I started playing guitar so I
Hakoria
Laon King Location: gmt+1 Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
I started playing guitar so I could play in front of elementary schools with my magical wondervan hidden behind some bushes. I'd always have private sessions for cute lolis there. True story. |
As expected of laon-san.
StrangeJam
Da Manliness Joined: Aug 23 2009 |
As expected of laon-san. |
I was good at guitar hero.
surreal
Eric: tank,godlike Location: Arizona Joined: Jan 04 2009 |
I was good at guitar hero. |
parents bought me a shitty
Clanver
Pixelfingers cant play Location: Germany, Kiel Joined: Jan 03 2009 |
parents bought me a shitty guitar ( 30 bucks?), and annoyed the hell out well some years later, ive got now 5 guitars, and love it, <3 my parents |
I allways wanted to play some
Pasto
Eat your Pasta ! ! ! Joined: Mar 25 2009 |
I allways wanted to play some instrument.
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50% because- Everyone in my
Lemoncobbler
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Location: SoCal Joined: Dec 22 2010 |
50% because- Everyone in my family played something but me- felt inadequate. mfw no ones impressed, they all just give me shit for it. and it doesn't matter because that was a shitty reason to start playing anyway. |
Re: I was good at guitar hero.
Ranulf
I will not join your gametabs. Joined: Oct 15 2009 |
surreal said
This lol and quite a few of my friends had guitars so I felt left out :\ but I think I played more than they did, and I might be better than them now XD |
I always wanted to play
Giogiogio4
For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet... Joined: Jun 10 2010 |
I always wanted to play growing up. I didnt really have much and I could never afford it. I was always moving from place to place and Music /video games was All i really had.Alexi Lahio was a huge influence because he showed me more of what the guitar could do rather then play background noise like most radio bands do. So when turned 19 I saved up and used whatever money i could to get one and started learning.
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got an ion for christmas one
wayfaerer
"Embrace your dreams." Location: The Lifestream Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
got an ion for christmas one year. no real reason at all; this was about the time i got into slipknot and rammstein and the such, and strated off playing thigns like metallica and nirvana, then worked my way up. learned some trivium and killswitch engage (both of which i still say ahve some of the funnest riffs on guitar), then i learned some children of bodom, which introduced me to the melodic scene in death metal, and the all mighty in flames became known to me, when i saw the video for take this life on muchLOUD; i enjoyed it so much, i had to look mroe into the band, and when i heard things from the jester race, colony, and whoracle, my mind was set; i wanted to be an actor on the stage of melodic death metal. now ive been getting more into mellower things, and combining hard hitting riffs with pretty acoustic build ups and layering. i try to play djent riffs, but i cant hack that stuff man, so fucking technical. i feel if i can master one dream theater riff in entirety, then ill be able to play some periphery or protest the hero, even though the latter is technically prog-metal (i still say theyre djent though)
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I saw Joe Walsh on The
srvjimiandkurt
Joined: Aug 09 2010 |
I saw Joe Walsh on The Eagles' Hell Freezes Over DVD. |
I picked up guitar after
SalemJenet
Joined: Sep 22 2011 |
I picked up guitar after watching Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. |
Well,my dad owned a beat up
xSpearPointx
Embrace The Darkness Location: Stamping Ground,KY Joined: Jan 05 2012 |
Well,my dad owned a beat up old B.C. Rich Warlock Bronze Series,and he was trying to get into playing it,so,I thought regular guitar would be too difficult so I thought I'd get into Bass,but he ended up buying a Silvertone Strat copy,and I ended up with this beat up Warlock,so I thought I'd at least give it a try,and it ended up not being near as hard as previously thought and it stuck to me. |
im a virtuoso
Jacob31593
Location: Tampa, FL Joined: Jan 04 2009 |
im a virtuoso |
I originally played bass for
Bhael
Location: Newcastle, UK Joined: Feb 18 2010 |
I originally played bass for a few months after a friend convinced me to buy one. I soon moved on to electric guitar for a further few months. Although I was progressing well at both, I was only interested in playing the more melodic stuff. After a few months of playing I started to learn fingersyle, and soon after that found gametabs. I moved on to the classical guitar, and havn't look back since. I can't remember any motivating factors, it was just something to do.
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Re: im a virtuoso
wayfaerer
"Embrace your dreams." Location: The Lifestream Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
Jacob31593 said
and im a one legg-ed parrot :D nah, just razzin ya, i dont doubt your skills jac, you da baws
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For the ladies!! ...but then,
kage25130
Joined: Aug 02 2011 |
For the ladies!! ...but then, when that didn't work, for a sense of accomplishment.
