scottyboy

the band i'm playing with at the moment, bassline first and i just come up with the guitar line by improvising over the top. its funk, so the groove stays on the one chord/scale for a fair bit.

the new songs alright. i think their other stuff (that i've heard) is pretty crap though

whats wrong with that 8-) 80s guitar playing is awesome... don't like much thrash though, other than the usual suspects (metallica) even then, not much

playstation 2 for sale. older (i.e. not slimline model); doesn't play dvds (as in dvd videos) very well; 2 control pads, 2 memory cards. erm, offers?

this was the problem with pretty much every xbox live game i played o_O cranial, whats the message you get when punkbuster kicks you? you might have to update the punkbuster or something

yeah uni's good. what times are you around there at?

great, that'll be 4. are you able to be around town/the uni at some point? send me a pm or whatever

yay, i have somehow managed to make a typo in the title and can't edit it. if some mod reads this can it be changed to 'books for sale' cheers

i'm wanting some space/cash so i'm selling whats left of my once vast book hoard... i can meet people around town or at the uni or pickup from king street if anyone wants to buy a load... Novels 2 Steve Alten - Meg (hardback) Iain M. Banks - the algebraist John Banville - birchwood Max Barry - jennifer government Anthony Burgess - a clockwork orange William Burroughs - naked lunch Ron Butlin - the sound of my voice Susanna Clarke - jonathan strange and mr norrell Nik Cohn - I am still the greatest says johnny angelo Eoin Colfer - artemis fowl Douglas Coupland - generation x Douglas Coupland - hey nostradamus! Daniel Defoe - robinson crusoe Len Deighton - funeral in berlin Charles Dickens - david copperfield Peter Dickenson - the kin Anne Donovan - Buddha da Roddy Doyle - Oh, Play that thing F. Scott Fitzgerald - the great Gatsby Janice Galloway - the trick is to keep breathing Janice Galloway - foreign parts Joseph Heller - catch-22 Ernest Hemmingway - for whom the bell tolls Ernest Hemmingway - a farewell to arms Ernest Hemmingway - the old man and the sea Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf Andrew O’Hagan - personality Kazuo Ishiguro - the unconsoled Henry James - the Bostonians Henry James - the portrait of a lady Franz Kafka - the trial Jack Kerouac - big sur John King - the football factory Marina Lewycka - a short history of tractors in ukrainian Yan Lianke - serve the people! Paulo Lins - city of god Compton Mackenzie - whisky galore Hilary Mantel - beyond black Herman Melville - moby dick Haruki Murakami - south of the border, west of the sun Haruki Murakami - the wind-up bird chronicle Ryu Murakami - 69 Ryu Murakami - in the miso soup (hardback) Ryu Murakami - coin locker babies Michael Ondaatje - the English patient Arturo Perez-Reverte - the dumas club Terry Pratchett - night watch Terry Pratchett - thud! Terry Pratchett - thief of time (hardback) Philip Pullman - the amber spyglass Phillip Pullman - the subtle knife Philip Pullman - northern lights Erich Maria Remarque - all quiet on the western front J.K Rowling - harry potter and the deathly hallows J.K. Rowling - harry potter and the order of the phoenix J.K. Rowling - harry potter and the half-blood prince Arundhati Roy - the god of small things Sean O’Reilly - the swing of things Kevin Sampson - frseshers Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s travels Muriel Spark - aiding and abetting John Kennedy Toole - a confederacy of dunces J.R.R Tolkien - The lord of the rings: the return of the king J.R.R. Tolkien - The lord of the rings: the two towers Willy Vlautin - the motel life Alan Warner - morvern callar Oscar Wilde - the picture of dorian gray Irvine Welsh - trainspotting Tom Wolfe - the bonfire of the vanities Tom Wolfe - a man in full novels 1 Beverley Naidoo - the other side of truth J.K Rowling - harry potter and the philosophers stone Lemony Snicket - the bad beginning (hardback) Lemony Snicket - the reptile room (hardback) Truman Capote - breakfast at tiffany’s Leo Tolstoy - anna karenina Caroline B Cooney - mercy Kenzaburo Oe - the silent cry Autobiography -2 Henri Charriere - papillon Adeline Yen Mah - falling leaves Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese Cinderella Robert Evans - the kid stays in the picture Short Stories (2) James Kelman - the burn Roald Dahl - the wonderful story of henry sugar Sam Lipsyte - venus drive Roald Dahl - the collected short stories Haruki Murakami - after the quake Thomas Hardy - Wessex tales James Joyce - Dubliners Irvine Welsh - the acid house Haruki Murakami - the elephant vanishes Poetry Don Paterson - landing light (2) Ciaran Carson - the ballad of hms Belfast (2) Carol Ann Duffy - new selected poems 1984-2004 (hardback) (5) Seamus Heaney - the spirit level (2) John Milton - paradise lost (1) Plays 2 Thomas Midleton - a chaste maid in cheapside Martin Mcdonagh - the cripple of inishmaan History (5) Bernard Lewis - the muslim discovery of Europe Ronald Wright - stolen continents: conquest and resistance in the Americas Amin Maalouf - the crusades through arab eyes Michael Lynch - Scotland: a new history Anthology, textbooks etc Thomas Nashe - the unfortunate traveller and other works (5) Moby Dick: the Norton Critical Edition (5) The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and poetic theory (10) Language: its structure and use (10) American cinema, American culture (10) The Norton anthology of poetry (5) The oxford book of American short stories (5) The Norton Shakespeare (i.e. complete works) (10) British literature 1640-1789: an anthology (10) Renaissance literature: an anthology (10) The Norton anthology of American literature: volume B 1820-1865 (10)

