Geet PHUCK

I'm not even familiar with the scales he was playing in,what was that anyway?A Bm?

Just two small pictures, when everythings done this will be filled with much better pictures. Right now they were just taken off an old webcam



Project 1 -- '79 ML lefty. OFR nut and accutone bridge, the bridge was off a Dean Z Autograph superstrat. Already has new pickup rings. Just about done, should expect pr0n tommorow.





Project 2 -- Dime-o-Flauge. Already routed for an LFR, which didn't fit. Going to fill that back up and put a strat-style bridge on which I have all the parts for already. You can see a large chunk cut out so I can play it lefty now, didn't finish sanding anything but what's filled up has been. Also converting it to set neck among many other things.

Ok, I'm sorry for posting this after only joining the forum so shortly, but I just went through three pages worth of this blog and I can't find the answer to this specific question.

I was thankfully helped by someone after joining and posting my greetings, and he (just assuming if its not a he I'm sorry) said that modes are movable, but shapes are not.

So, I know all seven root six string modes they way I learned them off the Rusty Cooley DVD, I know the shape for A Dorian, what shape would be F Dorian?

Thanks in advanced and hello, I know I'm strange and Californian, don't blame me it's the the sun slowly cooking my mind.

If I use them, will the cheap $5 generic set do the work? The squish and put in your ear kind. And will I still be able to hear everything I need to?

Arpeggios and chords are a necessity. After 5 years of being self-taught completely I feel like such a noob (for lack of better word). So, I'm learning everything I missed now. I can't read tabs, I can't do chords, I can't read sheet music, and I hardly know technique.. 5 Years of frippin around as 'practice' is 5 years of learning nothing.

I actually learned that in Guitar Center. I'm in, asked if the $7,000 Jimi Hendrix full stack vintage Marshall was actually up to be used by customers .. He gave me the go-ahead. %$#@!, yes. And it sounded amazing, I looked around and began actually having a small crowd. Mostly came from my small knowlege of chords that I picked up myself, after playing those over and over I actually ran out of ideas and everything sounded like s#%t. Most other people I know learned chords from the start, cover songs no problem -- I can't do either!

When I first began, I found every instructional video as boring and useless. Later on, I was discouraged more but blah blah blah. Story short, if you can't play chords, don't know your arpeggios and can't even read music .. What exactly do you know?

So I'm starting back at square 1 and learning what I should've from the start and would advise anyone that was like me and thought you can get away just messing around for years; you don't just randomly stuble across an Amaj13 chord

For the longest time I've been worried about time towards musicianship. I'm learning new things in playing every day, I get better and always think I'm not good enough yet. My ideal goal is going out on the road right when I turn 18 but the more I think about it the more I realize that's not a realistic goal.

Main problem for me right now is my style, I love some very different types of metal and want to experiment with them all before I decide what I really want to stick with.

This question is more towards the old farts around here, should I do what I have been and just practice then stick with what I've got or run around for endless ammounts of time experimenting. I'm 17 right now.

-- On a side note, I kinda wish I started guitar a bit earlier. A ton of my idols started guitar when they were little kids with ages in the sigle digits, I started around 13 (on and off) so I'm still pretty new.

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/
Even allowed me to switch it to left-handed chords

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/
Has a ton of video lessons with text underneath (And tabs for each lesson if I'm reading it correctly)

Looks very helpful to me, so I figured I'd share. Enjoy!

write a song rhythms, get lyrics and that involved, and just let your fingers find the solos? Just "feel" your way through? That's how I tend to do things when I write songs, just play what feels right, and if I find a turd note (or a dozen) I erase those, keep the concept, and find notes that work.
Anyone else do this?

Being over here I've not had a lot of time but used what time I've had playing the hell out of that Ibenhad (which I absolutely LOATHE, I need POINTY!!!) and a Rogue 12 string which I pretty much taught myself how to tune and string etc.

A very easy song for the budding young lead guitarist I would say would be a simplistic masterpiece by Norse Metal Gods Amon Amarth entitled Under the Northern Star, which goes something like this:

G--6--7-6--7-9-6-----
D--------------------7-6 X2

Then (all on bottom string, tuned to std)

e----5--5--5p4h5-5/10-9~/5-5/4-4--2-4--5-4~/7-5~5/4/2p0h2

Does this 4X

I think listening to this song and playing along with it will truly help you get some nuances of timing and styling/phrasing and sliding which will only enhance your playing.

