TSR Guitar Society

Thanks for all the helpful replies will have to get to work on them although I'm more into indie stuff and rock then the metal scene. I can play the into solos of 'A certain romance' and 'I bet that you look good on the dancefloor' pretty well. Currently been practiscing the little fills and solo on 'Married with Children', playing along withmy mate doing rhythm which is sounds not too terrible, so some progress.

Reply 1381

Slide Away

Thanks for all the helpful replies, will have to get to work on them although I'm more into indie stuff and rock then the metal scene. I can play the into solos of 'A certain romance' and 'I bet that you look good on the dancefloor' pretty well. Currently been practiscing the little fills and solo on 'Married with Children', playing along with my mate doing rhythm which sounds not too terrible, so some progress.

Reply 1382

Demon_AS

13

My guitar comes back tomorrow *gets giddy* #excited#

Reply 1383

dynamite_man

Demon_AS

Erm... dude, I don't think you were quite following.

For a start, I was talking about strumming, not individual note picking. Whether you strum on the up or on the down, the sound of the entire chord sounds the same (unless played slowly, in which case the reversal of pitch in the notes can be heard), so I was advocating strumming alternately, as opposed to simple downstrokes.

All I meant to say was that I've recently - through hard work and practise - come to understand the easiest and most economical way of strumming is constant up and down movement, missing the strings on the beats that don't require it, and hitting them when you do.

Vector said something about playing the bass part to Hysteria with downstrokes alone - not me :wink:

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Given that I was talking about downstrokes and alt. picking while I was talking about master of puppets, you'd think I wasn't actually talking about strumming. Although, I can see the miscommunication as far as down strums and down strokes go. Sorry to jump on your tail there.

As far as 'slow strumming' goes, I suppose you mean playing arpeggiated chords?

The most economical way of strumming... would be, just like with picking, 'economy strumming' [heck, I don't know if that exists, but economy picking does]. [In the context of picking] The idea being that you change your stroke direction as little as possible, minimising unneccesary movements to get to your notes faster [I guess sweep picking could be called this too]. An example being:

D U U U D D U
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----12--14----------------------12--14---
-------------12------------14-------------
--------------------15--------------------

[Notice the irregular picking pattern, it isn't alternate picking.]

Reply 1384

Wanderlust

1

Learn to pick every riff and scale run you know with all upstrokes.

Then you'll be good.

Reply 1385

Shreerac1

10

Wanderlust

Learn to pick every riff and scale run you know with all upstrokes.

Then you'll be good.

Yeah, or learn to pick every riff and scale run you know with all down strokes, all up strocks, alternate picking starting on a downstroke, alternate picking on an upstroke and economy picking. Gives people lots of material to practice.

Reply 1386

Demon_AS

13

Heheheheh, come on guys - we all know that we have some damn talented people in this society, let's not turn it into a competition :p:

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No doubt there's hundreds of ways for everyone to learn something new or improve...

Reply 1387

BenThackray

Mustard-man

Which one is it?

I've got guitar pro 5 :smile:

Its not a guitar pro file, its for a program called 'powertab' that you can download free.

However here:
http://jerryc.tw/

There is a guitarpro 4 file and backing track for download in the lessons section

I dont use guitar pro, so i dunno if gp5 is compatible with gp4 files

Reply 1388

Pulse

10

Heheheheh, come on guys - we all know that we have some damn talented people in this society, let's not turn it into a competition .

No doubt there's hundreds of ways for everyone to learn something new or improve...

Yes please let's not become like the YouTube people who will rubbish something as soon as they see it if it isn't up to scratch in any way. We guitarists are definitiley too competitive.

Reply 1389

vector

15

Pulse

Yes please let's not become like the YouTube people who will rubbish something as soon as they see it if it isn't up to scratch in any way. We guitarists are definitiley too competitive.