who plays guitar?

[TheOak84]

Since you are all together here, how good are the likes of Kirk Hammet ant the plethora of Metal guitarrist we have these days? Anyone that really stands over the crowd? I like how certain bands sound, but if you listen carefully you see that the guitar is basically filling the blanks and certainly does not seems (to the untrained ear) too complicated, probably because the composition as a whole is good.

synyster gates is phenominal. avenged sevenfolds lead guitarist.

why are you laughing Mouse, those arnt impossible arists to cover...

and yarg, as soon as i get my web cam ill play some SRV, but texas flood, just because thats my favorite song

 

[TheOak84]

if u want to shred i recommend u learn aeolian mode (aka minor scale), harmonic minor, phyrigian , dorian. i also recommend u learn ur arpeggios.. minors, diminished, major etc etc.

well, im in the process of learning, lots of practice of exercises, not just scales, and yes arpeggios. using a metronome helped alot in increasing speed. and just learning new solos. i used to think metallica was hard to play, ha! they are my most favorite band, i love kirk hammett, but once you learn a bit of technique, youll find hes not that amazing. he never gets old to me

ya, i learned that like, the first week of music theory.

ive also coverd triads, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13 chords. all the inversions
how to make a dim, aug, sus, min, 9th, 11 etc from a major chord
obviously reading music, the cirlce of 5ths, the major scale and how to make that a minor, dim, sus, etc... all the modes, all the names and other misc shit.

its a pain in the ass to remember, but i take 1 hour lesson and then a 15 min refresh lesson every week.

my teacher is also my good friend, so it helps to be around him alot..

heres his myspace for those who are interested

www.myspace.com/ryanrichko

there are vids of him tearing it up on there, and also on youtube

type in ryan ruin to fine more of him

 

[Mr. dB]

and yarg, as soon as i get my web cam ill play some SRV, but texas flood, just because thats my favorite song

I used to know the guy who wrote that song, Larry "Totsy" Davis.

 

[TheOak84]

I used to know the guy who wrote that song, Larry "Totsy" Davis.

i never heard the original, im guessing its somewhat the same, with SRV's touch of madness

 

[Mr. dB]

i never heard the original, im guessing its somewhat the same, with SRV's touch of madness

Davis' version was pretty ordinary blues really. He was a local guy, been dead for over a decade now. I fergit what killed him, heart attack or stroke I'd guess, he was pretty fat.

 

[Yarg!]

Since you are all together here, how good are the likes of Kirk Hammet ant the plethora of Metal guitarrist we have these days? Anyone that really stands over the crowd? I like how certain bands sound, but if you listen carefully you see that the guitar is basically filling the blanks and certainly does not seems (to the untrained ear) too complicated, probably because the composition as a whole is good.

some of the best guys today are not as well known as kirk hammet..well not even close. guys that are fairly new would be jeff loomis from nevermore, muhamed somethingorother from necrophagist, michael alkerfeldt from opeth, chris storey from all shall perish, the guys from a7x, the guys from trivium, chris/michael amott from arch enemy, ola frenning/ peter wichers from soilwork. the most recent virtuoso would be liek rusty cooley. almost all of the melodic deathmetal /death metal guys can tear up the fret board. would the average person find their music appealing though? probably not.

 

[Mr. dB]

There's this French/Tunisian kid, Nawfel, who is pretty good.

http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/ianpaicesmoke.html

 

[Mr. dB]

For the total package singer/songwriter/guitarist who is truly great at all three, it's hard to beat Richard Thompson.

 

[bignate73]

any song off trivium's ascendancy album from start to finish.

just got trivium! I'm so into it right now. good background music for while i was doing some work on the PC. heheh.

 

[Yarg!]

just got trivium! I'm so into it right now. good background music for while i was doing some work on the PC. heheh.

speaking of which i was noodling around on my acoustic last night and came up with a cool riff for ascendancy. now, i've decided im going to cover it on acoustic.. i got the chorus/intro riffs, verse riffs down for acoustic so far. it sounds like ascendancy, but totally revamped by me. ill upload an mp3 sometime in the next few days. btw my favorite song on ascendancy was the first song i learnt off that album: drowned and torn asunder .

ps. check out soilwork.

grand failure anthem
shadow child
weapon of vanity
observation slave
needlefeast!