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Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Rainbow - Catch The Rainbow
Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine

These are the tunes every guitarist should simply know or they are just people holding wirey sticks.

colohue Wrote:These are the tunes every guitarist should simply know or they are just people holding wirey sticks.

I totally disagree. Being able to copy other's music does not make you a good guitarist. In my opinion, being able to make music that sounds good to others makes you a good guitarist.

The songs mentioned contain most, if not all, of the notes, bends and tricks guitarists should know. If you can play the said songs then you know you can play anything. Afterwards, it is up to you to make good music.

I can only play the opening riff of Sweet Child O Mine...and not very fast either.

Wahey, Im on the road to becoming a good guitarist. You see, I wrote 4 songs on my acoustic, and I played the first one (AlphaBetaGammaDelta) to my fellow guitarist Flip. He said it was quite good.

3 of my songs were written in standard tuning, and 1 is in Drop-D. The Drop-D song is a heavy song with loads of riffs with an open bottom strings, and most of the rhythm chords have open bottom strings in them. It doesnt sound as good in standard tuning.

So, that goes to show you different tuning works for writing songs.

And its on topic because I'm explaining what I'm playing at the moment

I only do drop tuning when it's recommended, otherwise it just seems cheap to do change a song from how it was originally scribed.

If you want the sheet-music for Sonic Heroes, I scored a accurate stave version of What I'm Made Of/Crush 40 and Sonic Heroes/Crush 40, if you have Sibelius VST Score:Teachers Edition, (New Version) or any version of Sibelius, (such as Sibelius 4) or Sibelius Scorch, I could send you a file containing the sheet-music, and also convert the guitar parts into TAB for you, as well as a MIDI containing all of the non-guitar parts, (or all parts, then you can mute the part you wish to play).

colohue Wrote:The songs mentioned contain most, if not all, of the notes, bends and tricks guitarists should know. If you can play the said songs then you know you can play anything. Afterwards, it is up to you to make good music.

Only if you're into older metal/rock. Those songs certainly don't contain some of the more classical tricks and techniques.

Scott Bull Wrote:I only do drop tuning when it's recommended, otherwise it just seems cheap to do change a song from how it was originally scribed.

If you want the sheet-music for Sonic Heroes, I scored a accurate stave version of What I'm Made Of/Crush 40 and Sonic Heroes/Crush 40, if you have Sibelius VST Score:Teachers Edition, (New Version) or any version of Sibelius, (such as Sibelius 4) or Sibelius Scorch, I could send you a file containing the sheet-music, and also convert the guitar parts into TAB for you, as well as a MIDI containing all of the non-guitar parts, (or all parts, then you can mute the part you wish to play).

Wow. Can you really do that?

*wonders*

I have Sibelius Scorch installed on my PC. Is there any chance you could tab What Im Made Of?

Serpent7 Wrote:Only if you're into older metal/rock. Those songs certainly don't contain some of the more classical tricks and techniques.

Do they include pinch harmonics? I want to learn how to do those.

Just practise them over and over again, you'll get the hang of it. Start off without using a plectrum first.

Well, what I meant is I kind of need an explanation how to do them. In my guitar magazine, it says lean the thumb into the side of the string when you pick it.

I dont actually understand what to do with this, I've tried doing one but I just stop the string. Its baffling me!

You don't actually put your finger on the string, if this is the same technique I'm thinking of.
What you do is let the string hit your finger as it vibrates, but don't actually mute it.
Anyway, I don't know if this is what they meant, but try it and see if maybe it sounds like the note they're trying to get you to reproduce.