Posted some demos of songs in progress. Just scratch parts to get the ideas down. Nothing is set in stone, and it'll all eventually be re-recorded and tightened up by a better drummer, but any feedback is appreciated.

http://www.myspace.com/extrasolars

They are good...they kinda sound alike but I think that is just cause of the guitar tone and drum sound....I like the last one the best. It will be easy for someone to sing over that one. Good luck!

Hey thanks Bada. I appreciate you bothering to give them a listen.

I can understand how they might sound similar. I'm writing music in a weird alternative tuning and haven't had a chance to record other guitar parts to give them different sounds. Hopefully when they're done later on they'll all be a little more unique. Again, thanks for the feedback.

what tuning?

Its a secret.

My friend is a big prog/King Crimson fan. A while back he turned me onto a Robert Fripp tuning called New Standard Tuning. It sounds pretentious, I know.

The regular Standard Tuning is in 4ths. E A D G B E. New Standard Tuning is in 5ths so from low to high its C G D A E G. The bottom three strings are low and the top ones are really high. So the fingers needed to play major and minor chords are somewhat different, but arguably easier to fret.

The drawbacks are really tight high strings that might make it difficult for solo bends and then more having tension on the right side of the guitar neck than on the left where the lower strings are.

The postives, to me, are having a neck that has really low and really high notes, and just the advantage of being able to play weird shapes that have interesting colors in them.

But its funny. You said things sounded similiar and repetitive. Someone else told me the same thing not long after you posted. Guess my stuff needs a lot of work.

sounds like a cool one...

I started a Soundcloud page and posted 11 demos of original music I've been working on. Just scratch drums and guitar to get the ideas down, and the files are compressed to hell, but any feedback is much appreciated.

http://soundcloud.com/extrasolars/sets/ ... ntal-demos

One year bump to see if I can get any more feedback about any of this shit. Constructive, deconstructive, positive, negative. I'm just kind of frustrated at how hard it is to put together a band around where I am. But there's 2 or 3 albums worth of rock music in the nascent stages. I just can't sing to save my life. I suggest headphones to compensate for the shitty mixing, but forgive the poor playing.

http://www.soundcloud.com/extrasolars/sets
http://www.soundcloud.com/extrasolars2/sets

Id be all over that stuff if I lived near you.

A lot of the stuff blends together but with so many demos and ideas - arranging them and putting some together could make for some really great music in my opinion. Really like the guitar tone.

I've heard that before, where people say it all sounds the same. I'd say there's a style to it. All of that stuff is written in the same alternative tuning I mentioned before, but its only distorted guitar and drums for the most part. With lead lines, maybe some keys in the background, percussion, basslines, and dynamics with the guitar parts to give them more space and color using phasers, delays, and flangers, I think it could sound all right.

But yeah, that always sticks with me. "It all blends together." That either means its all boring, or on a positive spin, its cohesive and could work as one piece of art. The guitar parts were all recorded using my little Mesa F-30 with the speaker-mute engaged, and a Mogami cord run out of the "Recording/Headphones" output on the back panel directly into my digital 8 track.

But thanks for listening. I'll always appreciate a set of ears and feedback.

These still sound good! Need new stuff!

I'm trying to form a real band, but its tough. Different schedules, different visions. I haven't played in a little while. I was going to try and pick 10 to 12 tracks I'd done before, and re-record them with all new guitars, bass, FX, keys, drums, etc. and try and write a fullblown record.

Either that or try and form a Floyd cover band.