[quote]duffyj2 wrote:
Who else do you listen to?[/quote]
Are you sure you want to go to that dark place?
I listen to everything. My first album was Van Halen I when I was like 6 or 7.
My grandparents always had jazz and big band around. I got into fusion and prog pretty early. Always loved blues/funk. Past couple years up until about 2 months ago I was playing in a country band!
During my workout today here are some bands that played on my MP3:
Pantera
Rick James
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Darth Vader Death March Theme
Metallica
Tribal Tech (Scott Henderson)
Dream Theatre
Prince (Ahhh, Shut up!)
Los Lobos
Yes
As I type this, Iām listening to Sonny Rollins within a mix of Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Blakey, Hancock, etc.
Name-- It was just something stupid that stuck! Iāve developed a pretty clean āsteelā sound for playing the country songs. Thereās an older musician who we gigged with called me āsteelyā. My last name starts with āDā.
We were goofing around one night and I was rapping to a country song, complete with pick scratches (wiki wiki wiki!). Youāre supposed to say the name like āIce-Tā, or Notorius B-I-G, or āSteely-D, yo!ā Like that. LMAO!
And what boyscout said is completely true, E Ionian and F# Dorian are the same notes so if you play them over the same thing it will sound like the same, just in a different position.
What I like about modes is if you know the key you can go with a couple different āmoodsā so if Iām in F# minor I might go F# Dorian for a jazzy/bluesy sound or F# Phyrgian for that outside sound. Good stuff.
edit: so what do you all have for rigs?[/quote]
Exactly what Iām talking about!
Rig:
Most of the time itās just me, a footstool and my classical guitar. Sometimes I jam out on a steel string (washburn cheapo).
I donāt play electric guitar much anymore, but I own an epiphone sheraton II, a POS washburn, and my baby, a Kramer Nightswan. At school I just use a small marshall valvestate (first series of them) ampāa vs65r.
I keep the big stuff at home. ADA MP1 preamp->BBE sonic maximizer->mesa/boogie 50/50 power amp. Thatās run into a 2x12 cab loaded with eminence v12s (vintage 30 knockoff with more bass). I"m not a big user of pedals, but I like to play with a wah now and again.
All that electric gear sits at home in my closet. Too loud for the apartment. But then again, classical guitar and teaching leaves little time for much else.
AVT150 Full stack. The guitar is my old LTD MH100. This pic is about a year old from a crappy camera. I use a Line 6 Spider III 15W combo for bedroom practice.
in fact Iām going to be perusing a degree in guitar starting this yearā¦Jazz performanceā¦Iām not the best jazz player yet, but Iām getting there
See pics above-- Fender Highway One Telecaster (American). Carvin Jumbo Acoustic (action is amazingly low), tone is very Larivee-esque. Also have a Mexi-Strat and a Samick acoustic bass.
Also put together a guitar from a mid-80ās japanese Westone body and a Warmoth reverse headstock neck-- scalloped from 12th fret up-- Iāll see if I can dig those pics up.
Boss Overdrive, Boss Chorus, Boss Dig.Delay.
Fender FM212R 100W Solid State, Chinese, but bullet proof and amazingly clean tone.
Used to play BC Rich American Mockingbird and Charvel back in the āmetalā days. Had a Carvin X100B Full stack circa mid-80ās, which I sold like a retard, and every fucking day I get up and kick my own ass.
Used to play BC Rich American Mockingbird and Charvel back in the āmetalā days. Had a Carvin X100B Full stack circa mid-80ās, which I sold like a retard, and every fucking day I get up and kick my own ass.[/quote]
Itās statements like this that make me think Iāll never be able to sell any guitar gear ever.
And hereās the song I wrote. Itās kind of sloppily played, but whatever.
Bumping my song cause I want some feedback and uploaded it for this thread.
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Play it cleaner and you have somethingāespecially the LH tapping at the beginning and the end. Itās very repetitive, though, so 6 mins. is kind of stretching it. I like the riff around 1:20ish that comes back several times.
Why switch the LH to over top? It seems like you could get the stuff playing normally.
[quote]I listen to everything. My first album was Van Halen I when I was like 6 or 7.
My grandparents always had jazz and big band around. I got into fusion and prog pretty early. Always loved blues/funk. Past couple years up until about 2 months ago I was playing in a country band!
