I'll keep the 10's. I once used 11's along time ago. Never could get up to the 13's.
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For a long time I've used Skinny Top Heavy Bottom strings which are 10 through 52, but I think my next set is going to be straight 10s. I'm trying to get my action as low as possible and develop a lighter touch.
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“Ruby” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“Never Miss A Beat” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“I Predict A Riot” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who formed in 2000 as Parva, releasing one studio album, 22, in 2003, before renaming and establishing themselves in their current name that same year. Since their formation the band consists of lead vocalist Ricky Wilson, guitarist Andrew "Whitey" White, bassist Simon Rix, keyboardist and occasional drummer Nick "Peanut" Baines and since 2013 drummer Vijay Mistry, who replaced founding drummer Nick Hodgson who left the band in late 2012.
Primarily inspired by new wave and punk rock music of the late 1970s and 1980s, the band have released six original studio albums: Employment (2005), Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007), Off with Their Heads (2008), The Future Is Medieval (2011), Education, Education, Education & War (2014) and Stay Together (2016), one EP: Lap of Honour (2005), one compilation album: Souvenir: The Singles 2004–2012 (2012) and numerous singles, including the number one hit song "Ruby".
I'd say more post-punk than punk from these three songs, but I do hear the new wave.
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OK, another group I've never heard of, but based on the sample, I'm kind of tempted -- look like they'd be fun songs that won't actually melt my fingers off of my hands.
My Scottish roommate introduced me to two of the Kaiser Chief songs including Ruby and Oh My God (this one because there was a Mark Ronson/Lily Allen cover on Mark Ronson's album, Version).
I don't know the other ones but they all sound like they could be fun to play. Oh My God would have been my preferred song to Ruby but Ruby isn't a bad choice either.
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“Pompeii” by Bastille – E Standard – Rhythm/Bass; Drop D - Lead
“What You Know” by Two Door Cinema Club – E Standard – Lead/Bass; Capo Required - Rhythm
“Hold Back The River” by James Bay – D Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
Wow ... Never heard that one before; it's interesting to see what they were doing before they became kind of a German bog-standard hair metal band in the 1980s.
And in that thumbnail, he looks just like Weird Al.
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If we're talking Scorpions wishlist, I'd love to see "The Zoo" and "Still Loving You".
And speaking of prog bands that became 80's pop bands, I'd love to see some early Genesis, back when Peter Gabriel was still with them:
Wow ... Never heard that one before; it's interesting to see what they were doing before they became kind of a German bog-standard hair metal band in the 1980s.
And in that thumbnail, he looks just like Weird Al.
70's Scorpions was a completely different animal, mainly due to Uli Jon Roth's presence (the really bored dude jamming on the Strat). He started clashing some with Klaus and Rudolph Schenker over songwriting (they wanted more traditional blues sounding stuff that became their arena rock sound, Uli wanted to keep doing proggy shit) and left the band in 1978.
Wow ... Never heard that one before; it's interesting to see what they were doing before they became kind of a German bog-standard hair metal band in the 1980s.
And in that thumbnail, he looks just like Weird Al.
70's Scorpions was a completely different animal, mainly due to Uli Jon Roth's presence (the really bored dude jamming on the Strat). He started clashing some with Klaus and Rudolph Schenker over songwriting (they wanted more traditional blues sounding stuff that became their arena rock sound, Uli wanted to keep doing proggy shit) and left the band in 1978.
Waitaminnit ... I had been reliably informed that Eddie Van Halen invented fretboard tapping; was I being lied to this whole time?
He definitely didn't invent it, but he did popularize it and made it a big part of his playing. He also kind of pushed it further than anyone had at that time.
Waitaminnit ... I had been reliably informed that Eddie Van Halen invented fretboard tapping; was I being lied to this whole time?
He definitely didn't invent it, but he did popularize it and made it a big part of his playing. He also kind of pushed it further than anyone had at that time.
Yeah, my tongue may have been a little ways into my cheek ... But it was cool to see it in a video from 1973!
Omg Klaus! Who told you to stand there dancing like that!
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Hmm, one of the confirmed songs for next week is "My Favorite Game" by The Cardigans. Not sure if it's a pack of them or just a single, but an interesting pick.
So am I the only one who sometimes plays a song just to get it off the top of the "Recommended" sort list? (In this case it was Joy to the World, just because I was getting sick of opening up the list and having it sing a very chipper, "Joy, joy, joy, joy" to me.)
