Definitions by bryan18
ultimate-guitar
A website/forum with great guitar tablatures. It has some awesome guitarists that tab songs and even make instructional videos.
Unfortunatley the forum community is mostly made up of dumbass high school freshmen who want to learn to play power chords like their hero, Billy Joe Armstrong. And God forbid when they try to tab something simple like a pop-punk song, they fuck it up somehow.
Unfortunatley the forum community is mostly made up of dumbass high school freshmen who want to learn to play power chords like their hero, Billy Joe Armstrong. And God forbid when they try to tab something simple like a pop-punk song, they fuck it up somehow.
If you're a good guitarist who doesn't think that My Chemical Romance and Avenged Sevenfold are the pinnacle of musicianship, come check out Ultimate-Guitar.
If you picked up the guitar to try to get pussy, stay the fuck away.
If you picked up the guitar to try to get pussy, stay the fuck away.
ultimate-guitar by bryan18 July 28, 2008
marshall
The best fucking rock amps in the industry.
The loudest amps around without sacraficing tone or sound quality. Used in both the recording studio and at live gigs.
The loudest amps around without sacraficing tone or sound quality. Used in both the recording studio and at live gigs.
kirk hammet
Lead guitarist for Metallica, since 1983. Replaced Dave Mustaine. Gets a lot of shit from Megadeth fans and from idiots who otherwise don't like Metallica. He's a damn good player though.
Kirk Hammett can play faster than you or anyone you know, so think twice before saying that he "sucks", ok?
kirk hammet by bryan18 October 17, 2005
sweep picking
A guitar technique used for playing fast arpeggios. One note per string is fretted by the left hand, while the right hand sweeps down/up on the strings in one motion. More than one string cannot ring simultaneously or it will become a chord/whatever.
The difficult part of sweep picking lies within getting your left hand to fret the notes in sync with the right hand's sweeping.
The difficult part of sweep picking lies within getting your left hand to fret the notes in sync with the right hand's sweeping.
sweep picking by bryan18 September 20, 2005
finger tapping
On the guitar, finger tapping is the act of plucking a string with your right hand middle finger (the most common "tapping finger"), either open or fretted, and then hammering on the fretboard with the same finger. Usually you will do hammer-ons/pull-offs with your left hand in between the time that your right hand is tapping.
Tapping can be very simple, e.g. 2 finger tapping where you are simply playing a fast trill (like Toccata and Feuge in D Minor), or it can be very complicated like Buckethead's 10 finger tapping.
Many people claim that Eddie Van Halen invented multiple finger tapping, others say it was Billy Sheehan or Randy Rhoads, etc. But it was definitely Van Halen who brought it to the main stream audience in the 80's.
Tapping can be very simple, e.g. 2 finger tapping where you are simply playing a fast trill (like Toccata and Feuge in D Minor), or it can be very complicated like Buckethead's 10 finger tapping.
Many people claim that Eddie Van Halen invented multiple finger tapping, others say it was Billy Sheehan or Randy Rhoads, etc. But it was definitely Van Halen who brought it to the main stream audience in the 80's.
finger tapping by bryan18 September 17, 2005
steve vai
Steve Vai is a guitar player who is both extremely creative and technically proficient. I personally consider him to be the most creative guitarist that's not retired/dead.
He used to tour with Frank Zappa and currently tours with Joe Satriani on G3.
He used to tour with Frank Zappa and currently tours with Joe Satriani on G3.
Ler LaLonde
Amazing guitarist from Primus. Also plays the banjo. His guitar licks often get overshadowed by Claypool's bass, but he adds a lot to the songs.
Ler LaLonde by bryan18 September 6, 2005