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[GuitaristOfHell]

What's everyone currently playing more of?
I'll post some songs in the style I'm doing more these days.


More acoustic stuff.

 

[JohnIce]

I'm currently on track towards actually being an average keyboard player. Found this lesson series by JR which was exactly what I needed to get further:


In conjunction with that I'm really branching out using Kontakt/Play instruments as a big chunk of my band's music, especially orchestral stuff. Just learning all the different traditions of orchestrating and what all those italian words mean etc.

Also got a YRG for this purpose:

 

[Brodessa]

Been absolutely dying to write and play Black Metal. To collaborate with someone.
The coldness, the bitter passion and power. I have been returning to it quite a lot.
But as my mood has been quite apathetic, a lot of my playing has also incorporated Shoegaze and Post-Rock elements, usually a bit darker in tone.
Some of what has been influencing me below..

 

[ghost2II2]

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ovUVNs4VY"]

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXYIyYpYKR8"]

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjIWriDTptY"]

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDeK2QRLuHg"]

 

[yingmin]

I've been slowly morphing into a country player. I've been focusing on banjo, accordion and pedal steel, I'm now in two projects with a country/bluegrass bent, and most of my writing lately has been in that vein as well. Now I just need to finish building my B-bender Tele and pick up my second pedal steel, and spend a little time really learning how to play and write electric country guitar.

 

[3074326]

I used to play loads of prog and death metal. Lately I've been going ambient. Love it. My skills are diminishing at an alarming rate, but I keep giving myself goosebumps from awesome ambiance and the goosebumps are the best feeling.

 

[Yousef]

I was inspired by CHON to switch my amp over to clean and I've been writing a ton of material since then. It has opened up my creativity in a whole new way and I'm really enjoying it.

 

[Rizzo]

Listening-wise, I'm getting into HC punk on one hand and atmospheric stuff on the other. Getting back to post-rockish stuff too.

Playing wise, I don't care that much about mere technique anymore (or speed, in better words). I'd like to learn some flamenco and-or jazz, and I'm more oriented towards atmospheric stuff for the rest as I said above.

 

[Aion]

I haven't really changed what I'm listening to, but I've changed how I've listened. Focusing mostly on my favorite bands that either have a bunch of members or use a lot of overdubbing to figure out how they tend to orchestrate their music.

 

[steveyraff]

This last year or so I've been refusing to look for a pick when I am playing guitar around the house. For someone who has played guitar for about 18 years - my finger picking is just embarrassingly poor. I mean, I see novice beginner guitarists finger pick better.

Happy to report that I now even have a self wrote song which my band plays live, where for the first time I put my plectrum down. Feels good to begin to accomplish something!

 

[starslight]

Lots of Yngwie and Eric Johnson-type stuff from Troy Grady's Cracking the Code series. Fascinating how different those guys sound and yet how similarly to each other they play.

 

[Dayn]

Shred, mostly. Something like the past 12 or 18 months I've rarely played guitar. Now and again, but lucky to do it once a month.

It took a little while to warm up, but these long breaks between playing... seem to have improved my technique? I guess it's because given the length of time I've gone without playing, I can objectively evaluate my technique each time I pick my guitar up and make changes, because it's not so ingrained anymore.

 

[blaaargh]

Started playing in a powerviolence band a couple months ago, and I gotta say it's a lot different than anything I've played before. I normally tend to use a lot of big fancy chords, and playing nothing but relatively simple power chord riffs while still keeping it interesting was a bit of a challenge at first. I'm also starting a beatdown/slam side project and really trying to focus on groove for that. Should be a lot of fun

 

[spawnofthesith]

I'm supposed to be writing metal but everything I come up with these days is mellow clean tappy shit

 

[GuitaristOfHell]

I've been slowly morphing into a country player. I've been focusing on banjo, accordion and pedal steel, I'm now in two projects with a country/bluegrass bent, and most of my writing lately has been in that vein as well. Now I just need to finish building my B-bender Tele and pick up my second pedal steel, and spend a little time really learning how to play and write electric country guitar.

Sweet man. Keep sharing everyone, this is turning into a cool thread.

 

[Lifestalker]

I plan on delving more into classical on guitar. I've loved it since freshman year when our music class went to watch Tchaikovsky. However, my technique isn't quite that proficient...yet.

I too am getting more into clean, lightly overdriven tones. I've also been messing with ambience/effects since I got my Axe Fx. The Axe Fx alone has inspired me to do more stylistically with my playing, whether it be in the same genre group or not.

 

[Der JD]

Lately I've been doing more on acoustic, specifically bluegrass and fingerstyle blues. Also have been working on my blues chops on electric.

I've always been a metalhead, always will be. However, there are other styles I enjoy playing. I recently kind of hit a plateau in metal. A point at which I didn't really have much interest and didn't feel like putting in the effort to progress any further. I still play plenty of metal. I'm just not feeling like working on improving my metal skills right now. I'm sure that will pass with time.

Something I really like about blues and bluegrass is that there's a lot of improvisation involved. You generally have a simple underlying structure with a lot of freedom to improvise over the top. That appeals to me since I've always really enjoyed improvisation...probably more than anything else.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

Since joining my bossa/jazz trio, my singer's been getting me into a bunch of Japanese contemporary jazz/lounge bands. Namely Ego-Wrappin and Orange Pekoe:







And my bassist has been getting me into Jun Shibata, more adult contemporary jazz/pop:

 

[yingmin]

Ego Wrappin is pretty good, but you should check out Jill-Decoy Association.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

Will do.