doc-phil
I'm pretty stoked with my guitar-playing right now. I don't know how it works with other guitarists, but often I find a riff that I absolutely love but I just can't play it right. So I try and learn the riff for a while, but I eventually give up. A few months/years down the line I suddenly remember the riff, but this time when I pick up my guitar I can play it!! ? The sense of achievement I get in just sitting in my room and playing the riff over and over again is exactly what guitar playing is about for me.
The riff I am referring to here is the intro and verse of Creed's 'You Stand Here With Me' of their Weathered album. Mark Tremonti is my all time favourite guitarist and being able to finally play that riff makes me very happy inside ?
I had a similar experience when I could finally play 'Closure' by Opeth. ?
Does anybody else have these kinda experiences or am I a whack job??
Explorerlover
Had the same thing with Closure and when I nailed Funeral Portrait I was like " Who is this Steve Vai guy anyways? " ?
IceCreamMan
The intrinsic sense of achievement and satisfaction when one pulls it off is awesome ...to others it seems trivial but to me its awesome..
DonovanB
It is a sense of achievement. I reckon it carries through into other things you do.
To quote myself from
here 8)
we focus so much on the final result that all the work in between is nothing to us, it is a few steps we take to achieve our goal.
Sure, maybe the steps may seem difficult, but if there are millions of musicians in the word, millions of athletes millions of successful people, why do we still think we can't do something, when in fact, we can do anything!!!
singemonkey
Not a whack-job. This is the feeling that keeps us all developing. The wonderful thing about playing guitar is that this is an infinite process. No matter how good you are, there's always some aspect of it you haven't mastered. I imagine myself still having those moments when I'm eighty.
LooneyAtTheGate
Whack job??
You're a junkie just like all of us...
Getting that riff down - the ultimate drug.. Keeps everyone playing!
Squonk
I started humbly and felt this way when I nailed the simple picking to "House of the Rising Sun" long years ago.
Then I learned "Venus", completely blew me away and rushed off to play it to someone
As Singe says this feeling never goes and always spurs you on to better things.
Fingerpicker
I got a real kick out of getting the riff in Jethro Tull's Mother Goose greased.
Presently working on the long descent from Mark Knopflers Calling Elvis and the Johnny B Goode intro. Neither sound close to what they should sound like.
I guess they'll arrive in their own time...
Warren
Fingerpicker wrote:
...the Johnny B Goode intro...
I love that intro myself. I can just imagine being Marty McFly in the first Back to the Future ?
ZarK
Been playing mostly metal for some time due to the technical challenges the style presents and my love of cold-milk-over-cereal-crunchy-riffs... [cmoccr. (TM) ? ] Recently started jamming with a band and we've been doing songs by Alter Bridge, Muse, Breaking Benjamin and 30 seconds to Mars. With regards especially to the first two bands, I have new respect for "lighter music" Some of their riffs are insanely gratifying to get down and challenging to execute correctly. The new genre of music (for me) we're playing with all the alternate tunings has really inspired me and got me focused on my guitaring again. I haven't enjoyed it this much in a long time and totally share the high from nailing new challenging riffs!
Happy jamming all! ?
evolucian
I think nailing any opeth song is a sure fire way of ego boosting. That stuff is so oddball at times that if you nail it... you probably feel on top of the world and nothing can touch you... well done phil
MNM7
Hey man. I know exactly what you mean. I get that a few times. I would sit with a song or hear a song. And i would sit and sit. Then my very short patience span runs out and I simply just don't try again. And than a week or so later i get it right and I just can't stop playing it. I put the song on repeat and just keep playing it for a few times. It's definitely intoxicating. :woohoo: :dance: ?
BMU
evolucian wrote:
I think nailing any opeth song is a sure fire way of ego boosting. That stuff is so oddball at times that if you nail it... you probably feel on top of the world and nothing can touch you... well done phil
Rezzpect.
It's interesting how the subconscious never stops working even when you do. With guitaring I've encountered that effect often where you leave something, come back later (a week or even a year) and suddenly it's achievable. Great feeling.
WantzChas
My happy riff feeling also came from an Opeth song. I LOVE the beginning of Bleak. Also Neil Zaza's I'm Alright, Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast amongst other.
singemonkey
Just got it today, funnily. I could do no wrong. All kinds of things I'd struggled with were so much easier - Stray Cats's Rock This Town, Black Dog, the Changes in Strange Brew, the intro to Crossroads - all seemed very easy. Days like this are always good.
What I finally realised? The more you practise, the more often you have them.
LooneyAtTheGate
WantzChas wrote:
My happy riff feeling also came from an Opeth song. I LOVE the beginning of Bleak. Also Neil Zaza's I'm Alright, Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast amongst other.
Yes i nailed Bleak in its entirety last week! What a rush..
Now i think my girlfriend is irritated cos im always playing it, even if there's some old acoustic lying around!
doc-phil
I've never heard Bleak; I only really know Opeth beginning from their damnation and deliverance albums. I think with all this talk about it I'll go have a listen and a learn. Hey, maybe by doing that I'll be setting myself up for another awesome riffage nailing moment in a month or two. ?
evolucian
then do yourself a favour and check out the watershed release.... mindblowing... best opeth... even though i really love face of melinda... this album is stunning
Stretch
There's nothing quite like nailing that riff/song you have been battling with for ages! When i finally got "Little Wing" down, i was so stoked!
But i think it is what keeps us going, constantly trying to learn something new, or to perfect some or other way of playing. Awesome stuff ?
Squonk
Good song Stretch, still on my list to do.
There are so many versions, so I am not too sure which one to do, the SRV still gives me the most goosebumps :-[
And there's Monte Montgomery's acoustic version... :-\
