scottyboy

it's ok... seems a bit structureless, but maybe that's what you after; it seemed to go from wierd extended intro straight to guitar solo. i quite liked the solo though, sounded pretty hendrix-like. im talking about round and round btw

random but nice

i crime and punishment when i was about 15... somehow did not stop me from enjoying video games and harry potter novels.

what now then? skip-sweeping and 8 finger tapping? 8-)

ah but surely thats the most important element of an album. the snare drum sound...

metal. its not necessary to invent tons of 'sub-genres' to describe bands. just lazy imo personally i would go and see if a band if i'd heard an album/track/demo and liked it...

yes but adding distortion/od makes the guitar feedback more easily and increases handling noise etc therefor it's best to learn how to keep the distortion under control. pinch harmonics, legato is easier, hitting the strings harder has less effect (like compression basically), the guitar is just a lot different with distortion on it. i thinks its unlikely he wouldn't ever use od at all. yeah so thats why i think he should get an amp with an overdrive channel, or an od pedal to go with it. i think a distortion or fuzz would probably work the same for practice purposes

fair enough, why not exactly?

i would say just buy something cheap for starting off, you can learn on anything as long as it works. just make sure it has overdrive on it, because you need to learn how to control it. i still use a stagg 10w amp to play at home. saying that i wouldn't mind a cornford harlequin, but i feel that may be a bit over the top...

it does different things... i hope to get my hands on one at some point 8-)

i quite like limp bizkit, because of wes borland, which has been pointed out already. i also quite like hybrid theory, oddly catchy for some reason o_O SOAD were/are great, another really inventive guitar player. maybe not nu-metal in everyones opinion, but i often heard them described as such and thats all 'nu-metal' is, a term used by journalists to lump a bunch of bands together

guitar solos? or maybe all these indie bands that take up the charts now

the whole things on youtube, search 'nazi pop twins'.

janes addiction - strays guthrie govan - erotic cakes steve vai - real illusions: reflections white stripes - elephant kings of leon- youth and young manhood tool - 10,000 days ryan adams- heartbreaker hamell on trial- tough love feeder - comfort in sound

i think 'hairyscarymark' mentioned hes done up to grade 8, maybe he will be along to say if it was worthwhile or not

never taken them, but im vaguelly familiar with the sylabus. personally i think they're a pile of shite, merely designed to sell handbooks. the improvisation section basically involves you playing an improvised solo over a chord progression played by examiner. the idea i guess is that you use the scales/arpeggios you've been taught. so for example, if you decided to throw in some some lydian dominant, instead of 'mixolydian in two octave fingering in 3 fretboard positions' or whatever bullshit is stipulated, they'd probably frown on it. rythm section i think involves you playing a progression, from some sort of chart, in time. theres also aural tests: e.g. playing back a simple lick the examiner plays, and naming chord types that the examiner will play. also stuff regarding instrument care etc

since it apparently has such low standards, why do you lot even pay any attention to it? whoever it is listens to the view and whoever the hell else can listen to whatever shit they want, who cares o_O musics not a sport anyway

LOTR the first star wars is pish. the rest are ok, nothing more

i think its shit. doesn't work with any of my photos o_O

i think you have to be in paul gilberts band to be allowed to do that

yeah but if its been refurbished/modified whatever it is, it's not 'as new' is it?

looks great in my opinion. do it.

yeah i can see a lot of rain o_O

nah i think they should do it. just for the banter, as it were