During my workout today here are some bands that played on my MP3:
Pantera
Rick James
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Darth Vader Death March Theme
Metallica
Tribal Tech (Scott Henderson)
Dream Theatre
Prince (Ahhh, Shut up!)
Los Lobos
Yes
As I type this, Iām listening to Sonny Rollins within a mix of Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Blakey, Hancock, etc.
Name-- It was just something stupid that stuck! Iāve developed a pretty clean āsteelā sound for playing the country songs. Thereās an older musician who we gigged with called me āsteelyā. My last name starts with āDā.
We were goofing around one night and I was rapping to a country song, complete with pick scratches (wiki wiki wiki!). Youāre supposed to say the name like āIce-Tā, or Notorius B-I-G, or āSteely-D, yo!ā Like that. LMAO![/quote]
Jesus! The only band Iām not a BIG fan of is Metallica. Almost identical taste (or lack thereof). And Iāll kill the man that does any hatinā on Prince! The jazz is, obviously, impeccable.
Scott Henderson is awesome but I can never take him seriouslyā¦ when he plays he looks like screech with a poker up his ass. That said, when I mentioned this to my friends they replied āBut, dude, you do that tooā. I await video evidence.
Your country-rap sessions sound nuts. Please upload for all to seeā¦
I agree with boyscoutās comments regarding the video. 6 minutes is excessively long for a song that does not progressive much, and there are times when your tapping just gets sloppy. I know 6 minutes of two-hand tapping is a pain to get perfectly, so props for putting up a video. I made a few myself (shown in earlier post) but I kept them to 20 seconds because I wanted to quickly demonstrate the technique/ability with 100% perfection without dragging the viewer to boredom.
Maybe if you re-record the clip and make it 1-2 minutes long and increase the quality ā¦ just a thought. Good work though, its always nice to see people who put up videos (be it lifting, guitar playing, or anything) instead of just talking the talk.
The youtube video is from over two year ago now, and thereās some wonderful mistakes on there. The vid was shot at a masterclass with Christopher Parkening in Bozeman, Montana.
Everything on the myspace page was recorded at recitals (junior and senior, 1.5 and .5 years ago respectively).
[quote]boyscout wrote:
HOWEVER, if you want to āsoundā modal, you simply treat the tonic chord (I) as if itās a different chord. So if I wanted to play with a lydian sound over something in E, I would play B major. Treat E as IV in the key of B.
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Waitā¦Iām confusedā¦I never really got thisā¦
Weāre in the key of Eā¦soā¦major scale is: E F# G# A B C# D#
B major scale is: B, C#, D#, E, F#, G#, and A#
Iām believing that lydian starts 4 tones above tonicā¦so why wouldnāt A major be the lydian of E? I see what youāre doing with saying B would be lydian because E is the 4thā¦butā¦why do we choose the 4th of the new key?
[quote]sen say wrote:
boyscout wrote:
HOWEVER, if you want to āsoundā modal, you simply treat the tonic chord (I) as if itās a different chord. So if I wanted to play with a lydian sound over something in E, I would play B major. Treat E as IV in the key of B.
Waitā¦Iām confusedā¦I never really got thisā¦
Weāre in the key of Eā¦soā¦major scale is: E F# G# A B C# D#
B major scale is: B, C#, D#, E, F#, G#, and A#
Iām believing that lydian starts 4 tones above tonicā¦so why wouldnāt A major be the lydian of E? I see what youāre doing with saying B would be lydian because E is the 4thā¦butā¦why do we choose the 4th of the new key?
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks.
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A lydian would be the lydian mode of E major, yes. But hereās the deal: what makes lydian SOUDN lydian? the #4 (lydian is a major scale with a raised fourth scale degree). You can see that by comparing the scales you wrote above. The only difference is A#.
To get a lydian sound over a given key area, we have to the mode we want with the root on the key. In this case, weād need to play E lydian to get a lydian sound, not the fourth mode of EāA lydian.
Right, if you play A lydian itās the same thing as playing E Ionian.
How do you like that sonic maximizer? Iāve always wanted to try one of those out.
Ibanez rg550/Epi Les Paul with EMG 85/81 into a boss tuner, maxon od808, EVH phase 90, Crybaby and a boss dd-6, all goes into a Bumbox Lead One (awesome marshall tone) which I have up all the way all the time and get clean sounds with the volume on my guitar.
