting and shooting against the bad Cowboys. And oh yes, this song would be perfect when Annuals perform them in a gig or concert. The guitar, bass, drum, hand claps and some whistling instrument (Maybe it’s violin) just blend in and got together so well and tastefully. Don’t blame me if you find yourself nodding your head or tapping your foot away when listening to “Hair Don’t Grow”.
“The Tape” After listening to this song, I can’t help but think that this song is kinda cute and can be used to replace the old and somewhat boring “Silent Night” Christmas Song. A picture of a man playing piano in front of the Christmas tree and his family came to my mind when I listened to this song. Or is it because of the Piano-playing that made this song embraces the atmosphere of the Christmas Season. Not only that, “The Tape” is well accompanied by a number of musical instruments which can be found in a brass band. On second listen, “The Tape” can be a wonderful song for children’s brass band.
“Blue Ridge” Yet again, another beautiful song. It begins with a man talking and whispering to a baby. Reminds me of fatherly love. Forget Barney! Let your baby listen to Annuals’ “Blue Ridge”! Throughout the journey of this song, the music and vocals fit in so well. When Annuals sing together, “To be first in the Sun, to be cursed it might be fun, such fun…” The music that comes along will blow you away. It’ll melt you away like a box of chocolate. The violin is brilliant. I wish this song can be longer..
“Wake” started off somewhat in a creepy way. But it continued with a cheerful and happy note. The chorus is a very happy one and the backup vocals done by the rest of the Annuals suits in just well. It also kinda reminds me of the Arctic Monkeys’ “A Certain Romance” where it ended on a strong and powerful note! Wonderful indie pop rock song (If there’s such a genre).
Rating: Compared to their previous full length album , “Be He Me”. “Such Fun” showed that Annuals are evolving as an indie band/artist. They tried to venture into new musical landscape and sound in “Such Fun” while “Be He Me” was somewhat very consistent in their landscape and sound. Overall “Such Fun” was a really good ride. No kidding! It garnered a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): Springtime, Hardwood Floor, Hair Don’t Grow and Blue Ridge.
Cheers!
Darren Tan
Darren Tan
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/music-review-of-such-fun-by-annuals-676270.html
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