The Official Guitar Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Holy shit, no I hadn't seen that. And that was awesome.
Edit: Oh shit, there's a bunch of stuff up on YT from this too.
Edit: Oh shit, there's a bunch of stuff up on YT from this too.
Fuck yeah dude, great to hear!
Also, Warlocks FTW. Get yourself a sawblade codpiece and bust out some W.A.S.P. covers at once! \m/
Alexzander
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Youtube will probably take this down (and I'll be kind of flattered if they do, haha) but I knocked up a quick one-shot video of the Holy Wars rhythms. I'm not playing it 100% accurately but who cares, fuckin' song is a blast.
The first 10 seconds is a lot quieter than the rest so turn your volume down.
The first 10 seconds is a lot quieter than the rest so turn your volume down.
Alexzander
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Drajakur
Molten Core Raider
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Nice - really good playing! That's one of the songs I'm trying to learn at the moment. I, errrr, can't play it that well yet
Hilariously enough, right after I bought my POD I was in a shitty bike accident and tore my AC ligament in my shoulder. Haven't had proper use of my arm for 3 weeks which sucks. Talk about irony - don't play for years, start playing a lot, get injured can't play.
Just in passing, one of my favorite things about the POD is how easy it was to get a good custom sound. I mean, sure, there are like a million things I don't know what to do with on it, but it was pretty easy to program in a good metal-rythym; metal-lead; metal-clean series of sounds. Fun times.
My learning list is currently as follows:
Wake Up Dead
Reign in Blood
Holy Wars
Hanger 18
Metal Church: Metal Church
Bunch of AC/DC
Bunch of Rush (I'm Canadian!)
Blues stuff + scales
How could I forget how much fun it is to play guitar....?
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
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I really fell off the playing guitar bandwagon a few years ago.. need to get back into it.
Haven't played seriously in many years after selling everything to fund schooling.
Haven't played seriously in many years after selling everything to fund schooling.
Genjiro
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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On the cheap, this interface here into Reaper:
Amazon.com: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2 In/2 Out USB Recording Audio Interface: Musical Instruments
And an SM57.
Moebiwan
shitlord
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What Seventh said and, if you don't need more than one XLR connector, the Focusrite Scarlett Solo is a good choice and will save you some money. Depends on your need though. I prefer the 2i2 because I like the options the 2nd XLR connector provides me.
Focusrite Scarlett Solo | GuitarCenter
Focusrite Scarlett Solo | GuitarCenter
Julian The Apostate
Vyemm Raider
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Finally learned to play Old Man by Neil Young reasonably well. It's a song I've wanted to learn it for years but never thought I could but I found a good lesson video online and holy shit that's a fun fucking song to play. Fun to learn Neil's strumming style in general.
Recently I've knocked Ohio, Norwegian wood, blackbird and old man off the list of songs to learn. Next two are fire and rain and landslide but the finger picking has me seriously fucked up.
Recently I've knocked Ohio, Norwegian wood, blackbird and old man off the list of songs to learn. Next two are fire and rain and landslide but the finger picking has me seriously fucked up.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
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I like to think of learning to play hard songs as levelling up. When I first started playing guitar, after about 4 months I got obsessed by Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne. Song took me like 6 months to play at full speed (and shitty vibrato), and I felt afterwards that I was a much much better guitarist. Same goes nowadays when I try to learn Children of Bodom songs.. but the old ones are hard as fuck, Alexi can shred.