Playing Guitar

[Slayer101]

I've been playing for about six months now and this is what I can play so far:

Judas Preist-Breaking the Law
Obituary-Redneck Stomp
Megadeth-Peace Sells
Metallica-Fade to Black(part of it)
Slayer-South of Heaven
Alice in Chains-Them Bones

I know that's not to impressive, but every other song I've tried to play is hard. So could you guy's give some easier songs to play.

Thanks

 

[Keith!]

Dam that River - Alice in Chains.

 

[all_sins_undone]

The Grand Conjuration (excluding solo obv)

 

[metal_wrath]

Any Punk rock, lol

 

[the_drip]

dang all the songs are hard....

solution: practice them more.

 

[a síctia]

ending credits

some AC DC stuff

 

[Opethian666]

make your own songs.
I've been playing the electric guitar for 2 years and I can't play any song at all, I've never tried either. I pick out a cool riff from a song here and there to play from time to time but I can't be arsed to do an entire song, I prefer just making music myself and improvising on my guitar.

 

[soundave]

Learning songs is a good way to understand songwriting, and it's a good way to develop your chops. It sheds light on your limitations, affording you the opportunity for improvement. If you work towards being able to play a difficult passage, instead of giving up, it will help you to become a better player. Learning songs can also help to improve your ear. Ultimately, I knw that I prefer writing my own music. But learning a new song now and again helps get me out of ruts.

Keep in mind that you are what you eat, musically. What you listen to and learn to play will probably creep into the music you write. And you should definitely try to write your own music. There's really nothing like it!

 

[metalhead_666]

learn some cob riffs theyre not hard some cannibal corpse too learning whole songs can improve your timing and give you some ideas when it comes to making your own song

 

[i aint play this]

Easier? learn some Oasis or Cranberries...now that's easy.

 

[Slayer101]

Thanks for the suggetions, guys.
I'll try them out.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

I know a lot of people don't like Slayer on this forum, but playing their songs will turn your forarm into a solid rock especially the very fast songs and the leads.

 

[affinityband]

Fast picking is limited by how much you use your forearm btw^
less forearm, more thumb and first finger and a tad wrist, with not alot of pressure applyed to the strings and having the underside of your palm always close to the bridge for string changes.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Ya alot is in the wrist, but having a strong forarm helps alot.

 

[affinityband]

i usually just get cramp if i use my forarm, and try and pick at the same speed i usually do the other way.

 

[Keith!]

If you start off playing those fast riffs your just going to use your forearm and a bit of wrist. But if you go the long way and build up your technique by gradually increasing the speed over a period of time then you can work up your wrist muscles so eventually you will have a very effecient right hand technique.
Guitarists to check out what i mean are Paul Gilbert and the Decapitated Guitarist. The latter has an amazing technique, check out some vids on you tube.

I've seen and heard about the finger and thumb movement technique and i actually used to do that without realising, then someone pointed it out to me and i changed it and it became a hell of alot better.