Playing music VS writing music
 

I have a friend that always plays metallica and whatever guitar solo sounds good.He goes for the technical aspect of music rather than writing good music.I feel sorry for him. I am however totally biased to writing whatever sounds good to me on whatever instrument it sounds best.
I just think that the macho image of Rock is totally useless if it sounds like everything else.

my friend is the same way but he plays led zepplin a red hot chile peppers i like them to but we want to be in a band together and i told him we have to make are own stuf 2 he said ok but he really didnt like the idea

I spend aboute half the time i play writing riffs and shreding just off he top og my head the other half i spend playing like zeppelin, red hot chili peppers, judas priest metallica, megadeth......blacksabbath. You fill in the middle.

You have good taste in music.:) How long have you been playing?

Not all that long less than a year but i'm pretty good, ok i have had it laying around the house for 2 years, but have actually been playing fir kess than a year, but i play for more than 3 hours each day usually like 6 or sometimes even more, and guess what i'm failailing all my classes, i'm gonna upgade all my gear soon, i'm gonna get a new fender amp like aboute 500 or 600$ i forget which, a boss oh i forget what it is but it has a but load of effects, a new guitar, ether an esp or a jackson, i'm thinking jackson.

thats exactly the same with me... I make everthing myself and totally ignore tabs, though I taught myself with tabs. I can play along to anything he makes but he cant to me. Its dumb because his sound is way to mainstreem (todays rock) and mine is totally mine. I dont like playing other peoples music because it gives no credit to me

Cool- I love the Jackson Flying Vs and the amp you're going to get sounds pretty amazing! I've only been playing for a month and I'm teaching myself so I'm not very good yet. Are you self taught? I really enjoy playing my guitar and listening to music-so much so that i fail some of my classes too- lol.

How long were you playing before you started writing your own stuff?

No well ok i have lessons, i started them after i was pretty good, and i just take them to improve my soloing, so he just gives me alot of techneques, and now i can solo like a madman ok that was a lie, but i am still pretty good.

I started right away. I recorded whatever sounded good and built off of it. I think nofx tabs really got me playing, even though I dont listen to punk rock at all.