My Soundcloud is "Evisma-Instrumentals". Same photo as here. Link if you would like. No problem.

Download enabled. Have fun, just give me credit for the music. Hope it goes well for you!

You have officially made my day.

Many thanks.

Permission granted. I'll open this for download after you reply.

Captivating comment coming,... cower courageously.

I'll pass on the Jove soul. It surely reeks of Aquanet and sweaty leather. I do, in fact, have a soul. I just keep it near the genitals, you know, so the wife wont find it.

I'll let Paul stretch my shit at a latter date. Been practicing alternate picking in the evenings. Never learned before. Frustrating, but that means I'm learning something new. Good stuff.

"I used to play solo resonator guitar blues live at open mic nights"

This kind of surprised me. I've never played anything publicly. When I used to jam with friends, I felt very self-conscious and really don't miss it. Smoking a fatty before and during surely didn't help matters.

"quite enjoy that simple playing in a different location from usual."

That I will try.

I hope all is well.

Evan, acting just like a nurse with all the other guys.

Never heard of Talk Talk, but will have to look it up now.

I've left the DAW alone, and will for at least another week. Getting back to basics, and working hard on alternate picking.

Thank you again for your help.

Evan

Damn, tough love from Crucethus. I hope he lubes up first!

First and foremost, your words really made me feel better. Not that my tender feeling needed to be coddled, or I need praise for every track I make, but for speaking to me like a brother. Alex and yourself are very kind in that way. Be it "sounds good" or "you could do better", there is a sense of attachment that is very rare in my life.

My boo-hooing wasn't really over this last track, but it did send it over the edge. Ive felt this way for a while. Mostly, I'm realizing that I don't have the budget to make things how I'd like, i.e. better drums, a tube amp and an electric guitar meant more for metal than my PRS, and paying for repairs on my main instrument, my dead bass guitar. I'm trying to move towards heavier metal-infused music and realized I'm very unpracticed. Just gotta grow some nuts and push through my self doubt.

"British scum"

This made me laugh so hard I blew snot on my phone. I realize now that I shouldn't have said what I said. Honesty is precious to me. Whining and being a bitch just does myself a disservice by disuading others from being open and honest. My response should have been in the form of a new track that proves myself wrong.

No more. I won't be quitting. Not sure if I could stand it. Just gotta try harder and stop coasting. Once I started making decent tracks, I quit applying myself, partly due to the praise from this site. I quit growing and that is a shame. Fuck that. I gotta wake back up.

Thank you for the "NUT UP!" talk. My empty scrotum apparently needed it.

Evan

Greetings, empty-handed soul thief.

"What do you really want to say? "

Nothing on a whole, but each track I try to convey certain feelings in kind of a chronological fashion. The Valve mentioned my tracks ending with an air of triumph, like the end of a story or film. Eventually a writer's style gets pretty "samey". I really just need to be putting more into the process.

Really, I need to spend a few weeks without the DAW. Get back to the actual playing and the joy of it. I almost never play without the DAW running anymore. Trying to create, instead of practice. That may be the thing I've lost. The sheer joy. That shit's on its way back.

"I'm very familiar with people talking over music you play to them."

I'm a bit of a hypocrite here. My one good friend, Dave, is into woodcarving and he's shown me photos of his work and explained the process at length, and I just couldn't get engaged. He would talk about the different shapes and uses of carving implements, and my mind wanders to detuned guitar string-tension and how I need heavier gauged strings, but then I'd have to compensate with truss-rod adjustments and........ Oh shit, he just asked me a question! Ummm,... "quadrangle".

I understand the mind filters out the shit it doesn't deem important, and a person's interests are directly connected to that. Again, I need to chill. Thank you.

I will absolutely grab that time-stretcher. Most appreciated. I never know where to go for VSTs that is safe, so I use a lot of stock crap.

I will not be sampling Bjork. May give some a listen just to reinforce that there are people out there that can dig any style.

Evan, weeping shades of cozen indigo. (Damn, gotta love Maynard)

Hello, again.

"Do they have no interest and only listen out of politeness?"

Yes. When I'd play a track for someone, usually they would talk through the whole thing, noticing nothing but the silence of it's ending. I've never said anything to them, that would seem demanding. If I don't like someone's shit, I don't want it forced on me. Why force them to pay attention if they don't want to? I don't want anyone to feel obligated to give praise for something they couldn't care less about, just to keep from offending me (I would never be offended), so I decided to stop putting people in that situation.

Been pretty fuckin disappointed with myself lately. A lot of time goes into my music and it's starting to feel wasted. No other way to put it. I'm not feeling sorry for myself, just a feeling that what I'm doing with my time is stupid and not productive.

"I wonder if your last 10 or so tracks sitting together on an album might sound a bit samey."

Probably so. I don't really know what to say about that. I'll do what I can to start changing things up and not stay in the rut I've gotten into. I need to pay more attention to that. I feel like I've lost something I used to have. Focus, patience, creativity, drive. Don't know, but I either need to get it back, or stop pretending like I still have it and quit. If I've said all I have to say with my music, I shouldn't beat a dead horse.

