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What do you play when amp is on 11 ?

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57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7208
edited June 2014 in Technique
I spend most of my time preparing classes or practising at low volumes so as not to upset everybody BUT on the odd chance to let rip I suddenly realise that when all that volume and harmonics are released then playing style has to adapt massively.

For a start diddly didly and fiddly fiddly don't cut it as anyone in a half mile radius can probably hear. All those harmonics need reigning-in and precise strumming and picking is massively important. It is almost as if I feel the need to produce great grinding riffs in pre-formed song-ettes..

I really need to concentrate on suitable riff sets for this ultra volume playing ~ 40w +

What do you bang out?? I find ZZ Top inspired riffs seem to fit-in quite nicely... (must learn some then!)
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  • guitarfishbayguitarfishbay Frets: 7928
    Metallica - Sad But True, Killswitch's version of Holy Diver
    Music
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    tFB Trader
    Summer song by satch
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    Iron Maiden "2 Minutes to Midnight"
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    "Still of the night" - Whitesnake
    Feedback - http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57885/
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  • PolarityManPolarityMan Frets: 7159
    I don't like playing on 11 the noise and hum fucks with all the stops and articulations and the inevitably required noise gate chops note tails off. If drums could be turned down then I'd play on like 6 or 7, that's fairly loud so it sounds good but not enough that the volume interferes with the performance.

    Sadly our drummer is mentally loud so I play on 11 alot.
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  • relic245relic245 Frets: 822
    Doesn't matter what I play. It always sounds amazing at that volume :))
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    All Night Long (by Rainbow ;) )
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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    Stone'enge.
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698

    My entire knowledge of songs.

    Both of them.

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    The riff to I Am The Law by Anthrax. Just a big, chunky riff. I'm not especially keen on the song, or even that incarnation of the band (John Bush era only, for me) but still...

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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24339
    I generally switch to the neck humbucker and play 'Europa' by Santana.
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  • koneguitaristkoneguitarist Frets: 4052
    Never turn up that loud !
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  • DulcetJonesDulcetJones Frets: 515
    IanSavage said:
    Stone'enge.
    Beat me to it!

    “Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay


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    Those were the days by Mary Hopkins
    Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever.

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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698
    koneguitarist said:
    Never turn up that loud !

    what is wrong with you?

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7416
    mike_l said:

    My entire knowledge of songs.

    Both of them.

    Blimey, you're at least twice the guitarist I am.
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698
    ThePrettyDamned;276463" said:
    mike_l said:

    My entire knowledge of songs.Both of them.





    Blimey, you're at least twice the guitarist I am.
    Don't tell anyone, but they're both in the same key, with the same chords, and similar lead parts...........

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    As many Blackmore riffs as I can think of!
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
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  • citizen68citizen68 Frets: 172
    edited June 2014
    He'll Ain't a Bad Place to Be.... 



     until you get tinnitus :((
    Seemed like a good idea.....

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