anyone done some weird like this?

[55'gibby]

I was wondering if you folks do weird things just to experiment like I did? Years ago I took two songs, twinkle twinkle and mary had a little lamb (not by SRV) and worked out arrangements for them in a bunch of different styles i.e. jazz/fusion, blues, heavy metal, reggae, funk, pop, flaminco, classical, blue grass, country etc. I went thru this exercise just to teach myself how to play to the melody not just a style. Am I too weird, or, does anyone else do this type of thing? What kind of off the wall things have you tried?

[F-art]

Uhm,... Try playing Metallica songs in a bluesy style. Pretty cool, especially Master of Puppetz and Enter Sandman. It makes them fun playing again :-)

[13noon]

I am currently writing (arranging?) a heavy-metal version of "Carol of the Bells" to play at a Christmas concert.

~13noon

[smfulla]

is already been done =]
metallica did it
I can find the tabs if you want

[smfulla]

I played "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" today infront of my church... metal style!!!! =]
had sum chugging rhythm guitar with me playing lead. It was cOoL

[13noon]

If you could find me the tabs, that'd be great- save me a lot of work.

~13noon

[smfulla]

http://www.mxtabs.net/tabs.php?path=Guitar,m,799,Metallica,Carol+Of+The+ Bells,37543
there you go =]
I hope they're correct, I haven't actually heard Carol Of The Bells myself, sooo I couldn't find out if it was correct, but it should help out neway

btw, make sure you get all the numbers in the url