milkwizard
11.11.12 | scales, practice your scales, since you are into metal, you should focus on the modes of the major scale, couldnt hurt to learn pentatonic, but spend your time learning the major scales, it will help build finger dexterity, strength and help improve your picking. |
KILL
11.11.12 | smells like teen spirit :D |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | no i just want some songs please |
KILL
11.11.12 | day tripper :D |
KILL
11.11.12 | smoke on de water :D |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | thanks KILL >.> I dont play grunge and have no intention of doing so. I just want some easy-ish stuff that involves a bit of moving your fingers-like CKY's first album did. |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | Nothing THAT simple D: |
JohnnyoftheWell
11.11.12 | ^^^^scales are very important, learn them well
If you want songs to rock out to, here's a few that aren't too hard
RATM - Bombtrack
Muse - Exo-Politics
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Children of Bodom - Silent Night Bodom Night (a few tricky bits, but rest is easy) |
KILL
11.11.12 | closer to de heart :D |
menawati
11.11.12 | some of iron maiden is good for a workout, try transylvania |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | thankyouuuuuu johnny :D I like Muse and Opeth and Rage :D :D Ill have a go at Blackwater Park :D |
KILL
11.11.12 | wish you were here :D |
JohnnyoftheWell
11.11.12 | BWP is a sweet song to play, sooooo many good riffs |
KILL
11.11.12 | drop d is gay :D |
menawati
11.11.12 | um..dont neglect right hand its probably more important, practise up down picking arpeggios till you got it smooth, try use flesh of thumb, fingerpicking, anything to make your sound a bit more individual |
JohnnyoftheWell
11.11.12 | Lol true; standard is so much better, but it works so well on that song |
ViralOblivion
11.11.12 | Iron man, easiest song ever |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | Haha i cant even tune in O.o dont have a tuner. |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | ViralOblivion i can already play that :D easy song to play. |
menawati
11.11.12 | just get a cheapo tuning fork |
JohnnyoftheWell
11.11.12 | Does your computer have a mic? |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | i will do thank you menawati :D SO, how do i get my pie chart thing on my profile changed? |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | yeah johnny but not a good one :D |
milkwizard
11.11.12 | music theory is the foundation of playing any instrument, dont be one of those kids that claims they can play guitar, but dont know their scales, chords or any other theory, you can still learn songs, but seriously, i cant stress how important knowing your scales are, especially for soloing, as well as writing riffs, songs, whatever |
JohnnyoftheWell
11.11.12 | Well, it'll probs work with online tuner websites, google them
And yes, if you want to write songs, scales, arps and chords are VITAL |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | im not going to milkwizard, but i want to learn some songs before all that crud :D then ill start with all that |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | ok johnny thank you very much :) how do i change my pie chart on my profile O.O |
menawati
11.11.12 | i dunno dont get too het up about theory, some of the best guitar players had no music theory at all, as long as u know basics to enable you to jam ok with other guys its enough |
menawati
11.11.12 | your pie chart changes as you rate albums |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | thanks a lot menawati you guys are all cool (: |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | how do i rate albums O.o |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | and what shall i rate? |
milkwizard
11.11.12 | learn master of puppets, that riffs in that songs are good to help with picking, but its hard as fuck to play, i can really play it that well, but i dont really practice it ever, but all those down strokes, make your forearms bublous and sore |
milkwizard
11.11.12 | also with master of puppets, really the only hard part is the picking, its like all downstrokes at a fast tempo, real hard to do, the fingering is fairly simple |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | i can play master of puppets partially : ) i can do it up until the middle bit when it slows down. the 01(2)01(3)01(4)01(3) riff was really hard |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | How do i rate albums? And what shall i rate >.> |
milkwizard
11.11.12 | yeah, thats the riff that i have a hard time with, i just cant keep the tempo, my arm gets tired, and alternate picking it is just as hard, at least for me |
menawati
11.11.12 | erm, u rate what you've heard that's the usual way lol |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | yeah but how do i rate ? :@ |
menawati
11.11.12 | just search for a band you know in the search box in the top right then use the dropdown list next to each of their albums |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | thank you menawati (: So, who are the regular users of this site to watch out for? I came on here cuz i have no real friends in real life and i want to meet new people just to talk to and stuff. |
menawati
11.11.12 | alt alert |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | whats an alt? |
wacknizzle
11.11.12 | I learned how to play some Metallica songs pretty easily when I just started guitar. Try Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman, Master of Puppets, One and For Whom The Bell Tolls or Call of Ktulu. They seem really difficult but if you can read tabs or notation that should help. |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | i can do nothing else matters and enter sandman and one and for whom the bell tolls and most of master of puppets >.> most metallica is really easy |
menawati
11.11.12 | "I came on here cuz i have no real friends in real life and i want to meet new people just to talk to and stuff"
just sounds like what an alt might say hehe |
wacknizzle
11.11.12 | Keep working at it, sounds like you're off to a good start. |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | whats an alt menawati? I dont understand :@ add me on facebook and talk to me about this site? http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003925345991&fref=ts cuz i really dont understand
wacknizzle thank you : ) |
Trebor.
