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Just wanted to say that I agree with Natalia - our music’s boring, we need some intensity and power to it. And this is where I address the issue of one guitarist vs. two guitarists.

I was on a Paramore music video binge. I can tell how close Hayley, Josh, Zac, and Jeremy were just in one video. Each video had those four, but there was lead and rhythm guitars - Josh only covered lead. Now they had to add Taylor to their lineup, and it’s a strange transition from four to five people.

I personally love the closeness a four-person group has. But in our case, it’s one vocalist, one guitarist, one bassist, and one drummer. I doubt Natalia wants to multitask between rhythm guitar and vocals, so I’m guessing she’ll stick with just vocals. And music’s always more fun with two guitars, lead and rhythm. Rhythm is standard, playing different chords of straight sixteenth notes. Lead is the fun stuff though, where they get to do something unique no matter how subtle or obnoxious the part is.

A good example - Kiss Me Thru The Phone, my version. Yeah, someone already wrote the part, but I made it for guitar. I wrote the rhythm guitar chords and they are pretty much the same through the entire song, with slight rhythm variations occassionally. The lead guitar part has the cool little synth riff that no one can get out of their head after listening to KMTTP. And being mean and selfish, I gave the cooler riff to bass (meeeeeeeeee), but that’s a different story. Actually, the awesome bass riff in the verse and the lead guitar part in the chorus/bridge is also a good bassvs.guitar battle right there, and the rhythm guitar is the foundation of it all.

We should go with two guitarists.

Hope this all made sense.

- DH