Electric guitar for noob

[BengalsRocker]

(08-06-2022, 11:13 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I recently upgraded to Amplitube 5, the full version and downloaded Ableton Live and EZ Drummer so i can actually make some real music now instead of just sitting around noodling all the time. 

Ola Englund has a segment on his Youtube channel called Sunday's with Ola where he uploads a drum track that he creates and people can d/l it and record some riffs, upload it and he will show them during his live streams on Monday mornings (the following week). One of these days i'm gonna do that. 

Been mostly spending all my time hacking away at some Children of Bodom (are you dead yet) and The Haunted (Abysmal). After many years of picking and grinning, i decided to totally trash the way i've always played and i've been working on different types of phrasing and mixing things up with scales, trying to be more unconventional. Been pretty fun, actually. 

The amount of songs i used to know by heart, that i've now mostly forgotten because of such a long layoff, is astounding and a little frustrating at times so i also spend some time going over (re-learning) all that stuff; Metallica, Dream Theater, Alice in Chains, etc. 

The crazy thing is how some nights i'll pick it up and it's almost like i've never even played a guitar before and then the next night i'll be shredding my ass off with little effort. 

Sometimes I hate the way I play.

Other times I think I'm pretty damn good.

It just depends on the mood I suppose and the mental clarity.  LOL  It happens duuuude!