wylde1919

well, i decided that my 25 watt yamaha amp wasnt loud enough (after the first or 2nd day playing with drummers )

Its a cool amp, but I would have made the drummer get a sound barrier. Remeber you are the guitarist there fore more important than the drummer

j/k. I love Peavey amps, I got a chorus classic 212 I've had for years. Good stuff!

I think dangerouso understand my lydian question! Your not really playing a Lydian scale unless you have the right chords moving under you. otherwise your just playing a diatonic scale with a different fingering in a different position. Modal theory is easy to fake on the guitar but often hard to truly grasp. and as as gamable and holdsworth go, that is shred. So is albert lee. I think shred is about showing your chops off. And you have to have hella chops to do it!

I think shred is about style and technique, its not always about melody for me at least. I think of Randy Rhoads solo on Over the Mountain. Lots of bar tricks and dissonance. And by the way snork I think you are using the term lydian wrong. Thats not a crack, i just thought I'd point it out.

EDIT: let me rephrase that, explain to me what you mean by lydian

great substitute for a dom7

e |-X-

b |-5-

g |-4- G 13

d |-3-

a |-X-

E |-3-

Not a complex chord but one of my favorite

Clavin, do you intentionally put alot of contrast in your peices? BTW your work is tops as usual!

I recently did a bullseye, and One thing I learned the hardway is, remove whatver mask you use very soon after your done spraying. Also I would try something other than A cardboard template. It didnt work too well for me. All in all i can tlel you what NOT to do, it looked real bad when I was done , in fact i've laready stripped it!

Quick fix for that tuning, if you tune your guitars using the fifth fret open string method (going to the fourth fret on the g string), then what you need to do is use the fourth fret. so Low E string, 4th fret, should sound the same as your apen a string. keep going like that until you get to the g string, then tune the third fret gstring to the open b string. You get the idean. After you have that done, pluck your e and d string at the same time and tune the e string DOWN to match the pitch of the d string. BTW That song has the best heavey metal slide guitar parts ever!

maybe im wrong but that headstock doesn't look reverse to me.

Try to extrapolate C-A-G-E-D from below :

(Clue: The above scale that wylde1919 posted is the "G")

      O         O                 O

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+             +-+-+-+-+-+

  II  | O O O | |        V  O O X X X O        VII  O O O O | O

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+             +-+-+-+-+-+

      O X O | O X           | | | | O |             X O | | X X

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+             +-+-+-+-+-+

      | | | O | |           O X O O | O             | | O X | |

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+             +-+-+-+-+-+

      O O X X X O           X O | | O X             O X X O O O

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+             +-+-+-+-+-+

      6         1           6         1             6         1


          O O

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+ 

   X  O O X O O O      XII  O O O X O X

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+

      | | | | | |           O | | | X O

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+

      O O O X O X           | O X O | |

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+

      O | | | X O           O X O | O O

      +-+-+-+-+-+           +-+-+-+-+-+

      6         1           6         1

Confused yet!

It's funny I never heard of the c-a-g-e-d system until after I had already delved pretty far into theory. But yeah seeing you diagram it, It's alot easier to understand than how i put it!

I have a Line 6 Spider 2 1x12 that I like a lot. It does have a headphone jack which is nice when you live in a townhouse and don't get home from work 'til midnight. They have 75 watts, 12 different amp "models" (11 if you don't count the one very useless one) and some decent effects. This won't win the best amp in the world award, but it kicks ass for $300.

well said, its versatile enough to keep you twisting your sound around as you grow as an electric player as well!

I would say go for a strat! you can get a good used strat w/case for under 1k if you are willing to look. I gota killer deal on mine (96 american standard, sunburst/ texas special upgarde, with hard case for 600 even). And the strats are so versatile, you can get a wide variety of stylistic tones out of it! Blues, country, rock, pop, metal (don't flame me, the janick and dave in Iron Maiden play them almost exclusively ). Only thing they suffer on is jazz! Even then SRV pulled off Kenny Burrell's "Chitlins Con Carne" off with one!

just to complete out dave's thought its is ionian (major) dorian , phrygian lydian mixolydian, aeolian (natural minor) and locrian. But I think modes might be a little too far ahead of you right now. try learning your minor diatonic and pentatonics in 1 position, Then do 6 positions. then try modes. as a quick reference on one of the scales mentioned, the sequence of intervals for the natural minor (or diatonic minor) is (w= whole step or two frets, h= half step or one fret)

w-h-w-w-h-w-w

example in notes a-b-c- d-e-f- g

or in other words a to b is two frets b to c is one, I think you'll get the point

diagram:

e----------------------------------5-7-8- #= fret

b----------------------------5-6-8------- (#)= a choose in notes play one or the

g---------------------(4)5-7------------- other in sequence, not both.

