Blotted Science | Ingesting Blattaria | One-Take Cover
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Let's hope this video stays online!
First things first, here's the official tab from Ron Jarzombeks homepage:
www.ronjarzombe...
Next, here are some of Ron's words:
"This concept started to take shape in June of ’08 when BLOTTED
SCIENCE got together for the first time to rehearse and threw ideas around
for a 2nd CD. We wanted to score some kind of creepy horror film, and so
something was definitely abuzz… "
The idea of writing music that syncs up perfectly with clips of
disgusting insects and other creepy creatures was set in motion.
Now back to me and my words! This whole EP is basically a soundtrack to different creepy horror film scenes. This song was scored to a scene from the movie "Creepshow", which I actually didn't know before. Ron has a link to the synced version on his page. This is where I got it from. The only thing I added was the TV overlay and some effects to make it look like it comes from a TV (scanlines and stuff).
I assume Ron also had some copyright issues with the different movie scenes, which is probably why you can't find them on CZcams. Let's see how long this can stay online.
Soooo, this song has been a sort-of-bucket-list kind of song. Whenever I was listening to the EP, I always thought after the first track "Man I have to cover that song!". But it always sounded like it's one of those unplayable songs due to the arrangement. Lots of layers and back and forth between different guitars. On top of that you have all the crazy harmonies. But I checked the tab the other day and figured that all that back and forth is actually playable with one guitar. With some caveats.
I tried to make a single-guitar arrangements that has all the lines that sort of carry the song. So when I felt that the rhythm section was more important than the lead lines, I played the rhythm section. Like in the early part of the song, where the lead line syncs with the emergency light from the movie scene. Just playing that would've felt empty in terms of playing energy.
The other idea I had was to actually include most of the harmonies, especially those call and response kind of lines in the middle of the song. Just playing them with one tone wouldn't have worked. Well, it actually sounded okay, but still, that was not the intention of the song. And since I try to stick to only playing one guitar track in a video, I did everything with the pitch-shifter of the axe fx. So yeah, every harmony you can hear in the video, is actually being played in the video.
Here was my workflow: I prepared a bit more to make sure everything was on point. Not being on time with like 4 simultaneous guitar tracks makes quite a mess sonically. So it was pretty important that I'm somewhat on time on the harmony lines. My timing is not perfect in the song, but it did work how I imagined it. By the way, I did not try the pitch shifter before recording the video haha. I recorded everything with one tone. (A variation of my Obscura tone). Then I divided my track into all the different sections and lines, and reamped it with the pitch shifter. That took most of the time actually. I saved a new preset for each different harmony and interval. And I was suprised how many different harmonies the song actually had. I think I ended up with over 10 harmony presets. The rest was done in my DAW. I tracked the harmonies with 100% width but decreased that later while I was mixing. All the tone changes were also done in the DAW, so the lead lines were done with an EQ instead of a new preset. Same with all other lines that required additional effects. (Reverb, Delay and some panning stuff).
I think that's all I have to say about the song for now. If I remember something else I'll comment and if you got any question, feel free to drop a comment as well :)
Description is not over though! Here's a short rant:
This is the first time I used the "one-take..." in my title. This is one of the few songs that deserves it. But honestly, I hate that this one-take thing became, well a "thing". Back in the day, and this makes me feel like a boomer, but back in the day, doing a one take cover in front of your shitty webcam, your shitty transistor amp in your shitty room with that shitty camera audio was the only way to go. In fact, there was nothing special about it. It was just what you did back then. But now, now it's something special if people do it. It's kind of sad. And you know what? There's nothing special about a one take playthrough. You'll probably pay money to see a band perform a full set and not just one song. So yeah, musicians being able to play their own songs in full. Wow. I know I know, with all the different kind of playthroughs and music videos these days it's hard to figure out when there's some real playing in a video.
Anyway, enjoy the video :)
Wish Blotted Science did a third album
Same..
