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To your first question, listening makes a HUGE impact. If I spend weeks listening to nothing but Slayer, when I pick up the guitar, I start playing Slayer riffs. Same thing happens when I go through phases of listening to stoner metal, british heavy metal, and even heavy rock and funk. You...

This is both a recording question and a vocal question. Daltry does it in "Won't Get Fooled Again", Bruce Dickinson does it in "Number of the Beast", Keenan does it in Tool's "Ticks and Leeches" and I hear it in Sevendust songs. It's not done throughout the entire vocal performance, but on one...

Crank up the gain on your amp (not the master volume, just the gain) and play around with fifth chords. Stay in a minor key (a lot of punk is in major key), particularly E, and play as fast as possible, or play as slow as possible but all within the blues scale. Spend most of your time away...

Being a metal musician, I find it funny that a lot of musicians who actually do appreciate blues and rock for its attitude and emotion regard some of the more intellectually concepted jazz and other progressive styles as math-music that requires a slide rule and abacus to understand. And its...

Agreed! :) ;)

One common way is to describe music based on styles and tempos of previous songs. "I want to do a funk song, about as fast as "Mother Popcorn", with a break after 16 bars much like Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Also, you can actually learn basic music theory without looking at sheet...

I guess I should rephrase my post. I learned how to sight-read on guitar about twenty years ago from a book that's sitting somewhere in my house but I can't seem to locate. IIRC, the author stated that one of the challenges of reading music on guitar was the fact that a single note can be...

Of course, if you fart in the room, then with a good preamp you'll get twice the warmth.

What is typically the minimum sight-reading requirement for session guitarists? Obviously reading rhythm and dynamics are important, but are they required to read at any position on the fretboard, or is the first position the only real necessity since that's really the only position where one...

If I did quit, I have no eartly idea what I'd do, perhaps try that whole "bathing" craze I keep hearing about.

Dunlop definately.

In your case, since you already have a mixer, you would reap the benefit of mixing "outside the box". You can also use your current analog equipment to mix down to as well. This means getting value out of what you already have. I recommend a pc/analog hybrid recording system: PC: approximately...

While true, learning to play against a click may be challenging at first, that doesn't excuse any serious musican from not at least using a click to play against in practice. If you can play your parts against a consistent click, then when you apply your part to real musicians you will be able...

Speaking of Yngwie, I think his music had much more emotion than Vai or Satriani. I spun "Black Star" alone about a hundred times. I spun Vai's entire "Passion and Warfare" album twice. I mean, Yngwie was still a pretentious snob, you can only go so far with the whole "metal meets classical"...

We did the same things in the 1980's.

Sorry, won't happen. People have been trying for years to get a vocalist forum, but one has never been created.

You don't necessarily need more than one mic to get a good distorted guitar tone. What you do need, however, is to make sure you are evaluating your tone against the mix of the other instruments. Sometimes a guitar will sound like dogshit on its own but great in the mix with drums and bass...

We need a moderator to move this thread to the songwriting forum.

That's because most drummers don't make it interesting enough. Check out Tool's Merkaba for an exception to the rule.

myth: this thread is useful past page one.