Learning a bunch of random covers and realized, yet again...

[Whizzinby]

Honestly, most great cover bands I’ve seen aren’t really trying to be a perfect replica of the bands in question, rather make it their own in some way, while nailing the spirit of the band/song.

It’s d lose my shit if I walked in some bar and a band was blasting A New Level. Just throw down

 

[Whizzinby]

We need to do a TGF roadtrip to go watch JT’s WWE Metal Extravaganza.

 

[JiveTurkey]

That’s a perfect song for the feel/vibe discussion; even that main riff has to be played with some nuance or it’ll sound lame AF. Hard one to nail the tempo on, too. If the drummer drags at all that riff falls to shit and too fast it loses the groove. That’ll be a crowd pleaser for sure, though!

The VH brothers similarities are so glaring when you start digging in. You have counts and connectors and grooves then you have ridiculous guitar technique on top of that. It's insane. We used to bits of Stronger Than All and that E-F#-then pulloff punching riff was a blast I'm hoping he'll just jump in

 

[JiveTurkey]

Honestly, most great cover bands I’ve seen aren’t really trying to be a perfect replica of the bands in question, rather make it their own in some way, while nailing the spirit of the band/song.

It’s d lose my shit if I walked in some bar and a band was blasting A New Level. Just throw down

We used to do Omerta. It went over good and was probably the easiest LOG song you could pick to do My general rule is get to about 70-75% "accuracy", nail the main signature bits then boil it down as needed from there. Especially on arrangements that are unnecessarily convoluted that people won't remember anyway? As far as Pantera goes; I've done Mouth for War but not with a drummer with any sort of nuts at that time.

We need to do a TGF roadtrip to go watch JT’s WWE Metal Extravaganza.

Not even kidding; the wife showed me an Insta reel yesterday of "what you think the band you are forming looks like" and it was "I'm Broken" vid and then the "what you actually look like" was a high school band playing The Sweater Song very roughly then the keyboard player's keyboard stand collapses

 

[Baba]

You don't have to worry about any of this, when you play Taylor Swift songs

 

[Baba]

Then comes that moment when you're digging just a little bit deeper into the nuance of some tiny little trill (or whatever) you never even noticed before, even though you've been listening to the song for decades... You really nail it, and you're feeling like kind of a big deal... and it occurs to you: this guy was, like, 20 years old when he recorded this part.

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Fucking this. I cannot read music, so my ear was trained at the beginning, and if I can brag for a sec, my ear is impeccable, because that's all I've ever had.

Having said that, I've probably learned Limelight, like, 4 times throughout my life, because I missed something on the previous 3 times when learning it.

Lifeson definitely copped that "Page Frenetic" playing thing early on. It's almost a waste of time to try to learn that stuff to a T.

 

[mbenigni]

Having said that, I've probably learned Limelight, like, 4 times throughout my life, because I missed something on the previous 3 times when learning it.

I've re-learned most of my modest repertoire over and over and over again, because I forget things - especially small, arbitrary details - more easily than I learn them in the first place.

Lifeson definitely copped that "Page Frenetic" playing thing early on. It's almost a waste of time to try to learn that stuff to a T.

I really struggle with this: whether, and to what extent, to try to learn things note-for-note and maintain the enormous pile of data - sometimes for lead parts that even the original artist has never played the same way twice; or whether to just try to catch the same general vibe. Either approach is difficult in its own way.