How do you flirt with metal chicks?

Post Reply New Topic

Nineties reference - I found being a lookalike for the lead singer of Deicide helped.

No banter, no knowledge, I just looked the part. I didn't have the brand on the forehead though.

I was into metal, so are you, where's the problem? Metal chicks are as varied as any other.

Just look the part and report back to us on your success.

But I seriously like metal. I'm just not the tattoo and piercing guy! How do I look metal without all the really hardcore stuff?

The more beautiful they were the meaner.

I used to run an underground metal club with some friends.

My advice is: dress like you're in a band, say you're in a band, carry a mix cd and say they're your covers versions of the songs.

Get them drunk, promise coke later.

Ok... That puts it into perspective.

I'm a musician myself, and I make myself open to pretty much anything, which currently means a lot of Christian music.

I suggest learning the music. Guitar players are a dime a dozen. Take up piano instead, maybe buy a Korg SV-1 and Korg X50. Learn to play. For this kind of music, you need to learn Dorian, Phrygian, Aeolian, and harmonic minor scales. Break all the "Bach" rules--play parallel 5ths every chance you get, avoid leading-tone 7ths at all costs UNLESS you're playing a V-chord in a cadence. Upper leading-tones in Phrygian mode are allowed and, in fact, are preferred. Learn some basic orchestration techniques so you can improvise "authentic"-sounding string lines, and she'll be in love.

And if you want to achieve godlike status, learn to program synthesizers and drum loops. I recommend becoming fluent in Reason and Ableton Live. If you want to go higher, learn Logic. Get Pro-Tools and they will worship you.

I say that because keyboard players are at a somewhat disadvantage. We don't break into a sweat from the first note we play like guitarists and drummers, we don't get to move around, and we stay fairly isolated. Guitar players have to worry about their stacks, their tubes, and they stare at their feet a lot. Keyboardists make up for their lack of stage presence by being gear and tech geniuses. Your ability to "think symphonically" is your greatest asset. Your brain is EEEEPPPIIIICCCC. You are therefore worthy of adoration.

I have a master's degree in composition, incidentally, and I rely on my analytical skills every day. My problem is being more of an academic who works regularly with musicians who never read music. Their musical knowledge really is shallow, especially these metal heads, and playing with a string orchestra with, I'm sorry, elementary-school level Mickey Mouse arrangements does not impress me, nor does it make YOU any more talented.

But it does look cool.

I'd rather learn how to sing but I make the rain fall.

Metal to me is that "BLUR BLUR BLUR" stuff.

Is it something else? I wouldn't class anything not that as metal. I'm probably wrong.