Step Five

 

In my video, I play a mix of two guitar parts of the song. I play the rhythm, Corey Taylor's part and the lead, Jim Root's part. I mixed it up because it sounds better than playing both individually and I don't have the momentary pauses like the actual song. As you can see, I'm not the best guitar player and I'm still not completely perfect with the song, but playing the guitar is just something I enjoy doing.




I love the guitar. I'm repeating myself of course, but it's true. I love the guitar, there are so many different sounds you can create. Whether it's heavy or melodic, or even both. Stone Sour is a great example of creating heavy yet melodic music. A perfect example is Say You'll Haunt Me a hit single from their latest album. But even further, there are other bands that have a great melodic sound but still maintain the heavy sound that I like. For example, Metallica. They (in my opinion) are the greatest metal band that came out of the 80's. They have guitar riffs that are heavy but also are catchy and stay in your head. That is very true when it comes to Enter Sandman.


Scales
There are a lot of different types of scales for guitar, there's: the Blues Scales, Majors and Minors. There are so many, that I can't list them. Scales are the guitar tools that will give you the skills to play like all the greatest guitarists. They show you what notes sound good together is basically what I'm trying to say. For example, a C chord played before or after an A chord sounds good. Throw in a G chord and you have a song. But if you play the notes in scales and your one step away from a solo.



Dean's Progress
I was hoping to give you guys a peek at Dean's progress, but embedding a video right now isn't really working due to problems with the Internet. It's weird, I can post and write all I want but when it comes to videos and pictures, it is taking an extremely long time. Although, I can give a link to his page. He has come well along for a person without a teacher. In a few weeks, Dean went from not knowing anything about chords and guitars to being able to almost completely play the song.



Arpeggios

The next thing we are going to learn about are Arpeggios. I'm saving this for my next post but here is an example of what it would look like:


Just a heads up, but arpeggios are very advanced and you mighthave some trouble. Although, I'm confident you guys will learn quickly.