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Hey everyone! Im happy to share with you my latest track I was working on for the last 2 months. Its called Never Peace Of Mind, its a prog rock instrumental with metal, hard and alt rock influences. And as usual it has a lot of emphasis on the guitar solo.

Sit back, have a listen, and let me know what you think!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLdOFuB7mEM

As for the "bonus" solos:

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (hard rock solo for a great pop song):

Hey everyone! Im back with a third batch of metal solos to not so metal songs. As always I have 3 new solos for you, this time I have 2 "bonus" solos aswell (that just dont fit the concept but are worthy of mentioning). The idea is that I just write my own solos for songs that either dont have a solo\have a boring (IMO) solo but I still like and want to jam on those songs.

No Doubt - Dont Speak -

I really like your cat, Valentin. :-)

My cat is awesome

I was hoping that there would be pinches.

Surprisingly my "pinchiest" piece is a rock ballad style instrumental

Hey everyone, Im back with some new metal for you! Its something I started (well, continued if to be exact) working on right after Apocalyptic Visions.
Its a metal instrumental in arabian style, with some heavy, prog and thrash metal influences.

Have a listen, let me know what you think, and if you dig the music - please share it with someone!

Feel free to check out my other originals at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4A406DF298C779D&feature=mh_lolz

Have an awesome weekend people!

Dont worry about that, there are plenty musicians, but I think it needs a bit of persuedeing sometimes to get others on board, you have to offer them something, maybe like playing music they are familiar with too, Sometimes you can get in the right place at the right time and connect with the right collaborators, Sometimes they take a bit of searching out.

 

So thats great news about Apocalyptic Visions, at least you're getting some material out there. Well done.

Actually just today I had a jam, not metal but it still was pretty fun (and might even lead to live performing).

And btw Im pretty close to start recording solo piece #4

Hey everyone, I have some exciting news! Apocalyptic Visions is live since yesterday on CdBaby and Itunes and will soon make it to other music services(such as Spotify, Shazam and many others). Its my first track ever to get such distribution, just wanted to share my excitement

Impossible.

Its just my taste, but when a song has almost all riffs harmonized, the harmonizing just stops sounding special to me.

Yeah, I didn't understand the drumming either. It's very poorly timed. Everything else sounds good.

 

But as with most things, needs more guitar harmonies.

I tried a bit too hard to make the drums "progressive" and not just the same beat all of the time, didnt work out as I hoped and the drum sounds themselves dont help the situation very much.

As for guitar harmonies, I dont like to overuse them. I think they lose their effect when they are overused.

Sounds pretty good, Maybe you could recruit some band members to collab/jam with a view to gigging? I think that the input of other players can really help to expand the dynamics of ones tunes.

 

Hook-up with a good drummer and bassist and get out there playing

Thats pretty much what Im trying to do but Im having trouble finding musicians for this kind of music.

The guitaring is pretty good. As is the bassing. Drummist's pish though.

Thanks for the comment. Im checking out right now a new way to record drums so hopefully my next recording will be better in the drum section.

Hey everyone, you might remember me from my guitar videos I post here from time to time, and today Im back with what I consider to be "the real deal" -

an instrumental written & recorded entirely by me. Its called "Apocalyptic Visions" its heavy, melodic and its inspired by the end of the world theme

and old school heavy metal.

So give it a listen, and if you enjoyed it - please share it with someone as I dont have an army of fans to help me get my music across

For more of my originals check out this playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4A406DF298C779D&feature=mh_lolz

If you liked the music feel free to like my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/valentinthemad

Hey guys, Im back with a new batch of metal solos I wrote for some songs that inspired me, check them out!

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UbmRGuAoK8

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Cant Stop (a bit progressive solo) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsdIbfqdXk4

Aerosmith - Walk This Way  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsDnawLPJyA

I have much more solos like those, feel free to check them out here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF895523328C65611

Let me know what you think, and feel free to subscribe or even do the wild move of liking my FB page

https://www.facebook.com/valentinthemad

For anyone interested I posted the piece for free download at soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/va...piece-in-arabian-style
Id love to have my piece on your MP3 players!

Hey everyone, wanted to share with you my latest creation - its a piece I wrote over a backing track I found on Youtube. One night jamming over random

backing tracks I found one that inspired me so much I just wrote music all over it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmOpB2kPqs

Let me know what you think and subscribe if you like the vids

P.S. I opened a facebook page, if you like my music, your like on my FB page will be very appreciated!

Hey everyone, "new solo guy" is back. While Im working my ass off on my next recording (because the damn thing STILL dont sound good enough!!) I wanted to share with you this recording of mine - a hard rock cover of the classic You Can Leave Your Hat On.

We worked on the song together as a band for less then an hour and went playing it live and everyone just nailed it. As for me 99% of my solo licks were improvised, but if we ever play it again - Im learning those licks I played there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flJb4MQ9jUk

Let me know what you think and subscribe if you dig this stuff. Like I said earlier - Im working hard to deliver more recordings!

that's maybe cause you are not from here...

 

Can you do a solo an eminem song?

Thats a really cool idea, Eminem is awesome.

How about something from songs of praise?

Dont think I ever heard of those.

Actually I was thinking of going in a Linkin Park direction. I saw WAY too many comments on Youtube saying that solos wont fit in their music and I want to prove that wrong. Any suggestions(I was thinking about In The End but Im not sure yet)?

Lovely stuff all round, but my only critism is the lack of pinches.

Very good point actually, Ill take that into account.

Thanks for the comments guys! You are more then welcomed to subscribe, I have some really cool stuff coming up \m/

@Frosty Jack

Suggestions are always welcomed, even though I have A LOT of stuff planned Im always up for a cool suggestion!

Hey guys, wanted to share with you some solos I wrote to some songs that inspired me (that either dont have a solo, or their solo is not fun enough).

Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89u6Y0298is
Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LexFa64rQbM
Blur - Song 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv6yyD5yZiA

Let me know what you think (and subscribe if you like the vids