I'm going to have to do some musical soul searching. There is nothing else I truly enjoy doing, but maybe I'm done. If everything starts feeling forced, then the joy is gone.

Thank you for mentioning it. Hadn't really noticed things were starting to sound the same. The next one will be different.

Evan, looking to turn his piss to wine.

I'll be messing with the drums this evening. Hopefully I improve them.

Backstabber's Harvest means reaping what you sow. Reciprocity. Backstabber receiving a jab of his own. Don't know what brought the name about, but I like it.

I'll do what I can with what I have, drum wise, and update soon. Thanks for the listen.

Evan

Thank you for the review. Honesty has never offended me. It is appreciated.

This basically reenforces what I've been told to do for over three years. Get EZ Drummer. I use the stock instrument in StudioOne called Presence. Problem is it treats a whole kit like it's a single element. No individual panning, all or nothing. Impact is a better instrument that is stock, but it's 99 percent hip hop and useless to me. I've been leery about spending over a hundred bucks on something intangible. Guess it's time.

Thank you for your time and honesty. I greatly appreciate it.

If you tell me which part, I'd be more than happy to give you the whole chain.

And don't worry about double posting. Were it a crime, StaticNomad would be serving life!

Evan

All great things to hear! Much appreciated.

Yeah, lap-steel is something else. I have it tuned to an Em add9 chord. Basically a power chord of 2 and 4 on the A and D strings. It's E-B-F#-G-B-E. Love that chord, but I've done this and Hypnoculars with the lap-steel in that tuning, so it's time to change.

Take care.

Evan

The love is appreciated. Kinda ready to move on. Thanks for the continued listening. Always appreciated.

Evan

"you got fingers that to a woman would put a penis to shame,"

Funny you should say that, considering I have five dicks attached to my pelvis in a hand-like array. Four are long and thin, with one thicker stubby short one, and we both know where that one goes!!

Glad you liked the track. Been a while since I'd seen you here. I hope all is well. Have you bought an interface yet? Focusrite Scarlett would be good for you since high output pickups need an input with a pad, and the Presonus 22VSL I have does not have that. I'll be switching soon.

Take care.

Evan

Thanks for the listen and the kind words. It is appreciated.

Evan

Another absolutely accurate analysis, as always, Alex. Appreciated and abided!

"as the Nomad harvests his soul"

Oooh,.... you don't want that. I've taken out several loans on it and borrowed against it till that shit is thinner than muthafuckin filo dough. Has a pretty objectionable smell about it, as well. Like wet boot and old jizz.

"This is cool shit and it's damn fine to see there's some nice sliding about going down."

Appreciated. I asked you a while back your thoughts on doing a cover or more lap-steel or what, and you suggested lap-steel, so this is the line I came up with, added the drums, electric and bass,..... then it all went to shit. Bass went down, got sick and the flood. Everything after the first section is pretty new.

"Then bass g chugging away, adding some balls."

The lone Ibanez line. It's suicide happened directly afterward. Not the greatest playing there, but I liked it when I did it.

"1:28 slightly awkward change"

The change does lose a bit of energy, but I like the line that I'm playing. Probably could have found something to make the transition more smooth.

"it all goes big and open with a nice lead g slicing through the mix."

That is a Gate, Tube Screamer (PRS don't have very hot pickups), Nick Crow 8505 amp head sim, and Poulin Le Cab cabinet sim. Ended up getting about six different heavy guitar amp sims.

"2:32 new lead on top with a nice high note. Good delay again. You're really coming up with a lot of parts in this. As always, fairly rapid changes between sections."

The changes between sections thing,... yeah, you know I'm not a jammer, recording long takes and editing them, like someone we know. I'll noodle over something, find what I want to have there and play it several times till I can play it "perfectly", then record. I'm not a big fan of songs that stay on the same riff forever. I say do it a couple times, add complimenting jewelry, then move on.

" I just don't think the string sound or bamboo flute sound good enough - a bit too General MIDI."

Very much agreed. It was a last minute thing I did before uploading. I was never really happy with it. But not to worry. That shit is now history. It will not be missed.

"Your music is getting a bit more Nomadic all the time."

Is it? I don't feel I'm picking up any elements of your style, except maybe when I use heavier delays. I do, however, use every bit of advice you've given me when doing a new track. I think more about the drums and try to use less reverse cymbal, work more on structure and keeping "cheap" sounds out of tracks (which I failed at here, though it's now removed). I've stopped playing my music for family, wife or friend(s). I feel like I'm putting them off.

Evan, taking all or nothing, for life's just too short to lock it up.

This one took so long I almost got sick of hearing it. I started skipping to the middle section after a while so I wouldn't wear it out. Glad you liked it and that it was an enjoyable listen. Surely more to come.

EW

I can see that. Especially after the main lead line. Can't be upset at that comparison.

Thanks again.

Evan

Glad you liked it! Nice to have more bass players here on the site and active. Listened to your stuff. You have a rather unique voice, and on this site, that's usually not good, but yours is. Hit some higher notes that surprised me. Good stuff.

Evan