I will continue this lesson should anyone be interested in learning more of this great (albeit VERY simple) song

so ive been playing guitar for about 5 years now, and can play pretty much ANYTHING out there. but the problem that im noticing is when switching from finger pattern 1-2-3 [index middle ring] to 1-3-4 [index ring pinky] is that its alot slower than any other pattern that i do. im very strong with my pinky, its likely my strongest finger cause i practiced hard to get used to using it, but when it comes to using my ring finger and pinky at the same time, i just slow down a ton. is this common or just coincidence?

I've been playing guitar since December 08 and been trying to self teach myself. I'm having a hard time learning from the books so I have decided to try DVDs. I decided to go with DVDs lessons by Doug Marks. I will blog here on my progress so you all can keep up with me and see how these DVDs work. If your interested to know more about the DVDs go here http://www.metalmethod.com/basic-guitar-lessons.htm

I like the ideas of DVDs so it gives me a chance to learn at my own pace and not have to pay for a teacher that I can't afford right now.

I've already done the first two lessons so I will make post about those lessons and start lesson 3 soon. I do a lesson a week, this is a 6 month course to complete.

Every guitar player I come accross has one sweep picking lick that they do more than any other, so lets start a list of all our favorite sweeps, so maybe it can help people (like me) get better at it and not play the same ones so many times.

My Favorite:

Major Minor Diminished
e--7--11--7 e----6--11--6---- e---7--11--7---
b-8---------8 b--8-----------8-- b--9----------9--
g7-----------7 g 7--------------7- g 7-------------7
d-------------- d ------------------ d-----------------
a-------------- a------------------- a-----------------
E-------------- E------------------- E-----------------

I had the day off work yesterday and since my wife and young boy were out for the day I decided to do some major scale practice. I kind of lost track of time and 9 hours later I turned off the metronome and put down the guitar. It was great and I got a bunch of stuff done, although my fingers are a little sore this morning.

That was easily the longest I have ever *practiced*. Anyone else done marathon practice sessions in the past?

Finally have an excuse to buy new ones.

5881WXT
SOVTEK
MADE IN RUSSIA
05 12

The bigger tubes. I'm assuming these are power tubes and not pre-amp tubes?
Also, what replacement tubes can I buy in place of this?

I play through a Line 6 POD, and wanted to get some new settings. Does anyone know of a site with settings, or does anyone have a setting they use that you would like to share.

I get a lot of unwanted noise when I'm soloing. Probably because I'm not good enough at muting the strings which are note picked:)
Any good tips for this other than practice of course.

Any suggestions as to the action of the strings? I have pretty low action (slight buzzing), and that works to my advantage when string skipping etc, but maybe that's not the best thing when it comes to playing a solo "clean"?

Been playing 5 .. Almost 6 years now. For the past 3 months all that's been on my mind, "Oh wow, I'm a crap guitarist."

Curious who else is feeling the pain

I decided to take a little break this evening inbetween sessions of gorging on chocolate just to post up a quick lesson on using a metronome. When learning to shred, or even to play guitar at all it's always best to use a metronome, it keeps you in time, gets you used to following a drummers beat and can help you dramatically in increasing both speed and accuracy. In other words, what's not to like about a metronome?!
They're also cheap as chips, you don't have to splash out loads on one, there are some tuners have built in metronomes for example, there's a metronome function in Guitar Pro which is dead handy, and I think there's even an online metronome program which you can use, so there's absolutley no excuse for not having access to one.

Anyway, in 4/4 timing there are 4 beats in a bar as you probably all already know, which on a sheet will look like this:

Each of those little X's count as a beat, and it's these beats you have to follow.
It'll sound like this:
Boof. Boof. Boof. Boof.
Well... maybe not exactly like that, but hey, I ain't no drummer!

The simplest way to start using your metronome is to match a note on your guitar with a beat from your metronome, so for each of the above beats you're going to play a quarter note of your choice on the guitar.
For example:

I've marked out the drumbeats in red dots so you can see where the beat is and where the notes are. So it should sound like this:
Boof. Boof. Boof. Boof.
Dong. Dong. Dong. Dong.

