What kind of style do you play on the guitar?

lumpyferret · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2005, 04:02 AM

Hi everyone.

Was just browsing the music section, just wondering if there would be any guitar players out there.

I have been playing myself for awhile now, i used to get lessons in highschool and had 2 learn a couple of songs to play for my end of school tests.

I can still play a couple of tricky songs that I learnt back in the day, and now just kinda muck around on the axe playing powerchords etc.

Ive just started trying to learn some new stuff on my own,
playing along to 50's songs and the Beatles

I reckon tabs are abit crummy to use..I prefer just to jam along with whatevers playing.

Oh and I also play Fingerpicking style..wich i reckon works pretty well with almost anything..

so I pose the question to you all,
what kinda music do you play on the guitarrr?

Cheeers

Kev · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2005, 04:02 PM

I've been playing for 4 years now(whoa never really counted it) and I like to play mainly rock and heavy metal, but I want to start playing a little blues, jazz, and some power metal which I'm not used to yet. I'm more of a solo guy. AC/DC and Beatles solos are really fun to play and not hard to learn.
Hehe, Thursday night I got home, ate, and went to play guitar. I played for around 4 hours and then decided to go on my computer after I would take a shower. I'm in the shower, "Bzzzz" no more power, so I played more guitar without an amp until I went to bed.

herbsman420 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-02-2005, 10:58 PM

I have been playing guitar for about two or three years. I play alot of old stuf like the Beatles. I also love to play classic rock like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Hendrix, AC/DC etc. New Heavy Metal is pretty fun to play too. I have been wanting to learn how to play some Jazz stuff, so I will be working on that in the future.

Jah Bless

ziggyshugenadz · #4 (**permalink**) 10-02-2005, 11:46 PM

i play punk, heavy metal, progressive rock, so many different styles. thats when i played guitar alot. now i play bass. mostly slap and pop and cool stuff like that.

ripcurl15 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 01:16 AM

i play alot of chordey acoustic and Hardcore, and some kinda punky stuff whatever basically

metal_head46 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 01:32 AM

I play Bass and most of my music is hardrock/heavy metal. I do like to fuck around and play some classic stuff (LedZep, Floyd etc.) but I find heavy metal like Metallica, Pantera and so on, are just too damn fun to play. I've had an urge to learn some Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix's bassist) because Jazz/Blues is really good for transition on Bass.....but I've just been to preoccupied with other stuff. Does anyone else play in a band and or record thier own stuff?

Fog's Kiss · #7 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 05:02 AM

I play ridiculously technical shred metal, black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, thrash, blackened death metal...you get the idea.

420-2112 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 11:41 PM

Yeah, I'm in a band. I like to play blues and progressive rock on my bass, and funk if I'm in a funky mood.

metal_head46 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-04-2005, 07:09 PM

Fog's Kiss,

Can you please give me the scoop on the many types of metal... aka...black metal/death metal/melodic death metal/blackened death metal? I find after thrash/speed metal, all the other types of metal start to sound the same to me. How long have you been playing guitar?

Fog's Kiss · #10 (**permalink**) 10-04-2005, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by metal_head46

Fog's Kiss,

Can you please give me the scoop on the many types of metal... aka...black metal/death metal/melodic death metal/blackened death metal? I find after thrash/speed metal, all the other types of metal start to sound the same to me. How long have you been playing guitar?

No problem.

Black Metal - Perhaps the furthest evolution of metal music, black metal diverged from the mainstream by taking the hoarse and bassy vocals of death metal and turning them into an inhuman hiss, accompanied by fast music in which elegant, Romantic melodies were discernible amidst the chaos. It also embraced dangerous thoughts explicitly; where previous generations of metal protested society or reminded people that death was more predominant than sociopolitical reality, black metal rejected modernity entirely and espoused a feral, naturalistic spirit.

