Apr

Heavy Metal Foundation

By admin

You know doing what I do and keeping my ears open has given me a lot of opportunities to meet interesting people. I’ve met some of the world’s strongest men, UFC champs, rock stars and just regular joe’s like you and I (well i guess nobody is really regular after all). I had the odd experience of having 2 guitars from one of my favorite bands in the back seat of my car while their music is playing in my car stereo but hey I am getting a bit ahead of myself here.

Well I had become friends with the guitarist from one of my favorite heavy metal bands Overlorde simply because I had taken the chance on emailing him and asking if I could put his kickass tunes as the background music for some of my youtube videos.

videos like this one

You know kettlebell training is kind of a form of Old School Heavy Metal itself.

Well Mark Edwards (the lead guitarist from Overlorde) has a solo gig going and he asked if I would go see him and chill where he was performing. So I drove up and watched him play….and play awesome he did.

Now I knew he was good but watching his fingers dance across the fret board like it has a life of it’s own actually made me realize just how spectacular he really is. And hearing one of my favorite bands actually call out my name and thanking me in the middle of his set was a bit surreal.

As I sat there having a beer with him and wiping the melted face off of my shirt I told him that I thought his performance was amazing.

His reply was “It’s all just scales man. Once you know those you can play anything.”

Now that got me thinking. Scales are the foundation from which music comes from. It is a bit like the foundation movements we use as general physical preparation. Swings provide the foundation from which ballistic movements come from. TGU provide the foundation for the grinding movements.

If you build a house on a shitty foundation you are going to have a shitty house no matter how much you want it to look like Wayne Manor or Buckingham Palace. The same thing goes with music adn the same thing goes with strength and conditioning (and fat loss).

So what can you learn from this? Stick to the basics. No matter what you do. (notice how it always seems to come back to that?) Get good, be strong and melt some faces \m/

and don’t get ahead of yourself

Eric Moss RKC
over and out