You can use that for open notes, fretted notes, scales, chords or licks. Here's some examples, all following the same pattern - as the metronome makes a tick, you hit a note/chord/whatever:

Now, that's all fine and dandy, to a point. And that point is when you stop and think "Right, so.. what about inbetween drum beats and all that stuff?" Well, I'm gonna get to that now.
This is called subdivision, wherein you divide each beat by a certain number. That might sound odd, but put plainly it means that for every beat that's played, you play suchandsuch amount of notes.
For instance, instead of playing quarter notes we'll use eighth notes instead:

You get the idea right? For every one beat the metronome plays, you play two, effectively dividing the beat in two.
The same works for sixteenth notes (4 notes for every beat), thirty-second notes (8 notes for every beat), sixty-fourth notes (ouch!) etc etc.

To use your metronome to increase your speed you're going to want to set it at a tempo you feel comfortable at. If you're learning songs or licks, try them at around half the tempo they're usually played at. For example:

This lick is meant to be played at 125 bpm, but in order to learn it correctly, I'd bring the tempo down to 60 or so. Any tempo will do so long as you're comfortable with it. If you feel like you're pushing too hard or you're straining to hit the notes cleanly each time, everytime - slow the fuck down!! It's about muscle memory and smooth motor control, not speedy gonzalés - not at this stage anyway.
Once you got the lick or scale or riff down at that tempo and are comfortable with it, knock it up 10 bpm. If that's too fast for you, slow it down until you can hit it alright. Keep doing that and increasing in small increments each time until you reach your desired tempo, or keep on climbing!
It'll be tedious work, and it will definatley be boring, but if you enjoy something you won't even notice the time go in. What you WILL notice however is that you'll become cleaner, faster and a better time keeper. That's definatley worth the work imo.
Anyway to finish up, to those of you who made it this far through the onslaught of text, you seriously need a life! Seriously though, thanks for reading - if there's any questions, criticisms, comments or queries or if you feel I've left anything out don't be afraid to comment. Thanks for your time, and happy shredding.
Peace, Love, Light and Sound,
- Ryan

I've just begun learning songs by ear and I'm currently trying to learn this song. I have already figured out the main intro/chords. I read after you find out the chords you can figure out what the rest of the songs key is or something like that and I'm not really sure what that means.

The song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtHDsyTYWyg

Heres what I have so far (tempo not exact, just listen to the song and you can figure it out)


I'm trying to figure out the intro solo type thing that begins around 0:10

Any help on how I could figure the notes out would be really appreciated. And I'm not asking for you to tab it just to tell me or give me some tips on how I could figure it out.

why the hell not.

someone come up with a base riff for a song, just repeat it for about a minute or minute and a half, then anyone else takes a shot at writing a lead guitar part over it.

I got this idea a friend at the ESP boards

if this has been done before i apologise,Ok this is all my own words im sorry if this goes off on abit of a rant...
Lately i've been kind of scared about all the guitarists that dont know basic music theory such as the names of notes and how they correspond to a guitar and its chords. As most of you know e standard is EADGBe these are notes(sorry if this is patronising to you). The frets indicate a semitone of difference in pitch

a semitone can be easily explained by the keyboard. Its simply the note exactly next door to the note previously, eg in this keyboard it would go white key black white black white white etc. etc. In an octave ( the term used to describe all the pitches until they repeat again at a higher pitch) the octave again shown on the keyboard is c c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b (chromatic scale of c) and then unfourtunaly the keyboard shown here does not have the c repeated but thats how the sequence continues repeating but getting higher in pitch.
Ok so you remember how the guitar strings are tuned in e standard well this E mentioned in the chromatic scale is what the lowest and highest strings on the guitar are tuned to. The semi tone is the note next door on the piano and the next fret up. So when playing say the riff smoke on the water on an e string (your choice) ie the pattern goes 0 3 5 by counting up the frets we understand that it goes e g a ( 1 being f and 2 being f#). When the 12th fret is hit the e has been repeated again at the octave. For fun (well to learn) try hitting an e on every string

the notes should be in order of strings in e tuning E: 0 and 12 and 24 for you more cockier A: 7 and 19 D: 2 and 14 G: 9 and 21 B: 5 and 17 and E 0 12 and 24

this is the first lesson of a few if i dont get eaten alive im not trying to be cocky just trying to help if you have any questions please comment below or pm me.

Small update, it's been long enough hasn't it?

Finally found someone yesterday. Here's his response.

Quote:

Im way out of your age group, sorry.good luck though.

So I'm assuming he was one of the 40ish year old men that post up a lot on CL. Last time I'm pretty sure I asked the same thing, how hard is it to find a good set of musicians 17-19 in Virginia?

