SEEKING
Vocalist, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Baritone, Vocalist - Tenor, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Piano, Background Singer, Other.ABOUT
Update: Posted a little demo. It's not quite the finished sound of the song I don't think (going for more rock, rather than just me singing over drums :) but it's pretty cool, and sonicskulpter is awesome for helping me get it done!
I'm 26, female, and I play mostly bass guitar. I've been playing on and off since the age of 15, but I've gotten out of practise in the last couple years as I've been travelling a lot. I'm also a competent vocalist, although I still haven't quite mastered doing both at the same time if one or the other part is complicated :P
I've only started learning guitar (as in not bass) in the last year and a half or so... But I spent 4 months working in Wales where all I did was work and play guitar, so I did get pretty good at it for a while before I went back to wandering aimlessly around the world.
I've always been somewhat of a poet, and written many many things that are intended to be songs. They tend to come with a vocal melody, but when it comes to putting chords/riffs behind it, I've never been able to get the sound I really want. That and even though I'm trying to write harder stuff, my little girly voice over an acoustic guitar makes most of it sound more like slightly angry folk music than metal :P... So I'm mainly looking for a collaborator. Or plural collaborators.
Oh yeah, and I'm really long winded whenever I get asked to write something.... ;D
- Screen name:
- Shahmeran
- Member since:
- May 11 2008
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 10
- Gigs played:
- 10 to 50
- Tend to practice:
- 2-3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 2-3 nights a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Influences
I listen to a huge variety of music in all kinds of genres, but I'm going to put down artists that I'd like to aspire towards the sound of in different ways rather than just list everything I listen to.
For Vocals:
Sarah McLachlan (yes, really. She has a haunting quality to her voice that I just love, and I think she's probably one of my biggest influences vocally)
Lacuna Coil
Within Temptation
Melissa Auf Der Maur
The Cranberries
Maynard James Keenan (Moreso in A Perfect Circle than Tool, but I think that's mostly a range issue, and the fact that I don't like to scream)
Lyrics:
Tool (personal and political, poetic but not pretty)
A Perfect Circle
Him (because I'm a gloomy **** too. I've always liked the sacred/profane love thing as well, maybe I should put Shakespeare on the list?)
VNV Nation (can be profound and catchy at the same time)
Placebo (for the ability to say rather shocking things in pop songs)
The Doors (Jim Morrison was a poet.)
Strung Out (politics without being preachy like some other punk bands)
Thrice (can be positive without being too saccharine or preachy)
I also appreciate the sarcasm of many an emo band... but they do end up sounding sameish after a while.
Music:
(ok, this is a really broad category...)
Tool - There's just something about the way their songs can wander for 5 minutes or so... you wonder if they're ever going to get to the point, but then they DO and it's amazing for a second... and then it fades... Kind of like when you're really drunk and everything in the universe makes sense for a split second... and then it's gone...
Him - Dark and heavy but still melodic. I like 'metal' but I don't much like screaming or 10 minute guitar solos that lose the drive of the song.
Korn, Disturbed, CKY - for the rhythmic qualities of their music. For CKY it's more with the riffs, but for the others, the lyrics are very rhythmic as well. David Draiman's little rhythmic noises are a bit over the top for me though :P
Assemblage 23, Combichrist, KMFDM, VNV Nation- Relentless, driving beats. I do like the techno/EBM/industrial/whatever you want to call it music for this reason. I'd like to see it incorporated into rock somehow... someday...
The Exies - I don't know. On the surface they can sometimes sound like just another post-grunge rock band, but they are really good at maintaining energy and/or building a song to a climax. See "Lay Your Money Down" or "What You Deserve". Loud, raucous, dirty...
Stabbing Westward - Huh? Yeah. I liked the way they put some electronic sounds into their music "Shame".
The Tea Party - Their older stuff anyways. Dark and exotic. Doesn't lose intensity for being mostly accoustic.
Lacuna Coil, Sirenia, Tristania, Within Temptation, Leaves Eyes, etc. - Epic, female vocals, I like a lot of songs by these artists but at the same time it can drag (they tend to be slow and long) and I'd much rather be doing something that can be reproduced live without a full symphony orchestra for backup...
Ok, I think my little book is done... for now...
EQUIPMENT
My gear sucks. Seriously. But I'm willing to spend some money on it now that I have a decent day job.
What I have currently:
- Pearl p-bass copy (yeah, yeah, I know... but pearl makes drums, right? They made these too. Sometime before I was born.)
- Epiphone Les Paul Special II
- Peavy Bass amp
- Cheap ass keyboard & effects processor
MUSIC
-
Apollo
Apollo Year: 2008 Genre: Electronic
A quick demo I put together with sonicskulptor here at bandmix. It is mainly just me singing over a drum track. The way it's presented isn't it's final form I don't think (I'm going for more of a rock thing eventually) but it's pretty cool as a stripped down version, and the first demo I've ever actually made...