From a comment Ron himself said there's probably one in the works. Someone said something about Hannes and Ron said Hannes has his work cut out for him.
@@aharris9464 where?
Incredible work, blotted science is still mind blowing to this day, not only in terms of difficulty, but how the songs are arranged and the music theory behind them. They were truly ahead of their time.
The literal best blotted science cover ill ever see. Ron's going to love this
A W S M
You nailed amazingly. Its such a complex song to learn. All Blotted Science is complex and unreal.. Ive played the drums for ages and its literally impossible to play it. Man I totally wish they make a new album.
Man this is absolutely unbelievable seeing Blotted Science done this tight in one take like this!!!!!! Always inspiring me to keep practicing man!!!
So insane. This song always reminds me of The Simpsons lol
This was so good! Reminds me that I need to give that ep more time. I listen to the first one a million times and barely gave the follow up a chance. So many cool parts in this song.
Yeah the EP is really good. Whenever I listen to Blotted Science it's always that EP. It never gets old because there are so many different and interesting parts in it :)
nice to see you play some Blotted Science (again!) :D
Well doing a song from that EP was mandatory :D
Great cover, I generally like the whole 12 tone approach to writing and occasionally enjoy listening to Arnold Schönberg for that very reason. Chromaticism can be very musical if used in a proper context. I also enjoy compositional stuff like x-cells and polychords over two or more octaves, although on guitar that is much easier to implement in your own music if you have to guitarists. There is so much interesting and dark sounding stuff out there which is barely used in metal for some reason.
What do you think of Paul Gilbert btw? Would love to see you play Scarified, maybe even a faster version^^
Gilbert doesn't write good riffs to my ears. Like most "virtuoso" players they have fast fingers but lack the ability to write a song that is catchy or makes you feel anything.
Iirc 12-tone-music and chromaticism have somewhat different musical goals in mind, so I wouldn't equate them like that. Also the system Ron uses is way simpler than the 12-tone system of the early 20th century. Ingesting Blattaria is an incredible composition regardless, I genuinely love listening to it.
That. Was. Wild.
Covers don’t get better than this one. Accurate AF. Clean AF. Only Ron could play it better.
This is so fucking impressive. Unreal skill 👌
Thanks :)
I'm happy you added the "one-take" to your title, so that maybe others do so, so that I know what to search for on guitar CZcams !
So so so so so sick dude
Jesus that tone and that performance CHEFS KISS
Gotta love Creepshow playing on the TV
I couldnt find that movie clip with this song anymore, awesome stuff
Amazing cover man!
I'm really impressed with all the work that went into this, not just the playing, but also all the things you mentioned in your description you did to include the harmonies. Huge props for that!
I disagree on the one-take/live playthrough section. Yes, it should be more common for people to actually perform in front of the cam and not just mime, but I think this simply can't fly in a world full of people who just don't understand how live music actually sounds like and how much more raw and "messy" it is compared to fully edited and produced tracks. A lot of bands suck live, even very famous ones back in the day, having a band perform very well is not the norm I'd argue, so to me it's always great so see musicians who can actually perform well, not just write cool music and shoot nice videos. You can do both it seems!
You never dissapoint!
This is so insane, what an amazing job.
This was absolutely amazing. Holy fuck
Eyyy, nice Emperor hoodie
I LOVE YOU BROTHA!
Blotted Science is a gem that many more people should know and enjoy, Jarzombek for the win!
YES!
Dude, yess. Never thought I’d need to see you rip some Jarzombeck until now. Awesomeness
Very nice man, killer playing of a insane song. Another example how genius Rob is. I'm currently learning Laser Lobotomy. Don't know if I'll ever get to anything from this album as is all seems to be a step up from the first album
Nah man, if you can play Laser Lobotomy then this EP shouldn't be too much of a problem playing-wise. The structure and arrangement is a lot more difficult due to it being a score instead of consisting of conventional songs. But playing-wise I'd even say that it's not more difficult than the first album. There's a lot of repeated phrases and techniques. A lot of parts in this song actually reminded me of Laser Lobotomy. Like one of the solos starts off almost in the same way. There's a lot of similiar diminished arppegios, both the regular sweep patterns as well as those spreaded ones, with that string skipping. The songs are also in the same tempo. And there are even more similarities.
