I think you're just overwhelmed with your recent success. Take a break from what you're doing and work on something else, or just chill-out for a few days. We're sensitive artists Graeme, we don't do well under pressure.
Whilist ah agree with yer point...
Am still no a hunner (100) percent convinced that that riff won’t turn into a generic asfucksounding metal instrumental. Then there’s the issue of going back to getting guitar lessons at a musicial instrument shop in my local area. Ah just feel mair than a wee awkward aboot walkin’ in there n’ going:
“Hiya ! I’m Graeme, ah took a few guitar lessons here — oh, it’d be well over 10 years ago. D’ye still do the lessons? Cuz ah’ve came up with this metal riff but don’t know how to turn it into a full song. Could’nae help me with it? It’s in Drop D...”
Then somecuntjust had to comment on it saying that: “Hey, if ya slowed tempo a bunch, it’d sound like Pantera”
And am thinking: “Aye, awrite. But how am I gonnae do that without changing the way I’m playing the riff ?”
Just walk into the shop and say you can play guitar but feel you've hit a wall with your progress and need some technical guidance. They really don't care what the reason is, they mostly just want your money.
As far as that comment on your riff goes, there's always gonna be people with different opinions, morons, jerks, and haters. The better you get, the more there will be. Madonna only reads her positive reviews, she's never read a bad or critical one. She was being interviewed once and the person started to quote a bad review and Madonna shut her down. "I don't read those, I don't care." Your music can only sound the way you mean for it to sound, it's only wrong when you think it is. It could be better from a technical standpoint, you could do better execution, but other than that it can only sound the way you want it to, there's no "wrong" to it.
Also, Graeme, you can't stifle yourself. Artists have to get this stuff out of them or they'll go crazy. Don't ever let someone censor your music or make you feel like you're wasting your time. Even if you just pluck random strings into the atmosphere or pummel the keyboard in completely disjointed nonsense, you have to get it out of you. When I was a kid I'd fill notebooks with scribble because I had to relieve the urge to create even though I was completely blocked. My parents would chastise me for wasting the books but I would just tell them I had to do it. Eventually I'd draw something great but I never would've got there without clearing the lane of all that pent-up scribble first.
Just create, it's not all going to be da Vinci and it's not all going to be Clapton, but it all counts in adding up.
When it’s like I’m completely unfamiliar with that concept, I just never got taught it or how to apply to writing my own guitar riffs when I was getting guitar lessons back in 2002, 2003.
That’s true.
I’m kinda unsure about the guitar lessons, though. Since I’m more than capable of teaching myself the guitar techniques I haven’t mastered, yet. It’s more the scales and using them to write riffs that I was never been taught. And I don’t know if it’s worth paying to be taught that?
I suppose ah could save myself some money n’ just binge watch Steve Stine’s YouTube channel? Since he uploads guitar lesson videos. And I’m assuming he covers everything, guitar-wise, from beginner to more advanced stuff.
As for the riff comment, what d’you think, Fountain? Should I attempt the suggestion and make my riff more Pantera-esque, and more or less rip-off Pantera’s Revolution Is My Name? Despite having listened to an absoluteshiteload o’ songs by Exodus prior to me coming up with that first metal riff idea. Plus, the riff already sound a bit like Pantera’s Fucking Hostile. So... there’s that. Ah guess the guy who left felt the comment isn’t much a Pantera fan, then?
Oh, I forget to mention this - regarding that comment. Right after that guy made his suggestion about slowing it down to sound more like Pantera he ended his comment telling me: “...but the direction you’re going with the riff is very cool”.
Which is.... Huh ?!
I wouldn't worry about the riff sounding generic, you're progressing creatively and developing your own sound. And just because two artists have similar styles doesn't mean one's aping the other. Besides, you always have to consider the source in these matters, too. I doubt Butch Vig was the one who left that comment on your riff.
Butch Vig, or someone like Bob Rock, would’ve likely offered a more detailed critique of that riff.Incidentally, Kurt Cobain said himself that the riff to "Nevermind" was inspired by Boston's "More Than A Feeling." Imagine if he'd let comparisons between his track and that one keep him from going forward with his song.
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Or does the size of the room only affect the sound a guitar when ye running sound from yer amp and need to mic it to record the sound of the guitar? And the guitar/amp modelling software I’m using already emulates the sound of recording from an amplifier into a microphone...
And I suck at lead guitar... kinda.
Nearly a month... and I still can’t come up with a decent variation on that metal riff.
More so the drums, cuz ah don’t know if ah should huv the drums mimicking that fast, string pedal note rhythm? Whatever the f
I'd give tips if I knew anything about music.. But sadly I am very lacking in that department though. I know enough to know I love what you create though
I appreciate hearing that because I do struggle with 2nd guessing myself a lot of the time. Cuz I've hit a wall with that metal riff. Ah mean, ah know kinda what I want the guitar to do, it's just what the bass and drums should play that's got me unsure of the direction. Everything's probably there within that first riff idea, I just need to figure out an arrangement that works.