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i wanted to make a band
Ragna1999
Location: Brazil Joined: Oct 21 2011 |
and play some metals with my friends(iron maiden, megadeth,metallica, overkill, destruction,death and etc)...yeah, now i can play some riffs...but other reason than that is to play videogame musics LOL, simple, no? |
Out of work, dropped out of
karathrow
Joined: Oct 26 2010 |
Out of work, dropped out of college. It seemed more productive and less stressful than playing League of Legends all day. |
Passion for metal
Iron Killer 2000
Joined: Jun 25 2009 |
I started as a resulting passion for extreme metal, not so much the big thrash 4 (though they did influence my style to a degree) but for the extremely heavy shit such as Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Athiest, Evile, Carcass, Morbid angel, Municipal Waste, Gama Bomb, Kreator, Devin Townsend Project etc. Of course the classics i.e. Iron Maiden, KISS, Rush, Genesis, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Dio, they were also a reason i picked up the guitar to begin with
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I love retro game, retro game music, death metal, and mosh pits |
I started music because of my
RexLeRouge
IMPACTO Joined: Aug 15 2008 |
I started music because of my love for vgm, and guitar was a powerful,easy and cheap intrument to begin with |
Re: Out of work, dropped out of
Pasto
Eat your Pasta ! ! ! Joined: Mar 25 2009 |
karathrow said
LoL thats a good point for me as well.
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I started with a $50 guitar
i started playing guitar
Max_depa
Location: Italy Joined: Feb 11 2010 |
i started playing guitar because i wanted to play like mark knopfler :\ |
Re: Out of work, dropped out of
hslesperance
Location: Walpole, MA Joined: Aug 10 2008 |
karathrow said
Read that and then read the line under your avatar XD I just listened to 80's rock when I was around 12 and thought the guitar solos were cool (whatever happened to solos in modern rock anyway?) Then I took piano class in middle school and realized how easy it came to me after my guitar background. I basically just play a ton of Zelda songs and some SOTC on piano
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I always wanted to play Iron
Kenkiske
Location: Itu,Brazil Joined: Jan 07 2012 |
I always wanted to play Iron Maiden and other bands, so I started to play guitar
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Re: Passion for metal
wayfaerer
"Embrace your dreams." Location: The Lifestream Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
Iron Killer 2000 said
devin townsend project is fucking BEAST. i was into nile a few years back, havent given them a listen now in a while; didnt they release not too long ago? or am i mistaken all together? also, thumbs up for kreator. the overly heavy stuff i got into was stuff like carnifex, here comes the kraken, i declare war, disfiguring the goddess, faceless, job for a cowboy, agonist (hottest chick in metal, dont give a FUCK); i really dig that style of sonic bombardment
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Re: Out of work, dropped out of
wayfaerer
"Embrace your dreams." Location: The Lifestream Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
hslesperance said
trivium has some seriously awesome solos (look a palindrome!), and i think in flames has some nice stuff too, and lets not leave out dream theater, they remain masters imo but maybe that style of music doesnt appeal to you much hsl, so you might not have listened into it. if its the vocals that throw you off, try this! an instrumental heah!
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I used to listen to a lot of
StrangeJam
Da Manliness Joined: Aug 23 2009 |
I used to listen to a lot of metal back when I started out, stratovarius,inFlames, Children of bodom, Iron Maiden, Trivium,Metallica, Nile, Necrophagist, some Zakk Wylde, Skid row, shadowsfall,therion,rush,immortal,Angra,Kreator, Slayer,Ozzy,Quiet Riot,Secret Sphere,dark funeral, man nearly every known and not so known band from every genre, but not so much anymore lol. currently my favorite players and artists are a2c,KaizokuOu, Marco Sfogli,victor Wooten and some Greg Howe,SOME(Actually just 1-2 songs lol) Vai, Some Petrucci, nearly no Satriani. I never really liked Joe Satriani's style anyways, amazing player tho. I also currently enjoy All that remains. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pYWGjECLE Boss Song,Boss band. I was heavily into Children of Bodom too a few years ago, but only up until hatecrew deathroll, I followed each album released, then I think they took a while to release the next one, and shit was just not the same. "Are you dead yet?" I dare say that album sucked major balls compared to their previous material. no idea what CoB has been doing since then. I might give them a try again after so many years lol. Ohhh and new Stratovarius are dayuuuum. J-Pop/rock forever tho. |
Yeah, I listened to the song
hslesperance
Location: Walpole, MA Joined: Aug 10 2008 |
Yeah, I listened to the song wayfaerer by in flames, for obvious reasons, it was awesome I was talking more about solos in non-metal rock. I don't really listen to much metal, but I found this band recently that sounds good http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/7706734
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Woa iron killer! i love
Ragna1999
Location: Brazil Joined: Oct 21 2011 |
Woa iron killer! i love atheist, cannibal, evile, carcass, morbid angel,kreator, etc =O, but i dont like "moderns" band with core...i like more the oldschool ones with heavy/thrash/death metal, not deathcore... |
Re: I used to listen to a lot of
wayfaerer
"Embrace your dreams." Location: The Lifestream Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
StrangeJam said
dont. really, just no, at least from my viewpoint; if you didnt like AYDY? you aint gonna like blooddrunk, guaran-fucking-teed. i liked are you dead yet quite a bit actually, but follow the reaper and hatecrew deathroll was the best from CoB also, @hsl, in flames has a lot of instrumentals. nearly one for each album actually. their acoustic stuff is godly, no joke. acoustic medley, the riffiage in jester script transfigured (non-instrumental)... all utterly divine.
