Hi im trying to learn some techniques to write AND play music by Gothenburg bands like in flames Soilwork Etc...PLease help all advice is apreciated i know this is a bad question but i need help


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what is Gothenburg? I've never heard of it before...

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Gothernburg is an area of Sweden, I believe. I think that's where Lost Horizon comes from too.

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actually its Goteburg with two dots over the O

write using the major frets, 3,5,7.

edit

and harmonize... using a fifth (one string up

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call me crazy but isnt that a 4th?

could be, but im not sure what trans is talking about

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I kow alot of bands like killswitch try to sound llike these bands but end up being metalcore i really like in flames alot and would rather end up sounding llike that rather than that gay ass hardcore or metalcore shit

uhhhhhhhhh

its a fifth

fret five on low E is an A

next string is an A

fifth up


except from g to b, where things get messy

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if you fret 5th fret low e and the open a thats an octave cause there both A's from
a-e is a 5th

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In Flames tunes to C, so that may help. Learn your scales and music theory, use harmony guitar lines a lot, especially diatonic 3rds. Just learn to play there songs, and even when you're not trying to sound like them while writing a song, it'll sound somewhat like them if you dedicate yourself enough, it just rubs off on you.

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use a lot of thirds when harmonizing, fourths as well.

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An interval between two separated, simultaneous notes of two and a half steps is harmonizing in perfect 4ths. For example:

|Gtr1
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|--4--|
|-----|
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|Gtr2
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|--4--|
|-----|
|-----|

An interval between two separated, simultaneous notes of three and a half steps is harmonizing in 5ths. For example:

|Gtr1
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|--4--|
|-----|
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|Gtr2
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|--6--|
|-----|
|-----|

Harmonizing in perfect fourths is mildly dissonant whereas harmonizing in 5ths is highly complimentary.

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i read that in some article with shadows falls. be careful when writing goteburg type music, too much melody makes a song sound cheap and have very little replay value, even though it may seem great at first.

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Ok, here on Iceland we call it Gautaborg.

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play a lot of melodic riffs, use pentatonic scales, improvise them and combine them with more brutal powerchord riffage.

that should get you a long way, I guess thats how I started out. I don't know if it works for you.

Göteborg fvkin rawks, they have music stores that carry ENGL and Framus and all kinds of good shit.

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Göteborg is Sweden's second largest city. It's not an "area", and it's not "göteburg" as Transient said. It's Göteborg. Or, since you guys are mainly from english speaking countries, Gothenburg. Don't misspell it, please. It's annoying. We don't go around writing San Francesca or anything...

About writing that kind of music, I'd just listen to alot of it, and play alot of it, and it should rub off and affect my writing. I don't know if it works for you, but it usually works for me.

B.t.w., 10 points to the first non-european to name the third largest city in sweden, with correct spelling (without looking it up, of course).

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hmm well stockholm is gotta be #1 and Göteborg is #2 so....Uppsala?

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You're right about Stockholm being #1. But, nope, Uppsala is not right (but you spelled it correctly. How do you know this kind of stuff?).

Keep guessing. (I'm off to bed now, but I'll be back tomorrow.)

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well its the only other swedish town i know of so i just guessed it, and i know stockholm is the capital and usually the capital is the largest city

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yeah its a 4th

think about it

what is a power chord

its a root 5th and octave

now tell me what the root and 5th looks like
--5-------- octave
--5-------- 5th
--3-------- root

go back to your collage corse boy, you just got pwned by a 15 yr old

Thank you johnmansley for saying the right thing, let me add, A guitar is tuned in 4ths E-F-G-A, 1-2-3-4, sharps and flats dont count, thats why a power chord is notated like E5 or A5 cause its in a 5th interval. So yea just cause its the fifth fret doesnt mean its tuned in 5ths, you know guitar isnt the only instrument that utilizes music theory, im pretty sure every instrument does.


EDIT-Yea i didnt even see that post by necro-butcher, but good fuckin job necro, lol college course

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Well, from my knowledge of European football, I'd say either Malmo, Solna (where AIK play) or Halmstad. Hmm, I'll go for Malmo.

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Since there hasn't really been alot of guesses, I guess I'll give at least 5 points to John, even though he's at least semi-european (you Britts out there on your island, pff! ), because Malmo is the correct answer (except it's really spellt Malmö, but I don't really except you guys to write those weird letters).

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yea we dont have em on our keyboards but there are "shortcuts" to em like if we press alt+143 we can get Å or alt+0216 gets Ø

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So what are some major bands to check ouit lately i ve been getting into the new in flames which is good as long as yyou dont classify it as in flames but i love it but i also checked out alot of carcass especially the heartwork album so like what else

arn't those two little dots over the letters called an umlout(spelling) or somthing.im taking geman 1 in high school.

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Good man! Check At The Gates out, they practically invented the Gothenburg sound. Slaughter Of The Soul and Terminal Spirit Disease are particularly excellent works from them.

G_urr_A: Now you have to guess the third largest city in England

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That may be true for German. I wouldn't know, since I never took German (I took French instead). It's not true for Swedish though. Those Å Ä and Ö letters are just letters like any others.

And john, ehm.... That's a good one. Naturally, I'll say London is the biggest. But that's really all I know. I'd say Manchester and Newcastle ought to be within the top 5. Sadly I don't know much more. But I think I'd be able to name 70% of Europes capitols and more than 35 states in the US.

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1. London (~7'000'000)
2. Birmingham (~1'000'000)
3. Leeds (~800'000)
4. Manchester (~450'000)
5. Liverpool (~400'000)

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Liverpool and Birmingham are, now that you mention them, cities I would have thought to be "up there". Leeds surprises me. Oh, well, I was half wrong.

This has got kinda off topic, hasn't it?

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damn i didnt even think of burmigham you think i would have what with sabbath coming from there

anyone know what the biggest city is here? i dont...
i would guess new york or LA but it could be DC i heard theres like over a million there, shit theres bearly a million in my state

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New York (including it's suburbs) has over 18'000'000 inhabitants. It's one of the largest cities in the world.

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holy shit

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Arch Enemy im pretty sure are considered Gothenburg/Death Metal.

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gothenburg style guitar playing uses a lot of chugging on the open low e in between higher notes.

one band that is a fine example of gothenburg style death metal is black dahlia murder. even though they're from detroit they pull off the sound perfectly.

black dahlia murder plays in drop C but one song goes..

---12--10--8-7-8-7-5
00---0---0--0-0-0-0-0

that's a perfect example of a standard gothenburg type riff.

another band that uses this alot is at the gates..who practically invented the gothenburg death metal sound. just listen to the bands a lot and learn the songs.

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