guitar parts in hardcore can be complex technically versatile and rhythmically challenging guitar melody lines usually use the same minor scales used by vocalists although some solos use pentatonic scales some hardcore punk guitarists play solos octave leads and grooves as well as tapping into the various feedback and harmonic noises available to them the guitar sound is almost always distorted and amplified creating what has been called a buzzsaw sound hardcore bassists use varied rhythms in their basslines ranging from longer held notes whole notes and half notes to quarter notes to rapid eighth note or sixteenth note runs to play rapid bass lines that would be hard to play with the fingers some bassists use a pick some bassists emphasize a very technical style of bass playing some hardcore punk drummers play fast d beat one moment and then drop tempo into elaborate musical breakdowns the next drummers typically play eighth notes on the cymbals because at the tempos used in hardcore it would be difficult to play a smaller subdivision of the beat all about the music