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"The hardest thing to do in the world...ever!"

Go and grab yourself a guitar of any description and play the intro to All My Life by the FooFighters. Basically its just a G power chord but if you're rubbish at playing the guitar just play a G note. Listen to the song for the rhythm if you dont know it.

Now for the hard part.

Try singing along to it. Doesnt sound hard but it is. Singing and playing it at the same time is nearly impossible. It makes Dave Grohl even more of a ledgend IMO.

I got mine at Christmas, my enthusiasm seems to come and go. I like to make the best of it while it's here, but I'm pretty crap really.

I decided to start at the deep end with some Metallica, which turned out to be a crap idea as the majority of it's rather tough. Didn't really feel like starting with anything simpler like Blink 182 because I detest it.

I got my Guitar in the last Summer holiday and absolutely hammered it for about a month straight

Now it sulks in its stand, quietly weeping and abused. My friend likes to show off when he comes round by picking it up and whacking out some annoyingly fast song

About the only things I 'mastered' were James Bond, the Simpsons tune, Smoke on the Water and Nevermind - all VERY easy songs

Unfortunately I can't read music and am self taught, so it's a matter of picking up tabs, which I hardly ever seem to do anymore and attempting to play after abusing the 'reverse - play' on the CD Player.

I was getting to a novice stage when I tried Hendrix. I pulled off most the All Along The Watchtower song and then crumpled at the solo. The trouble with his other songs is that it's hard to make out the rhythm from the 'wah wah' when using tabs

So repeating the same songs over and over is extremely boring and I stopped. I may pick it up again but I need a good riff to get me started, preferrably The Offspring ...

last year I was playing for 5+ hours a day. Not as much now though.

SHEEPY wrote:
> This topic has made me realise I haven't touched my guitars in over
> two months.

I've really been getting into mine this past couple of weeks. Managed to play the intro to "System Of A Down - Aerials" flawlessly. Take a look at the tab if you know the song, you'll probably be less than impressed but it's not too bad for a noob.

This topic has made me realise I haven't touched my guitars in over two months.

It's only opinion, we're not trying to change you.

Think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one then.

Memorandum! wrote:
> Same notes and progression

That's what we're trying to get across. Doesn't necessarily mean same melodies, but same ways of getting to notes, across strings, incidents between notes, that sort of thing. There's no variation, which is why it all sounds the same.

Keep 'em coming.

part of the Enter Sandman solo is identical to the quietish bit in Master of Puppets. Same notes and progression, just ascending as opposed to descending.

plus he abuses unison bends WAY too much. And wah.