djocelot: Learning Protest The Hero Songs.

wakeupdead 04.10.11	my band is currently working on Bloodmeat, it's pretty hard but seems like their easiest song technically
tkxxx7 04.10.11	yeah bloodmeat probably
Scoot 04.10.11	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD9WJiqnaE8
climactic 04.10.11	youre learning other peoples songs to improve your own playing? no
tkxxx7 04.10.11	Scoot y u no god
Scoot 04.10.11	Scoot was taken on youtube. Bastards
Scoot 04.10.11	Hey Hep, still want those lessons? ;)
Athom 04.10.11	bloodmeat, turn soonest, and blindfolds aside. im in the same boat as hep. i can play a few unidirectional sweeping patterns but in anything else im s.o.l. its probably because if i cant learn a song in a half hour i just dont learn it at all.
fr33convict 04.10.11	I can play one little three-string diminished sweep run up the frets to impress the ladies.
Josh D. 04.10.11	I play them on drums, so I can't say anything about.
Scoot 04.10.11	Tapping impresses the ladies lol
djocelot 04.10.11	climactic, Im 100% self taught and unless you are some kind of musical genius you can only teach yourself so much. I really doubt im alone in this but i taught myself by figuring out songs i liked until i was good enough to compose my own stuff and i think it worked pretty great. My reason for learning PtH is to increase my speed, technical ability, approach and muscle memory which i think is improving just from trying to learn one song. Its not like im planning on stealing their songs, i dont usually even play metal. I think I will start working on Bloodmeat till I have money to buy the Kezia book. I somehow managed to learn the verse/intro to sex tape and am fuckin stoked.
climactic 04.10.11	i just think it's better to use your own ideas to get better rather than to use other people's
climactic 04.10.11	pth is pretty fucking fun to play on drums, though
Athom 04.10.11	if you are new to a style/technique or really want to push yourself i cant really think of a better way to get acquainted with it than to play other people's work
HaydenDyson 04.10.11	try cest la va
climactic 04.10.11	imo there's no point in playing music unless you are being creative with it. writing your own exercises and such. i went to the school of rock for lessons for almost 4 years and it was focused around learning other bands songs. and i've advanced much more at guitar and drums in the year and a half after i quit, teaching myself and writing stuff, more than all 4 years there
LegendofPittman 04.10.11	I think covers are fun and fine, but I don't consider yourself a great guitarist unless you can write great. Just my opinion.
LegendofPittman 04.10.11	It's easier to imitate someone else's sound than creating your own.
climactic 04.10.11	obviously writing leads and chord progressions doesn't make you a good guitarist, but writing GOOD and CREATIVE leads/progressions does..
fr33convict 04.10.11	I think the main thing about guitar that people miss is that who's teaching you is not the important part. Your own drive to learn is what makes you good at guitar. I taught myself guitar from the ground by practicing jazz theory, doing various exercises, and learning other people's songs to reinforce what I've learned. In two and a half years of doing it my way I've learned infinitely more than my band's old second guitarist who has been taking lessons from people with a somewhat celebrity status in the music world for seven years. The only reason for me to bring this up is not to brag but to say the only limits are the ones you set yourself. Oh yeah and the laws of physics.
climactic 04.10.11	that's not what makes you good, fr33. playing sweepz is what makes someone good
TheStefan 04.10.11	Divine Suicide of K. isn't that hard to learn.
djocelot 04.10.11	im halfway through bloodmeat right now, waaaaaay easier the dissentience. Im having trouble picking up to speed on the main riff in cest la vie.
flalafell 04.10.11	instead of learning how to play their music, i prefer to wank. it's easier to do and the end result is the same
djocelot 04.11.11	holy crap, the note pattern at 1:31 in c'est la vie is freakin odd.
tkxxx7 04.11.11	just play metalcore it's easy junz and sweepz
djocelot 04.11.11	I dont want to play something easy, that was the whole point.