http://deathandthemaiden.net A Metal Tribute to String Quartets Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:55:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally got around to making a tab for the Sinfonia No. 15 in B Minor. If you're looking to work on your tapping chops, this might be a good place to start. Download it here as a PowerTab file and here as a pdf. And here's the video of the ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/10/tab-for-sinfonia-in-b-minor/ Ron Fuchs wrote a review of A Metal Tribute To String Quartet over at Prognaut. Big props to him for taking the time to listen to and write about it. Apart from that, things have been a bit slow lately. I admit I've been focusing more on my own music lately, ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/09/review-at-prognaut/ Here's another teaser video, this time from "The Maiden Variations". This is the second variation of the main melody, where things start getting heavy. I hope to do another one for the variation right after it, which is probably my favorite part in the whole EP. http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/06/another-short-video-the-maiden-variations/ I thought it'd be cool to take my favorite sections from the songs on the EP and make videos out of them. These are short and don't take much time to do, so expect a new one every week or so. The hardest part is re-learning and practicing ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/05/new-teaser-video/ Made a new video for Death And The Maiden Part 1 with the help of my wife, Carolina.  Quite a bit of work actually...first I had to re-learn and memorize all the parts, and then we did 3 or 4 takes for each.  Thanks to Caro's wicked cinematography skillz, we ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/05/new-video/ I've been reading Schubert's biography these last few weeks.  Originally, I just wanted to learn more about the 'Death and the Maiden' string quartet and any information surrounding it. But in the end, I just ended up reading the whole thing.  I've come to the conclusion that I just really ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/03/poor-schubert/ After a lot of careful consideration on what the best method for selling mp3's on my site was, and actually setting one up and almost announcing it, I discovered Bandcamp, which basically does all the dirty work for me.   Even better, it offers the downloads in various formats, including ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/03/listen-to-the-whole-ep/ One of the side-effects I've noticed from playing classical music on the guitar, is that it has greatly improved my chops.  I don't just mean in the sense that I'm playing difficult stuff, but also that I'm playing things that aren't meant for the guitar and sometimes I need to ... http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/02/improving-your-chops-with-the-classics/ The debut EP, "A Metal Tribute To String Quartets" is now available on all the major digital stores (Itunes, Amazon, Emusic,       http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/01/the-ep-is-out/ Here's another video, this time of Bach's Invention No.4 in D Minor - power trio-style.   http://deathandthemaiden.net/2009/01/another-video/