Guitar

[transmaro93]

heres a pick of my babies.... the pic was taken before the blue one was funished obviously...

[Jam]

to be quite honest, it's not the guitar, it's the player. what kind of playing do you guys do . I usually just do a lot of sweeps and speed alternate picking . favorite music to play : Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold . Mostly play in D, hate dropping everything to C.

[LTb1ow]

Dropped D


And you were making fun of my guitar.....

[Jam]

huh?

[LTb1ow]

Dropped D is for newbs who wanna make a lotta noise and no clear solos. IMO of course.

[69BirdX]

I love playing Killswitch engange, as i lay dying and trivium. But im to impatient to try and solo

[transmaro93]

i cant shred but i play in standard all the time... just sounds better to me... and matts right... you can make anything sound heavy in drop tunings... it takes more skill to make heavy music in standard.... megadeth... metallica... maiden... priest.... slayer... you get the point... the real "original" metal bands...

[LTb1ow]

Eh, Slayer is dropped D for most of their newer stuff....

[Jam]

that's not true at all. all you are doing is bringing out the convenience of one finger power chords otherwise how else do you figure it's soo much easier. a scale is a scale.....

[91chevywt]

Originally Posted by Jam

to be quite honest, it's not the guitar, it's the player. what kind of playing do you guys do . I usually just do a lot of sweeps and speed alternate picking . favorite music to play : Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold . Mostly play in D, hate dropping everything to C.

Very very true...what sounds good or plays good to one person is merely a matter of opinion. Almost every guitar has its place in the "food chain" and different guitars are meant for different people. Some may be better off with a B.C. Rich, some may be better off with a Fender.

As far as learning other songs...I don't like to concentrate on that too much...I find that working really hard to learn someone elses style leads to that person "sounding like so-and-so."

[bubba428]

I tune to D standard, then drop, and lots of chuggy chuggy ultimate chug. I play mostly doom metal and thrash, lots of pre-90s metalica, slayer, exodus and megadeth. been learning a lot of zakk whylde stuff lately. Zakk Whylde's bark at the moon is freaking sick!!!

Originally Posted by 91chevywt

As far as learning other songs...I don't like to concentrate on that too much...I find that working really hard to learn someone elses style leads to that person "sounding like so-and-so."

ehh kinda, I mean I like learning different guitarist styles and getting the playing down identical, then moving on to another. that way my covers sound good and my own stuff has a very mixed sound and I can toss in the EVH tapping, Zakk Whylde artificial-harmonics, malmsteen sweeps, iron maiden harmonized solos. all played with my unique guitar and rig...yea...its ****ing metal as hell...then cut the distortion and kick it with the SRV.

[B4C]

BC rice make some relly nice higher end guitars but ther cheaper stuff really is junk. My frined bought a warlock starter pack and it was the worst guitar ever. I love my solid mahogany Gibson les paul, its heavy as crap but has awsome tone and sustain for days Im more into blues, jazz, and jam type music, but it has the abillity to crunch out some METAL from time to time. I currently suck though as I havnt really practiced in about a year.

[Jam]

wat i usually do is just blast a song I like and pretend i'm jamming with them. Fbody + Metal = ONe badass mother****er = the guy all girls love .

[69BirdX]

New metallica is in drop d or atleast most of the songs. I Usaly have a my one guitar in standard and the other in C

[HeadlessNorseman]

Originally Posted by transmaro93

yo man im still pretty much a beginner too... but i can play some songs.. iv been playing for like maybe 2 years... but only serious for like a year and half... if you ever want to get together and jam maybe i can show you a few things... i mostly play megadeth and metallica stuff though... i can play the beginning of raining blood... but im not really to into slayer so dont really look up to much of their music.... we should have a JSFBOA jam party!!!

I can play bass, guitar, cello..and off for 6-7 years more or less. Lets play in my basement. Noones home weekdays 9-5. Or friday night most weekends

[HeadlessNorseman]

Originally Posted by Jam

wat i usually do is just blast a song I like and pretend i'm jamming with them. Fbody + Metal = ONe badass mother****er = the guy all girls love .

If you live in mississippi maybe. BTW, avenged is one of my favorite bands. Esp the self titled CD

[Jam]

we should all start a garage band called " the Fbody AvengersssSS".......::cricket cricket:::

[HeadlessNorseman]

Originally Posted by Jam

we should all start a garage band called " the Fbody AvengersssSS".......::cricket cricket:::

Id be down for that in real life. not on the internet though

[bubba428]

that band would have the biggest ego EVER

[LTb1ow]

Yea, my problem is I listen to some friggen hard ass metal, tough learning curve... lol

And I actually bought a top of the line BC rich, don't ask me why.

[Jam]

"metal" is such a broad word. I used to play some crazy **** . like dillinger escape plan ****.

[LTb1ow]

Metal as in guitar metal. Not some angry person grunting/screaming into a mic.

Slayer, etc.

[Jam]

no i used to listen to **** metal like retarded sporadic scales and shreds. but now I listen to cleaner metal. (where you can understand what they are saying), like Killswitch, A7X, Atreyu, BTBAM, trivium. blah. pretty much bands that sound the same lol.

[DevilDougWS6]

it looks like something you could play at a concert, then start slap chopping heads off.

[Jam]

you're gonna love my nuts lol