Scale the Summit

[Grangur]

Just found this and thought I'd share it. Interesting use of guitars too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2DGey4nm-c

[Grangur]

Here Mark Mitchell talks about his Custom shop bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LDHjsZy8L0

[Dood]

I've enjoyed the band's approach and I'm a sucker for melody stuff.


I was reading that just the other day there had been issues in camp Summit; the bassist and other guitarist have been in a situation where they've been forced to leave the band?

Edited November 18, 2016 by dood

[Grangur]

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I've enjoyed the band's approach and I'm a sucker for melody stuff.


I was reading that just the other day there had been issues in camp Summit; the bassist and other guitarist have been in a situation where they've been forced to leave the band?
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Interesting... I'd never heard of them until this morning. I was taken by the prog feel.
Looking at the web site you're probably right. The site only lists one guitar and the drummer.
http://www.scalethesummit.com/

Shame that. But I see Mark Mitchell also teaches at http://www.lowenduniversity.com.
The videos look very professional too. Much better than some others I've seen.

[TomRandles97]

Both Mark and the drummer left a couple of weeks ago, one of their guitarists left a couple of months ago. As far as I understand they wanted to focus on other projects, including Mark's Low end University. This left just Chris Letchford, who writes all/most of the bands material anyway. The new drummer was announced quite recently but yet to fill in the other roles

Been a fan of the band for quite a few years now, I love Mark's playing on The Migration, excellent feel and approach to melody. Couldn't quite get used to his tone on the latest album, though.

[JapanAxe]

I listened to the whole of the first number, not least because it is very listenable! I wondered how much the tapping technique on the guitars 'drove' the kind of music they produce, rather than being a way to reproduce the music in the musicians' heads (although the same question can just as well be asked of 'conventional' guitar technique).

[Daz39]

I do like STS. Great noodling, much more melody and interplay than just aimless shred.

[Guest bassman7755]

The guitar playing was my least favourite bit. Honestly I see no point in doing that sort of play-2-parts-at-one tapping if youve got 2 guitarists - just have them play different parts.

[BassTractor]

Thanks for posting. Had never heard of them that I can remember, but now threw myself over the keyboard to order some.