A talk about guitar players

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! Today I'm gonna talk about one of my favorite instruments which is the electric guitar. First of all I wanna make clear that I'm used to listen to songs that include electric guitars, not acoustics, so most of the references I'm gonna make are based in what I've listened or seen. If you are one of these acoustic players that think Rock and Metal are overrated and acoustic guitar players are more skilled you better leave this entry or try not think that typical comment like "Metal are just noises, these lyrics have no sense, etc" Anyway I hope you all can enjoy this post.

I've liked this instrument since I was a little child and I used to listen to my dad's Led Zeppelin disks, but it has not been until now that I've start to appreciate and respect all guitarists as music heroes. This has been because I recently started to play it and now I know how hard it is to really dominate this instrument and play  it fluently. I've been playing piano for a while and I like it too but it is not the same ... In the piano when you press a key it just sounds a note and that's it, however in the guitar to play a note or a chord properly you got to find the correct position of your left hand, press the appropriate string in the fret you want and also pick that same string with the other hand. When you explain this to people they all think "Come on dude that's easy, don't exaggerate things" and I also used to think this when my father played the guitar for me, but the first time I tried to play something by my own I was like "My god this is so damn hard". To become a good musician you must have some skills that people thinks that are easy to develop but they require a lot of dedication and a lot of practice... Obviously not every song requires the same technique level but also not every song is easy at it looks like. To put an example: I'm a person who really loves metal music, specifically thrash metal ( I'm gonna write a "your say" about that, I'm not sure about what band/s but I'm gonna do it ) one of the fastest genres, and one day when I was looking for Megadeth covers to know how people is supposed to play that I only saw guitarists moving their right hand fast and I was sure that that was the only difficulty they had to play, the speed, but to my surprise it was not. Thrash metal players use different techniques as palm muting, gallops, powerchords, alternate picking... and they are changing from one to another in every phrase of the songs! And i haven't talk about the solos yet ... Some songs of this genre are just insane. So what happened when I tried to play a piece of "In my Darkest Hour" was that I got a muscle pull in my right arm and it hurt me during like three days ... Since that experience I started to admire guitarists like Dave Mustaine or James Hetfield ( some of the best, fastest, and heavier guitarists of this genre ) and tried to play something lighter like "Enter Sandman" from Metallica which I expected to achieve at the first try and lasted me like a week (and nowadays I'm not ready yet to play the solo)... What I'm trying to say with all this is that when you are just a viewer in the music world everything looks easier that it actually is and society in general should appreciate more the people who is truly playing instruments instead of all this "DJs" that make the typical commercial radio songs with the same repetitive patrol... Because instrument players, doesn't care if they play guitar, piano, drums or ukulele, they all are dedicating some of his time in the skills I said before and that's not a piece of cake, and unfortunately, meanwhile most of the actual pop music producers are copying one to each other and repeating what they did and had success to increase benefits. Anyone can learn how to copy songs and use autotune in a couple of days but no one can become as good as Jimi Hendrix with the guitar in that time.

As I do in every of my posts I'm gonna leave a video down here, this time it will be the Megadeth song I tried to learn (and if anyone wants to know it, I tried to learn the riff that starts in the minute 3:38 until the end of the song):