Expect after tonight to start seeing lot's of interaction from not just me, but the other guys in the band too. Lawrence did a crazy tour of japan sessioning for jazz guys last month and loads of huge cantopop arena work with some cool (and not so cool) artists, Gavin frequently travels around Asia doing exciting things, Larryz is just insane and has crazy views and Andrew is always out and about pimping himself out to the highest cantopop bidders. So they have lot's of way cooler stories than me!

They do so much crazy stuff that they need to share their adventures too.

So our main blog as a group will be www.alivenotdead.com/gongwu

please come over and join us as a collective there..

cheers guys..

Li

One of the great legends of martial arts and entertainment gone but never forgotten.

The Bass groove is off time all the way through the song, but with a solid drumbeat eventually slips back into time. Took me about 4 hours to work out how to play the key riff to fit into the beat but eventually it came together! the guitar part is even harder, imagine Nuno Bettencourt mixed with Jane's Addiction and you got the right idea. Totally accident riff that just wouldn't leave my brain once I found it in my head!

Also the chorus riff is very progressive. Very catching vocals and solid melodic repetition, yet the guitars and bass flow and change without real repetition.

The one thing I'm really happy about is finally learning how to adapt key changes into songs.

The key change in this song comes in at just the right time, is broken into 4 parts and each section having a different drumbeat that basically kicks in on the beat, then off, then back on etc..

crazy but great to play! 

For those of you who didn't know, I usually write in the key of D and generally stick to it. Now bands like Creed, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Deftones and nearly all new metal bands generally don't move out of this tuning either. (unless their guitars are tuned half step Db or down to C) 

However it's something I've been wanting to do for a while now until recently simply haven't known how to.

One guy I have really seen work great key changes recently is Khalil Fong. He always uses clever chord progressions and key changes and for someone in pop (especially this side of the world) and I admire how he manages to get away with them!

We've got a practice later on and I can't wait to the song out with Gavin and Law!

Written and laid down in three days has to be a record for me considering the last song took me 4 months.

Oh as well I've been uploading parts of our new demo album for free download at www.gongwuband.com feel free to go over and pick up some of our older tracks!

:)

Your Victim was a song I sat and wrote whilst being lectured by our old manager way back about a year ago. I found the key riff for the song by pure accident (as always) just widdling away bored and being told off about something or other.

However the two riffs at the beginning were catchy as hell and really hit our sound on the head.

The song( unlike Set Free) took me a day or so to compose and lyrics were finalised instantly.

I was rambling a few words at a practice "When all is dead and gone, the world is your victim" and the theme was totally in those 10 words.

the lyrics are available to read on the download page of the song on our website www.gongwuband.com but basically for people who don't like decrypting messages the song is about global warming! hahaha.

It made the rest of the band wet themselves when they found out the meaning of the song. 

But it's classic, it's really hard to write a song that sounds funky and upbeat about something so serious. But with my cynical tongue in cheek black humour I found it amusing to stress the issue that I live very very green, and when the world goes to shit, I'll wash my hands of the blood.

Erm anyway. go download and enjoy the song!

I'm releasing "Back of the Line" to the Underground sometime this week.

A song totally composed, written, recorded and arranged by myself. Possibly the first time I have attempted to play lead guitar on a track but I was living every minute of it..

However next time I'm totally leaving it to Andrew as he poos all over my technical ability on guitar.

We've also been debating me playing guitar with the band in the near future. We have so many songs with leads in and most of the songs are written with 2 guitar tracks in mind in certain sections.

I dunno if I'm comfortable playing live guitar anymore as I love the freedom of just having a wireless mic. And the last time I played acoustic solo I snapped a string in front of about 700 people!! So retardedly embarrassing.

I'll see how much balls I've got to try it out, Set Free will definately be the first song I play guitar on if I do because I wrote the song playing the guitar and it should be possible.

But more likely than not I will totally pussy out..

:)