[QUOTE=Forlorn Hope]If you want...I can't guarentee that I can help any (mainly because I don't really have any fingerpicking experience), but I can try :p[/QUOTE]


Alright anyhting will help. If anyone else want to give a crack at it i'll send it over to you too

I need your E-mail address

On the "learning guitar" topic, I started learning Necrophagist's Foul Body Autopsy today. It's got some pretty tricky fingering.

I've been learning Cemetary Gates by Pantera....except the solos...I'm not a good soloist yet.

I learned that song about 6 months back, including solo. I was just playing it 2 seconds ago too what a coincidence.

[QUOTE=IheartSP]I learned that song about 6 months back, including solo. I was just playing it 2 seconds ago too what a coincidence.[/QUOTE]

The Necrophagist song? Or do you mean Cemetary Gates?

Cemetary Gates

I couldn't learn Necrophagist, my only tuning choices are D and E.

[QUOTE=toaster135]The Necrophagist song? Or do you mean Cemetary Gates?[/QUOTE]

FBA is a cool song, I know the pre-verse riff, very technical stuff.
The Epitaph song is probably my fav tho.

[QUOTE=MRDuCran]FBA is a cool song, I know the pre-verse riff, very technical stuff.
The Epitaph song is probably my fav tho.[/QUOTE]


What tuning does Necrophagist play in?

How hard are their riffs?

Necrophagist play in standard tuning, down a whole step. A lot of their riffs are tough to play, but once you get your head around some of the patterns it's not complicated stuff. The main problem for me is the stretches; I have small hands.

[QUOTE=toaster135]Necrophagist play in standard tuning, down a whole step. A lot of their riffs are tough to play, but once you get your head around some of the patterns it's not complicated stuff. The main problem for me is the stretches; I have small hands.[/QUOTE]

I can stretch maybe 3 frets on cords comtorably..

5
2

On single notes, maybe 5...

I can do that position shift in Sixpounder from the fith fret to the tenth pretty damn and crisp.

I have a huge reach right now I'm able to span 6 frets (1 to 6) fairly comftorbly

Is that huge? I have really small hands, but I can span six frets pretty easily.

None of my other friends can do it.

Everyone says I should play Bass more then Guitar...cause my hands are so big

I have pretty big hands... idk... I should prolly check later and see if I remembed right.

I can do 1-5, that's it.

Does Necrophagist really tune to D? It sounded lower than that, oh well I never woulda guess Dimmu tunes to E but I was wrong there too.

Same, I can only do 1-5. And I have no idea about the tunings.

Yep, they play in D standard.

However the next stuff will probably/theoretically be - A D G C F A d

i can play the whole intro from lake bodom and the first riff :D

btw. for stretching exercises and picking i recommend the john petruccis rock discipline dvc/tabs. i just started to learn it... it helps me a lot improving my technique!

I can do 12 to 24 but the frets are smaller up there.

i got the JP DVD ripped on my IPOD video...


watching that video just makes ya feel like sh!t :lol:

1 to 6 isn't that big of a stretch. I just have trouble doing things like 9-12-15-12-9 legato on the G string.

[quote=Squirrel]Yep, they play in D standard.

However the next stuff will probably/theoretically be - A D G C F A d[/quote]

Are they going to seven-strings? I haven't read that anywhere.

Did you request a name change?

Being able to stretch far doesn't mean sh!t anyway, it's what you can do with it that matters. If you can play string skipped, augmented arpeggios as fast and clean as Shawn Lane could, [i]then[/i] you can boast.

agreed 100%

Being able to stretch far makes a difference, let's not pretend otherwise. From a technical standpoint, players with longer fingers can play things that players with smaller fingers could [I]never[/I] play. I never said that having long fingers makes you a great guitar player, it certainly doesn't. It does enable you to play patterns that involve long stretches more easily.

you could just transcribe long stretches to a different part of the guitar

----------------------- If someone had trouble making this stretch..
4--7--4--8--4--7--4--8
repeat

---------3-----------3 They'd have to move it here, which would be
4--7--4-----4--7--4-- impossible to play at high speeds.
repeat


And what about chords? You can't play a chord on another part of the guitar without changing at least one note.

[QUOTE=Toaster]Being able to stretch far makes a difference, let's not pretend otherwise. From a technical standpoint, players with longer fingers can play things that players with smaller fingers could [I]never[/I] play. I never said that having long fingers makes you a great guitar player, it certainly doesn't. It does enable you to play patterns that involve long stretches more easily.[/QUOTE]

Agreed 100%

Does anyone want to take a stab at that finger picking thing? I could really use some help.

YEY!!! I finally got my name changed!!!!!!