Grunge Out of Seattle

Quitokid

Hey!! I'm from Ecuador, excuse me because my English is very bad. i have listened Grunge and specialy Pearl Jam about 5 or 6 years. Here in my country there is a new band called Alicia se tiró por el parabrisas, they said that their genre is grunge in Spanish. It's not as well as seattle's grunge but it's ok. I want some help because I have a band and I can't compose a good grunge I need some tips I'm new here and I want to have many grnge friends.

I think that's all. Please answer me!!!!!!!

Pearl Jam and toast

I dunno if it's the broken (but understandable) english but this post makes me laugh

Anyway,.. tips tips tips..


Lots of minor chords... It depends on what you're going for, really. I consider Alice In Chains' Dirt the quentessential 'grunge' album. Good riffs, moving chord structures, strong vocal melodies.

MichaelMcKevin

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

I dunno if it's the broken (but understandable) english but this post makes me laugh

Anyway,.. tips tips tips..


Lots of minor chords... It depends on what you're going for, really. I consider Alice In Chains' Dirt the quentessential 'grunge' album. Good riffs, moving chord structures, strong vocal melodies.

You just said "quentessential" to a man from Ecuador. Think about it.

Haha kidding aside, if grunge is what you like... i wouldn't think about writing a grunge song. Just start messing around with your guitar and your influences should make it come out. It might come easier after a few days of listening to some Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, AIC, etc.

seanw1010

minor chords, try fiddling with your tone controls(turn them down), neck pup on most parts, play sorta hard

lucylespian

There is no such thing as grunge !!

PJ/Soundgarden/NIrvana were really just guitar bands without spandex at a time when music was heavily synth driven.

They wore flannalette cos they were poor and Seattle is cold.

Grunge is really just honest rock, played by poor people from cold cities on pawn shop junk, until they could afford better clothes, then it became honest rock played by rich people on expensive vintage gear.

So, stay honest, stay poor, and stand in teh fridge, unless you have a handy mountain to provide the cold.

Oh yeah, being miserable from a fucked up family helps !!

ianvomsaal

As others have said, listen to as many bands as you can.
Also, try playing with as many of your favorite "Grunge-Type" songs as you can (saying it like this also makes me laugh ).
When you've played the style long enough, it’ll kind of coalesce with your own style of writing/playing.
Don't try to write in that "STYLE", it'll sound a bit trite/banal - it's more of a feeling - just let it happen naturally - let it flow from within you.
Okay, I'm sounding a bit tooo JEDI right now
Dude, just listen to a bunch of music - have fun with it - you'll be fine.
Cheers . . .

- Ian C.T. vom Saal

gue_barium

lucylespian wrote:

PJ/Soundgarden/NIrvana were really just guitar bands without spandex at a time when music was heavily synth driven.

Not really. LOL.

i like matt.c

Drop-d tuning!!!

xtremehardy388

The BOSS DS-1 is a good pedal for 'grunge'. Power Chords and emotion really. Just basically rock out, do what feels right. If you REALLY wany grunge, go about 5 weeks without a shower or changing your clothes Anyway, just do what feels good, keep listening to music you like and it'll come out in your own stuff.

Pearl Jam and toast

gue_barium wrote:

Not really. LOL.

As funny as lucylespian's post was I agree with him.