What's your favorite guitar technique?

[Chistopher]

On guitar I love 16th note funk strumming over strange chords. On bass I love chromatic runs.

What do you guys love doing to the point it defines your sound?

 

[Mincer]

I always tend to have short, glitchy, non-rhythmic loops going on all the time.

 

[Securb]

I also love playing around with chromatic runs and shapes, along with screwing around with tritones.

 

[solspirit]

I'm all over the place now, I don't have a definitiion anymore.

 

[Seashore]

Tremolo picking. It's a love/hate kind of thing.

 

[ErikH]

I honestly don't know really. I'm all over the place but I like dynamics rather than going full on all the time. Solid chord arpeggios, clean picking, smooth bends.

 

[Aceman]

I pick a lot of notes, and I like to tap.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Palm fucking muting.

All the time. Gallops, triplets, straight 8th or 16h notes.

Chugs or death.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Seven (not eight) finger tapping....

But I like to mix it up w/ other stuff like bends, shred, squealies, 5th's, slides & regular (speedy) single-finger tapping :bigthumb:

Oh, and whammy trix too \m/

I miss that ^^ amp...sadly my cats pee'd on it's innards when I had them out trying to fix something ​

 

[maug2122]

I love two handed tapping, Blues, Speed Metal, Thrash, Neo Classical ....some Nylon string Classical guitar.

 

[GuitarStv]

There have been a bunch over time. Pre-bending up go a note and then plucking/releasing was one for a while. I got really into funk and 16th note patterns for a bit. There's a cool kinda flangey sounding thing that you can do by trem picking a string while lightly sliding your fretting finger to trigger harmonics. Lately I've been digging when you tap a note with your right hand and then immediately slide up to the same note with your left hand.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Palm ****ing muting.

All the time. Gallops, triplets, straight 8th or 16h notes.

Chugs or death.

This!

 

[Securb]

Gallops.

Iron Maiden ruined this for me.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Iron Maiden ruined this for me.

Dat outro tho!

 

[Securb]

That is sweet lots of texture and definition, IM seem to gallop through the entire song, every song, every album.....

 

[zionstrat]

Hammering on chords... For example hammering a bminor7 shape onto an A bar. Good fun with all or parts of the cowboy chords...

Closely related, parallel six runs

Closely related, voice leading the melody across shell cords

 

[Rex_Rocker]

That is sweet lots of texture and definition, IM seem to gallop through the entire song, every song, every album.....

Ah, gotcha.

Yeah, well, I get it. Iron Maiden isn't my style of Metal either. But they are an iconic band. Without their happy-go-round gallops, there would probably be no Gothenburg Melodeath.

I respect their stuff, but I can see both sides of the coin here.

 

[Securb]

Don't get me wrong, I love the first three Iron Maiden albums.

 

[marcello252]

being a Hendrix devote, I play a lot with thumb over the fretboard edge pressing the upper string, with a lot of chords combined with embellishments

 

[ehdwuld]

Banjo rolls on the right hand with hammer-on rhythms for the left

it sounds strange but I LIKE IT