[infamous16]

So, I go to lessons weekly, for the past couple months we have been working on guitar theory, and I haven't been playing much guitar, because he hasn't been teaching me songs. I find myself in-between beg and inter...I play a lot of Killswitch Engage, and I want to keep myself active, and improve without having him teach me songs. What Metal songs do you recommend for me, that aren't too difficult? And also, I've tried learning songs of different genre's and its really hard, lol. Whats the best way of making the transition from Metal, to Soft Rock/Rock (RHCP or others)? So any good Tabs of songs that aren't too difficult, and I will learn things from would be great, and any advice.

Thanks

[carol m]

Hi infamous, I've only just seen your thread. I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but if you check out Brand new to playing the guitar?...read this first.

there are links to plenty of things to learn there. If you have more questions, just post another thread, there are usually lots of replies. I don't know why this post missed out. Just unlucky I guess.

Keeping active is always good

[starsailor]

Originally Posted by infamous16

So, I go to lessons weekly, for the past couple months we have been working on guitar theory, and I haven't been playing much guitar, because he hasn't been teaching me songs. I find myself in-between beg and inter...I play a lot of Killswitch Engage, and I want to keep myself active, and improve without having him teach me songs. What Metal songs do you recommend for me, that aren't too difficult? And also, I've tried learning songs of different genre's and its really hard, lol. Whats the best way of making the transition from Metal, to Soft Rock/Rock (RHCP or others)? So any good Tabs of songs that aren't too difficult, and I will learn things from would be great, and any advice.

Thanks

Hi infamous16, don't know why you haven't got more posts but I'll help if I can, I'm afraid I'm not big on metal I know Killswitch Engage, Dragonforce, Enter Shikari, don't know if their all metal but my Daughter listens to them, I think the younger members could help you with some metal songs, you could check out Dragon Force though if you like them. If you're looking for a Transition to soft rock from metal you could take various roots, you could try Bands like Green Day songs like Basket Case, Are we the waiting, Boulevard of broken dreams are pretty straight forward; or you could go for some grunge like Nirvana, Come as you Are and Smells like Teen spirit should be ok, or you could go back in time and try some of the 70s bands like Pink Floyd, Wish you were here and Money are good songs or say Bad Company, Feel like makin' love and Shooting Star are good songs and pretty straight forward, I could go on forever but these are a few suggestions.
It is great that your learning theory and go with the flow with your teacher, they should really give you some songs to practice your theory on so it might be worth giving them a nudge.
If you google Chordie.com all the above songs are on there and the chords are pretty staightforward.
Hope this helps and sorry I don't know much about metal, I think I'm a bit older than you although I do make an effort to listen to new bands, the above are only suggestions if you don't like those bands no worries.

Best Wishes

Chris