I'm looking for some songs that are at least grade 7 equivalent difficulty to play (on Electric Guitar). Does anyone know any good ones of which I can find the music/tabs for online?
The obvious ones being the rock school pieces, but I'm also looking for similar level songs by known bands/guitarists.
links or just name dropping of songs/tabs/bands are greatly appreciated!
On a side note my keyboard broke a few days ago, and so as a replacement I decided to try out the razer lycosa keyboard as opposed to my usual £5 keyboards. So far so good (surprisingly actually).
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison - Hell's Kitchen Steve Vai - For The Love of God - Freak Show Excess Racer X - Technical Difficulties (as mentioned above)
Some really hard songs above.. good luck lol.
If you're into metalcore and deathcore and stuff... Born of Osiris - A higher place/open arms to damnation/ a descent The Faceless has some pretty sick guitar stuff... but that's more tdm. uhh.. between the buried and me has some really fucking hard songs (selkies, obfuscation, alaska....) It's been a while since I've been really into electric guitar stuff (mostly play classical now) but yeah... some recommendations.
But off the top of my head, when you play songs with very low drop tuning you should up the gauge of your strings to avoid that really weird sound you got from playing that mastadon cover
I'm not sure what the exact specifications are to decide if an actual song is grade 7 or whatever, but there are specific requirements to pass a "grade 7 exam" (supposedly if you can play grade 7 songs you can pass a grade 7 exam and vica versa)
For example in this grade 8 RGT book that I have it says you need to know Dorian/Mixolydian/Phyrgian/Ludian modal scales in 3 different positions on the fretboard (not just these; there is a tonne of scales/arpeggios listed... Just listing those as an example) and also certain chords (dominant 11th/13th7th in 5 different positions for every key) You would also have to be able to play a bunch of chords written down in the style proposed such as Ab7 Db9 Db13 Eb11 Eb13 Eb7#5 in the style "lively with movement". And be able to improvise lead playing over similar chord progressions e.g. knowing to use the C#Dorian modal scale over a C#m7- F#7 part. A listening test where you have to name the intervals between notes, knowledge of chord construction and ability to transpose a chord sequence from one key to another. (and tonnes of another stuff that would take forever to list)
and obviously this would be easier for lower grades and harder at higher grades. but usually for instrumental exams in schools etc they dont bother with all of that and you just have to be able to play certain grades of songs in front of an examiner. for example in high school it would typically be 10minutes worth of grade 4 equivalent difficulty songs.
There is a pretty distinct difference between the difficulty level of the grades (grade 4 to 7 would be a fairly large leap)... But I don't really know what guide one would follow to tell if a song is grade 7 or not. At school you get the opportunity to submit an existing song to be approved for whatever grade you're doing so there must be some hard way to decide but I don't really know how they would decide.
If the tuning is a step higher than standard then you need lower gauge strings, not higher gauge. If you used high gauge strings like .13 for a tuning that is a step higher, you'll fuck things up bad.
On January 30 2010 06:06 Hypnosis wrote: @9287: have you learned Everything Went Black yet? It's by far the most fun BDM song to play. The solo is retardedly fast though.
On January 30 2010 06:46 koreasilver wrote: If the tuning is a step higher than standard then you need lower gauge strings, not higher gauge. If you used high gauge strings like .13 for a tuning that is a step higher, you'll fuck things up bad.
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