V8 wrote:
Q:
1. Why are you here?
2. What was the first album you bought? and/or Which is the first album/song/band fired your interest in music?
3. What band/song/album got you to pick up the guitar/bass?
4. Which genre/style of music or artist first made you think/feel.
5. What was the last thing you learned (or busy learning?)
6. What's your 'dirty' musical secret?
1. I came here to try and learn how to get the sickest djent tonez ?
2. Don't remember the first album I ever bought though I'm willing to bet it was horrible, I'm pretty sure the guitar thing really took off when my first teacher showed me Joe Satriani.
3. I'm not too sure on this one either but I think it was either Nirvana/Cradle Of Filth/Slipknot or Korn, one of the typical angsty bands teenagers listen to I guess.
4. I'm going to go back to saying I think it was Joe Satriani, I remember really starting to take things seriously after that spectrum of the guitar world was shown to me.
5. Currently busy learning new songs for my band, the track we're trying to get gig ready has one of the most painful finger destroying alternate picked things I've ever had to deal with so it'll be while before that's down. Yesterday I learned how to play Seperate Ways by Journey, but that was just for a lol, took like 30 minutes or something, it's a pretty cool song ? On a personal level I'm busy trying to shift over to being a hybrid picker, cause I'm lazy and this'll help me stay faster but put less effort in and assist in visualising the fretboard in a more arpeggio oriented manner.
6. I don't really have one, music I like is music I like to me, I can go from enjoying Planet X to enjoying Katy Perry, doesn't really phase me much. I suppose the only thing I can really put here is that I wish I played piano, I mean I do but badly, if I could transfer the level I'm at on guitar over to piano I'd do it.
EDIT:
Okay I'm going to go a little off script here, but regarding number 4, though I truly love music and I've had tons of "holy shit this is transcendent" moments I think the thing that to this day will always blow my mind is this song:
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The way every bit of production is considered, the feeling and placement of each and every moment and instrument, how it goes from feeling uncomfortable in some parts to feeling so exciting it takes your breath away. The blending of classical and electronica and rock and many other things in between, the way some themes disappear and then come back and echo onto themselves but occupy different spaces in the soundscape, it's so intentional and so beautiful. It literally brought me to tears the first time I listened to it, has subsequently done so on many more occasions, it's long but honestly it's one of the most if not the most incredible journey I've ever had through music.
