If you're trying to learn AC/DC, Dream Theater is way out of your ability level. Do you have a drummer, and if so, can he play anything by Portnoy?
If you're trying to learn AC/DC, Dream Theater is way out of your ability level. Do you have a drummer, and if so, can he play anything by Portnoy?
Yeah "Killing in the Name" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" are good. I'd recommend Megadeth "Sweating Bullets" and "symphony of Destruction"
Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne was the first metal song I learned on electric... There are some good techniques in that song that any guitarist should learn. Try and find a really detailed tab/score though; playing it incorrectly from a crap one is easy and encourages bad technique
it depends how good you are....
i mean... racer x, cacophony, megadeath, dreamtheater, ygnwie malmsteen,guthrie govan, august burns red...
theyre all metal bands that require REAL talent to play...
Anyone can learn stuff by those bands, you don't need talent to learn how to play. However, whether what you're playing after learning the songs sounds good or not, is a different matter.Originally Posted by penfold1992
I beg to differ. You need to have a SERIOUS amount of practice to even TRY to play stuff like DT or Gilbert. There's no way a guitar noob could even come CLOSE to playing something like Holy Wars or maybe Technical Difficulties or Under a Glass Moon (OMG).
There are a few easy songs that anyone could pick up though. Looks like i contradicted myself to a certain extent haha!
A popular one a lot of guitarists like is Over the Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin or Rock n' Roll. I would go with Heartbreaker and The Lemon Song, they are catchy and don't seem hard to play. For fun you could cover a Spinal Tap song. They are actually quite good even though it was done as comedy. I think Ted Nugent is also underrated when it comes to classic rock music. I would try Stanglehold or Dog Eat Dog. Black Sabbath has some good guitar work in my opinion on Paranoid with songs like Fairies Wear Boots, Rat Salad, Hand of Doom and Electric Funeral. The other album that is really good by them, in my opinion, is Master of Reality.
You can practice and play better over time even if you don't have talent. So I think talent is the "keyword" that moved me to respond to the previous post.
Do you need to be talented at cubing to be a good cuber? Or could you also get there with enough practice? Sure talent will get you there quicker but it's not the end of the line for someone lacking talent.
Actually, it DOES take a certain amount of talent to cube as well as play an instrument. For example, my dad, who is tone deaf couldn't take his guitaring forward simply because he wasn't auditoraly inclined. Just like that, a certain friend of mine hasn't improved for over a year despite practicing regularly. She doesn't have the knack of analytical thinking and like the average Indian has been brought up with blind roat.
Im a big fan of Racer x's guitar parts and you should Check out Paul Gilberts new Fuzz universe album its pretty amazing
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