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Exxucus
Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 928 Location: Daein
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:25 am Post subject: Ode to TTFAF |
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For my British Literature class we were required to write an ode to anything we wanted, as long as we could make it seem dignified and introspective. My first thought was to do an ode to guitar hero, but that was too broad, so I narrowed it down to TTFAF.
I'm just posting this here since someone might get a chuckle out of it, or it could just be completely terrible to you. Whatever the case, I enjoyed writing it, so I hope you enjoy reading it.
Oh! Final song of deep blue set,
Thou art the arbiter of greatest skill.
Thine spiraling myriad of rainbow gems
Makes many a plastic shredder weep in despair.
Thine arena atop the mountain of amps,
To the length of your trials of skill
Makes thou most worthy of thine elevated name:
Through the Fire and The Flames.
But lo! For I have come to love thee.
Thine impossible challenges give to me
Greatest feelings of elation and pride.
Just two years past, I formed my resolve,
Upon first touching the fabricated frets,
To one day conquer thou, mighty beast.
And one summer's evening, while staying in lands far off,
I made good on my vows eighteen months old.
Thine song began, and in an unorthodox style, so did I,
Striking the strings with my elbow,
And with eight fingers bearing down upon the frets.
I tapped with such fluidity that thine intro simply flew by.
My hand returned to the strings, the bohemian section past,
And picked furiously at the plastic bar, to make my combo last.
'Twas in this section that thou coerced me to tilt,
And call upon the power of the stars themselves.
Thou tested me still, with furious, fast fretting,
Accompanied by sporadic supersonic strumming.
A verse, a chorus, a bridge and fills twice over,
You assault me mercilessly, 'till all went quiet,
And thou reached thine faux denouement.
Thine silence is broken by chords split
Betwixt fingers two and four, followed by sweeps
Reigning in the section aptly named “Synth Death.”
After the reprieve of scales ground to dust,
Thou built up to thine crescendo of difficulty
And bore down upon me with thine solos gleaming.
Solos of seven strings, thrashed by Oriental hands,
Now stained by false shame for crimes not his own.
These solos intertwine with those of a humbler man,
But one no less fierce, for together, the “Twin Solo” is born.
Smashing through the strumming and tearing through the tapping,
I made my way to thine most cursed of sections, “So Far Away III.”
Here thou hoped to vanquish me with zigs-and zags crossing red,
but I spammed through with no hope of perfection.
With naught but a reprise of thine opening riff and a short solo left,
Thou seemed fit to concede defeat to my efforts.
And as the final chords scrolled by, thou appointed a number,
a special number, of 578 trailed by three others.
With five golden stars, I was blown away with excitement.
I had long despised thou for thine greatest challenge,
but now being conquered, I hated you no more.
I respect you, and all that thou stand for.
For it was thou that spurred my skill,
It was thou that drove me to learn music theory.
It was thou that brought me to become a ScoreHero.
It was thou that forced me to improve what I was.
Through the Fire and Flames, thou stand as art,
and forever you shall to me, but frightening no longer.
For on the wings of a dream, to the burdens in my heart,
Thou art the one who strove to make me stronger. _________________
How Awesome GHWoR Is wrote: | Yeah they were. It's amazing how I had an almost naked lady rubbing her boobs on my head (I'm the drummer in the video) and I was like "Hey GTFO I'm trying to play". |
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BobDole
Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 2150 Location: Troy, New York
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:45 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | And with eight fingers bearing down upon the frets. |
lolunnecessary I know you probably only really use one tapping finger like most people I just thought this was funny. I mean you COULD hit the intro by making use of all 8 fingers (alternate between one-handing and tapping everything with different fingers for each fret) but that would be needlessly complex and just downright silly.
Also the following lines made me laugh:
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Quote: | but I spammed through with no hope of perfection. |
Anyway it was an entertaining read and certainly a better work of poetry than I could ever create. Nice job on this! Did you get an A on it? _________________
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youhas
Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:08 am Post subject: Re: Ode to TTFAF |
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Exxucus wrote: | 'Twas in this section that thou coerced me to tilt,
And call upon the power of the stars themselves. |
This was the bit that I liked the most, for reasons I am altogether uncertain of.
