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he (?) is not refering to the synth, i see what he means.

Yeah, I'm not. I'm refering to the octaves being played all over the song, it sounds like guitar to me, not synth. But who knows.

There's only one guitar part in this song, I'm 99.9% sure that it'll just be Brad on guitar when/if they play it live. There are a TON of keyboards/synths buried in the mix, plus the bass part has some distortion on it, so that's where the "rhythm guitar" type of sound comes from.

Funny, I'm sure I can hear both a distorted guitar playing rythm and a guitar playing octaves.

I'm not asking for a heavy song either. I loved MtM. I just think that the verses are too poppy. Overall it's a pretty neat song. Can't wait to hear it live, I'm a bit sceptical of how it will sound, I'm not sure they can pull it off, but lets wait and see.

I don't like the verses, to much computer, I only like THE FACT that Mike's voice is doing so much harmony in the voices, keep doing that! I don't really like the guitar, to simplistic.

Good things! I LOVE the breakdown, I hope Joe will be scratching it live, I don't know if that's possible. I love the way Chester sings: Across this new divide.

what are you talking about? the direction? This is for the movie, not the album.

I know it's just one song, but that one song still has a direction. You can't just ignore this song and forgive it for being bad, just because it's for a movie. And every song you put out is a statement, if LP put out a song like this today, it might be a preperation for whats to come, even though I don't believe that.

I can hear it's not them for gods sake. I just said it sounded awesome, implying that it would be a nice direction for Linkin Park to go, compared to what I think of the direction it sounds like they have taken with New Divide.

Sorry - Back on topic, just had to defend myself.

Jesus, Completely off topic, but I would like to know who sings that song from the possibly "fake" clip. I'm addicted to the song moreso than I am for New Divide.

Yeah, me too. Man I really want to believe it's Mike and Chester singing! The two vocals in that song sounds awesome together.

Yeah, I'm very happy with that.

That really sounds like Chester? And Mike in the background? But I really can't believe it from what Talinda said on her blog. Hmm.

Edit: Nah, can't be the same song. Sounds good though.

So dissapointed in that vocal clip. If this is what "new" LP sounds like... I don't even want to finish that sentence.

It sounds so radiofreindly I could puke. I like Minutes to Midnight, but this is shit. And don't hit me with all that "judging the song before I've heard it", it's bs. Now I know that the melody of the chorus goes like that, I can garantee you that the rest of the song will have a just as cheesy melody as this one. But that's just me.

Only good thing is that I like Chesters voice in it, but not the melody.

If this is what the next album sounds like, then LP has turned in to the one thing I've never wanted them to be. I don't think it will, I predicted this was going to be a soft song, because of the fact that it's created for a mainstream film. I'm just in chock that the song is THAT poppy.

That would be cheesy.

The bass progression should not surprise you

we all know that Phi is just a generic bass player, he will never blow your mind, he's the less skilled member in the band..

That's not right at all. He is generic yes. But he is not not the less skilled member in the band, he just knows what bass playing fits LP and that's not flashy bassplaying.

If you hear his work on Tasty Snax you will realise that he is a pretty awesome bassplayer, it sounds very fast and very skilled. I have a feeling he knows his way around the frets of a guitar/bass better than any other member of the band.

But here it's not only the chord progression. The sound of the Strat (yes, they used the same guitar for WID and this one), the drums, the rythm, tempo of the two songs sounds very close. I'm not saying the song ends up being like What I've Done. But since I've always found that song boring, I have a feeling it's going to be the same with this one.

Everything said about WID: It's exactly my first thought. And it sounds boring. Only good thing is that it seems like there will be screaming in it, from the video

Plus, that same, or similar chord progression is not only used in WID but in the chorus Given Up too. It's THE Linkin Park chord progression.

And they've done it before. The churoses of Faint and From The Inside has the same rythm guitar, with slight changes.

Happy birthday, thank you for the guitar tabs for LP.

Might be.

I think what the title may be saying is that it's a new song that will divide the fans. Again.

Sounds cool, can't wait.

Yes. That budget goes right against what mvaug002 is saying. A movie with such a big budget has to be sold to an as big audience as possible = the mainstream.

Again, I'm not sure there will be no screaming. It's just a guess.

So you hate me because I belive there will be no screaming. Okay..? It's an honest guess, there's nothing ignorant about it.

I am very happy that we're getting a new song. I have never said it would be a bad song, I just said I don't belive it will be heavy, that's all.

Sounds good. Very unexpected to be so early, that's nice.

Don't get your hopes to high for a heavy song though, it's been choosen for a mainstreem movie, I bet it won't have screaming.

This could easily be new LP in my opinion. It's funny, because since Lockjaw, I've expected it to sound like this, distorted guitars and a clean guitar playing a melody over it. I like the SOUND of it, but the music itself dosn't really sound interesting to me. Only the intro, with the drums and keyboards, and yes, they sound very much like what Mike described, as someone said.

- The acoustic guitar was not tuned properly for Mike for the first part he plays on 'The Little Things Give You Away'. It was corrected after the first loop.

 

Huh? I hear absolutely nothing wrong with the guitar on TLTGYA other than Mike playing the first couple chords a little tentatively, like he wasn't sure if he came in at the right time.

By accident, he started the chord progression two frets too low, that's what I think.

I'm not really into the whole heavy robotic synths thing either. Though, I'm not saying it can't lay the foundation for a very good song. In Pieces has an awfull beat in my opinion, but as soon as it's raw instruments, with only the beat underneath it, it's one of my favourite songs on the album.

Many Linkin Park songs have been build on synths I belive, so nothing new there. But to say that you "got" Minutes to Midnight because they left hip hop is wrong. Minutes to Midnight has some of the loudest electronic hip hop inspired beats ever in LP songs. They never left hip hop.

I just listened to Papercut from various shows and Joe is in fact playing that sample every time, I think it gives an awesome feeling, it should be a bit louder normally, in my opinion. But not this loud of course, but it's nice in this video, because now we know of it.

Joe's scratches were so much better without all the delay he uses today, sounds awesome here.

Very nice performance, thank you.

Edit: What the hell is the thing Joe is playing from 3 minutes and on, never heard it before, sounds cool. Is it some sort of burried sample that I've never noticed before, that is extremely loud because of the halfbad sound mixing? Or is it something he did that then and never went back to?

And Mike and Chester are a lot better at nailing the harmony in the bridge today than back then obviously.