Alright, its been quite a while since my last post, but I had warned you of these "disappearing acts" in my very first blog post. :-) Though this time, it wasn't really a disappearing act which occurs due to boredom, but I have been really busy getting adjusted to the new college life. For information, I have joined Vellore Institute of Technoloy (site) with Comp. Sci and Engg., which is quite a good institute in terms of infrastructure and facilities. The campus is really big and nice, though that means that there is an enormous amount of walking to do to just get from the classrooms to the labs. The library is one entire 4-floor building, and it has something called a Digital Library also along with paper books, you can figure out the meaning of that.
We're going to have our first round of exams in just a week now, from 21st August to 26th, to be more precise.
I've been busy studying, designing sites for the various student-chapters of prominent organizations (Check out ISTE. Open the board members' page), and trying to find members for my rock band. This is the real interesting part. I have found most of the required members for a basic band, and we'll begin jamming together after 1st semester when we all go back to our homes and get our instruments. There are some really great student bands here in VIT, really talented ones. You can hear them jamming really hard every evening-night from 5:30 PM to 11:30 PM in the music room.
This is all for now, will blog more later, and try to pick up the threads of the blog again. I just don't get the time to blog anymore.. never did anyway, but now its even less.
8 comments:
Nice website. Yeah, those college rock bands aren't uncommon ... I heard that MAHE's is really good too.
Most of the rock bands are really good, and they do covers really well (playing songs of other artists), but where most bands fall flat is the Original Composition (OC) thing. They all end up making lame and shallow songs that don't really get you going. I don't mean just heavy metal, any music, if meaningful and deep can get your going. e.g.: Pink Floyd.
You'd be surprised to hear that a few 11thies of our school have formed a err...rock band(So they call it).Initially I was quite keen to join in as a vocalist but after I heard them sing (tries to keep a straight face) Boulevard of broken dreams I was glad I was not associated in any way with it :-)
Are they just vocalists or do they have electric guitarists, drummers, bassists etc? Bassists, though really hard to do without, can be done without at the level our school is at. But a guitarist must be there.. and for Broken Dreams (we were going to perform that on our farewell.. me (on guitars) and Ankit Bhalla (guitar + vocals) and Rahul Rajan (drums) )you cannot do without electric guitars.
There are two guitarists cum vocalists and a drummer in there(Like I hinted in my earlier comment,none of them are fantastic) but the guitars aren't electric.Does one need special training to be an electric guitarist(I mean for a persons who already knows how to play guitar)?
Certainly. Playing an electric guitar is more difficult than playing a standard acoustic guitar, since the former requires perfect control over the sounds produced which are amplified by the speakers. One bad swipe on a string of an electric guitar will lead the audience to flinch from the scratchy amplified sounds. (My cousin owns an electric guitar and I have had the pleasure of playing on it several times).
Despite the problems (if you can call them so, perfecting your technique can't be a problem eh?), an electric guitar is easier than an acoustic, of course for one who already has a few years of acoustic guitaring under his/her belt. Electric guitar is a new concept in itself, and offers a lot of new tricks and techniques not possible on an acoustic. But an acoustic can't be beaten, for the sound of an acoustic can never be reproduced on an electric, and that's what matters. Boulevard of Broken Dreams of course is a very simple song to play, and needs an electric to complete the effect, but with sufficient and clear amplification, and acoustic can do the work too. We (me and Ankit) used to jam in my house with me playing an acoustic.
Its good to hear that something interesting is going on there in the field of western music. I hope it comes along, even if they're not good enough, its still a beginning that we didn't manage to bring out due to preboards.
Oh and a person who has played an acoustic can play the electric without too much of a learning curve, while a person who began his life playing the electric will find the acoustic really hard.
The string are of higher tension, they're more "biting", the amount of pressure in fingering and strumming is more, the no. of frets (notes if you want to call it.. not exactly correct though) is less in an acoustic, and the sound is really different, so is the general feel of an acoustic compared to an electric.
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