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woetoyou
Age : 34
Joined : 08 Apr 2007
Posts : 233
|  Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions)  Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:44 pm | |
| I highly recomend the Doug Marks Metal Method video series. Not only do you get some good guitar lessons from beginner to advanced, he also shows you how to service your own guitar. Everything form changing strings to adjusting the truss rod and intonation. I have used his videos countless times and I no longer need to have someone else service my guitar. In fact I started charging people for servicing their guitars.
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scottmitchell74
Age : 34
Joined : 06 Mar 2007
Posts : 3219
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:11 am | |
| | Thanks for that info......I've had a nights sleep and I've climbed down from the "ledge" and I'm gonna try again here at work....but, yes, I need a step by step thing that I can learn from until I get it down.... |
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guitarhoops
Age : 37
Joined : 02 Jan 2007
Posts : 418
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:20 am | |
| | Any links as to where we can find this DVD? |
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dOOm&gLOOm
Age : 22
Joined : 04 Jun 2007
Posts : 1407
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:09 pm | |
| | RockfortheRock wrote: | Top 5?
#5 - Ole Borud: Mainly he just wrote some riffs that killed me on the inside that they were so good.
#4
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen: He's a big influence for me when it comes to
classical guitar. I try to copy some of his swept arpeggios and I've
generally been getting better.
#3 - Kirk Hammett: I love him
for his pentatonic minor usage. Really he found every way of using it
almost. Big influence with that.
#2 - Alex Lifeson: Similar to the above, but yet he wrote some great modal leads that fit beautifully.
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- Mikael Akerfeldt: You just can't beat him. He can write great solos,
knows how to make a song jazzy, and he's just friggin' brutal.
Honourable mention: Chuck Shuldiner: Too cool for school. He just wrote great death metal. |
Doood! Ole Borud, Alex Lifeson, and Mikael Akerfeldt ... I have never heard of any of those three. Who are they and what bands are they from?
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dOOm&gLOOm
Age : 22
Joined : 04 Jun 2007
Posts : 1407
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:19 pm | |
| | guitarhoops wrote: | | Any links as to where we can find this DVD? |
Hey woe, I am wondering the same thing. I've been wanting to learn to
do basic set-ups n' such for a long time, especially since my JS100
seems to have some chronic problems.
Also, how many videos are in the series? How many of them are
metalinstruction and how many of them are about the 'nuts n' bolts'
side of things?
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guitarhoops
Age : 37
Joined : 02 Jan 2007
Posts : 418
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:01 pm | |
| | Alex Lifeson is the guitarist for Rush. |
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woetoyou
Age : 34
Joined : 08 Apr 2007
Posts : 233
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:13 pm | |
| Here is the link to the guitar setup and repair DVD. I have the 1992 VHS Metal Method tapes and each video had a section on guitar setup and repair, but now they have it all on 1 DVD. I need to get this! Anyway they have a bunch of different lessons. I would look at all of them.
http://www.shop-metalmethod.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=GSR01&Click=3856
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RockfortheRock
Master of the Axe
Joined : 06 Apr 2007
Posts : 514
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:20 am | |
| | Quote: | | Doood! Ole Borud, Alex Lifeson, and Mikael Akerfeldt ... I have never heard of any of those three. Who are they and what bands are they from? |
Alex Lifeson is indeed the guitarist from Rush.
Ole Borud was one of the guitarists in Extol, up to the Synergy era.
Mikael Akerfeldt is the guitarist/singer in Opeth. |
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dOOm&gLOOm
Age : 22
Joined : 04 Jun 2007
Posts : 1407
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:39 am | |
| | guitarhoops wrote: | | Alex Lifeson is the guitarist for Rush. |
Oh, duh!  I love Rush! I can't believe I didn't know that, haha.
| RockfortheRock wrote: | | Quote: | Doood! Ole Borud, Alex Lifeson, and
Mikael Akerfeldt ... I have never heard of any of those three. Who are
they and what bands are they from? |
Alex Lifeson is indeed the guitarist from Rush.
Ole Borud was one of the guitarists in Extol, up to the Synergy era.
Mikael Akerfeldt is the guitarist/singer in Opeth. |
Thanks for the info!
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RockfortheRock
Master of the Axe
Joined : 06 Apr 2007
Posts : 514
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 pm | |
| | Anytime bro =D |
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dOOm&gLOOm
Age : 22
Joined : 04 Jun 2007
Posts : 1407
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:55 pm | |
| Hey BTW ... how are those arpeggios coming?? Any improvements?