I'll keep looking but until then I appriciate any input

I was wondering if you guys were using more than one head for your half or full stacks? Right now I am using the krank krankenstein half stack. I was thinking about getting another head just to play with. So naturally I wanted to see what others were using to get their killer sounds from. I was thinking of the mesa boogie triple rectifier head. Or perhaps a marshall, but I wouldnt know which marshall just because there are like 20 heads to choose from. Im sure the kerry king head is bad ass too.

I was thinking about this for those of you who have Gmail or Google Talk and a webcam. Is there any interest in any lessons over these mediums? If so what would you like to learn?

I'm trying to learn this easy part of a riff, but im not sure how to do the part where it tells u to hammer on 5-7 and then have an open note on low e string, after hammering on to 7 do u strum the open note and 7 again?

i need help
usually i improve a bit every week
i get faster,i can do bigger stretches ect
but for the last few months i'v not got faster
its really pissin me off now
atm im learnin all de pantera solos bt in each song therez always one bit i cant play
cemetery gates for example
iv got the whole solo down apart from that frackin legato bit
no matter how much i practise i just cant play it faster
no matter how much i practise anything,i just cant get it faster
i'm pretty sure i aint tha only 1 with this problem
pleez help

I got an email from what seems like an angry mother, apparenly I'm so lewd and crude that no one in the area wants to play with me anymore

Quote:

"Come on"? clean up your act... your mouth alone is pathetic. IF you as young as you indicated, your so immature we are not interested in F ing around with trash! we have fun, play and jam often, we would love another member, but not you. sorry to hurt your feelings, but maybe this will help you? grow up, act like you have a little more class, people that hire us appreciate it.

So, I'm curious in everyone's take here on a musician's attitude.

for me i'd have to say this one gave me the biggest improvement in the shortest time

http://www.justinguitar.com/en/TE-007-FingerStretch.php

http://fredericksburg.craigslist.org/muc/

Been using CraigsList for a while to find fellow musicians, also tried that new GuitarCenter feature. They were both s#%t. For the most part it seems guitarists are all too common, people either want bass or drum players. And by the time an ad pops up looking for a guitarist, I'm not in the age range.

So I was curious on everyone else's thoughts on the subject.
-- And yes, I'm using google right now.

I'm curious how many people would consider sweeping an important thing to know on guitar or not, seeing how many musicians get by without it but also that some seem like that would be hopeless without it.

So vote up
- Personally I say no, it's not important. I'm more into 80's style music, and I can't find many people back then sweeping .. So personally, I figure if they can get away with it and let out some holy damn shred, is it important?
Myself, I'm trying to learn it but for the most part I'm never going to focus mainly around it as MKH and some other musicians seem to.

I've been having bitch trouble finding people to jam with, about 2 weeks I found a drummer up in North Stafford. Was pretty tight, jammed for 5 hours straight, got him off drums and onto rythm guitar with his dad on drums. When I say "his dad" I mean this is an old experienced dude, since the guy is 21 already anyways. Pretty frippin tight.

Apart from that, I deem Virginia pretty dry for music. I can't find many people to practice with so I've been doing all the practice on my own. The most recent thing I've been working on was getting faster, I'd open a fast techno song and try keeping up. It's worked for a long time now, except that everything is starting to just get too slow again since I've been doing this for a long time now.

So anyways, what I'm asking for is a couple things --
How do you all practice when you're without anyone else, usually?

Anyone know some good tracks with bass and drums?

And finally, any tracks that have moderatly fast tempo that I could practice with?

Thanks in advance, and on a side note I wanted to put it out that I haven't just been practicing getting faster. I've actually been doing a lot recently, if you heard me 2 months ago and then heard me right now you would be pretty suprised.

So anyways, thanks again if you can help
- Joe

Well currently im learning how to play the guitar using a set of DVDs ( Learn Rock Guitar Beginner,Intermediate,Advanced by John McCarthy from The Rock House Method) i got a couple months ago. I want to learn to play Lead/Shred Guitar but im unsure of some things. Should i learn all the chords, scales, etc.? Should i just learn what i want to learn? What should I learn that would help me get better at Lead/Shred guitar?
Also Id like to know if theyre any good strings and picks that would help me out. I currently have the Dunlop Jazz III XL picks and i cant remember what strings i have.
I know im asking alot but if anyone has any suggestions. That would help out alot.

