How to play guitar
January 19, 2011 1:18 PM Subscribe
Nathan, aka xxtheblackrosesxx, would like to teach you how to play a few songs:
How to play Bulls On Parade
How to play Purple Haze
How to play Smoke On The Water
How to play Enter Sandman
How to play Iron Man
How to play Anarchy in the UK
There's more than just songs: How to make sound effects
a review of a Danelectro pedal
Memories of Nate's guitar
How to play Purple Haze
How to play Smoke On The Water
How to play Enter Sandman
How to play Iron Man
How to play Anarchy in the UK
There's more than just songs: How to make sound effects
a review of a Danelectro pedal
Memories of Nate's guitar
This post was deleted for the following reason: If Nathan is trollin', kudos to him on a job well done. If not, this is sort of not-great territory for a post. Without having some context making it clear that it's the former and not the latter, I think this is a let's-not situation. -- cortex
I enjoy that Crazy Train turns out to be a "little more" than he can chew. Go get it, tiger!
posted by Bookhouse at 1:27 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by Bookhouse at 1:27 PM on January 19, 2011
And I enjoy that for the "Bulls on Parade" video he apparently decided, "Fuck it, I'm gonna show you with the lights off."
posted by Navelgazer at 1:29 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by Navelgazer at 1:29 PM on January 19, 2011
"How to play Bulls On Parade"
That one's easy.
posted by Eideteker at 1:30 PM on January 19, 2011 [4 favorites]
That one's easy.
posted by Eideteker at 1:30 PM on January 19, 2011 [4 favorites]
This reminds me of sixth grade, when I was in a "band" with this flannel-clad kid named Steve who would try and teach me how to play the music to Ironman so that I could play it while he belted out a racist parody over it.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:33 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:33 PM on January 19, 2011
Thank fucking god I didn't have a camera or youtube when I was his age.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 1:34 PM on January 19, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 1:34 PM on January 19, 2011 [4 favorites]
Do that about...16 times? Pretty simple.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:34 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:34 PM on January 19, 2011
I wish someone would make a YouTube instructional video on how having a webcam doesn't necessarily make you good at something.
posted by dougrayrankin at 1:36 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by dougrayrankin at 1:36 PM on January 19, 2011
Guys you shouldn't make fun of him, his mom just called me and mentioned that he's got Imminent Death Syndrome.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:37 PM on January 19, 2011 [6 favorites]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:37 PM on January 19, 2011 [6 favorites]
I wish someone would make a YouTube instructional video on how having a webcam doesn't necessarily make you good at something.
There's a bit of a catch-22 in there.
posted by mhoye at 1:37 PM on January 19, 2011
There's a bit of a catch-22 in there.
posted by mhoye at 1:37 PM on January 19, 2011
I don't like the threads where we make fun of people for doing things that they aren't exceptionally good at, especially when we are mostly making fun of them for being earnest. The Internet is great for a lot of things but empathy isn't one of them.
posted by ChrisHartley at 1:40 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by ChrisHartley at 1:40 PM on January 19, 2011
There's a bit of a catch-22 in there.Don't be hatin' on my hatin' mid-hatin'!
posted by dougrayrankin at 1:42 PM on January 19, 2011
These Premises Are Alarmed: “Thank fucking god I didn't have a camera or youtube when I was his age.”
I know. This is fucking horrifying. This kid sure as shit should not be sitting in some dark cellar explaining how to play songs through some dingy Youtube vid. He should be on a goddamned stage where he belongs. And twenty years ago, he might have been. There's a tragedy of the internet commons in that somewhere.
posted by koeselitz at 1:45 PM on January 19, 2011
I know. This is fucking horrifying. This kid sure as shit should not be sitting in some dark cellar explaining how to play songs through some dingy Youtube vid. He should be on a goddamned stage where he belongs. And twenty years ago, he might have been. There's a tragedy of the internet commons in that somewhere.
posted by koeselitz at 1:45 PM on January 19, 2011
Oh to be young again, without shame or any idea of what you are doing.
On one hand you gotta hand it to him to have enough confidence to put it out there, but on another hand it's this horrible train wreck in which you can't look away from. The optimistic side of me wants him to keep practicing and eventually gets his ass kicked into actually being any good.
posted by xtine at 1:49 PM on January 19, 2011
On one hand you gotta hand it to him to have enough confidence to put it out there, but on another hand it's this horrible train wreck in which you can't look away from. The optimistic side of me wants him to keep practicing and eventually gets his ass kicked into actually being any good.
posted by xtine at 1:49 PM on January 19, 2011
well if he really has a eminent death syndrome, I must say he rocks very very hard.
posted by djduckie at 1:52 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by djduckie at 1:52 PM on January 19, 2011
I cringe thinking of all the moments of my younger years that could have been captured and lived forever on the internet.