It's a SLOOWWWW freaking process for me. It's taking for-ever to speed
these things up and make them smooth. But whenever I get frustrated or
down ... I just remember how long it took me to learn other techniques,
like good controlled vibrato, which probably took me a year or more to
really get down. So I figure I've only been working on arpeggios for
about 6 months ... In about another 6 months if I don't have these
things down I'll REALLY start to get frustrated haha
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scottmitchell74
Age : 34
Joined : 06 Mar 2007
Posts : 3219
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:11 pm | |
| | Quote: | But whenever I get frustrated or
down ... I just remember how long it took me to learn other techniques |
This is good to know (and what I figured). I'm new to it this year so I've been focusing heard on learning chords but I've been doing a lot of finger exercises as well and it's nice to hear/know that it does take time. I envy the savants who can shred and do great solos in 6 months but there's also some satisfaction looking back and saying "I couldn't do that two months ago". As long as I can keep saying that I'll be O.K.! |
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RockfortheRock
Master of the Axe
Joined : 06 Apr 2007
Posts : 514
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:31 pm | |
| The arps are coming along pretty well.
I can do the three top strings very easily now, and I'm working on adding in the D string. |
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guitarhoops
Age : 37
Joined : 02 Jan 2007
Posts : 418
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:45 pm | |
| | Quote: | | Oh, duh! I love Rush! I can't believe I didn't know that, haha. |
I'm still working on Arps.  |
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exo
Age : 33
Joined : 06 Apr 2007
Posts : 3831
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:29 am | |
| | dOOm&gLOOm wrote: | | guitarhoops wrote: | | Alex Lifeson is the guitarist for Rush. |
Oh, duh! I love Rush! I can't believe I didn't know that, haha.
| RockfortheRock wrote: | | Quote: | Doood! Ole Borud, Alex Lifeson, and
Mikael Akerfeldt ... I have never heard of any of those three. Who are
they and what bands are they from? |
Alex Lifeson is indeed the guitarist from Rush.
Ole Borud was one of the guitarists in Extol, up to the Synergy era.
Mikael Akerfeldt is the guitarist/singer in Opeth. |
Thanks for the info! |
also, to chime in for the first time in a few pages....
Ole also was the guitarist/drummer/bass player in Shaliach (his pre-Extol project). Check this thing out as well, because his playing on this one is much doomier and more melodic than th eExtol stuff, showcasing a different side to him....
unfortunately, I haven't picked up my guitar in about 2 months 
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endlessfuneral2003
Joined : 01 Jan 2007
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| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:01 pm | |
| Schaliach is just awesome.
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RockfortheRock
Master of the Axe
Joined : 06 Apr 2007
Posts : 514
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:03 am | |
| | I got the Schaliach CD a week ago, it's really good. |
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dOOm&gLOOm
Age : 22
Joined : 04 Jun 2007
Posts : 1407
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:19 pm | |
| | scottmitchell74 wrote: | | Quote: | But whenever I get frustrated or
down ... I just remember how long it took me to learn other techniques |
This
is good to know (and what I figured). I'm new to it this year so I've
been focusing heard on learning chords but I've been doing a lot of
finger exercises as well and it's nice to hear/know that it does take
time. I envy the savants who can shred and do great solos in 6 months
but there's also some satisfaction looking back and saying "I couldn't
do that two months ago". As long as I can keep saying that I'll be
O.K.! |
Yeah man, some people just have huge amounts of dedication. I heard
that Steve Vai used to do a 1o hour per day practice routine when he
was learning. Which is FREAKING CRAZY!!! if you ask me ... but also
explains a lot about him. I greatly respect people with that amount of
dedication.
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... a chill rises from the soil ...
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dOOm&gLOOm
Age : 22
Joined : 04 Jun 2007
Posts : 1407
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:24 pm | |
| Just to update everyone, actually the arpeggio playing is coming along great this week!!
I've got about 2 really good syncopated arp licks that I've been
practicing, as well as straight chord progressions. I've also been
slowly but surely learning to play King of Kings by Vinnie Moore, which
contains a lot of arpeggios, so that is helping as well.
When I first started really focusing on arps, around the end of last
semester, I was playing them at 80 bpm (2 notes per beat), which was
DREADFULLY slow. I've been using my metronome and practicing about 1-3
hours a day though, and I'm now playing arps at about 200 bpm, which is
over double my speed a few months ago. It's really encouraging to see
progress, for me, it's a total rush and it's what keeps me coming back
day after day.
I'm also learning basic tapping licks ... i.e. playing the 2 octave
arpeggio shapes and adding a third root with my tapping hand, then
alternating between that and 7th chord arpeggios (and adding an extra tapped 7th note to that as well). I'll post some tabs
of my exercises when I get the time. Like I said, I'm really happy that
I've been doing so well with them recently!!
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... a chill rises from the soil ...
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guitarhoops
Age : 37
Joined : 02 Jan 2007
Posts : 418
| | Subject: Re: Guitar Chat (lessons, gear talk and questions) Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:03 am | |
| Hey gang, any guitar goals for 2008?  |
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