21 Guns..

Cool song from Green Day..

I always loved the way Green Day composed their songs.

I loved the melody progression of their songs. Most of all, they liked to combined acoustic and electric guitars. The riffs, climax and ending are to my liking. I consider Green Day’s compositions are “simple”. Well, at least that is what I think. If I go for bands like Helloween and Metallica, their composition are more complicated with combinations of riffs, solos etc. very very complicated.

I guess this is due to me not being ‘terrer’ in playing guitar. I learned on my own by watching other ‘sifus’ do it. I can never follow exactly how they do it, so I compensate by creating my own style based on what I see and learn.

Yes, I can never imitate them because I play “upside down left-handed” due to a ‘technical’ reason of my body parts. That’s why I can never learn how to do complicated solos or even other more advanced guitar fingering method.

But despite that, I am glad that I am able to play the guitar. Better than can’t play at all. Credits to my elder brother who guided me on how to do upside-down chords. He gave me the idea and I learned on my own and even perhaps perfected it with of course, my own style.

I was also lucky to have great friends who taught and shared with me over the years on how to play guitars. Of course they taught me in the ‘normal’ way and then I reverse it and create my own style, as I will not be able to follow 100%.

So after that, I dabbled in song composition. I never had any formal training though. I just hear, listen, watch, read and ask friends who knows. I loved heavy metal music but as I have said earlier, it’s too complicated to follow and also I don’t have proper knowledge. Then Green Day came. So I thought their music and song composition influence me one way or another.

However, believe it or not, most of my composed songs are spiritual Christian songs. I have quite a number of them composed over the years, enough to make an album. I have a few songs which are non-spiritual but they are what I consider ‘bida’ ha ha.

Well, once I am able to buy a proper electric guitar, I am going to composed some songs something like Green Day do.. ha ha ha.

And once my JJ old enough to learn, I am going to ask Lab Papa to teach him how to play drums. He likes to ‘ketuk ketuk’ the cans, containers etc in the house nowadays ha ha. Maybe he got what it takes to become a proper musician than his dad. Perhaps, I am going to buy him a kiddie drum soon.. I saw one in Toys ‘R us the other day.. haha