So yeah, give it a go when you're done with Laser Lobotomy ;-)
@@KevinHeiderich Yeah i think it's just the structure is what's so different. It's not traditional like some of the stuff from the first album is.
But thanks for the comment and detailed explanation. I'm just at the end of the first solo section now but when i eventually finish I'll definitely upload a playthrough.
Keep up the killer playing man. Cheers!
Crazy af. Thier stuff are really underrated with thet super line up
Immediately subscribed after seeing this. Bravo
This is impressive. Well played, do you mind to cover any Jeff Loomis song?
I always had a Conquering Dystopia track on my bucket list, as well as a track from the second Loomis solo album. Some day maybe :)
@@KevinHeiderich it would be nice to see first tragedy and harmony cover done well :D
@@KevinHeiderich Thats really good. Cant wait to see!
Seriously impressive.
So clean ❤❤❤
Challenging and very impressive. You probably get asked this all the time, but....how do you like the Harley Benton?
Holy shit!!! Well played man!!
Good stuff man! Do you like listening to his older stuff, i.e. Watchtower? Would love to see you cover that stuff :).
Unglaublich 😳🤯
Phenomenal !
This is freakin mint
Is that some Amarok multi-scale prototype? I haven't seen any news about HB doing a multi-scale version of them. Absolutely insane playing, as always!
Yeah but it's an old one. Never went into production. Which is a shame because the current 8 string market sucks haha
@@KevinHeiderich Such a shame. I would much rather buy a Amarok multi-scale than the new Explorer shaped one. The people deciding what models goes into production at Harley Benton has to be very misinformed if they decide to make a Explorer shaped 7-string neck through instead of releasing a multi-scale. They should just hire you instead!
Sweet.. Although it might not be a tremendous challenge for you, it would be fun to see you run through a song called "Bland Street Bloom" by Skith. Some similar "feel" to Blotted Science, but not quote to the same technical degree (but still technical for sure lol)
Amazing. I know other tracks synch to King Kong and Slither, but what about the rest?
"A Sting Operation" was written to a scene from the movie "Swarmed" according to his website. Don't know the movie. But that's all of them. So King Kong, Slither, Creepshow and Swarmed
Buenisimo
Wich guitar is that?
The quality of your playing is not accurately reflected in your views/subscribers. Keep it rollin' 🤘🤘
Damn, I'm a big Ron Jarzombek and you definetly nailed it! Btw, is that a new 8-String HB model? I don't think I've seen this one before. If there's a new series of extended range guitars coming, please tell me there is finally a 9-String HB on the horizon :O
This was an old model they stopped selling
@@gok6527 Are you sure? I haven't seen any picture of an HB 8-String with the logo on that position on the head stock, also not a blue one. There is no pic of an blue HB 8-String anywhere that I could find. The old neck-through series had one green, one red and two natural colored ones. But hey, I'm not here to argue, maybe I'm wrong. I just thought it was strange that I could find no trace of a blue one from a previous production line. 😀
It's not an old model. It's a prototype that never went into production :)
@@KevinHeiderich oh thx
@@KevinHeiderich Damn, that's a shame. But thanks for clearing that up 💪
bruh
God damm...
Was revisiting your channel today. Is it a coincidence? :P
Maybe ;-P
69th view haha well done as usual
Zieh sofort den Emperor Pulli aus!
Ich wollte dir die Tage schon ein Selfie mit dem Pulli schicken, weil ich ja jetzt auch voll bleggmeddl bin und so 🤓