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thats how i see things too, thats why i always ask something.. to learn something that i wanna know; even tho i dont know the right words to use to ask things because i lack such vocabularies makes perfect sense in some ways...

dammit how do i suppose to keep the song from sticking in my head!!!! hhwaaaaaahh!!!!!!

thanks for the tip enamel.. youre such a great help to our dumb freatboards! and yeah i think youre right, i have to UNDERSTAND my own way of playing and re "study" my own attack and everything to make all of my notes work! well, all of us have these "unconciously" applied styles that i think we have to realize by ourselves to make us better. and yeah i never thought of how i pick every strings if i was playing arpreggios! now atleast im starting to realize how i was picking them, i.e. having some notes in which scientifically i should have given it a downstroke to prepare for the higher string but yet i still do it the other way(which always made it slower or unsmooth)... you know, some unconscious mistakes which we always do because we never concentrated on those very little unimportant details which in the future turns out to be the very weakness of your playing... very well said pete, you still never changed a bit, you still speak wisely!

what i wanna try is the new innovation of Ibanez S series. light yet fat! but still worth a fortune here! waaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

havent you figured it out yet duff? everyone here says different things. it would only mean that it really depends on you, your taste, and your belief. it seems here that it doesnt really matter WHAT you use, what matter most is, HOW you use it. and remember, a good player can play even on a bad instrument! rock on!

yah i agree, commercial products that is. i just love that certain song. thanks anyway. now, does anybody know what the best exercise is for alternate picking? like everyone else, i have this 'slower-right' problem but it seems that i aint improving when i do fast runs instantly during a freestyle playing. i can do it though but only when my mind is set to doing it but i found out that whenever i do those fast alternate picking instantly, i get the chance of being clumsy... help anyone?

hey the fact that i was searching for a blues saraceno tab doesnt have anything to do with me learning to be a good musician. i just wanna have the music sheet of that certain track. thats all. and another thing, it will help you a lot in understanding it easier if you analyze other player's style.. i.e. analyzing how saraceno approached the blues music then comparing it to another artist, while learning the blues fundamental itself... BUT, i still wanna have that tab!

yes it is relative in a way in the sense that it is like the technology... the one who invented the wheel is still a virtuoso although he never invented the car. what it takes is much understanding of what we do (beyond the guitar) and then applying our originality like what redwhite just said.. we need to be 'unique' but what we need now is the understanding of not just the guitar but the whole music. that connects us to what marksound said... well, what you said marksound just made sense, but dya think we need to compare? isnt it better to absorb those good players in our head than to compare who plays better than who? now can anyone share me their 'never look back' tab? its a good source of blues ya know?

yes pete youre exactly right and thats what actually happened! it made the pickup perform poor and unbalanced! but dont worry because i havent altered anything on my guitar yet. what i used is my cheap replacement hb pickup and my guitar is still in its original form. well i think im gonna need to forget the 'two-magnet' idea now that i know that it was the cause of the poor tone of my pickup. well, gotta build a taller driver core i guess... thanks very much pete..

hey fookub and pete, i have a good news.. now i understand why my magnets behave like that.. the only simple reason is that they are cut or manufactured in two different ways like so: as you can see the polarity of the magnet that i used for the driver was divided on its flat surface while the other one was divided on its sides.. thats the reason why the second magnet originally sticks BETWEEN the poles of the humbucker and NOT under the poles because it absorbs on both of it's sides.... whew! i hope you guys now can imagine waht i was trying to explain... fookub, the magnets are exactly with the same size.. originally, i planned to use only the magnet i got from the hum for both the driver and the pickup but too late that my driver core was made shorter in height than the pickup poles and it wont reach the pickup's magnet so i have to extend another magnet for the driver but ironically it perfectly fitted exactly under the core and above the pickup's magnet... now can anybody please tell me where i can find those blues saraceno tabs online? especially 'never look back'....

nice collections redwhite! and yeah youre right.. thats how to begin.... hey i also found something interesting from the limewire... it is a book called 'scales improvisation for jazz music'. i downloaded it in pdf format and its kinda big file (200pages).. its nice to see that the book have its own chart so you wont get dizzy reading the same old tabs.. easy to understand and easy to imagine...

you are correct pete... and i cant deny that steve vai is one of the greatest but in view of the word virtuous, i think its better to look forward to creating your own thing than trying to 're-do' what have been done by somebody from the past. try alan holdsworth, he did his own thing and nobody like him does the same sound. what we need is to understand their theories rather than just listen to their music. i mean we need to try to understand the scientific side of those they play rather than the musical ones. behind a virtuoso is ones complete understanding of the knowledge that they posesses. having fast-fingers dosent count on being a virtuoso. try chopin. he is a piano virtuoso but piano is not his forte. but still he became one because he made such pieces that are so hard to master and to perfect by an advanced player. now, try robert johnson. he doesnt emulate any of his idols but he did understand well the principle behind it. in fact he actually looked behind the notes that his idols were playing and did it the same way but in his own understanding. his secret lies in the unusual detuning of his strings to his own tuning where he is the only one who can understand what he is pressing on the fretboard. i once overheard at our guitar convention that in one of his solos, his guitar was tuned like CAEFDD or something.. now that made him a legend and a virtuoso.. by creating his own theory by thoroughly understanding what others did. well, there defenitely is a whole lot more to learn OTHER THAN the shred ethic... now, can anybody tell me where i can find those blues saraceno tabs?? especially 'never look back'!!!!!!!

hey for those loners out there who strives to learn the best guitar playing out there... need not to learn alone anymore, you need a company, so lets exchange ideas and knowledge for a speedy learning.. plese visit the guitar heroes den (teachers wanted) thanks

hey for those loners out there who strives to learn the best guitar playing out there... need not to learn alone anymore, you need a company, so lets exchange ideas and knowledge for a speedy learning.. plese visit the guitar heroes den (teachers wanted) thanks