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Post by Dogman on Aug 12, 2007 11:18:56 GMT -6
I had a friend, Devin (best friend, will go visit him in NC sometime), whose father was a musician and committed suicide. He said that he, too would become a musician and bought a guitar at a very young age (10, methinks). He had not picked it up in several years. Then I came along. I got his head out of his ass and taught him some simple riffs a la Metallica or Deep Purple. After that, we moved to Dio, then Slayer, and now we are both playing Gilbert songs and loving it. I'm trying to get him into Yngwie Malmsteen, but he just can't get over Yngwie's arrogance. He just recently got into MAB, but not as big of a superfan as me to join the forum. I, myself, am actually (finally) starting to listen to Dream Theater. Within the next few months, I will record a cover of me playing Yngwie Malmsteen's "Black Star".
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Post by S-H on Aug 12, 2007 12:58:53 GMT -6
I will go for a handmade AC30 once I can afford it, as the Peavey is really too high gain for my liking. I use pedals for gain, always preferred that option over just cranking the amp to heat the tubes properly. Listening to old recordings of me, from '03/'04, it's everything I hate about guitar playing. Glad I sat down and started taking it seriously. I have done some gigging, once at a local festival and once as a solo act. Very few musicians around, otherwise I'd be spending most of my time with a band. Where in Norway are you based? Oslo & Bergen must have some like-minded musicians, no? If you like classical music (i remember you had a vid of Richter playing a Chopin Etude, maybe 10:4?, on your previous You Tube account, pre-Doug) then it may be a good idea to enrol in the Grieg Academy (part of Bergen Uni) which is free and you can learn classical theory & composition to the "Masters" level and gig outside of school. If you live in Trondheim then relocating may be hard but if you want to be a musician as a career you may be forced to do that. Just don't go to america and get fat like Yngwie.
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Post by S-H on Aug 12, 2007 13:06:57 GMT -6
I had a friend, Devin (best friend, will go visit him in NC sometime), whose father was a musician and committed suicide. He said that he, too would become a musician and bought a guitar at a very young age (10, methinks). He had not picked it up in several years. Then I came along. I got his head out of his ass and taught him some simple riffs a la Metallica or Deep Purple. After that, we moved to Dio, then Slayer, and now we are both playing Gilbert songs and loving it. I'm trying to get him into Yngwie Malmsteen, but he just can't get over Yngwie's arrogance. He just recently got into MAB, but not as big of a superfan as me to join the forum. I, myself, am actually (finally) starting to listen to Dream Theater. Within the next few months, I will record a cover of me playing Yngwie Malmsteen's "Black Star". Introduce him to the best fusion players such as Holdsworth, McLaughlin, Gambale, Lane, Henderson, G.Howe, Govan (i STILL don't have his album though- what a n00b), Garsed. That'll give him a serious musical kick up the arse. Eric Johnson, Todd Duane, Ron Thal, Steve Morse, Gary Moore too (they are all adept at various styles). Get as much variety into his head as possible. Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Pat Martino, Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton, Wes Montgomery, Frank Vignola. Don't stop at Yngwie basically. Once he has lstened to alot of guitar music, move him onto classical (chronologically will be better than say starting with Rachmaninoff).
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Post by Yngtchie Blacksteen on Aug 12, 2007 13:09:33 GMT -6
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Post by Yngtchie Blacksteen on Aug 12, 2007 14:49:08 GMT -6
Where in Norway are you based? Oslo & Bergen must have some like-minded musicians, no? If you like classical music (i remember you had a vid of Richter playing a Chopin Etude, maybe 10:4?, on your previous You Tube account, pre-Doug) then it may be a good idea to enrol in the Grieg Academy (part of Bergen Uni) which is free and you can learn classical theory & composition to the "Masters" level and gig outside of school. If you live in Trondheim then relocating may be hard but if you want to be a musician as a career you may be forced to do that. Just don't go to america and get fat like Yngwie. I'm not interested in a professional career in music, that would just take the fun out of it. To me it's a hobby, all I want is other musicians to jam with. Living in Vardø, John Norum's hometown, musicians are hard to come by. Once you find them, you soon realise they're bonkers, so after a while you stop trying. Yeah, you'll find musicians in the larger cities, but moving to a huge city where you don't know a single person? That's not me.
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Post by Yngtchie Blacksteen on Aug 21, 2007 12:23:18 GMT -6
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Post by S-H on Aug 21, 2007 17:30:25 GMT -6
What'd be awesome Yngtchie, is to hear you solo over the "blues-jam-tracks" (the Govan ones). www.bluesjamtracks.com/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=2The Beck, Clapton, Hendrix & Moore ones seem up your alley. My fave that Govan did is the Larry Carlton one, i like all of them since he is a great improv player (and awesome touch- probably his best asset IMO). The "Creeping Blues" on the Jambusters 2 part of their site & the "Smooth Ballad Blues" are cool tracks too IMO.
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Post by S-H on Sept 1, 2007 10:34:02 GMT -6
Yngtchie has obviously fainted cos i paid him a compliment. Lol.
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Post by Yngtchie Blacksteen on Sept 2, 2007 10:05:50 GMT -6
Ah, sorry 'bout that. You're right, it'd be cool to play over those jam tracks. Where can I download them?
Oh, and ignore the SoundClick link. I uploaded all my clips to Ultimate-Guitar instead, it's much more reliable. Gonna find some new backing tracks and record new clips, as my current clips have gotten great feedback.
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Post by S-H on Sept 3, 2007 1:13:22 GMT -6
Ha ha, no probs. They have the tracks here- www.bluesjamtracks.com/The sections are on the left. 99p for each one seems surprisingly cheap, i'm not sure once you've downloaded them, then it's yours forever- but if it is, they're great value! This section is cool- www.bluesjamtracks.com/blueroom.php Known players having a go. EDIT- Most will have seen these, but for those who haven't or can't be arsed doing a Y-T search, some n00b from Essex playing over the tracks: Albert King- (they've based this on Al's funkier stuff he did in the 70's, i prefer his stuff before tbh- still; great improv, although Guthrie should be playing the guitar upside down. Lol) B.B. King- Larry Carlton- (My fave player from the list, and my favourite Govan imrpov of the lot. Larry is alot more jazz than blues, some of these backings are suspiciously un-blues but there is some sort of blues influence in them all so they shall live). Jimi Hendrix- Jeff Beck- Robben Ford- (Probably my 2nd fave of the lot) Joe Satriani- (he's pulling out the wah!) Johnny Winter- (slide time baby) Notice how hard it is to grab the concept he is playing to backing tracks of players as opposed to in the style of those players. Lol. I think it may be the same dude commenting how he sounds nothing like that player on all the vids though. There's 4 other G.G-Unit vids on there from BJT- Bullet Blues backing track- (awesome- and that's just the beard!) Along the Tracks backing track- Funky Blues backing track- Playing his tune "Fives"- (notice the I.L.V which is obviously going on, with my nose i can smell this *** from a mile away & it's obviously going on here. I might do a thread of all the I.L.V victims on You Tube).
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