Originally Posted by: quickfingerswhy do people have the preset notion that becuase you dont play blistering fast solos that it doesnt take talent to play.....

so... seriously... look at greenday, that band sucks... 500 million songs about how much they hate america and bush... MOVE TO FRICKEN CUBA IF YOU HATE AMERICA SO MUCH!!! their music is like 3 power chords per song... I seriously decided to try their "solo" from american idiot... it took me like 2 minutes to learn it... if that! their songs are so easy to play. maybe taking at least a little talent to write them... but not much... the lyrics are ok (aside from the fact that I completely disagree with everything they say) and the drummer is good... but the guitarist just down-right sucks.. I could play every greenday song that I've ever heard after about a month of playing guitar.

now! I don't discriminate the entire genre of music, you have to keep in mind that I LISTEN TO IT! so, I obviously don't hate it, (except for greenday, I just can't stand them) and I didn't say that it has to have a blazing to solo in order for it to require talent, as long as it actually has some kind of beat or pattern that takes at least some kind of talent to write, even if the entire beat is just power chords, as long as it's in a pattern, not just playing 8th note power chords through the whole song. frankly I like alot of alt. rock, but there are a few execeptions where it's like "how come I'm not the one being paid millions of dollars to play 3 chords over and over again?"