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rubylith
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GuitarGuy305
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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 Posted - 07/18/2008 : 1:11:27 PM
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a guitarist is playing flight of the bumblebee to impress people? no way! not even that, he's playing an excerpt, i think.
let's ignore for a second that any asshole can play that and sound like he's good; the song is practically tailor made that way, with several 3 and 4 note patterns repeated frequently in what turns out to be different positions on a guitar.
the song is almost obviously he's very fast, that's fine. i like fast. his notes aren't clear at the faster tempos, though, and it sounds like he's adding slurs where there aren't supposed to be any. if you can't play it the way it's written, you can't play it, and i don't care how fast you can wiggle your fingers.
he also loses points for using a metronome during a performance. if you can't play the song at the tempo you want to play it at without a metronome, you can't play it. welcome to being a musician.
so what we have here is a guy who, with the aid of a metronome, played all the notes he was supposed to at the right time, sometimes slurring notes that aren't supposed to be slurred, while having no expression and apparently not even trying to figure out the phrasing of the piece. not impressed.
also, just in case, no one bother checking out his power metal band, burning in hell. they're derivative and boring, and they have no sense of melody (surprise.) you want good power metal, stick to bands like blind guardian, iced earth, kamelot, powerwolf or nighwish. hell, even dragonforce is better than them. |
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gnome44
Yak Addict
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 2:08:07 PM
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rubylith
Fluffy-Esque
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 3:43:05 PM
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I was going to put in the subject... "For Dan P."
Thank you Dan, as always, insightful and fucking hilarious! hahaha |
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 11:07:37 PM
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metal bands have the most outlandish names, and that's not including shit from the frozen fucking nordlands, with their scandinavian shit. even the metal i like has ridiculous names.
metal names breakdown like this: you either have something brutal, something nordic, or something from a fantasy novel. let's take a look at my playist.
as far as brutal goes: bloodbath, corpus mortale, pleurisy.
fantasy: blind guardian, dragonforce, demons & wizards, vale of pnath.
nordic: actually, i don't have any nordic sounding bands, because i hate black metal. |
death to false metal. |
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Ranting Thespian
Fluffy-Esque
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2008 : 03:22:40 AM
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Originally posted by gnome44
I love the names of metal bands...
I think Dream Theater is an awesome name! Hey, come on, I'm the Ranting THESPIAN, how can I not love it?
On to the topic:
This guy's got skill, but I am not impressed. Give him Comfortably Numb, and see how he does with that. I have heard many people cover that song, and the guitar solos have never impressed me. On the other hand, I have heard Gilmour solo this song many times, and he always blows me away. |
Not communicating can hurt more than any word that can be said -
Nick
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
3776 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2008 : 1:23:54 PM
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| excellent point. i'd be interested to see how he does with something that requires more thought. i've heard him with burning in hell, and i gotta say, i'm not sure he could do a solo that's tasteful. |
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Zachmozach
Fluffy-Esque
USA
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Posted - 07/20/2008 : 10:16:54 PM
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| He doesn't look like a composer to me and his virtuosity seems limited to how fast he plays. He'd be pretty good at musical olympics though. |
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