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View Poll Results: Pick your notes | |
Notes that make you feel ill?
|   | 12 | 10.08% | |
Notes that make you wanna jump into each other?
|   | 12 | 10.08% | |
Notes that make you wanna bang your head?
|   | 39 | 32.77% | |
Notes that make you feel angsty?
|   | 6 | 5.04% | |
All of the above?
|   | 50 | 42.02% |  | | 
01-22-2011, 06:49 AM
| | | | What's the best notes to use for metal?
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01-22-2011, 06:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bristol, UK | | | If it can be distorted, you're doing it right.
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01-22-2011, 06:55 AM
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To each his own when it comes to tone.
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01-22-2011, 07:04 AM
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01-22-2011, 07:16 AM
| | | | Depends on the type of metal | 
01-22-2011, 07:19 AM
| | | | Lot's of E's and D's. Blue and brown notes don't fit, black ones are good though. | 
01-22-2011, 07:21 AM
|  | Everybody Wang Chung Tonight | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Houston Tx | | Metal should be played in drop Q  | 
01-22-2011, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Nova Scotia | | None of the above.
The notes you play don't matter, you can't hear the bass in metal anyway, right? 
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01-22-2011, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Ontario | | | i prefer the "drop dead" tuning for metal
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01-22-2011, 10:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Low E, then low E, followed by several more low E's.
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01-22-2011, 11:27 AM
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01-22-2011, 11:39 AM
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01-22-2011, 04:28 PM
| | | | Pointy ones
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01-22-2011, 04:37 PM
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01-22-2011, 04:43 PM
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Observe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wlDnXFcMo
I was thinking that maybe James Taylor should do this next time he is in concert. It would really add a new dimension to his performances.
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01-22-2011, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Hungary | | M flat, you can mix it with some H major it will be heavy ! \m/ 
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01-22-2011, 04:51 PM
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01-22-2011, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Sketchy If it can be distorted, you're doing it right. | Correction...
If it Can't Be Distorted Any More, you are doing it correctly...
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01-22-2011, 05:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Michigan | | | dead notes of course... | 
01-22-2011, 05:29 PM
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- The tritone (It's that BROOTALZ)
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