i disagree... guitar techniques, for example, has some of the best teachers (and guitarists in general) in the uk writing for it. having someone show you stuff in person, one to one, might help you learn faster but i don't think it's good value

what he said

yeah these would be very good, although again i would say these are really for more advanced players. paul gilberts 'intense rock' series gets mentioned a lot as well. 'creative guitar' and 'creative guitar 2: cutting edge techniques' i think are the names of the guthrie govan ones... best player in the world technique-wise imo, well worth checking out (maybe once you get the basics down...)

lies! i don't need a crosshair floating in front of my gun...

i learned from guitar magazines, total guitar is the most popular... guitar techniques is better and has more stuff but is in general a lot more advanced basic chords... minor, major, dominant 7ths basic scales... major and minor pentatonics... maybe blues, major, maybe dorian or aeolian (natural minor) and mixolydian. if you learn scales its more important to understand how the scale works (e.g. what chords it fits over etc) rather than practising it all over the neck) oh and learn all the notes on the fretboard

its an fps... an fps where you can't aim!

you're not the only one to do that... theres a quote from guthrie govan saying the same thing about it not being able to sue him. can't remember what it was exactly

sounds like you want an 'overdrive' rather than a 'distortion' pedal. something less extreme than what's been recommended. i don't use any pedals, but i hear crowther hotcakes are awesome, for example

awesome, yes? 8-)

i wouldn't mind a couple either. cant see it happening though

with bands i've played with it was trial and error definitely, but things would have gone a lot smoother if they'd been able to tell they were playing an e major riff/progression o_O

i actually wouldn't see turning into a mercenary session player 'selling out'. i mean in that situation you'd just be payed a wage/fee and stand at the back of the stage/play some small part on the album amidst all the samples. most fans of 'pop stars' wouldn't care about the bassist for that particular tour, your name doesn't go on the cover of the record, you don't get paid anything like the pop star themself... besides i'd think that most session players, even for pop music, would be seriously formidable musicians and if someone works to get to that level, surely you can't grudge them making a living from it in some capacity.

i would have tended to just see it as a band simultanously getting 'bigger' and their music getting shitter (and i guess more commercial). i'm not really precious about such things though, i could always listen to older albums or other bands. now that it's been mentioned though, i think the definitions given by savant and chris are probably better.

i never got why people liked halo tbh i remember playing the multiplayer beta and you couldn't even aim down the sights of the gun, hope they did something about that o_O

it makes enough sense if you've read the other thread

just go on the rgt website and look at grade 7. you can probably learn enough to fake it