And for Hoobastank, it’s just gonna be bar chords for me, dawg. I recorded an earlier version with them, but it neither sounded nor looked good, so I figured what’s the point. The fast rhythmic palm mutes in Rammstein are deceptively hard. Technical: This is the first time I failed to complete the assignment. I must have listened to it 100 times that night, it was so catchy.Īnd Linkin Park songs still carried over long after middle school for me, because of the different remixes that exist for breakbeats used in bboying that I started in high school. TBH the Pillar song was introduced by a friend! Ben C was nice enough to invite me to a LAN party, and there I listened to Andrew H’s CD which happened to have this song. I only know this blink-182 song from a pretty well-done Kenshin music video on, with the site itself being my fundamental source of music discovery. I still get an excited feeling listening to these songs, because I see them in my mind backing all sorts of sakuga-level anime scenes. But s'ok, I’ll share the songs I got from friends once I made them later on, but for now we’re still in middle school. I listened to these songs by myself too, coupled with anime music videos. Sentimental: Love live nu-metal! Japanese songs I discovered on my lonesome, but Western rock music was shared with me by friends! I'm starting to notice the value of the pickup position: closer to fretboard when doing single note solos, farther for power chords.Ģ:08 - Crawling in the Dark by Hoobastank Technical: Wow my wrist is so awkward in the first UNLIMITS song I realized I could just lower the guitar to get the fretboard close to my hand, instead of my hands looking like a pterodactyl.Īlso, the Japanese punk tone has less distortion than I thought? For UNLIMITS, a vintage British stack was way closer to the Japanese rock sound than previous attempts with an Octane or American stack.
And yet, my heart yearns to be there like it's homesick lol. It's a very funny feeling, because sometimes I feel nostalgic to go back to Taiwan, but I'm not Taiwanese and I visited as a tourist ONCE. But the reality is, I just can't get those past highs anymore, or maybe I never had them and it's one of those things where, from my Christian worldview, we are nostalgic for eternity and the feeling of a spiritual home. In general, with the pandemic being so isolating, it's making me reach back into happy nostalgic memories, hence this entire chronicling exercise.
I basically sing my heart out getting emotional to the Supper Moment songs lol. (There are other great songs too, particularly from Dear Jane, but I think they block even covers of their songs). My Cantonese teacher introduced me to so much awesome modern Hong Kong music, and so it was nice to ground my pandemic soundtrack through this cultural heritage.
But there were still a couple bright spots! There was Haikyu!! (hence Galileo Galilei) and also learning Cantonese. Then the pandemic came, along with some depression (it's one of the main factors I'm now seeing a therapist). They're a go-to when I'm pumping myself up to do DIY around the house. I originally listened to UNLIMITS a lot while heartbroken and depressed over OPIM projects senior year of college, but now the association is much more positive. (And why are the videos filmed in different places in my house? I'm just bored.) So here are some rock songs in the past couple years.īy this point, I had already moved from NY to MD and had a son, and there really wasn't much time to discover new music.
Sentimental: Instead of being chronologically linear, I thought it'd be fun to skip around for variation. 0:00 Hero by UNLIMITS 0:59 Haruka Kanata from BLEACH ED 28