BF2S Forums I want to do this (help with guitar)

I've seen this movie before, it's awesome. I wish I could do that.

He's asian therefore, anything is possible
Except im a lazy asian. weeeee.!

ive been playing for almost 5 years. im sure i could play cannon without problems... and i know the very beginning. just never bothered to finish learning it.

anyway, get lessons. best way to improve. heres an example: my step bro, alex, is 18. hes been playing since he was like 5. never took lessons. im 17. ive been playing for almost 5 years. ive been taking lessons the whole time. im slightly more skilled than he is.

oo... the video just now got the part where hes using the harmonic minor scale. thats friggen awesome. i dont remember jerryc doing that...

anyway, lessons lessons lessons. ohh, and when your teacher tells you to practice, PRACTICE. A LOT. if you dont you will lose rhythm, and lose interest.

good luck to ya.

Heh, that's pretty neat. At the moment I've ben playing for 5 years, the best I can play is this.

Not as well as Lindsay Buckingham, and I don't sing, but it still impresses my mates. I'm mostly an acoustic player though and only really pick up my electric to play hard riff-driven rock.

If you've been playing for five years simmy you should already have most of the important stuff, the only other thing you can do is just practice more. If you want a more structured approach try getting advanced lessons in electric guitar from someone.

I have some friends that play and from what I can tell, they really only gotten better after looking up tabs of songs they like and learning to play them.  This way you can learn to play with the music you like which probably helps you in the learning process. 

Or you could play Guitar Hero a lot.  I doubt this will actually help, though.

sexecuti0ner wrote:

I have some friends that play and from what I can tell, they really only gotten better after looking up tabs of songs they like and learning to play them.  This way you can learn to play with the music you like which probably helps you in the learning process. 

Or you could play Guitar Hero a lot.  I doubt this will actually help, though.

lol no it wont. that game is fun as hell though. i can do freebird on expert w00t go me

Drax wrote:

yes lesson will help, but only for making you take the time to pick the guitar up more. if you play for hours everyday without lesson, and use the tonnes of resources on the net you can learn easy without lessons.

well it is different for different people. some really do learn better with personal lessons where a good player sits there with you and shows you, and some learn better on their own, taking in everything at their own pace. but most people i know who have had lessons improve a lot faster than most that i know who havent had lessons.

Oh, again, canon rock... Boring piece of guitar wanking imo. Hardest part is the legato sweeping, oh wait, sweeping isnt hard!

How you can do something like that? Well, the speedpicking and sweeping stuff is nothing but praticing for hours, again and again. Start a metronome at around 66 bpm, and play little licks, then increase the speed to 72 bpm and so on. If you can play some nice 16th in 140-160 bpm you´re above average.

Best way to speed up your hands, is nothing but a G-Major pentatonic pattern3 played all the way from 60 to 200 bpm, and always use alternate picking!

Get John Petruccis DVD Rock Discipline, good stuff. Further I recommend you get some DVDs of Paul Gilbert, this guy is a freak, and although the most stuff of his DVDs is out of hell, Paul explains, and even shows how you can play it.

And for Canon Rock, well just download the tabs, and play the song in half the original speed, the increase tempo etc.

True Mafropetee, but I´d say playing Stairway to heaven needs much more skill and technique than Canon Rock imo. Speed is nothing without controll! Whats the use of a sweep when your tone gets lost? I´d say, better learn a alternate picking than this sweeping stuff.

Every technique is hard to learn and nobody is just as gifted to play just everything without practicing.

Nevermind the whole shredding stuff as long as you havent build a constant and clear tone! This is much more important that doing scaleruns in 32th and even in 8th.

Like I´ve said before, just learn the whole major patterns and practice them in a tempo where you´re able to play every single note as clear as you can. If you can handle this, then increase your speed and start again.

Start soloing to some good old Metallica for example. The solo´s of Kirk Hammet on their black album arent that hard, but will give you a good feeling for scales, tone and technique. If you´re not into metal well, then check some other genre for easy solos and practice them.

And for your info, I might be experienced, but Im not the guy walking to a guitar store to play some beginners against the wall.

Btw, I might be wrong, but I´d say most of the Canon Rock videos on youtube, are faked. Including the one by Jerry C shown above. Just listen to them, most are overwhelmed by delays, phase and flanger fx which sound pretty post recorded. Imo, the stuff is recorded in a slower tempo, and then pimped up by some protools. I for my part havent done a single recording via PC with such a great sound, and I´ve used nearly every recording software aviable, including Line6 models which sound without doubt best.

Z-trooper wrote:

simmy.uk wrote:

He plugged his guitar into the pc so he can play along to the backing song and record it at the same time.

yea, I got myself a creative X-fi - and its amazing for this purpose! a lot of good options, great sound, some good effects..  I love it..

Yeah that's what I was figuring he used too. Front bay control panels ftw.

Sl4y3r wrote:

Well, sry to be the party breaker again, but I´ve read on Jerry C´s site once that he used a Line6 tone port and Live5.0 to record it... So I dont think he used a X-Fi at all, which, as I got one myself, arent too good for audiorecordings.

The Line 6 is unbelievable.  My bro has it and it allows you to replicate any sound you want.  Just type in JerryC-Canon and it gives you the sound that JerryC used on Canon, its unbelievable.  Of course you have to be able to play it, but its great if you are an experienced guitar player.

Hell I would like to just learn how to play a guitar instead of playing Guitar Hero all the damn time.