Official buying advice thread - Page 3

BurningWitch · September 16th, 2007, 10:50 AM

Maybe get a guitar with a Humbucker and single coil pickup, meaning you could get both clean and distortion stuff, instead of getting like a strat with just single coils (although some strats have humbuckers). If you want to play metal and clean stuff, or are you undecided? A price range and style of play would might generate some better responses.

BlackMetalWhiteGuy · September 16th, 2007, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BurningWitch

Maybe get a guitar with a Humbucker and single coil pickup, meaning you could get both clean and distortion stuff, instead of getting like a strat with just single coils (although some strats have humbuckers). If you want to play metal and clean stuff, or are you undecided? A price range and style of play would might generate some better responses.

You honestly couldn't read the third post in the thread?

benej · October 16th, 2007, 02:33 PM

Any recommendations for a beginner in bass guitart, what metal songs are easy to learn(not that easy) for somone who started lessons 2 months ago

genocide roach · October 16th, 2007, 05:01 PM

recommendations? just keep practicing. most metal songs are pretty wasy bass wise, so pick one you like and just hammer on it
~gR~

LadyValerie · October 28th, 2007, 01:19 AM

Try some Black Sabbath songs.

If you ever come to a part in any song (by any band) that you think you can't play, don't be discouraged; just take small parts and practice them at a slow speed. Once you feel comfortable with one speed, try it a little faster. Most people recommend a metronome for this purpose, but I've never felt the need for one.

A good free program to learn songs with is called PowerTab. It's a guitar/bass tab program that uses MIDI to play songs back while you try to learn them; it also has a built in metronome. While this program and others like it make it easier to learn songs, you should still try to figure out stuff using your ear.

I haven't actually tested this, but I thought about a technique to help with ear training. Learn all or part of a song using a tab, then stop playing it until you pretty much forget how to play most of it. Listen to the song again and see if you can figure out how to play it, by using both your ears and your memory.

kingcarcas · October 28th, 2007, 07:31 AM

I'd like to play bass because i assume most songs are pretty simple by watching bassists at shows, which means more time to headbang

LadyValerie · October 29th, 2007, 11:06 PM

Not if you play most death metal

Gold · October 30th, 2007, 10:52 AM

older system of a down(pre-mezmirize/hypnotize) has alot of songs that are good for beginners

benej · October 30th, 2007, 04:32 PM

Ok guys thx for the advice, i began black sabbath songs on guitarpro to see tabs and its going gd although it takes time but practice shall do it

kuier · October 31st, 2007, 03:29 AM

Yeah, I taught myself to play bass and started with songs like Sabbath's 'Paranoid' and Motorhead's 'Religion' and some punk songs ... I searched for tabs on the internet as I can't read music. ALso Guitar Pro helped my. Depends if you want to play with a pick or fingers. I use a pick because I need to sing too so can't multi-task all that good yet.