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What defines Guitar driven music genres?
The black keys of a keyboard are a pentatonic scale! They are the F# Major Pentatonic. Pretty easy to see, the major pentatonic is formed by the degrees 1 2 3 5 6, or by the step sequence whole - whole - 3 halfs - whole - 3 halfs . The relative minor is D#, so they also form the D# minor...- chris_is_cool
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What defines Guitar driven music genres?
If someone wants to write a wikipedia article like I accidentally did for Heavy Metal, have fun :ROFLMAO: . Jokes aside, I know a lot less about Jazz and Blues, I just didn't grow up with these genres and only started caring after starting to play the guitar. What I DO know: Jazz and Blues...- chris_is_cool
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What defines Guitar driven music genres?
Most genre definitions grow organically out of musical history, so there are some genres, which outsiders mash together but which have completely different musical inspirations and history. 70s Punk and Hard Rock/Heavy Metal used both distorted guitars, but are completely different genres, and...- chris_is_cool
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Are you finding new content to read on the site?
It's on desktop too, no fullscreen anymore. The red arrow in the picture indicates where the fullscreen button used to be, if I remember correctly.- chris_is_cool
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New rebrand is live!
I love the design, amazing job :love:. I do have a small issue to report though: In the community section, we have the drop down menu ("Hot", "Threads", "Latest activity", etc...) on the top left, right? And on the top right, there was a big green button "Set Default". Makes sense to let us...- chris_is_cool
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Chill Improvisation in F Minor
Sorry that it literally starts in the middle, I wanted to keep the video somewhat short but could not find a good starting point in my recording. It's been a while since I uploaded a part of my improv sessions. I've been working on my phrasing, and lately I feel that it is going in the right...- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media '"You Shook Me All Night Long" solo practice (first half of it) - #SynnerSunday'
This is just amazing!! Others have already mentioned working on the pitch of the bends and the vibratos, both stuff I still struggle a lot with myself. I also tend to use to little wrist in those motions 🤣. Keep working at it, your progress is just great!🤘- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media '#OneMonthChallenge "You Shook Me All Night Long" update - beginner'
That was amazing, really smooth!! 🤘- chris_is_cool
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This has been bothering me
I hate mushrooms. Any food containing mushrooms is instantly gross to me. Would be so weird, if I personally attacked people who like mushrooms, right? :ROFLMAO: At the same time, music fans are usually a lot more passionate about their favorite music than the average person is about food...- chris_is_cool
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Intermediate Non-diatonic progressions with major triads
So I've been playing around with basic triads, and it turns out, riffs can sound pretty cool when you just stick with major triads throughout the progression. To be more specific, it depends on the inversion and on the strings used. Particular examples I liked: - First inversion major triads on...- chris_is_cool
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What do you enjoy playing?
My enjoyment in playing is very much the same as my taste in music in general 😁. I love metal and hard rock of all sub genres, but with a very strong focus on 80s heavy metal, thrash metal, and "hair/glam metal". The only thing that's really important is having some kind of variety. I like...- chris_is_cool
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Happy #synnersunday (Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild Day 1) (also: new #onemonthchallenge)
Happy Synner Sunday everyone! I think this is the first time that I'm uploading a literal day 1 riff :D. The first two Skid Row records are very high among my favorite albums of all time, and this song is definitely one of my favorite songs of all time. So I felt it is time that I gave it a shot...- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media 'Master of Puppets: Progress Update 1'
This is brutal, man. So awesome, keep it up. 🤘- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media 'One Month Challenge: The Stage Intro, a month later'
This is killer!! 🤘- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media 'One month challenge final result (sweet child of mine)'
The way I'm doing it now is with a slide from fret 13 to 12, which has worked well for some of my tones. The way my katana is set up right now, it is super easy to get harmonics up there, so maybe lift-of and fretting again could help to avoid those. Will have to try that tomorrow, thanks for...- chris_is_cool
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Comment by 'chris_is_cool' in media 'Crimson Day intro to chorus'
Yeah, alternate picking as a standard is a great habit. I feel, economy picking, when done correctly (alternate picking with mini "sweeps" on string changes) is more advanced and should build on a solid alternate picking foundation. Strict downpicking is appropriate for metal chugging on the...- chris_is_cool
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One month challenge final result (sweet child of mine)
Okay, pants down, here is another playthrough one month later xD. As you can see, I didn't quite get as far as I planned originally. After seeing the footage, my "guitar faces" while strumming simple open chords are hillarious. Otherwise, please excuse how my B strings sounds out of tune, I have...- chris_is_cool
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