Death Metal - The death of speed metal left a large hole in alienated popular culture. The bands once praised by Robert Fripp and Tony Iommi alike for maintaining their integrity were beginning, bit by bit, to get dragged into making music to please the buying public. As a result, the next generation of metal musicians took the black/thrash from the early 1980s and mixed it into the rhythmically abrupt style of melodic narrative composition that marked speed metal in its full maturity. It stepped aside from muted strumming in favor of fasting, wrist-whipping tremolo, and of course used the hoarse overdriven vocals that were also common in grindcore. However, pentatonic scales and conventional harmony went out the window in favor of detuned power chords and chromatic progressions, making this one of the most foreboding and antisocial art forms yet rendered by humanity. Like other postmodern musics, including "free jazz" and serial music, death metal threw aside conventional harmony for a rough grouping of riffs by similar motifs in rhythm and tone, and quickly grew from being relatively random into a style that, like classical music, created a poetry of action in the change between themes.

Melodic Black Metal - Among those who created black metal, there were some who used intricate neoclassical compositions to accent the melancholy emotions and basic naturalism of black metal, crafting songs that seemed more at home in a Greco-Roman drama than a modern genre of popular music. This style was archly epic and staged its songs around massive dramas of natural beauty and human heroism, often taking on existential and Romantic topics in a form that would have been entirely compatible with English and German Romantic poetry of the preceding two centuries. Further, these bands often embraced medievalist attire and language, although not universally. Songs were longer than normal, and often worked together as concept albums; while percussion was more like that of standard black metal or death metal, it was deemphasized so to play more of an accentual role than a leading one. Although this style seemed to quickly exhaust its topics and fade away, this was in part because of its limited appeal to a broader fanbase, who found it difficult to chase down meaning in sprawling works of grandeur where three chords and a bass kick would do. However, its influence was widely felt in the ambient black metal genre, where the same feeling and intent was streamlined into a more sustainable form. While the techniques and aesthetic used by these bands is similar to black metal as a whole, this is consistent with the divergence of black metal from death metal by using melodic narrative composition instead of a mostly rhythmic version of the same.

Melodic Death Metal - Known at first as "Swedish death metal" because most of its creators originated in Scandinavia, this style is more accurately known by its most vivid aspect of composition, which is the use of melodic styles to unify the thunderous sound of death metal, in contrast to the nearly exclusively chromatic/whole scale/diatonic riffing of the surrounding genre. It is distinct from the "New Wave of Swedish Melodic Death Metal," which is more realistically known as heavy metal with the stylings of death metal, and despite some tendencies in that area overcame them for the most part.

That's the lowdown on specific styles of extreme metal. Of course, there are combinations of these particular styles but further categorizing would be annoying. I've played guitar for 7 years.

metal_head46 · #11 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 07:12 PM

Wow, thanks for the awesome break down. Very thorough...awesome man. Keep rockn!!

Fog's Kiss · #12 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005, 10:58 PM

I'm always glad to help out.

Tekhnix · #13 (**permalink**) 10-07-2005, 09:14 PM

sort of a... psychdelic shred played with lots of reverb and a big muff pi pedal.

tdot · #14 (**permalink**) 10-08-2005, 09:17 PM

i've been playing for 5 years now.

play mostly AC/DC, Nirvana, Ramones, Led Zeppelin, System of a Down, Aerosmith etc. if i really like a song i listen to, i make it a point to learn it on guitar.

what kind of guitar does everyone have?

geetardude · #15 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 05:56 AM

Hey,

I've been playing guitar for about 3 1/2 years now. I like to play Old metallica, Ozzy osbourne, Jimi Hendrix Experience. I know a few blues tunes, and play around with the 12 Bar Blues style to make up my own. I also like to just play around with Major and Minor chords to make up my own small progressions every once in a while. I didn't really say my "style" but that pretty much sums it up, right? Peace.

-Timmy

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#1 (permalink) 10-01-2005, 04:02 AM
lumpyferret mysterious traveller Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 181	What kind of style do you play on the guitar? Hi everyone. Was just browsing the music section, just wondering if there would be any guitar players out there. I have been playing myself for awhile now, i used to get lessons in highschool and had 2 learn a couple of songs to play for my end of school tests. I can still play a couple of tricky songs that I learnt back in the day, and now just kinda muck around on the axe playing powerchords etc. Ive just started trying to learn some new stuff on my own, playing along to 50's songs and the Beatles I reckon tabs are abit crummy to use..I prefer just to jam along with whatevers playing. Oh and I also play Fingerpicking style..wich i reckon works pretty well with almost anything.. so I pose the question to you all, what kinda music do you play on the guitarrr? Cheeers __________________

