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Originally Posted by Mo'Phat I had a brilliant teacher for about two months who said, "You know all those Metallica and Queensryche and Rush songs you want me to teach you? Try slapping them." So I learned them and slapped them. Then I learned some Simon and Garfunkel, and slapped, then some Live, some reggae, some blues, and slapped the hell out of it. When we did the required theory training (scales, modes and such), we slapped our way through it.
When I got in a band, I learned the guitar melody, then slapped it. Then I didn't want to completely drown out the guitar, so I tweaked his riff with harmonies (5ths and octaves) and slapped it again.
Then I wrote my own fingerstyle parts. Then I slapped them, then I started on the 2 instead of the 1, then I omitted the downbeat, knowing that's where the kick drum would go, then I ghost-noted a lot, then I sped it up, then I slowed down, then I moved up and down the neck, then I played right on the beat, then swung back off the beat, then hit a whole note and let it ring, then I played the riff backwards, then I resolved back to the original riff I came up with.
My teacher's main point: There are no rules. |