11.11.12 | Getting proficient at power chords is the most important thing at first so
Misfits - Astro Zombies
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screambloodygore
11.11.12 | thank you Trebor (: |
undertakerpt
11.11.12 | hi, and congrats on taking the time to persue an instrument.
guitar, along with anything can be very difficult at first, but keep at it and you'll be capable in no time.
when i first started learning, i was bought a system of a down tab book for their first album. at first i had to learn how to drop tune to get the tuning they used, which i found hard at first, and needed the help of a tuner. so get one of them.
upon learning how to read tab for their songs, i discovered that a lot of their songs sounded the same in terms of the chords they used, so i abandoned the book and started working out their songs by ear.
in about 2 years i could pretty much work out anything by ear, and this includes not just guitar but other instruments as well and i would transpose those instruments to guitar.
my advice: dont bother with tab, it is for gays. |
JohnnyoftheWell
11.11.12 | alt alert [2]
I don't wanna believe it coz we might actually have a genuinely nice guy here, but if sputnik has taught me one thing, it's not to be naive |
KILL
11.11.12 | sup skele |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | thank you as well undertakerpt but im going to stick with tabs for now because i cant ear things out |
milkwizard
11.11.12 | undertakerpt speaking some wisdom, learning by ear is a really good thing to know how to do, but it does take som familiarity with the notes on a guitar, but dont completely blow off tab, i use it if i feel lazy or to check to see if what i transcribed is correct, also been playing 6 years, if that means anything to anyone |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | i really havent a clue at how to ear out anything O.o |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | johnny im not a guy? |
milkwizard
11.11.12 | it takes time to get accustomed to the notes on a guitar, keep with tab for now, and the more comfortbale you get with the notes, the easier it will be to listen to a song and figure it out by ear, just takes time, like everything else |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | i will do thank you milkwizard (: hopefully one day ill be able to ear things out tho |
undertakerpt
11.11.12 | good idea = a hot cup of tea
bad idea - a hot handful of tea |
menawati
11.11.12 | ye once u are familiar with the different sounds of basic chords major,minor, 7ths, sus4 and sus2 an all that u hear it in the music and it gets pretty easy to figure out a lot of the more simple music, solos a lot harder tho to do by ear |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | whatre the hardest songs on a guitar O.o Slayer? |
Trebor.
11.11.12 | I can make out most stuff in general by ear, like if something is an open note vs a fretted note, if something is tapping, in general where something is on the fret board
But I'm lazy as fuck so tabs unless their isn't tabs (all of emo/screamo) |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | fair enough ahha i dont like much screamo O.o Suicide Silence i really like though |
grish
11.11.12 | >hardest guitar
>slayer
>ha
probably something with steve vai or paul gilbert or someone like that |
Trebor.
11.11.12 | What does Suicide Silence have to do with screamo my word I think he thinks screamo means metalcore with clean vocals |
Trebor.
11.11.12 | never mind, tiss an alt |
screambloodygore
11.11.12 | who are some proper screamo bands then?
and ok dagrish the only ones ive seen who are harder are necrophagist, cryptopsy and cannibal corpse but i thnk slayers angel of death is probably harder |
grish
11.11.12 | angel of death, what. joe satriani is another to add to the list i made in my last comment.
no, really, look up guitarists outside of thrash/death metal bands, there are way better guitarists than kerry king |