#2 (permalink) 10-01-2005, 04:02 PM
Kev Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 45	I've been playing for 4 years now(whoa never really counted it) and I like to play mainly rock and heavy metal, but I want to start playing a little blues, jazz, and some power metal which I'm not used to yet. I'm more of a solo guy. AC/DC and Beatles solos are really fun to play and not hard to learn. Hehe, Thursday night I got home, ate, and went to play guitar. I played for around 4 hours and then decided to go on my computer after I would take a shower. I'm in the shower, "Bzzzz" no more power, so I played more guitar without an amp until I went to bed. Last edited by Kev; 10-01-2005 at 04:07 PM.

#3 (permalink) 10-02-2005, 10:58 PM
herbsman420 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: TX Posts: 771	I have been playing guitar for about two or three years. I play alot of old stuf like the Beatles. I also love to play classic rock like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Hendrix, AC/DC etc. New Heavy Metal is pretty fun to play too. I have been wanting to learn how to play some Jazz stuff, so I will be working on that in the future. Jah Bless __________________

#5 (permalink) 10-03-2005, 01:16 AM
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#6 (permalink) 10-03-2005, 01:32 AM
metal_head46 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 31	I play Bass and most of my music is hardrock/heavy metal. I do like to fuck around and play some classic stuff (LedZep, Floyd etc.) but I find heavy metal like Metallica, Pantera and so on, are just too damn fun to play. I've had an urge to learn some Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix's bassist) because Jazz/Blues is really good for transition on Bass.....but I've just been to preoccupied with other stuff. Does anyone else play in a band and or record thier own stuff?

#7 (permalink) 10-03-2005, 05:02 AM
Fog's Kiss Banned Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 65	I play ridiculously technical shred metal, black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, thrash, blackened death metal...you get the idea.

#8 (permalink) 10-03-2005, 11:41 PM
420-2112 Music+Weed=Heaven Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NC Posts: 131	Yeah, I'm in a band. I like to play blues and progressive rock on my bass, and funk if I'm in a funky mood. __________________ Homer: If I die, you have to carry on the family name. Bart: Screw that. When I grow up, I'm legally changing my name to Joe Kickass. Homer: That is SO cool! My stoned friend: Everything's the same...yet different.

#9 (permalink) 10-04-2005, 07:09 PM
metal_head46 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 31	Fog's Kiss, Can you please give me the scoop on the many types of metal... aka...black metal/death metal/melodic death metal/blackened death metal? I find after thrash/speed metal, all the other types of metal start to sound the same to me. How long have you been playing guitar?

#11 (permalink) 10-06-2005, 07:12 PM
metal_head46 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 31	Wow, thanks for the awesome break down. Very thorough...awesome man. Keep rockn!!

#12 (permalink) 10-06-2005, 10:58 PM
Fog's Kiss Banned Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 65	I'm always glad to help out.

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#13 (permalink) 10-07-2005, 09:14 PM
Tekhnix Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: inside of a duck and on a temporary ban Posts: 384	sort of a... psychdelic shred played with lots of reverb and a big muff pi pedal.

#14 (permalink) 10-08-2005, 09:17 PM
tdot Marihuana will kill you! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 90	i've been playing for 5 years now. play mostly AC/DC, Nirvana, Ramones, Led Zeppelin, System of a Down, Aerosmith etc. if i really like a song i listen to, i make it a point to learn it on guitar. what kind of guitar does everyone have?

#15 (permalink) 10-13-2005, 05:56 AM
geetardude Buzzed Guitarist Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sullivan, IL Posts: 1,249	Hey, I've been playing guitar for about 3 1/2 years now. I like to play Old metallica, Ozzy osbourne, Jimi Hendrix Experience. I know a few blues tunes, and play around with the 12 Bar Blues style to make up my own. I also like to just play around with Major and Minor chords to make up my own small progressions every once in a while. I didn't really say my "style" but that pretty much sums it up, right? Peace. -Timmy __________________ "My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head" - Kirk Hammett "I'm the one that has to die, when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life, the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix "I love the guitar so much that it all sounds great to me no matter who is playing it. Even if somebody sucks, I can't hear the suckiness--it's all beautiful to me, brother" - Dimebag Darrell R.I.P.