Seriously, though: thanks for sharing this. Looks like a totally solid effort to me of the plastic-guitar-song-is-a-woe-inspiring-art-form variety. Awesome job; hope that your Powers That Be bestowed awesome grades upon you accordingly. [throws horns] _________________
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Marbler
Joined: 28 Feb 2009 Posts: 889
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | With five golden stars, |
Seeing as you only got 578k, you probably should have said "With five blackened stars..."
Just sayin'... Otherwise, that was very nice. Killed a good 5 minutes for me... _________________
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Klaww
Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 1296
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:45 am Post subject: |
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You took something that's not that serious, and made it sound so. Props.
Hell, these lyrics are good, I might try to write a song out of it (with your permission, of course) ha, but good poetry. _________________
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Ontwikseltsaar
Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 1586 Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:33 am Post subject: |
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Klaww wrote: | You took something that's not that serious, and made it sound so. Props.
Hell, these lyrics are good, I might try to write a song out of it (with your permission, of course) ha, but good poetry. |
Hell, these lyrics top TtFaF's. _________________
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Pas26
Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 3664 Location: Québec, Canada
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:43 am Post subject: |
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Ontwikseltsaar wrote: | Klaww wrote: | You took something that's not that serious, and made it sound so. Props.
Hell, these lyrics are good, I might try to write a song out of it (with your permission, of course) ha, but good poetry. |
Hell, these lyrics top TtFaF's. |
Whoawhoawhoa calm down here, I dont think you understand the gravity of what you just said _________________
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odub712
Joined: 25 Jan 2009 Posts: 255 Location: Birmingham, AL
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:11 am Post subject: |
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BobDole wrote: | Quote: | And with eight fingers bearing down upon the frets. |
lolunnecessary I know you probably only really use one tapping finger like most people I just thought this was funny. I mean you COULD hit the intro by making use of all 8 fingers (alternate between one-handing and tapping everything with different fingers for each fret) but that would be needlessly complex and just downright silly.
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Yeah, but it looks so awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RYW1huSmg |
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alexhaz64
Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA
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Exxucus
Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 928 Location: Daein
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! Thanks for all of the positive feedback! I just turned the paper in on Friday, so I've got no idea what grade it earned, but I'll let you know when I do. _________________
How Awesome GHWoR Is wrote: | Yeah they were. It's amazing how I had an almost naked lady rubbing her boobs on my head (I'm the drummer in the video) and I was like "Hey GTFO I'm trying to play". |
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Llednik
Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 207 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Pas26 wrote: | Ontwikseltsaar wrote: | Klaww wrote: | You took something that's not that serious, and made it sound so. Props.
Hell, these lyrics are good, I might try to write a song out of it (with your permission, of course) ha, but good poetry. |
Hell, these lyrics top TtFaF's. |
Whoawhoawhoa calm down here, I dont think you understand the gravity of what you just said |
SOOOO FAAARRR AWWAAAAAY!
seriously though awesome job, though the golden stars bit seemed odd. _________________
toymachine wrote: | Fuck the mainstream- moar shred, and cheesy metal visuals. |
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sadied0g
Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 716 Location: Fair Oaks, California
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dave0113
Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 1426 Location: LaGrange, New York
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'd give you an A, it is well written IMO. Having said that, learn to write poems about real guitar, noob (just kidding of course). _________________
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Shredin0id
Joined: 03 Jan 2011 Posts: 154
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Nice poem. I never knew it was possible to actually write something that long for one song I felt like a god when I five starred it! _________________
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FinalSunrise
Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 668 Location: A crappy suburb outside of Chicago
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:20 am Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure DF uses 6 strings, but making it seven gives you that alliteration lol _________________
Nevermind my avatar, it's from back when that was impressive lol. |
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