So we might be playing The Leper Affinity or The Drapery Falls..
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Ken Masters
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I just cant understand your how thick your skulls can be. Just using those superlatives like that! Easiest song among which songs? All the music history? Among Opeth songs? Among Dream Theater songs? Your statement would only be true in the third one. The Leper Affinity is not the easiest whatever history you may have, real easy songs are those school songs, pop songs and etc.. I just hate these pompous words, may have overreacted but whatever.
one of the easiest opeth songs. this is the opeth forum. i wouldn't be talking about all music in all creation. I think it was the first and still one of few opeth songs that i can actually play in its entirety. As for the second part of my statement, i'm saying that most of the other songs are actually a lot harder than they sound and require a lot of time to sit down and figure out exactly whats going on. Or you can just play the power chords the way people tab them lol.
I tried making stuff sound right, and it usually came out a little better than the shitty tabs most people put up. But then I learned to just do what Wankerness tells me..(tab-wise)
I can see how The Leper Affinity could be much easier to someone with a different general style and background. I think Face of Melinda and Benighted are pretty easy and yet some people have trouble with them. I was able to play the solos to Wreath and Ghost of Perdition about a day after figuring out the notes, and after like a month I still mess up on the solo from the Funeral Portrait. Different songs just demand different things from the player. I mean if I had started playing guitar with a different background, maybe I could laugh at the Heir Apparent solo and be like "omgwtf benighted's too hard."
*HOWEVER*, that does not change the fact that, when asked what Opeth songs are the hardest to play, the majority still mention songs like The Leper Affinity. So it's a valid answer and there's no point coming into a thread with comments like "lol, the leper affinity is so easy" or something.
I can see how The Leper Affinity could be much easier to someone with a different general style and background. I think Face of Melinda and Benighted are pretty easy and yet some people have trouble with them. I was able to play the solos to Wreath and Ghost of Perdition about a day after figuring out the notes, and after like a month I still mess up on the solo from the Funeral Portrait. Different songs just demand different things from the player. I mean if I had started playing guitar with a different background, maybe I could laugh at the Heir Apparent solo and be like "omgwtf benighted's too hard."
*HOWEVER*, that does not change the fact that, when asked what Opeth songs are the hardest to play, the majority still mention songs like The Leper Affinity. So it's a valid answer and there's no point coming into a thread with comments like "lol, the leper affinity is so easy" or something.
The solos from Funeral Portrait probably took me the longest to learn just because of all the scale changes that i'm not used to. But not i've tried to recreate that style a lot more and have less difficulty with ones like that (SPD, TLE). The hardest part of opeth songs as far as me seeing people on youtube trying to play them is fucking up chords. I just said the leper affinity is easy because there aren't very many chords in that song and its completely obvious when you are playing the wrong note.
For example, i have yet to see someone on youtube play the chords at ~5:00 into Ghost of Perdition correctly nor have i seen any tabs that sound correct, but to me its those subtleties that make the songs what they are and anything less than perfect is just wrong. I still haven't figured that one out, but i don't like that song as much as i used to so i haven't tried in a while. Personally i find Face of Melinda a tricky song because i'm not used to playing that style and if i'm not doing it correctly then i'm not satisfied. Theres a video of Mike explaining the chords in TLE and for the opening chord the A string is open. Most of the tabs just have a power chord there. Thats what i'm talking about when i say when i mean its hard. No that chord isn't hard to play, but knowing that it's how it is actually played just based on listening is. Again in Masters Apprentice at the end the chords as tabbed out by moi: without the strumming pattern & tempo/time signature
Okay maybe thats not right, but it sounds better than all the power chords in the tabs and brings out the underlying tones. Maybe they overdubbed in the recording or something like on Dirge for November. Who knows.
For example, i have yet to see someone on youtube play the chords at ~5:00 into Ghost of Perdition correctly nor have i seen any tabs that sound correct, but to me its those subtleties that make the songs what they are and anything less than perfect is just wrong. I still haven't figured that one out, but i don't like that song as much as i used to so i haven't tried in a while. Personally i find Face of Melinda a tricky song because i'm not used to playing that style and if i'm not doing it correctly then i'm not satisfied. Theres a video of Mike explaining the chords in TLE and for the opening chord the A string is open. Most of the tabs just have a power chord there. Thats what i'm talking about when i say when i mean its hard. No that chord isn't hard to play, but knowing that it's how it is actually played just based on listening is. Again in Masters Apprentice at the end the chords as tabbed out by moi: without the strumming pattern & tempo/time signature
Okay maybe thats not right, but it sounds better than all the power chords in the tabs and brings out the underlying tones. Maybe they overdubbed in the recording or something like on Dirge for November. Who knows.
