Songs you dig to improve tightness

[LeSedna]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to improve my rythm skills because I still think I'm not already at the best level I could.

So I just wanted to ask you if you have some cool songs to share that helped you a lot to improve your skills.

 

[Torniojaws]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture (entire album), great exercise for picking hand tightness and endurance when you play along through the entire album.
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (entire album), for some ridiculous downstroke rehearsals. Try to play with downstrokes as much as you can, especially Cold.
Nile - The Burning Pits of the Duat, another great downstroke rehearsal. The first riff is played fully with downstrokes... have fun

 

[LeSedna]

omg that nile song is a torture !

 

[Mancha]

I think that main theme in Man Made God by In Flames did the most for my rhythm guitar skills.
+ it's fun to play

 

[Metaltastic]

I LOVE playing along with Arch Enemy's "Silent Wars", that constant barrage of 16th notes on the low-C is a killer! (at least for me, I'm the first to admit I have pretty wimpy fast-rhythm chops )

 

[LeSedna]

oh yeah silent wars is a killer song, it's the one that made me like arch enemy. That solo part is incredible too

 

[GarethSE]

I used to play along to Shaped By Fate - The Unbeliever.
Lots of weird, grooved out sections of chugging where they throw triplets in randomly.
For ages my picking technique was sloppy and terrible and I tensed up for it and couldn't get through an entire song and it hurt, so I *HAD* to improve my technique. But for most people here that album would be a piece of piss to play through.
Cool album though, fun to play.

 

[Enslaved.]

norther-Mirror of madness

 

[mick thompson]

im going to say "arch enemy - bridge of destiny"

heres a fact - its actually a mix between a song from gaston Leroux's plays & an abba song mixed together. im not saying which songs because i love arch enemy so much but yea...bridge of destiny! fucking epically difficult song to memorize all the rhythms and nail them each time

 

[Metaltastic]

Dude, Arch Enemy has a bad habit of taking influence from really really fucking lame songs - biggest case in point, the chorus of Instinct having a rhythm and progression frighteningly similar to "Lean on me"

 

[Erkan]

Gojira.

That's all I have to say They're TIIIIIIIIIIIGHT and rhythmic!

 

[Ola Englund]

Doing Pantera and Testament will do you good! That's what I did when I started playing guitar around ´95

 

[Metaltastic]

Doing Pantera and Testament will do you good! That's what I did when I started playing guitar around ´95

'95, holy fuck - now I don't feel so bad! (summer 2000 here)

 

[cobhc]

Lol, 1999 for me starting out.

And I vote for Kreator's Pleasure to Kill.

Whole album without stopping.......now go!

 

[Ola Englund]

'95, holy fuck - now I don't feel so bad! (summer 2000 here)

Man how young are you guys anyway?

 

[cobhc]

23 here.

 

[Metaltastic]

22 here!

 

[Ola Englund]

ah ok, then I'm old(28)

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

'95, holy fuck - now I don't feel so bad! (summer 2000 here)

Dude, spring '00 (though I just fiddled around for half a year and then forgot all about the instrument for a year), and you kick the shit out of my playing any day

+1 on Fear Factory. If that shit ain't tight, then I don't know what is

 

[Ola Englund]

I have the years 95-00 to thank for my playing. I haven't improved since 2000.
I thank myself for being a guitar nerd when I was young. That still saves me today