adywan said:
haljordan28 said:
I never claimed motley crue or whitesnake did and as a matter off act they are quite easy. Difficult would be country lead or rockabilly or jazz and flamengo.
It is easy to hide behind a ton of distortion and miss notes and pull off bends that do not even hit the exact note you are looking for. you can get CLOSE with rock and the blues but with country lead you have to be prescice because you are mimicking a pedal steal which is done by mechanics...also the spped at which they play leads going through clean channels and HYBRID picking on top of that..not flat picking wanking like rock guitar..is just a sheer testament to their skills.
Zack Wylde said it best "country lead players are from another planet" truth is they are not. they just put in the time to play like masters and they dont hide behind distortion. they are truly the best of the best
haljordan28 said:
Yeah I bet it's easy to criticize a music genre when you obviously know absolutely nothing about it.
People like you make me laugh.
I know guitar and I know what is difficult to play and what it not. If you think metal is then you clearly know jack shit about guitar playing.
what makes it hard? Do tell? Explain to us all what techniques are involved in death metal guitar that makes it the slightest bit challenging?
Laugh at yourself.
Now it's this type of attitude that really pisses me off. You have a really high and mighty attitude that "your type of music" is better than all the rest and you look down on other who play a different style. I played guitar/bass/keyboards/drums for just under 20 years before my health forced me to never be able to play again. I'm a metal fan but i also listen to a very wide variety of music and also enjoyed to play the same variety. But it was the ones that classed looked down on others that really got on my nerves. The amount of times that i challenged these "great" guitarists to play metal/rock and they failed miserably always put a smile on my face. Now a few of these people i knew personally and they worked as session musicians. they had worked with some very big names like Van Morrison, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, to name a few. Now my old band lost its guitarist a few weeks before we had an important gig so we asked one of the session musicians we knew if he could fill in because i had now turned away from the guitar for live work to concentrate more on being the vocalist. Now this guy isn't one of the ones that ever looked down on other music genres. We has seen him play many times and he was an amazing guitarist. His main styles were Country & Blues. Now we gave him a tape of the set a few weeks before the gig and he said he could learn it by just listening to it, which is the way he worked with a lot of people he played session guitar for. The night of the gig cam and you could see how much he was struggling to play our music. He freely admitted after that he didn't think before hand that this style of music would have been so hard to play and that he was wrong.
Now it was thanks to this person that, in the late 80's, i had the amazing opportunity to have an after hours acoustic jam session in a local county pub with none other than Robert Plant and Eric Clapton. It went on until the early hours in the morning and was one of the highlights of my life. I really wish someone could have recorded it as this was something to show the grandkids.
Now in every genre of music you have the good, the bad and the great. To say that musicians in a certain genre are better than the rest is just plain music snobbery and i really have no time for these types.
Now i'm not a death metal fan by a long shot but to say that it's easy just proves to me that you haven't even bothered trying to play it. Now again there are a lot of death metal bands that just play the same old stuff with the more simple riffs and solos but there are also those that have very talented guitarists that go against the norm. Now i really can't stand listening to this type of metal, but my daughter loves it. But every now and then i hear a guitarist that just catches my ear and i just can't help listening to the track.
So maybe you should laugh at yourself instead of dismissing others so quickly.
How do ypu know if I dont play any metal? lol. As a matter of fact I do.
I agree that a great classical guitarist could not just pick up a guitar and do what vai or eddie van halen does. Each style is a discipline all it's own.
What I am saying is that if you take a guitar player and sit him down there are certain styles that are much more difficult to master than others. Rock and BLues and yes metal is included in the rock genre are the two easiest styles to master.
if the truth offends some of you too bad cause I dont know what to tell you. Go wank some Root and 5ths.