I sort by skill
As my list is very messed up since Eighteen by Winger is the hardest song for me
Yet I have a lot of the surf rock songs aced with Paris by Grace Potter and Jessie's girl which are all really fun songs to play
I even use the later to test guitars out
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“Murmaider” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Alt Rhythm/Bass
“Black Fire Upon Us” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“Bloodlines” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Bass
Dethklok is a virtual death metal band featured in the Adult Swim animated television series Metalocalypse. The first official Dethklok album was released on September 25, 2007, entitled The Dethalbum. The album debuted at number 21 on Billboard Magazine's Top 200 list.
I did chuckle at some of the lyrics, but that was definitely the most misses I've seen for a DLC trailer that I can remember.
Between the C standard tuning and the difficulty, I'll be taking a pass on this one, but props to anyone who does pick it up.
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I would totally get this if not for the C tuning. I love Dethklok.
I really need to get my Ibanez set up for lower tunings now that I have a new guitar.
“Murmaider” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Alt Rhythm/Bass
“Black Fire Upon Us” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“Bloodlines” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Bass
Dethklok is a virtual death metal band featured in the Adult Swim animated television series Metalocalypse. The first official Dethklok album was released on September 25, 2007, entitled The Dethalbum. The album debuted at number 21 on Billboard Magazine's Top 200 list.
I did chuckle at some of the lyrics, but that was definitely the most misses I've seen for a DLC trailer that I can remember.
Between the C standard tuning and the difficulty, I'll be taking a pass on this one, but props to anyone who does pick it up.
Yeah, I saw all of those misses and thought, "Hey! I could do that!"
But I'll also be taking a pass, especially give the tuning.
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Hey something else in C besides Children of Bodom and Sinergy. I may get them just for the novelty factor.
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I'm actually noticing an improvement in my lead playing. It's gone from "mostly terrible" to "alright". I decided to sit down and learn the solo to "I Remember You" by Skid Row and after 4 or 5 times I'm up to almost 92% on the lead part. There's only really 1 fast run in the solo that I'm not quite fast enough on, but instead of my usual of flubbing the fast notes and hitting the bends, I actually know what fast notes I need to hit and can almost hit all of them. I can do it pretty reliably at 90% speed. It's kind of surreal after over 20 years of playing with almost no work on my soloing to see this stuff in my grasp.
Thank you, John Petrucci!
I've also noticed some improvement on my stretching, which I didn't think would happen after so long, of admittedly playing the same stuff. I've been playing "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche a fair amount and it's got one part where you do 3-5-7 on the A-D-G strings, then do 3-4-7. That switch to 4 was kind of tough, but today I completely nailed it every time. Follow your dreams, kids!
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I'm actually noticing an improvement in my lead playing. It's gone from "mostly terrible" to "alright". I decided to sit down and learn the solo to "I Remember You" by Skid Row and after 4 or 5 times I'm up to almost 92% on the lead part. There's only really 1 fast run in the solo that I'm not quite fast enough on, but instead of my usual of flubbing the fast notes and hitting the bends, I actually know what fast notes I need to hit and can almost hit all of them. I can do it pretty reliably at 90% speed. It's kind of surreal after over 20 years of playing with almost no work on my soloing to see this stuff in my grasp.
Thank you, John Petrucci!
I've also noticed some improvement on my stretching, which I didn't think would happen after so long, of admittedly playing the same stuff. I've been playing "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche a fair amount and it's got one part where you do 3-5-7 on the A-D-G strings, then do 3-4-7. That switch to 4 was kind of tough, but today I completely nailed it every time. Follow your dreams, kids!
Rock Discipline truly does work. It's one of the best foundation building lesson videos I've ever seen in playing for over 20 years myself, and I'll typically steer people to it or some of Paul Gilbert's late 80's, early 90's videos because they are the two best I've seen at properly giving you the tools to do what they do and a line of progression to follow beyond just shredding shit fast and playing shit slow. They're also great at expressing their ideas using full theory wank as well as "layman" terms for those that are self-taught and can just read tab.
And ah, "Eyes of a Stranger", it was a staple of a prog-rock cover band I was in around 10 years ago. Being both Michael Wilton and Geoff Tate on that song at the same time is the most arduous musical gymnastics I've ever done in a live setting.