In this lesson I take an unusual and fun approach at playing scales. Practice them in this nonlinear fashion and watch several areas of your technique improve.

YouTube has been "experimenting" with their technology recently and so far it has resulted in deteriorated quality of both audio and video of newly uploaded clips. I'm not sure how long this is going to be the case, so I uploaded this new lesson to Vimeo. The video quality is good and the sound is pristine. I may be migrating my other videos there eventually.

Enjoy the new exercise!

http://vimeo.com/3277694

I just wanted to write some quick thoughts for some of you younger players out there and for some of you seasoned guys who are looking to expand on your already developed technique. It has come to my attention that many people out there who are into playing a lot of arpeggios love to sweep pick. While I do believe that it is a good technique, I can't stress enough how important it is to be able to alternate pick your arpeggios. In fact it is so important that I feel that if you haven't already started to learn sweeping that you alternate pick them first and get your technique down. The reason I am saying this is that too many guitarists out there use sweeping as a crutch for arpeggios, and while it is a useful technique, it does stop you from developing some very needed technical abilities. If you watch some of the most highly regarded players out there you will see that a lot of them still actually alternate pick their arpeggios as well as using sweeping. Anyway, do what you will, but just take my advice into account.

I get asked by friends, family, and especially girlfriends, what is your obsession with practicing shred guitar? I really started trying to think about the question, and thought I may attempt to explain what is going on during a hard core shred guitar practice session, and hopefully it will help some of my fellow shred heads out there explain it themselves. It’s not man vs. nature, it’s not man as predator, it’s more like man vs. self, or man vs. machine. When I sit down just me and my trusty Ibanez late in the evening, and I’ve gotten all comfortable and cozy in my practice room, I wrap my hands around the guitar neck, crank up the faithful Line 6 amp, get the drive set just right for that nice sweet sustained distortion that gives me that classic shred guitar feel, and then it begins. Perhaps it starts a little slow, and maybe I’m feeling a little rusty, or maybe I just haven’t loosened up enough yet or hit my shred guitar groove, either way, I know here shortly my fingers will be flowing up and down the neck at speeds that at times even amazes myself.

Perhaps it’s just some short bursts I’m practicing or warming up with, maybe its some slow moving arpeggios I’m busting my butt to master, either way, I’m after a shred guitar pinnacle, a mountain top if you will. I’m after that point where I hit a certain speed, feel, or accomplishment that words can barely explain. It’s that point were a once complicated shred guitar riff is being conquered after all. It’s that point were your beginning to overcome a barrier, or perhaps a few barriers to reach a level of self satisfaction. Its having mastered that riff that no one has to ever hear except for me and my guitar that personally brings me true confidence and satisfaction. It’s knowing deep inside that I am rising up one more small level towards being able to sit comfortably among the shred guitar gods and know that among their company I have paid the dues to earn the seat. It’s hitting that level that brings my mind body and soul closer to my instrument establishing a bond and relationship that no one can break. It’s that point where you can not be disturbed because it’s happening, the barriers are coming down, you’re mind body and soul have taken over and began working together as one in perfect unison and harmony with the instrument. Its that point were your fingers seem to take on motions that are all their own, and have lost the need to be guided by your mind as you watch your fingers dance at lightning speeds that almost seem disconnected from your mind and body.

I try to explain this feeling to others. There is a personal self gratification obtained from overcoming and mastering a skill that requires such a high level of dedication. To master shred guitar requires many hours of focus and personally having the capability to break and overcome many barriers. The best comparison I can come up with is perhaps a combination of a mad scientist spending years to develop a formula, and an Olympic runner training for a race all in one. The ability to master shred guitar requires the analytical skills of a scientist to some level, and the physical development of an Olympic runner, and the dedication and focus of both put together as one.

When I sit down to put in my time, which sometimes is six or seven hours a day, it feels almost like destiny. I don’t focus on obtaining rock star status, impressing friends, girlfriends, or getting a record deal, yet my soul focus is on mastering the art of shred guitar. It just feels like shred guitar is an art I must continue to pursue, grow, and maintain.

So the next time a friend, family member, or girlfriend asks you what your obsession is with mastering shred guitar, just tell them that its unexplained destiny, like a scientist spending a lifetime to find a formula, and an Olympic athlete trying to condition their body to perfection all wrapped up in one. If they scoff at you and ask, you a rock star? Just say no, me a person that continually receives an insane level of self gratification felt by a select few for having mastered such a grand art as shred guitar.

