to all of you who are guilty, STOP SAYING THAT "JUST BECAUSE HE IS NOT COMPLEX DOES NOT MEAN HE ISN'T GOOD..." we know, we are not saying he should be clomplex
as holy said, more experimental and "creative"...

not really, i learnt the song by ear so i was playing it a pretty simple ( and wrong ) way. something up on the 10th/12th fret but then i had a look at the tabs and sorted it out. whats the hardest tool you have came across. someone was saying a while back in a different thread about the plucking to H. being complicated but i havnt tried to play it..



I think adam and justin write the riffs together and that adam will write some of the bass, sometimes. the way they have combined the bass and guitar (like in forty-six & two) is something i havnt seen in any other music. all of the riffs are pleasing to listen to and play. metal riffs often are not.

I'd like to keep Eric Clapton as far the fuck away from Tool as possible, please. Let APC play around with that shit, and let Tool be Tool.

last time i heard adam didnt give a shit what you think asshole.

The hardest songs (which are not actually that hard) I find are Undertow, Pushit and Third Eye.

The picking to H. is not in any way hard at all, seriously, the hardest Tool songs are on Undertow, because Nu-Metal wasn't invented yet so he had no choice but to put a bit of skill into his songs.

Last time I heard, you were mumbling thank you's while licking out my asshole, dickface.

The hardest things about the songs are the way the istruments interloop and mesh and do it all with really fucked up weird timing....


btw, do any of you notice how Adam plays ahead of the beat....feels really akward

Everyone has their own style of playing, so when it comes to certain riffs they may not be able to adapt to it since they play differently.

Sweep picking in Schism?

I don't even play guitar and I know better than that.

How is it an "off-time" signature?

If I could, I would, and I have allready coverd Schism in a few concerts, and am about to cover it again at a leaving-school rock concert.
Unless your a begginer or have some kind of problem with playing stuff that isn't 4/4, I think you need to practice a lot more.

You should have said that you were singing at the same time, it's hard to sing the parts that arn't in the verses I think..

13 years???

Ok, it must just be not your 'wheelhouse' because most people who have been playing for 13 years are pretty good.

Hertz = 8.1758 * 2^(x/18)
whats that? a new musical system based on 18 notes to the octave? your welcome.
now if i could just get a way for something to make these frequencies, itd be really bitchin

A,A#,B,C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G# Those are all of the different musical notes. You could say a note was B# but it doesn't change it from being a C. And flats are equal to the note below it sharped. (A-flat = G#) There are octaves to change pitch, but other than that, 12 notes man.

ever heard of microtones?

Yeah sorry man, you should have told me you were singing at the same time, I can't do that on many songs, hardly any Tool songs.

A bunch of 12 year old girls sitting around watching you play your Squire guitar isn't a "concert." I might be going out on a limb here, but you probably can't play guitar worth a fucking shit. Either way, you can't WRITE the same kinds of songs Adam can, so please, for the love of Christ, stop writing these messages trying to make yourself sound so fucking cool.

Tree

That's exactly my point. It's VERY easy for 15 and 16 year old fans of the band who, after buying the album, go look for the tabs on the internet and learn how to play them (and by "playing" the songs, I mean hitting the notes in succession, not in any way sounding like the real thing). It's a completely different story for one of these clowns to actually write a song as good as Adam does. And to my knowledge, no one in here has. That's why we're all relegated to talking about Adam's guitar playing while he's in the studio recording another great album.

Tree

Who the fuck are you?

A person who's been visiting TDN for 10 years and laughs at people who think they're as good as Adam..that's fucking who.

Tree

That makes you a better person that the rest of us.

10 years?

1995?

Get the fuck out.

NO TREE, NO SHADE

I guess we learned the answer to this question.

and 74.51% percent of us were wrong

It's really a matter of opinion unless you have Adam himself show you the differences, as subtle as they may be, why fix something that isn't broken?

people will never learn that technicality != your perpspective being altered by a stringed instrument, which is the purpose that dictates adam's choice of notes

Hell yeah he's gonna come up withm some new shit. I thought the stuff on 10,000 Days was awesome and different from Lateralus(which now a days I can hear some of the cool shit he's doing on that). I can't wait for 2011.