Sentences with phrase «of real guitar»

Performers are judged based on technical merit, stage presence and the extent to which the solo transcends the imitation of real guitar playing and becomes an art form in itself.

Not exact matches

It's sort of like a real - life version of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, except instead of slapping away at a series of buttons — an act that has just about zero relation to the real thing — you're strumming away on an actual guitar.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

I grant that it's no «Tippecanoe and Tyler Too,» the ditty that propelled my distant (and doomed) ancestor into the White House, but it IS a real good country tune — some rock - ish studio flourishes here and there, but its heart is a solid swinging beat and a spare root / fifth bassline (I played along a couple of times), layered over with good fiddle and steel guitar parts and of course Hank Jr..

Besides, it warms the cockles of my quinquagenarian heart to see the kids putting down the samplers and keyboards, and picking up the ol' guitar and bass and playing some real music.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

This is real chase - the - devil - out revival with Reed's cut - throat scream and bluesy guitar playing pinned to an anything - goes - in - the - name - of - the - spirit backbeat.

Lester (the incredible Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is a legendary rock critic (and real - life mentor of Crowe) and a personal hero for young and talented would - be music journalist extraordinaire William (Patrick Fugit), and in fact after they meet Lester assigns the first big writing assignment which will lead William to bigger and (arguably) better things, namely joining up - and - coming rock band Stillwater on their «Almost Famous» tour and learning a thing or two about life and love while trying to complete a Rolling Stone cover story on Stillwater and compete with lead guitar player Russell Hammond (an impressive Billy Crudup) for the affections of infamous not - a-groupie-but-a-Band-Aid Penny Lane (a so - so [in my opinion] Kate Hudson).

Forget the videogame — it's a real - life version of Guitar Hero when Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White get together for the music documentary It Might Get Loud, an exploration of the electric guitar that spans, roughly, three different musical generations, and encompasses all sorts of different modes of expression.

Amid all the desert chases and flamethrower guitars we already knew to expect, this was the first real taste we had of «Mad Mad: Fury Road» as not just a salute to an established icon, but the creation of a whole new one.

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If you make it to the end of the lyrics — which come seven and a half minutes after the beginning, so we're talking real commitment here — the song fades out to a barely - audible trickle of acoustic guitar, and just when you think it's over... it's not.

For those who want to taste the real flavour of Andalusia, there is nothing better than an evening spent enjoying the local cuisine with the sound of a traditional Spanish guitar playing in the background.

Instead of moving up and down the neck of the guitar you'll be moving across, which comes closer to playing real life chords.

But mastering a song on one of the higher difficulty settings is also ultimately more rewarding; when you're playing more realistic chord shapes on a more realistic guitar, you feel more like a real guitarist.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

And while you're on the official Brutal Legend E3 site, you'll notice that not only is there a new «Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black» video coming on June 2nd called «Human Video Game», but you can also win a real - life version of the Tenacious D guitar!

Some of the chords you play are basically what you play on real guitar and barring solos, many of the actions are also pretty close.

With the previous world record of 318 people in tatters, those still feeling up to the exhausting art of the air guitar were able to go on - stage and play against one of the festival's bands The Blackout, with one of the real - life Tenacious D guitars up for grabs.

They did a really great job of making a simplified version of playing the actual instrument and at times I even thought it was easier to play a song on real guitar than on a tiny plastic one.

Of the hundreds more games on show, Bethesda's Fallout: New Vegas and forthcoming multiplayer shooter Brink also made a strong impression, and Rock Band 3, with its full six - string guitar, made a real impact on the public floor.

It takes a bit of getting used to since it's so different from what we already know, but the longer I played, and the more complicated notes became, the more natural it felt, especially if you've ever picked up a real guitar at any point in your life.

Scroll up to check out some raw footage of this absolute patrician, and scroll down to the comments section to tell him to pick up a real guitar!

Little Freddie King plays the real blues — according to his website, «the minute Freddie straps on his guitar and strikes up his gnarled chord... this lean, mean, swampy aggregation of gut - bucket wild men transforms the poshest of venues into a back - of - town beer joint.»

Opening: Orion Martin at Bodega For his surreal paintings, Orion Martin creates situations that can't be possible in the real world — a floating telephone gets squished by a ropey net, a flower is woven through an image of a desk lamp with holes in it, guitar strings curve and become a ladybug.

ARTISTS: Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller (sometimes featuring Greg Parma Smith) SOUND: Distorted, at times minimal instrumental music fusing Conrad's violin with Koether's Euro - inflected synths and Miller's looping guitar WHAT THEY DO: A real thinking man's art supergroup, XXX Macarena unites three artistic visionaries who each come from a different corner of the art world — Conrad is a legend in avant - garde video and sound art (he made the landmark, epilepsy - inducing film The Flicker in 1966), Koether is a hypercerebral painter, and Miller is a multitalented artist and critic who teaches at Columbia.

Having each player take a unique role — guitar, bass, drums or vocals — helps you feel like members of a real band, and there are plenty of opportunities to collaborate.

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A White Rock / South Surrey, B.C. real estate professional is showing his creative side with the release of both a book of free verse poetry and a CD of guitar instrumentals.