Well let me give you some background, I grew up playing drums and my best friend (now roommate) plays guitar and bass so we have always had a common interest, well we have this other best friend in our little trifecta (haha) and one day my other buddy and I were doing a little partying and I randomly said, "Lets both just learn guitar and crush." As easy as that the next we spent 9 hours practicing guitar and learning and playing. Well needless to say with my busy schedule he kept with it and I simply couldn't, didn't have the patience or time. He has been playing a little under a year now and has actually gotten pretty damn good for the time he has spent. He practices a lot! He had a teacher but his parents made him stop because of school starting back up. Us three had a little band type thing going, nothing serious, but a lot of awesome jams (have some videos if anyone would like to see). He is into metal, as am I, but its a different type of metal than you would normally hear. His riffs are good, but there not very full (for lack of a better work) It's more single note riffs than chord progressions and rhythms. My best friend (the bassist) actually has his own band that is doing really well so my other friend (Mike - the guitarist) have been trying to get something going. Me and him used to practice every Tuesday and thurs from about 1-5 for about 3 months straight, and he thanks me a lot for the progress he has made saying a drummer helps him out a lot. Yesterday we had an MC come over to do a rap/scream thing and it went really well and we wanna go forward with that.
Now after I probably gave you guys a headache with all that, here is my question. It is hard to write songs in a sense with him because he plays riffs in a sense that aren't super rhythmical or aren't simply full enough. He knows this and we are trying to figure out solutions for him to help him progress. My question is do you guys have any advice you may have given a guitarist or your bands guitarist to keep him on track and help his rhythm become much better? Don't get me wrong, he is in no way a bad guitarist and sometimes he does things very well, but he plays off of me and I find myself limited because at times I can't do things I want because he can't follow and things of that nature. It isn't a super huge deal and I am not bashing him, just looking for the next step towards progression. Any help is appreciated.
The video is on facebook and I think it may be private, I will put up a link and you guys let me know if you can see it.
(In this video was the first day my buddy Zach tried vocals, he was making them up on the spot which is why their repetitive and a little cheesey xD but I can't hate because i was really enjoying it. It's not the best, but it's not the worst let me know what you guys think. Mike is the guitarist who had been playing for about 5-7 months at this point and my other buddy Zach is the bassist.)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/v...subj=685788402
This isn't a super good example of what im talking about, cus his guitar is more full here than other times...I don't know if Im making sense when I say "full" lol
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