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Let's go into nostalgia
Hakoria
Laon King Location: gmt+1 Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
Let's go into nostalgia moment. I used to think Slash (only GNR, never listened to VR or his solo works) was the best guitarist ever. Then Dragonforce's drunken team as amazing skills-wise (well, herman ri ofc, not the other guy). Free Bird's solo seemed like the top of the mountain. Then I discovered Jason Becker out of nowhere. Have never listened to the previous bands since pretty much. Since JB I've only continued to discover more and more real skills too. Sometimes ignorance isn't bliss. |
For me I started with
Kabukibear
Happy Strumming! Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Joined: Mar 22 2007 |
For me I started with electric guitar for a few weeks. This was in middle school, I played trombone in jazz band and a good friend of mine played guitar. We formed a band with me on drums for a bit, but I really liked the guitar. So I was able to buy one from the music store and started learning all that chuggachuggachugga stuff. I happened to a hear a tape my dad had of Bach on classical guitar and that was it. I traded in the guitar the next day towards a classical. |
is my dream to be a great
youngXrocker
Joined: Jan 18 2012 |
is my dream to be a great musician
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music is not an art is my passion |
Follow the Reaper was the
kage25130
Joined: Aug 02 2011 |
Follow the Reaper was the best CoB album by far.
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Re: i started playing guitar
srvjimiandkurt
Joined: Aug 09 2010 |
Max_depa said
What's with the sideways face? It's better to want to sound like Mark Knopfler than all these other metal bands (no offence meant to anyone who wants to sound like a metal band). |
Re: Let's go into nostalgia
Pasto
Eat your Pasta ! ! ! Joined: Mar 25 2009 |
Hakoria said
O__O" Thanks god, past is past . . .
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sam hoppman, of hoffman,
wayfaerer
"Embrace your dreams." Location: The Lifestream Joined: Apr 03 2011 |
sam hoppman, of hoffman, whatever the fuck, is a good guitarist. i saw herman li play live in a vid and instantly hated everything dragonforce except sam and the drummer. sam was 17 when he joined Df; thats bloody impressive imo. then again, i was never really too big into speed metal. his sound effects vid was pretty cool though; i learned most of them, the elephant and motorbike being my personal favorite. cant do the elephant anymore, no trem on my dean
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Re: Out of work, dropped out of
Giogiogio4
For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet... Joined: Jun 10 2010 |
it was considered an "80's hair metal" thing. So in the 90's people stopped doing them. Then it became a Mindless "shredder" technique and people just bash them most of the time. As time went on Media musicians became less original and talented, yet more famous? Til we got the music we have today. Metal will never die, there will always be musicians who want to actually play the guitar at the level of a jazz player.
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Re: Out of work, dropped out of
srvjimiandkurt
Joined: Aug 09 2010 |
Giogiogio4 said
And then there will be the people who actually want to make good music. |
Always had a affection
Ennea
humhum.. Location: Germany Joined: Apr 09 2010 |
Always had a affection towards music, so my mum put me into a musician-school and gave me a guitar for christmas (although I wanted a N64!). I was stuck there for around 2 years and only learned some strumming and chords and lost interest pretty fast, plus I only played for the one hour in the school and not even once at home. So after these years I stopped and haven't touched my guitar for around 5 years. Than when I was 18 I somehow really wanted to start it again and learned some easy tabs like avril lavigne and stuff, re-learned everything from music school in around 2 weeks... Pretty soon I discovered some VGM tabs here and there and practised them a bit, since then I never wanted to play normal songs anymore. Totally got me hooked. |
I had a guitar in my room
laoiseLaoise Location: Northern Ireland, UK Joined: Mar 31 2008 |
I had a guitar in my room since i was about 10 or something, but i couldn't play it. Well, I could play a little meoldy from a song, so naturally I thought I was amazing and had 'already learnt the guitar' hah. Someone bought be a guitar book about five years later and i realised i hated chords, with a passion. They just felt incomplete to me. I still wanted to learn the guitar tho; I wanted to play the whole song on my guitar, not just the little shitty part you hear in the background. Then I found this site and fell in love with the nostalgia. |
Because, David Gilmour !
hashel
Location: Liège (Belgium) Joined: Mar 04 2008 |
Because, David Gilmour !
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StrangeJam
Da Manliness
Joined: Aug 23 2009
Me? To pick up girls back in highschool.
plain n' simple. while it did impress people, eventually I started to actually love and enjoy playing,writing and listening to music.so when it came down to it, my main motivation was passion for music. WHAT'S YOUR STORY.