I need a goal in guitar playing, aka "cool hard songs to play"

[Chryst Krispies]

Learn the 4 chord song
???
Profit.

 

[Ensi]

For rythm, playing some Sylosis has helped me alot. It's not borderline retarded-necrophagist level, but not quite easy either (at least for me).

 

[FrankyFVX]

For rythm, playing some Sylosis has helped me alot. It's not borderline retarded-necrophagist level, but not quite easy either (at least for me).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5g0k24Uk0

yep that pretty much what I was gonna recommend

I've been having a lot of fun with their song Empyreal, plus Jon has a riff by riff lesson on youtube

 

[Paulie!]

Started learning To Live Is To Die from Justice yesterday, gonna post an all guitar recording when I can nail it...

-P

 

[ratsapprentice]

boom........
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13342996/DescendingUponConvulsiveDevourment.gp5

 

[AllanD]

Why not play some Cynic? =p I'm playing bits of The Eagle Nature and having some fun with that.

+3. I'm trying to learn most of Focus, it's hard as fawk!

 

[Cheesebone]

THIS SONG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG1vktNwsJw

This song got me back into guitar playing, I just sat down and decided I wanted to learn something new about 5 years ago and for some reason this song came to mind. Some very cool rhythms, interesting finger placements, and it's not so complicated that you have to be Steve Vai or Petrucci to nail it either. Even the solo at 2:33-is is relatively simple but still gives you something to work with.. it's a really diverse song with some awesome drawn-out riffs, cool chords, odd times, open-string-hammer-on riffs all sorts of fun shit.

The solo at 3:50 on the other hand, I decided I'd save that for a later date, hahaha...