[Nem]

wasnt planning on putting a new video up but I recorded this earlier and thought id put it up anyway

http://www.metallica.plus.com/music/song2.wmv

opinions on playing? there was one note which i kept struggling with throughout the entire things, its pretty annoying lol

and can anybody name the piece and original composer? its pretty easy

[allthumbs]

I have heard it,but can't name it. Sounded pretty good to me. Well done.

[System of a Down Kid]

Good job on that Nem.

[Vorrin]

Nice Try Dude ! EXCELLENT GUITAR !

WYLD STALLYNS !

That is Beethovens Fur Elise as played by Beethoven in Bill and Teds Excellent adventure.

BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER !

[Nem]

thx for the comments, and no, it is not Fur Elise, nor is it anything by Beethoven

[Jean]

Sounds great!
Is it Mozart?

[Yeah1Right]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! Yeah!

[Jean]

How long have you been playing Nem? Because you are great at it!

[Neilsonite]

Sounds great Nem, thanks for that!

Jean, you are right, it's Rondo alla Turka by Mozart. I've attached a pdf tab of it in case anyone wants to work on it. It's a great piece for your picking!

Nem, in response to your asking for opinions on your playing... I think it's sounding great, and that you've done really well with a hard piece. I just have a couple of constructive comments that I thought you might find useful, as you're obviously driven to play guitar really well... Firstly, it seems like you have plenty of picking speed there, but IMHO the synchronization between the hands could be improved by slowing down a lot (like less than half speed), and focusing on having the two hands move at exactly the same time. Hopefully speeding back up you should notice a difference. Secondly, IMHO there are sections when the timing could be more precise, which would also be helped by playing at half speed, and really nailing the timing of every note.

I really hope I'm not seeming critical here, they're just a couple of things (that other people have passed on to me over the years) that have really helped my playing, and from your playing you seem like me to be someone who always wants to be moving forward... Anyway, thanks again, and I really think your playing sounds great.

James

[Jean]

Thanks James.

[Neilsonite]

I feel like a bit of a wimp not posting my own version of this hard song after critiquing Nem's version, so I recorded a couple of versions!

The first is me playing at 140bpm, which is pretty fast, but it should hopefully sound OK. It's always hard to completely eliminate string noise, but it should sound synchronized like I was saying.

The second is at 190pbm, which is a bit faster than I would normally play it, as it sounds like chipmunk music at that speed (but this is by no means up where someone like John Petrucci could play it perfectly), and you can hear a few moments where it is not as cleanly synchronized. So, I'll work at those bits at much slower speed and see if I can get it clean above 200bpm in the next little while. The emphasis here is really not on playing the song as fast as possible, it's about synchronizing your hands so that when you play it at sensible speeds it feels increasingly easy.

OK, hope this illustrates what I was talking about...
James

[allthumbs]

Thats some fast James.

[Jean]

James you rock!

[Kirk Lorange]

Thanks for that James ... great stuff.

You're a huge asset to this site. Thanks so much for the effort you put into your posts.

[Yeah1Right]

Thanks James!

And Nem, you inspired me to play that composition! Thanks!