Can YOU Headbang and play guitar at the same time?

[Trespass]

I pace around the stage slightly, its actually pretty weird to watch. Or I sway restlessly, like a whole ton of pent up energy is going on, but I'm all professional (this is with the jazz band on stage, and when I have put on a show I was greatly discriminated for it)

 

[JoeyTRabbit]

I can do any of my bass riffage with my eyes closed to begin with so headbanging comes naturally.

 

[JohnnyCNote]

I think I'd get a headache, or at least very dizzy, if I did the twirling thing. Plus, I keep my hair pretty short, so it wouldn't really work . . .

 

[gaunten]

well... I can headbang to a regular 4/4 beat, if it's not a crazy fast or advanced riff moving all over the fretboard, but when it comes to blastbeats or I don't know the word for it in english but I guess it's 2/4 or something
crash kick
crash snare
crash kick
crash snare etc....
at high speeds I just can't. I want to do the classic "helicopter" but I tend to fall or something... of course when it's played slow "manowar style" I can manage hehe.
and when it comes to odd meters like 7/4 or polymetrics like meshuggah.. well, that's just fucked up...

 

[ShawnFjellstad]

yep.

 

[Rachmaninoff]

Oh yeah I can play during a headbang.
What I never tried was to play during a gangbang.

 

[wes225]

what about the grindcore teabag your guitar type thing the do were they do a squat and headbang during breakdowns

 

[kershyboy]

yeah I can do it. I use to do it all the time when i use to be in a death metal band. The vocalist got pissed off with it though as i used to hog center stage and whip him in the face with my waist length hair while windmilling hahaha. While the other guitarist said he could smell and liked the smell of the shampoo each time i windmilled near him. (how death metal....not) hahaha.

doesnt make a difference really headbanging or not headbanging as my hair always ends up over my eyes anyways, so ive just learn't to deal with not being able to see the fret board

 

[dougsteele]

My new one is singin'/sweeping:



It's toward the end. I had never done it before, and this dude was filming, so like a jackass, I'm like, "Let's see if I can do back up vocals and sweep..." Just put the sweep on auto pilot and fuckin' go for broke.

 

[Buzz762]

I posses the ability to head bang while playing, but I don't really do it. It's not so much my style. I bounce around far more.. bouncing my upper body in time with the music or moving my entire leg (think Tom Morello),

 

[Se7enMeister]

haha yeah man that's what i did/do, i can actually pull off pretty sweet pinched harmonics like that too

ya the tip of your finger really help

 

[ire_works]

Better question for me would be "do you play guitar while you headbang?"

Sometimes when i'm writing a new riff or composing some stuff , i just gotta get up and headbang to it. Thats how i know whether or not its a good riff.

 

[K7_Munky]

I had to get used to that shit but I got it watching cannibal corpse helped

 

[Zepp88]

If you mean hanging of an object and banging against something while playing, then no, vertigo makes me ill, and the blood clots in the brain impede concentration.

If you mean headbanging, then yes. Just practice the parts whilst headbanging, make sure you get one look at the fretboard per revolution of said head, and it's a sneaky way of fret watching while still moving your head around like a mofo.

Supply windmilling videos at once to prove this









And, yeah I can, never really try to during a solo though (in the rare occasion that I take one). I'm not a windmilling kinda dude though, but I don't have any trouble loosening up a bit and headbanging

 

[neoclassical]

I can't headbang much anymore. I had a car accident in 2000 and my back has never been the same since. Now I get neck and back pain from it, and a headache. lol Damn...

Adam

 

[CrushingAnvil]

I can! heh...I played 'Blind Torture Kill' by Suffocation once whilst doing little thrash metal bobs haha you know where your hair flops on the spot. yeeh...It looks pretty Rad. None of those leaning back hardcore kid bullshit...*PInCh hArMoNiCz* '0h mai god shot fall 0ut b0y!'

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

Simpler stuff, yes.

Tech/mathy/lead/solo no, or at least not more than a slight 'nod' as opposed to the all out headbanging.

 

[Desecrated]

I can barely stand and play at the same time.

 

[Metal Ken]

Furiously. Get right up next to the vocalist at the front of the stage and unleash the fury.

 

[Crucified]

Furiously. Get right up next to the vocalist at the front of the stage and unleash the FOCKING BURGERS.

fixed.