Impressive skills. Pretty song, to boot.
Impressive skills. Pretty song, to boot.
Harmonix are giving people less and less reason to play their games instead of going out and learning to play an actual instrument like a normal person.
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Say what you will about Avenged Sevenfold; these men have quite a bit of talent between them all. Any band with the ability to fuse multiple genres into 8-9 minute epics and have the song seem as if it’s only 3 and a half minutes long knows what they’re doing. The song has plenty of lyrics and variation to keep it from feeling repetitive and stale. The choruses are a good two or so minutes apart, giving the song a nice pace. It irks me when a song repeats the chorus after only 20-30 to seconds. The song itself uses dynamics liberally, a very admirable quality in music today as it seems to be lost on today’s musicians. The song opens up with merely two acoustic guitars, but an old-western type electric guitar comes in with a chorus and strings, eventually swelling into a steady metal/rock riff accentuated by the same acoustic guitars the song opened with. It’s a songĀ you can rock out to in the car but it’s also soulful in its own way.