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I'm actually noticing an improvement in my lead playing. It's gone from "mostly terrible" to "alright". I decided to sit down and learn the solo to "I Remember You" by Skid Row and after 4 or 5 times I'm up to almost 92% on the lead part. There's only really 1 fast run in the solo that I'm not quite fast enough on, but instead of my usual of flubbing the fast notes and hitting the bends, I actually know what fast notes I need to hit and can almost hit all of them. I can do it pretty reliably at 90% speed. It's kind of surreal after over 20 years of playing with almost no work on my soloing to see this stuff in my grasp.
Thank you, John Petrucci!
I've also noticed some improvement on my stretching, which I didn't think would happen after so long, of admittedly playing the same stuff. I've been playing "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche a fair amount and it's got one part where you do 3-5-7 on the A-D-G strings, then do 3-4-7. That switch to 4 was kind of tough, but today I completely nailed it every time. Follow your dreams, kids!
Rock Discipline truly does work. It's one of the best foundation building lesson videos I've ever seen in playing for over 20 years myself, and I'll typically steer people to it or some of Paul Gilbert's late 80's, early 90's videos because they are the two best I've seen at properly giving you the tools to do what they do and a line of progression to follow beyond just shredding shit fast and playing shit slow. They're also great at expressing their ideas using full theory wank as well as "layman" terms for those that are self-taught and can just read tab.
And ah, "Eyes of a Stranger", it was a staple of a prog-rock cover band I was in around 10 years ago. Being both Michael Wilton and Geoff Tate on that song at the same time is the most arduous musical gymnastics I've ever done in a live setting.
I've never been much of a Dream Theater fan, but have always admired Petrucci for his ability. Rock Discipline was recommended to me by a long time guitar player friend. He's way into jazz these days and has a music degree from the University of North Texas (pretty prestigious music school), and he said that video helped him out a lot. I'm really barely into it, myself. I got to the exercise part and took the first 2 he listed (playing a harmonic major scale in quarter notes, 8th notes, 8th note triplets, etc., and the chromatic alternate picking exercise) and have just been working on those, but like I said, I've had noticeable improvement. I didn't go any further because while he's all "if you're having trouble playing it at a certain speed, try playing it at a higher speed a few times then back it off to where you want to be. For instance try 200 bpm, then back it off to 180" on the chromatic exercise, while I was struggling with it at 80 bpm. But now I can play it pretty cleanly at 120bpm, and can play it messily at tempos like 160. I'm sure I'd be making even faster progress if I practiced more, but I try to do at least 20 or 30 minutes a day. I've also noticed improvement in general accuracy, like those 3 string chords I mentioned. It's probably related to forcing myself to use my 3rd and 4th fingers more.
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It's probably related to forcing myself to use my 3rd and 4th fingers more.
I have terrible pinky discipline on my fretting hand. I have to constantly remind myself to use it when playing lead lines cause otherwise I have to shift my hand position more often and I wind up dragging behind the rhythm.
If only I had a catcher's mitt hand like Michael Schenker then I'd only need 3 fingers:
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Going back to my post on using late 80's, early 90's Paul Gilbert vids as training tools, I finally remembered the 2 I have and have used are Intense Rock I and Intense Rock II.
To give an idea of the lack of fucks Paul gives about decorum or how to make a lesson plan, here's the opening video and song he teaches you in Intense Rock II:
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“Ruby” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“Never Miss A Beat” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“I Predict A Riot” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
I'd say more post-punk than punk from these three songs, but I do hear the new wave.
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I don't know the other ones but they all sound like they could be fun to play. Oh My God would have been my preferred song to Ruby but Ruby isn't a bad choice either.
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I think those are the only two Kaiser Chiefs songs I know.
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edit: Oh, it's a 2010s pack. So it might just be one song from them and then some other bands.
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“Pompeii” by Bastille – E Standard – Rhythm/Bass; Drop D - Lead
“What You Know” by Two Door Cinema Club – E Standard – Lead/Bass; Capo Required - Rhythm
“Hold Back The River” by James Bay – D Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
Another one I can give a pass to, I think. Keep hoping for Scorpions, although at this point I'd even settle for Quiet Riot.
There's only one track from the Scorps I'd love to see in Rocksmith, and that'd be:
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Good thing you can buy tracks individually, I guess.
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Wow ... Never heard that one before; it's interesting to see what they were doing before they became kind of a German bog-standard hair metal band in the 1980s.
And in that thumbnail, he looks just like Weird Al.
