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somewhat easy thrash songs to learn
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:57 pm
by hektik
i've hit a writing block on both guitar and bass, i think i need to learn some new songs. i recently picked up a guitar and been playing it almost every day but nothing new, just the same shit i've been playing for the past week or so, every thing i go to write sounds like shit or i'm just not satisfied with it. i tried a different tuning and goddamn i'm high as fuck. give me some easy and/or fun songs to learn, preferbly some metal thrashing madness.
<3 hektik
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:15 pm
by Hailblaze
maybe megadeth peace sells but whos buying?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:12 pm
by Dawdy
i just learned March of the S.O.D.
easy as fuck. its not fast, or really all that thrashy, but its nice and heavy

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:56 pm
by slay
slayer tunes
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:30 am
by Pfl?yd
slay wrote:slayer tunes
Definitely, especially stuff from Reign in Blood and South of Heaven.
Hanger 18, and most of Countdown to Extinction are pretty easy to pull off on guitar, relatively speaking.
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:33 am
by slay
Pfl?yd wrote:slay wrote:slayer tunes
Definitely, especially stuff from Reign in Blood and South of Heaven.
Hanger 18, and most of Countdown to Extinction are pretty easy to pull off on guitar, relatively speaking.

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:38 pm
by DBS
for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:59 am
by Pfl?yd
DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:04 pm
by False_Prophet
Pfl?yd wrote:DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
I seen a tribute band called "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and they actually did play it with the bass
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:59 pm
by Gor-Gor
the band i saw cover it forgot the drum intro.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:31 pm
by walking_ash
wat
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:35 pm
by croninburg
Damage Inc

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:53 pm
by PABassPlayer
Pfl?yd wrote:DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
blasphemy!!!
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:06 pm
by croninburg
PABassPlayer wrote:Pfl?yd wrote:DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
blasphemy!!!
Is it even difficult to play it on the bass?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:19 pm
by PABassPlayer
croninburg wrote:PABassPlayer wrote:Pfl?yd wrote:DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
blasphemy!!!
Is it even difficult to play it on the bass?
no, not at all...been playing it forever in pretty much every band I've been in.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:33 pm
by croninburg
PABassPlayer wrote:croninburg wrote:PABassPlayer wrote:Pfl?yd wrote:DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
blasphemy!!!
Is it even difficult to play it on the bass?
no, not at all...been playing it forever in pretty much every band I've been in.
I couldn't see why it would be. Some people are just so ignorant

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:44 pm
by Pfl?yd
croninburg wrote:PABassPlayer wrote:Pfl?yd wrote:DBS wrote:for whom the bell tolls. it's a song by a band caled metallica. underrated imo.
Every band I've ever seen cover this song played the bass part in the intro on guitar. Fucking hacks.
blasphemy!!!
Is it even difficult to play it on the bass?
Not at all but I think either A) the people covering it don't realize it's a bass part or B) since it's the coolest part of the song, guitards seem to think they should play it instead.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:17 pm
by Sky Black
Exodus - Toxic Waltz, Only Death Decides, Changing of the Guard, Force of Habit (very cool and easy rhythms in that)
Kreator - When The Sun Burns Red, Winter Martyrium, People of the Lie
Devastation - Idolatry, Souls of Sacrifice
Vio-Lence - Officer Nice
Sepultura - Inner Self
Anthrax - Antisocial
Testament - Disciples of the Watch
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:06 pm
by Sky Black
And that.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:48 pm
by hektik
i pick up a lot, is this normal? I can't down pick for some reason...I mean, I can when I'm chugging power chords on the e and a strings, but it feels more natural to pick up. maybe it's because I'm a bass player (don't use a pick fuck you) and i'm used to going up?
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:51 pm
by Sky Black
Upstrokes are for pussies and weak-elbowed and forearmed junkies. Downpicking ftw.
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:16 pm
by Hailblaze
Sky Black wrote:Downpicking ftw.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:44 am
by Dawdy
i cant up-pick, i have to down-pick everything
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:45 am
by Dawdy
more easy songs, Anthrax: I Am The Law, and Madhouse

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:46 am
by 13steps
Sky Black wrote:Upstrokes are for pussies and weak-elbowed and forearmed junkies. Downpicking ftw.
all upstrokes makes for a nice chunkier sound though.. like on cowboys from hell for instance
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:22 am
by hektik
i try to downpick as much as possible, it just feels more natural to pick up. i'll post a video of my playing when I get home today
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:13 pm
by Sky Black
^:tup:
13steps wrote:Sky Black wrote:Upstrokes are for pussies and weak-elbowed and forearmed junkies. Downpicking ftw.
all upstrokes makes for a nice chunkier sound though.. like on cowboys from hell for instance
Good point.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:36 pm
by hektik
drinking some coffee and smoking a butt, ironing out the kinks with part of the song i'm gonna play for you niggas
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:56 pm
by hektik
jesus fucking christ, i can play my own shit flawless without being recorded, but when a camera is on me i can't play note goddamn one! this could take a few days
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:31 pm
by croninburg
Sky Black wrote:Upstrokes are for pussies and weak-elbowed and forearmed junkies. Downpicking ftw.
Pick from the wrist you n00b.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:45 pm
by Sky Black
croninburg wrote:Sky Black wrote:Upstrokes are for pussies and weak-elbowed and forearmed junkies. Downpicking ftw.
Pick from the wrist you n00b.
Downpicking from the wrist makes for some pretty weak thrash technique in my experience. Of course there are a lot of techniques that achieve similar results, but bra, you gotta POUND that shit to do it right

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:54 pm
by UNGODLIKE
okay elbow engine....
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:23 pm
by Sky Black
hektik wrote:jesus fucking christ, i can play my own shit flawless without being recorded, but when a camera is on me i can't play note goddamn one! this could take a few days

Stop making random pointless threads in the free zone and try again.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:29 pm
by hektik
I'll do it tomorrow. After I failed in front of the camera like 50 times I kept on playing it and rearranged how the riffs went so now I gotta practice it all over again. Maybe I should do it standing up next time too!
either way I'll be posting some sub par guitar playing very soon.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:26 pm
by UNGODLIKE
don't listen to that dumb dyke about guitar playing, it's all in the wrist man, trust me.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:34 pm
by Nice BassPhemy
Dallas Toler-Wade plays from the elbow and he's pretty bad ass.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:39 pm
by slay
fuck up picking
its all about alternate picking and hard old downpicking.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:06 pm
by Dawdy
when i alternate pick really fast, or gallop, i play from my elbow
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:23 am
by Big Ben
Get a jazz 3 pick and learn to pick with your wrist.
Any Metallica song is pretty easy
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:46 am
by AoD
if i had to choose, id chop off my right hand.