I'm glad I was born in the 60s.
posted by clvrmnky at 1:56 PM on January 19, 2011
I'm glad I was born in the 60s.
posted by clvrmnky at 1:56 PM on January 19, 2011
My friend Robert was the Guy With A Video Camera when we were in high school. I know there are horrifying video clips of teenage me just sitting there, waiting to be unleashed from their containment unit in the Berkshires and turned up to eleven for the world to snicker at. Video clips that involve the forest, mayonnaise and time travel. Robert always gets a lovely Christmas gift.
posted by mintcake! at 2:03 PM on January 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by mintcake! at 2:03 PM on January 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
23skidoo: “I don't like to make fun of people, but that kid's worst sin is not his earnestness, nor his ego. It's the fact that he's totally and completely tone deaf. Folks like him are the reason why it's awful to try and find chords to a popular song online.”
Music is never a "sin." This kid is just fine. He's using Sonic Youth tuning, anyway – don't you squares know that's the wave of the future?
posted by koeselitz at 2:04 PM on January 19, 2011
Music is never a "sin." This kid is just fine. He's using Sonic Youth tuning, anyway – don't you squares know that's the wave of the future?
posted by koeselitz at 2:04 PM on January 19, 2011
Since he takes request can he get some lessons or retire? One or the other pal.
posted by djduckie at 2:13 PM on January 19, 2011
posted by djduckie at 2:13 PM on January 19, 2011
No longer must teenage embarrassment languish in boxes in the attic, or better yet, the fading memories of the participants. No longer can it be forgotten.
See Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.
See Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.
(from the publisher's site)posted by anarch at 2:18 PM on January 19, 2011
Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all.
In Delete, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances. The written word made it possible for humans to remember across generations and time, yet now digital technology and global networks are overriding our natural ability to forget--the past is ever present, ready to be called up at the click of a mouse. Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that's facilitating the end of forgetting--digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software--and describes the dangers of everlasting digital memory, whether it's outdated information taken out of context or compromising photos the Web won't let us forget. He explains why information privacy rights and other fixes can't help us, and proposes an ingeniously simple solution--expiration dates on information--that may.
Delete is an eye-opening book that will help us remember how to forget in the digital age.
xtine: “On one hand you gotta hand it to him to have enough confidence to put it out there, but on another hand it's this horrible train wreck in which you can't look away from. The optimistic side of me wants him to keep practicing and eventually gets his ass kicked into actually being any good.”
djduckie: “Since he takes request can he get some lessons or retire? One or the other pal.”
Shame on any fucker who stoops this low, and kicks a kid for trying to make something of his own. Anybody who feels like saying shit like this, ask yourself before you do: what the fuck have you done lately? Yeah, I thought so.
Let's close this thread now, before we have to see more of the dregs of humanity like xtine and djduckie here. Go back to writing comments on Youtube if you're gonna be like this.
posted by koeselitz at 2:21 PM on January 19, 2011 [3 favorites]
djduckie: “Since he takes request can he get some lessons or retire? One or the other pal.”
Shame on any fucker who stoops this low, and kicks a kid for trying to make something of his own. Anybody who feels like saying shit like this, ask yourself before you do: what the fuck have you done lately? Yeah, I thought so.
Let's close this thread now, before we have to see more of the dregs of humanity like xtine and djduckie here. Go back to writing comments on Youtube if you're gonna be like this.
posted by koeselitz at 2:21 PM on January 19, 2011 [3 favorites]
“Thank fucking god I didn't have a camera or youtube when I was his age.”
The world has no idea how grateful it should be that I can say the same thing. I'm sure the videos I would have made would have been bad on a level that some countries would consider "crimes against humanity".
My particular combination of no talent, an urge to be seen, the mistaken belief that I'm clever, and a willingness to do something pointlessly dangerous if it sounds "fun" would have made me a prime candidate for a video documented oh-god-oh-god-did-you-see-that-jesus-I-hope-no-one-died-what-is-with-that-awful-guitar-woah-those-flames-are-huge-is-that-a-mushroom-cloud-holy-shit-where-did-all-those-clowns-come-from? kind of moment.
Better for everyone that I didn't have the option.
posted by quin at 2:30 PM on January 19, 2011
The world has no idea how grateful it should be that I can say the same thing. I'm sure the videos I would have made would have been bad on a level that some countries would consider "crimes against humanity".
My particular combination of no talent, an urge to be seen, the mistaken belief that I'm clever, and a willingness to do something pointlessly dangerous if it sounds "fun" would have made me a prime candidate for a video documented oh-god-oh-god-did-you-see-that-jesus-I-hope-no-one-died-what-is-with-that-awful-guitar-woah-those-flames-are-huge-is-that-a-mushroom-cloud-holy-shit-where-did-all-those-clowns-come-from? kind of moment.
Better for everyone that I didn't have the option.
posted by quin at 2:30 PM on January 19, 2011
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