Shred Guitar

Don’t practice another minute without the right pick., you can actually set yourself back by creating bad habits that can be almost impossible to break later.

When working to master the art of shred guitar, and get your speed guitar up to par, choosing the right pick is very important. When I first started working at mastering shred guitar, I tried to use a thin pick which is what I grew up using as a guitarist. I kept reading and watching videos from other Shred guitarists, and they constantly stated that you must use a very thick pick.

Then one day I heard of a special shred guitar training pick called the stylus pick. The stylus pick has a special diamond shaped tip. The stylus pick was developed by a shred guitar trainer from Berklee School of Music. The stylus guitar pick is specifically designed to keep beginning shred guitar enthusiasts from reaching the guitar pick to deep into the strings when they are practicing alternate picking. If the guitarist sticks the pick too far into the strings, the pick gets stuck. When I first bought one of these Stylus Picks, it was very uncomfortable to use, but after a few hours I got used to it, and within a week, my speed probably increased by twenty five percent or more. But, this stylus pick is for practice only.

The Stylus Pick is very rigid, and glossy. I soon found out that the rigidity and glossy finish had a huge affect on increasing my speed. After very committed practices with a guitar speed training software program, and the Stylus Pick for about thirty days, my speed literally doubled, and I can tell you now, thirty days of systematic training with the correct tools turned me into a shred guitarist.

I spent years trying to earn the coveted shred guitar status, and believe me, you will know the minute you arrive at that point, and no words can explain the level of self gratification that is felt when you reach that point. After I reached that point, I had to search to find a every day guitar pick that would give me the same rigidity, and glossy finish that I had with the stylus pick, but without the diamond shape on the tip that was used just as a practice pick to alleviate bad picking habits.

That’s when I found the Big Stubby. The big Stubby picks are very thick, and most of all, they are very glossy, and they hold their glossy finish permanently. The glossy finish keeps the pick flowing quickly over the strings with minimal friction, and the rigidity keeps the pick from bending while working on those monster fast shred guitar licks. So to wrap things up, there are three tools that I spent years looking for that took me from decent guitarist to shred guitarist in thirty days. In order to succeed at shred guitar, and not get discouraged, you absolutely must have the right tools that will make every practice count.

Practice can be grueling, and a huge sacrifice. Don’t waste your time practicing without the right tools at hand. Practicing without the right tools can actually set you back, and wind up having to break bad habits later on that keep you from reaching that shred guitar pinnacle you long for.

Choosing The right Pick for Shred Guitar

Shred Guitar

Most shred guitarists don’t think about melody at all, most shred guitar enthusiast’s think of speed, and speed alone, and how much speed they need to impress the other shred guitar enthusiasts. But let me tell you that with years of writing, recording, and producing under my belt, melody can be the difference between prospering financially in the music industry, and starving. In most cases you have just a few minutes to grab an audience with your music, so every second counts. So when you fly in with that mega fast guitar speed shred passage, it’s got to add to the overall picture, it has got to play a major role in the goal of grabbing a listener and keeping them.

Here is a cool little trick that a really hot and very well known shred guitarist showed me years ago, and I’m not going to mention his name, just because it wouldn’t be kosher.
One night we were sitting around in the recording studio tossing concepts and ideas off of one another, when he showed me something that just blew me away. You see regular shred guitar passages are just so quick that it’s very difficult to pick out the melody. For the average fan to be able to grasp and retain a melody, it has to be slow enough for the average individual to take it in, and retain it to memory.

Shred guitar sound very cool on the outside, and it looks very cool when demonstrated live on stage, but let’s dig a little deeper.
In general what you want to do is create a melody that consists of alternate notes. In other words, the melody would not be comprised of every note played, because every note is being played way too fast. So let’s say you take a passage that consists of ten notes. Then what you do is emphasize notes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10. These four notes would be emphasized say by playing them a little louder than notes 2,4,6,8, or 9 essentially what the listener retains most is the melody which is made up of the emphasized notes 1,3,5,7, and 10. Now being that the emphasized notes are coming at the listener at a slower pace with emphasis, it is easier to retain as a melody. Now with the more notes you have in a passage, the easier it becomes for the shred guitarist to create and emphasize a background melody. For example, if your passage consists of say thirty notes, you could emphasize say notes 1, 12, 19, and 20. So in this case even though all the other notes are not emphasized, they are still played, and all the notes are played at the same speed, but with the emphasis being on notes 1, 12, 19, and 20, then these four notes would be your melody.

