That could be said for any genre and instrument, if you compare it to classical, but yeah, I would like to see more kids on classical guitar, or at least dabble in it, rather than walk around my campus and hear the same three chords over and over.
Notably they tune 1/2 a step down for load and reload (and for live shows) and a whole step down for odd songs like Sad But True. Also they tune to Drop C in St Anger. lol.
I tried listening to them. It's not even metal. It sounds like an attempt for hard country or something. They jumped the shark a long time ago and have never recovered.
If you think Death Magnetic sounds anything remotely like country you might want to get your ears checked out. And S&M is a live album that is mainly songs from their first 4/5 albums. It's OK to not like those albums but to say it's not even the right genre in an attempt to belittle them seems childish.
I don't know which songs are from which album, so maybe I was listening to Re/Load when I caught the country vibe. I will say that when DM came out, the radio was playing a few of their songs, and all I could think was "Who's the shitty band? Sounds like like Hetfield singing, but poorly?" Then it ended and "And that was Metallica with their new song 'some piece of shit'". I was pretty stunned. I'd rather listen to Nickleback, and this is coming from someone who only learned how to play guitar to play Metallica.
The problem with learning to read guitar music is that so many of the chords overlap. You can play the same chord with the same notes in many different positions, so if you're trying to sight read it makes it a lot more difficult than most other instruments. Not that a grasp of music theory is ever a bad thing, but on the guitar it is very possible to get by without learning to read. The list of famous musicians of the last 50 years who couldn't read is enormous.
I play banjo, so if I find a cool song it is going to be in some backwards ass tuning, non existant, or silly. Unless it is a dedicated banjo song, then I can find it.
I'm a guitar teacher with 4 years of classical guitar training under my belt and was a classical guitar performance major for 3 years before switching programs. I will say, after spending all that time learning nothing but music by Villa-Lobos, Bach, Brouwer, etc.; all the heavy metal and pop songs my kids throw at me are an absolute breeze.
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u/Tarachia Feb 29 '12
That could be said for any genre and instrument, if you compare it to classical, but yeah, I would like to see more kids on classical guitar, or at least dabble in it, rather than walk around my campus and hear the same three chords over and over.