Well, I've gotten down four separate songs: The Down Town, Down in a Hole, I Used to Love Her and Oh Me. They are simple, but I am actually playing complete and full songs without stopping after the main riffs/intros. It feels a lot nicer to be able to say, even though they are just a few unplugged songs, that "I can play that."
A New Direction: Looking Past Virtuosity in the El
Current mood: pensive
Lately, I have been less and less interested in playing the ever popular form of music known as heavy metal, more specifically post-thrash metal. I love playing heavy metal, it is so natural to me, I can sit down with a heartache and a peeve and come back with a song that can melt your face off. It's so simple to make a great, memorable riff when you tune down to Drop C or Drop B; it comes to the point of which thinking about the riff and what key it is in are overrated. Chromatically speaking, heavy metal is simple. Enharmonic playing is a new story altogether, and the end result is a very stoic and polished song that pleases the ears. That all comes so easy for me...too easy. So now I've decided to unplug the amp for 6 months, and see where that will get me. My acoustic and I have a very loving relationship, it is as damn near to perfect as an acoustic can get. Lately, the grunge rock era of the 90's and the acoustic tracks that it has spawned have entranced me with their sheer simplicity and dynamicness. I wish to be more like that, versatile and musical, opposed to just musical. So here I am, with my acoustic in my arms learning how to play "The Down Town" by Days of the New. I will record it soon Thanks for reading.
P.S. - Check my tabs for "The Down Town." It's a wonderful song, and is well known in America.
I've been thinking lately, what has music come to over the past 10 years? Froms heroine overdoses to allegations of snorting your father's ashes, music just doesn't seem right anymore. I know alot of people say that, but seriously, music has evolved, and it's evolved in a way I don't like. Bands under pressure for platinum records, people comparing John Mayer to Eric Clapton, it all is just crazy! The only way I'll every buy an album from today is if I had no choice, everything was better before 1990.
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