Unfortunately I didn't get much time to play this week, a lot of stuff going on family wise.

Like I did last week, I'll stick in some suggestions in case anyone wants to delve a little deeper into this weeks music!

This was a fun little song! Had never heard of these guys and I have no idea what they were singing about but a great song for some chord warmups

Placebo are one of those bands that I have been "getting" more as I've gotten older; I remember seeing them at Sonisphere 2010 in Knebworth and thinking they were awful but now I'm that bit older and wiser I think I can appreciate them and what they are going for. I liked this song but it took me a few goes to get my head around what the lead was doing. I'll be honest, I don't know much of their stuff to recommend but what I do know I think are great songs

1. Nancy Boy

2. The Bitter End

3. Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover)

Sum 41 are, in my humble opinion, pop punk royalty. I hadn't listened to any of their new stuff and this was a damn sight heavier than I was expecting so of course I loved it. That solo was killer as well, especially with the Dragonforce-esque tremolo picking to start it off. My suggestions are going to be mainly from when I predominantly listened to them back 10-15 years or so.

1. Fat Lip, In Too Deep (these get bundled into one suggestion, most of you probably know them already!)

2. Walking Disaster

3. Still Waiting

4. Motivation

5. We're All To Blame

Ever since I first heard Alley Cat in one of the championships last year I haven't gone a few days without chucking these guys on, this song being one of my favourites. Just something about the way that chord hits in the chorus, just incredible song writing. I really wanted to give this one a couple more runs through but I just couldn't make the time unfortunately

1. Alley Cat (of course!)

2. The Light

3. Warriors

4. The Angelmaker

5. Tiara's Song (Farewell Pt.1)

Damn old school Alestorm used to shred! I remember when I first heard this one I couldn't get over the fact that their new guitarist was just their bass player from Captain Morgan's Revenge, Dani Evans has got some crazy chops. I want to try to get another stab at this one, should be able to seeing as there are 3 more weeks left on it.

Bit trickier to recommend songs when it's an entire album, I always preferred older "heavier, shreddier" Alestorm than the more modern "party" one myself

1. Captain Morgan's Revenge

2. Huntmaster

3. Over the Seas

4. Mexico (purely because the music video is great!)

Best of luck everyone

Scores for this week!! 🤩🤩

New week is up!!

@ Mikson  😞 I was hoping you would play it again

36 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

@ Mikson  😞 I was hoping you would play it again

I played this a few times because I was trying to beat @ loudly  score (95% - great score by the way) and what I posted is the best I managed to achieve, I always lost too many notes in the solo and I had enough...

I'm too late, but I played, so I'll post 🙂

On 3/4/2025 at 9:01 PM, Rodman said:

Hah!! Cover time

Consider that recording a street-musician performance.... i knew i had only an hour for all and i wanted to upload something today - so i loaded the chords in front of me and decided to not use any aid like backing tracks or artificial drums but to to all on my own and go first takes 🙂
Recorded a bassline first (no metronome), just having the bass being played on screen and watching the tab.
Then first take on a rhythm guitar - i love that acoustic of mine yeah... it´s funny to play with a basist that is not steady cause this idiot is refusing to use a metronome - that´s where the streetmusician feel originates heavily.
First take on a arpeggio guitar and dumped that instantly 🙂
First take on solo 1
First take on the vocals (sorry)
ending solo first take - as i was ultrafast redid that one 2,3 times wishing i had sticked to the 1st take....
1st take on the artwork
Damn fun and i know to play a new song
I am looking forward to spend a whole day someday on a upcoming one.

Rod.

Here is my version. Didn't know how to do the arpegios, so it's a bit clumsy.

Maybe have to find another way to do this if I get another copyright strike 😞