some_girl@hotmail.com wrote:A lot of people seem to play the same songs, possibly because they think they are good milestones that will make you better at playing or will teach you a new technique? That's how I decide whether or not I want to learn a song, and also because I like it.
Within every group of guitar playing friends, I think they all kind of learn the same songs together...Kinda gay if you ask me haha. I have quite a few friends who play guitar and I don't really learn and play everything they do, but we like some of the same bands enough to learn their songs.
Also, I've liked Classic rock for years now, and metal and lots of music. Now that it's coming out on Rock Band, when I play a song people are like, "That's from Rock Band, omg!! I know that song!" Like...shut the fuck uuuup. It existed long before Rock band and even longer than video games ever existed. That shit really pisses me off...
I think Rock Band is an okay game...To play a handful of times within your lifetime. But that's it. It's cool it can open people up to some great songs and introduce people to rock n' roll and insturments, but it's still not the same. All of the songs I like are overplayed due to rockband, the radio, and other guitar players, then I start to hate those songs. It's rockbands fault.
Songs I hate being played on guitar:
#1: Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd. I jsut hate that song in general, makes me want to kill.
- Eruption by Van Halen, especially when people play it on the high E string instead of the B string. Learn to play it correctly or not at all, please and thank you.- Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple...Self Explanitory.
And when I go into music stores, don't fuckin sweep pick the entire time it's annoying and also considered as cheating. And don't play scales a 5,000 bpm the entire time...or your hardcore scream-o drop C tuning bullshit. (But CoB are fuckin cool...).
That is all.
Are you sure? I was reading the tabs for this song, and it said it was played on the high E. Also I was watching an Eruption video, and Eddie himself plays it on the high E. Smoke on the Water isn't that bad. At my music store, I started playing that because I had a tone close to Blackmore's at the time, and like three other dudes just started a jam with it. It was sick. We would swicth who does the solos, and stuff like that. That was really fun.
Back on topic: When I was up at GC, are was this one dude playing nothing but Red Hot Chile Peppers, on bass. From like a half hour all you heard was Red Hot Chile Peppers. The dude had the amp kranked.
The floor was rumbling from this kid.
I'll play a few riffs when I'm at the store. I just play Raining Blood and Eruption to get the dude who are in bands to go "DUDE! Thats sick!!". Stuff like that. I'll play Crazy Train, but without the backing track it gets boring. I'll play my own riffs from time to time.
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:00 am