And speaking of prog bands that became 80's pop bands, I'd love to see some early Genesis, back when Peter Gabriel was still with them:
70's Scorpions was a completely different animal, mainly due to Uli Jon Roth's presence (the really bored dude jamming on the Strat). He started clashing some with Klaus and Rudolph Schenker over songwriting (they wanted more traditional blues sounding stuff that became their arena rock sound, Uli wanted to keep doing proggy shit) and left the band in 1978.
Another fun one from that era:
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Waitaminnit ... I had been reliably informed that Eddie Van Halen invented fretboard tapping; was I being lied to this whole time?
Yeah, I remember going onto Spotify and listening to the Scorps' very first album and going, "Hmmmm ... that is not what I was expecting ..."
And seriously: Klaus looks exactly like Weird Al.
He definitely didn't invent it, but he did popularize it and made it a big part of his playing. He also kind of pushed it further than anyone had at that time.
Yeah, my tongue may have been a little ways into my cheek ... But it was cool to see it in a video from 1973!
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As my list is very messed up since Eighteen by Winger is the hardest song for me
Yet I have a lot of the surf rock songs aced with Paris by Grace Potter and Jessie's girl which are all really fun songs to play
I even use the later to test guitars out
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“Lovefool” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“Erase, Rewind” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“My Favourite Game” – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass
This one's not for me, but it's always nice to see variety.
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“Murmaider” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Alt Rhythm/Bass
“Black Fire Upon Us” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Bass
“Bloodlines” – C Standard – Lead/Alt Lead/Rhythm/Bass
I did chuckle at some of the lyrics, but that was definitely the most misses I've seen for a DLC trailer that I can remember.
Between the C standard tuning and the difficulty, I'll be taking a pass on this one, but props to anyone who does pick it up.
If you ever need to talk to someone, feel free to message me. Yes, that includes you.
I really need to get my Ibanez set up for lower tunings now that I have a new guitar.
Yeah, I saw all of those misses and thought, "Hey! I could do that!"
But I'll also be taking a pass, especially give the tuning.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Thank you, John Petrucci!
I've also noticed some improvement on my stretching, which I didn't think would happen after so long, of admittedly playing the same stuff. I've been playing "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche a fair amount and it's got one part where you do 3-5-7 on the A-D-G strings, then do 3-4-7. That switch to 4 was kind of tough, but today I completely nailed it every time. Follow your dreams, kids!
Rock Discipline truly does work. It's one of the best foundation building lesson videos I've ever seen in playing for over 20 years myself, and I'll typically steer people to it or some of Paul Gilbert's late 80's, early 90's videos because they are the two best I've seen at properly giving you the tools to do what they do and a line of progression to follow beyond just shredding shit fast and playing shit slow. They're also great at expressing their ideas using full theory wank as well as "layman" terms for those that are self-taught and can just read tab.
And ah, "Eyes of a Stranger", it was a staple of a prog-rock cover band I was in around 10 years ago. Being both Michael Wilton and Geoff Tate on that song at the same time is the most arduous musical gymnastics I've ever done in a live setting.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I've never been much of a Dream Theater fan, but have always admired Petrucci for his ability. Rock Discipline was recommended to me by a long time guitar player friend. He's way into jazz these days and has a music degree from the University of North Texas (pretty prestigious music school), and he said that video helped him out a lot. I'm really barely into it, myself. I got to the exercise part and took the first 2 he listed (playing a harmonic major scale in quarter notes, 8th notes, 8th note triplets, etc., and the chromatic alternate picking exercise) and have just been working on those, but like I said, I've had noticeable improvement. I didn't go any further because while he's all "if you're having trouble playing it at a certain speed, try playing it at a higher speed a few times then back it off to where you want to be. For instance try 200 bpm, then back it off to 180" on the chromatic exercise, while I was struggling with it at 80 bpm. But now I can play it pretty cleanly at 120bpm, and can play it messily at tempos like 160. I'm sure I'd be making even faster progress if I practiced more, but I try to do at least 20 or 30 minutes a day. I've also noticed improvement in general accuracy, like those 3 string chords I mentioned. It's probably related to forcing myself to use my 3rd and 4th fingers more.
I have terrible pinky discipline on my fretting hand. I have to constantly remind myself to use it when playing lead lines cause otherwise I have to shift my hand position more often and I wind up dragging behind the rhythm.
If only I had a catcher's mitt hand like Michael Schenker then I'd only need 3 fingers:
~ Buckaroo Banzai
To give an idea of the lack of fucks Paul gives about decorum or how to make a lesson plan, here's the opening video and song he teaches you in Intense Rock II:
I've wanted a fringe accented guitar ever since.
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