This trick gives a shred guitar player a huge edge in the big game. This technique must be practiced with a metronome. It is best to use a metronome software program that will allow you to input the guitar notes to be played into the software that you can then play along with, as you gradually increase your speed.

Shred Guitar

I'm curious as to how you all started playing guitar. Lessons,tabs, adapting what you'd already learned on another instrument, good old fashioned faking it?

I've been using tabs, learning scale shapes and have recently started listening to a buddy talk theory but that's beyond me for now. Been pretty happy just learning riffs here and there and building simple song ideas but it's time to move forward.

Some of the vids I've seen on here recently have made me all too aware of how much I still suck (Bucketass on the pink Hello Kitty). So ideas/advice are welcome as always.

Not being contacted back. Nothing more annoying than contacting someone and not having them contact you back, even if you didn't make whatever they wanted. I think there's about 3 bands I didn't make and I've got no idea if I did or not, because they would never send any audition information, a number, or anything. So many gigs I had to pass up because of band members who don't call you back, can't ever make anything, ect.

Curious if anyone had any other stories to share?

So, the song "All for You" by Sister Hazel.

On the recording, I think they capo the 1st fret, and play 1/2 step above standard tuning. But anyways, what scale do I use for the solo? I think the song is in the key of G, but I'm kind of a noob. I would think that soloing in a G Pentatonic Minor scale, but for some reason that doesn't sound like what they are using on the recording.

Or should I just give up?

Anyways.

Just curious how many people here actually have dial-up. And yes, it is guitar related in the fact that internet connectivity can slow or quicken certain things including for the most part, loading of guitar photos.

Just curious if anyone has any advice or guitar videos on 2 hand tapping. And no, I don't just mean sticking your middle finger of your picking hand and hitting 1 fret, then using your fretting hand to do the major tapping. I mean, using both as though they were both your fretting hands and tapping with both.
I can do it, but it's pretty damn sloppy right now. Little help would always be appreciated, thanks!

Strings, you pervert.

Anyways! I'm a left-handed player. I only play guitar as lefty, though. Almost every other thing is standard right-handed, including writing. I've noticed almost every other guitar player bends their strings from the side closest to the ground going up, I do it opposite.

I'm just curious if anyone else does string bends the way I do and any other input you may have.

Thanks!

Hello, I have been playing guitar for 2 years almost now.

I get better each day, don't we all?

Anyways, I thought it would be cool to post some riffs everyone likes to play before rocking out, or to warm up, or any riff at all.

I don't know if there is a thread like this already, i searched many pages and couldn't find one.

I will start.

This is something i like to do.

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--------------------------------13-15-16-16-15-13-12-14-15-15-14-12-13-15-16----13-15-16-----
--------3-5-7---------3-5-7------------------------------------
5-7-8----------5-7-8-------------------------------------------

Just something i do.
How about you?

Alot of times I´ve heard things like a guitar with two EMG-s 81, both in neck and bridge position. So I wonder If you put a bridge pickup in the neck position will it change the sound? will it sound like a neck pickup or not? And reverse...

I know I have to start out slow but I don't even know any shapes or how to apply them to a song. I don't like dragon force but I do like Children of Bodom. I fee like I'll fall behind on the guitar if I don't learn this technique.

Are there any good reads or videos on this? I'll buy a video if it comes with the tabs or something. I don't know where to start.

I've seen this done before, never could get it right, I always end up deadening the strings. Anyone know the correct way to do this? Is it just a matter of feel?

Starts at 5:08.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBGJYym5CTg&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

Sorry in advance for anything retarded or mistakes. I'm frippin sick today, allergys and hangovers suck.

Ok so. http://guitarchaos.com/
It's not directly related to any company, I'm sure most of us have seen this website before. I can only relate it to Ultimate Guitar but I hate UG personally. I've found the members to be very kind and helpful, there are 3 guitar contests every month. Only downside I've noticed is that first off it seems the community is slowly dissipating and the "recently posted" area only seems the topics people really reply to .. Which I believe it only features 5?

Oh well, worth a shot. Check it out.

That is all.

Voiko kukaan auttaa minua oppimaan kieltä

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=du4D8VCDMN8

Check it out, let me know what you guys think!