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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%
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Old 01-22-2011, 06:49 AM
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What's the best notes to use for metal?

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I want to start a poll so us metalhedz will know how to play it right.
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Old 01-22-2011, 06:51 AM
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If it can be distorted, you're doing it right.
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Old 01-22-2011, 06:55 AM
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Bored, eh?
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Old 01-22-2011, 07:04 AM
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drop-tuned notes
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Old 01-22-2011, 07:16 AM
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Depends on the type of metal
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Old 01-22-2011, 07:19 AM
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Lot's of E's and D's. Blue and brown notes don't fit, black ones are good though.
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Old 01-22-2011, 07:21 AM
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Metal should be played in drop Q
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Old 01-22-2011, 10:50 AM
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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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i prefer the "drop dead" tuning for metal
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Low E, then low E, followed by several more low E's.
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Tritones.

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B, A, C, H
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Pointy ones
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Old 01-22-2011, 04:37 PM
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Old 01-22-2011, 04:43 PM
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As long as you are spinning your hair around in circles in sync with the other band members, any notes work.

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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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M flat, you can mix it with some H major it will be heavy ! \m/
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All 12 of them. At the same time.
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If it Can't Be Distorted Any More, you are doing it correctly...
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Old 01-22-2011, 05:12 PM
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dead notes of course...
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Old 01-22-2011, 05:29 PM
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There are 2 ways to go:
  1. The ones that are in D minor
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