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Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
I see we have new statuses under our avatars. Are those determined by how many posts we have?
James, he records it a bunch of times until he gets it right. You only get one shot live.
Wasted, glad to hear everything went well with your son, hope he makes a speedy recovery!
Mckindog, The Plan is a headline act, Maiden would open for them.
Wasted, glad to hear everything went well with your son, hope he makes a speedy recovery!
Mckindog, The Plan is a headline act, Maiden would open for them.
DJ James
A coma stole my name.
Well of course you only get one shot live, but it's too different live for me. I mean every other band that I've seen live videos of at least sounds a tad like the originals, or maybe my standards have been way too high by seeing Maiden perform live. By the way, the only guitar chords I've learned are A and E. What are the other important ones every guitarist should know?
Your standards are probably too high. I have the Big 4 DVD, and Dave sounds like I'd expect him to sound live, that is, I expect him to sound bad live because I've heard many people say he sounds bad live. And he does sound bad, but I can still hear his voice, and that him doing it in the studio a bunch of times, he can get it right. Not playing a guitar at the same time is also probably a huge help.
As for chords, I thought you wrote them all down?
C
D
G
Am
Em
Those are the most important chords, As a metal guy learning power chords is also a good idea. Those are easy, you learn one, you know them all.
Power chords are three notes, those are always the root, the fifth, and the octave. A "D" power chord is D,A,D, for example. But you don't need to know all the notes on the guitar to know a power chord, because the shape is always the same. So your "D" power chord will look like this:
e---------------------------------
B---------------------------------
G--------------------------------
D--------------12-----------------
A------------- 12-----------------
E--------------10-----------------
Move that same shape down to the 3rd fret, for example, and you've got a "G" power chord. This works anywhere on the 6th or 5th string, except on the open fret, but since you know A and E, you already know how those chords work. On the fourth string, you can do the shape with the 3rd and the 5th, but the octave is going to be one fret up on the second string. So a D power chord starting on the third string would look like this:
e-------------------------------
B--------------15----------------
G-------------14-----------------
D-------------12------------------
A-------------------------------
E-------------------------------
So that is the other power chord shape. That version is less common though, most of the time guitarists will just use the root and the 5th for that string. But yea, most commonly used chord shape in rock/metal. Maiden uses it constantly.
I hope this makes sense.
As for chords, I thought you wrote them all down?
C
D
G
Am
Em
Those are the most important chords, As a metal guy learning power chords is also a good idea. Those are easy, you learn one, you know them all.
Power chords are three notes, those are always the root, the fifth, and the octave. A "D" power chord is D,A,D, for example. But you don't need to know all the notes on the guitar to know a power chord, because the shape is always the same. So your "D" power chord will look like this:
e---------------------------------
B---------------------------------
G--------------------------------
D--------------12-----------------
A------------- 12-----------------
E--------------10-----------------
Move that same shape down to the 3rd fret, for example, and you've got a "G" power chord. This works anywhere on the 6th or 5th string, except on the open fret, but since you know A and E, you already know how those chords work. On the fourth string, you can do the shape with the 3rd and the 5th, but the octave is going to be one fret up on the second string. So a D power chord starting on the third string would look like this:
e-------------------------------
B--------------15----------------
G-------------14-----------------
D-------------12------------------
A-------------------------------
E-------------------------------
So that is the other power chord shape. That version is less common though, most of the time guitarists will just use the root and the 5th for that string. But yea, most commonly used chord shape in rock/metal. Maiden uses it constantly.
I hope this makes sense.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Once you master those open chords (C, D, Dm, G, A,Am, E,Em), learn barré chords - you need those in order to play all those that are not listed already.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
It also seems like the line which is added after the user name, is given by the site, except for moderators. "Old Timer" is obviously replaced by "Ancient Mariner", those with fewer posts are referred to as "Trooper" or "Invader".
I dislike that the little taglines we could add to the name ourselves is now hidden in the profile (i.e. you must open the profile to see it). For example, my own Brighter than thousand_suns and Having a beer at your four o'clock ...
DJ James
A coma stole my name.
If you change your title in personal details, it isn't showing up? Tell Jon here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/new-forum-broken-something.22649/page-3
Go to your name in the top right hand corner, you should get a series of drop-downs.
Then click personal details. Top left of the options.
In here, under avatar, there should be a scheme for custom title.
Then click personal details. Top left of the options.
In here, under avatar, there should be a scheme for custom title.