d----------------5-7-(9)-----------------

a----------5-7-8-------------------------

e----5-7-8-------------------------------

Hope that helsps, if not pm me and ill see what i can do!

yeah, thats an old guitar selling trick, YOu get some poor guy who has no idea how to play or doesn;t know very much, you sit him down with "that guitar thats in his price range" right in front of a marshall stack or any great amp. Next thing you know the guy thinks the axe makes him hendrix. He goes home, guitar sounds like crap through his gorilla amp and you also make a ton of money on convinving the guy to get new pickups, pedals, and eventually a new amp! I used to work in a mom and pop guitar shop and they taught us that little bit of mischeif. never did it myself (then again they never let me do any big item sales, just strings and kapos and the like.) so long winded story short, get the amp!

its not a mechanical solution but you can always cradle the bar between your middle and ring finger while you are playing a la steve vai. I perfer for my bar to be loose and swing back ddown when i play, it keeps it out off my way when i dont need it, and I just reach back around for it when i need to do a dive or a flutter

those bridges look pretty sweet dude! I think look top notch on your axe! god choice bro, o and nice looking work too!

I dont think its fair to seperate the terms improv and theory as the two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I believe they are almost intertwined. Even if you just play by ear, and have never read a single word on theory, you are still probably playing scales. You have to think about something, music theory isn't a true or false kind of thing, Its a documented guide of how we hear things in western music. Theory is born of music tradition and helps us figure out the "math" behind what we naturally think sounds good. This holds true for the blues just as much as it does baroque music or anything else. I know for a fact if you listen to old robert johnson, or blind lemon jefferson, A WHOLE LOT of what they play is ofund within the blues scale, and most of what isn't is just passing tones!. Even when blues guys play "outside the changes" alot of that is based on theory too, the V of V or the IV of V, tritones, the whole like. Just my two cents!

what kind of guitar will this be going on? classical like your shark or is this on an electric?

Jenk, where do you live at, maybe we have a pg member nearby who would be willing to meet you at sam ash or guitar center and offer their support!

D'ow I should read everyone's post more carefully, in other words, what syxxstring said!

Have:

Ibanez

Talman

RG570

RG7620

Fender USA Strat (Sunburst)

Epi Les Paul

Epi Sheraton

Jackson PST-3 Rhoads V

Magnum Les Paul Copy (was painted bullseye by me but looked so crappy I have since stripped it and I am going to do a Carolina Hurricanes theme)

Washburn Acoustic

Some Canadien Nylon String Acoustic

Peavey Fury Bass

Peavey Chorus Classic 212

Line6 Flexton II 112 w/Pedalboard (not the fb4 but the larger one)

Want:

First and foremost the talent of guys like LGM, Drak, and Clavin, just to name a few!!!

Ibanez Jem PMC (either an RG remod or Id take the real thing!)

Gibson SG (cherry of course)

Epi Goth Explorer

Saga Telecaster Kit (wanna start builing not just painting)

Ibanez SoundGear 5string

Line6 Vetta half stack

Peavey Triple X Half Stack

Gallien Kruger Half Stack

If you aren't happy with the guitar sound, I'm sure it works via midi, so you could alwayd buy a korg triton and hook it up to you computer, and then it would sound much closer to an actual guitar! of course thats nearly a couple grand spent on being picky!

you know it's funny, I find that I am never satisfied with my tone. I go though phases. I used to love real broken up tube distortian. Then I went through a period where everything had to be really heavy in reverb. Currently I try to play with littole to no reverb at all. I think it's good that we never get satisfied. It keeps things fresh! and a sguitars go, I switch beteween my rg7620 and my Les Paul, then to my Strat, all the time. It's weird how Sometime to me the paul feels the best and most comfortable, other days its the 7, and then others its the strat.

Yngwie was making me laugh! He's gotten so pplump he can barely kick his leg up any more. And whta in the hell was he singing as the lyrics for voodoo child??? Great DVD

I dunno about the rest of that stuff but I can say that the HZ p/ups dont sound bad doing pinch harmonics. And from my name you can probably tell I like to play alot of "pings"

I know that I had one as my first guitar, that i was a bigshot cuz it said stratocaster! I know that with mine it never stayed in tune because the neck would move in the pocket, I could literally wiggle it back and forth. alos the elctronics and tuning pegs stink. but you know what I wouldn't tradei t for a JEM. sentimental value and all.

guess my edit wasnt fast enough either huh. BUt to comment on the pedal, I dont think boss ever made a pedal that wasn't well worth its price tag. It did make some shady multiFX units tho. Ive got one that sounds like trash.