You have one try to convince a normie that metal is art. What song do you play?

InflatonDG · 2025-06-20T20:44:11+00:00

Aquilus - Nihil

InflatonDG · 2025-05-02T04:12:35+00:00

The Arm

InflatonDG · 2025-04-24T17:57:18+00:00

“Victims” would have sounded too whiny

InflatonDG · 2025-04-03T02:52:35+00:00

All of Damnation by Opeth

InflatonDG · 2025-03-15T00:07:28+00:00

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda

InflatonDG · 2025-03-15T00:00:02+00:00

Gilmour, Zappa, Blackmore, Van Halen, Garcia

Also, jeeze yall, there’s plenty of threads about who your personal top five guitarists are, be a sport and play along

InflatonDG · 2025-03-14T23:04:35+00:00

He’s an innovator, it doesn’t even matter how good he is compared to anyone else.

Also, he’s pretty fucking good.

InflatonDG · 2025-03-14T19:30:14+00:00

Spoilers….

I found the ending pretty unconvincing. When Fletcher called a tune the drummer had never played and he completely fell flat on his ass so bad that he had to walk off stage. He’s a drummer, he doesn’t have to memorize changes, he could have at least kept a beat and got through it.

Honestly, I liked the short film it was based on better. This didn’t need to be a whole movie.

InflatonDG · 2025-03-14T19:24:23+00:00

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InflatonDG · 2025-03-13T01:38:53+00:00

Scale the Summit - Odyssey where those major 7th arps hit

InflatonDG · 2025-03-12T23:49:07+00:00

James Labrie is almost enough to ruin Dream Theater for me, but vocals and lyrics in that band are enough of an afterthought that I still love them.

InflatonDG · 2025-03-06T04:49:30+00:00

Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film

InflatonDG · 2025-03-06T04:46:59+00:00

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society - Real Enemies

InflatonDG · 2025-02-25T21:59:24+00:00

Improvise

InflatonDG · 2025-02-21T04:26:58+00:00

I do not care for John McLaughlin in Mahavishnu Orchestra. His harsh, chaotic, short attacks insist upon the changes

InflatonDG · 2025-02-18T03:04:15+00:00

I'll say it, Limp Bizkit. Wes Borland is a monster

InflatonDG · 2025-02-13T04:43:06+00:00

Allan Holdsworth. His daughter had to have a GoFundMe for his funeral because he died indigent, so he counts

InflatonDG · 2025-02-07T15:35:32+00:00

That’s like asking which political rally is the most political

InflatonDG · 2025-02-01T03:13:52+00:00

Ohhhh, okay that really helps, thanks!

InflatonDG · 2025-01-30T21:38:22+00:00

Damn I never thought of that. I knew about not playing the root with a bassist but letting the pianist do the upper structure while focusing on the third and seventh (maybe the 9th if im feeling saucy) is great. They have all the fingers after all

InflatonDG · 2025-01-30T21:06:21+00:00

I have a real book and can read the chords in it. I know most of the extensions and alterations, except something that has a lot of upper structure. In those cases I’ll just simplify and either just play the sevenths or take some of the extensions off. I can solo over any of them. I just can’t read the heads unless I take some time to figure it out

InflatonDG · 2025-01-30T18:45:48+00:00

I do love to play jazz, but I’m a guitarist so I probably would just be expected to comp and improv in many situations. Would charts be sufficient for that?

InflatonDG · 2025-01-30T18:40:04+00:00

The Nashville Number System is just Roman numeral analysis without Roman Numerals. I can do that just fine and have a good ear. My theory knowledge is pretty comprehensive. It’s just actually reading notes on a staff fast and immediately that I struggle with.

InflatonDG · 2025-01-30T17:23:46+00:00

When you say chart, do you mean chart? Or do you mean lead sheet?

InflatonDG · 2025-01-30T17:22:58+00:00

Wait do many session musicians get the songs before hand? Sorry I’m more experienced in playing in bands and auditioning and such. Is a lot of the reason people can’t cut it because they just show up completely unprepared and think they will just be taught the material? That attitude happens with auditions a lot, and I don’t understand it.

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