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(15 replies, posted in Electric)

here you go


Key of G


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move up one fret for G#

you could do some kansas

and probably cant play them yet but Charlie Daniels is always cool

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(1 replies, posted in Electric)

umm...

thx i guess

please dont type in all caps

and further more that was so hard to understand that if anything it only confuses people

also there are tons of tabs out there for nothing else matters we dont really need someone to tell us how to do it


on another note, im glad you interested in guitar but i also read that youve only been playing for 6 months. its not time for a new guitar if any thing get a nice all tube amp first

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(1 replies, posted in Electric)

stairway of course

umm hells bells isnt hard

most rolling stones is easy


do you want harder or softer CR

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(3 replies, posted in Acoustic)

actually they use a guitar on the album only a mandolin on the Hell Freezes over tour


and on the Hell Freezes over video

Glenn plays guitar

Joe and Don play mandolin

thought it was pretty cool

ive always been intreagued(sp?) by that neoclassical stuff

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(32 replies, posted in Acoustic)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>alvee33 wrote on Wed, 27 September 2006 09&#58;09</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Yeah. I know. But I couldn't resist it.

Please understand I was not demeaning your advice; infact I can only 100% agree with it. Scales are very important when learning any instrument.

I wholeheartedly apologise for any offence I may have caused.

But hey, these scales have such mad names i couldn't help myself. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed">
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yeh its fine i was just kidding really

they do have pretty bad names

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(4 replies, posted in Electric)

not trying to advertise but i suggest you check out the rondo music website

they sell incredibly high quality but incredibly cheap guitars

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(11 replies, posted in Electric)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>millenimum wrote on Sat, 23 September 2006 20&#58;07</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
So how does that help?? pentatonic means five sides.  It is five notes out of a major scale.. if you like I could give the patterns...
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yeh but which one do you want

minor

major

(insert exotic scale name here)

the notes you use are different for each

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(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

or you could just go on and judge

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(32 replies, posted in Acoustic)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>alvee33 wrote on Mon, 18 September 2006 10&#58;36</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
And the Folliollidoodleolltheday scale if you fancy just messing about <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_rolleyes.gif" border=0 alt="Rolling Eyes">
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well excuse me for giving him the most basic scales that everybody should know

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(2 replies, posted in Acoustic)

it means its in double drop d

tune both of the e strings to D

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(9 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

how about instead of looking for something to do it for you

you go and take a few minutes and learn how to read and write music for yourself

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(32 replies, posted in Acoustic)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>strocksb wrote on Fri, 15 September 2006 02&#58;57</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
You are talking about playing scales that fit over specific chords.  How do you know which scales fit over which chords?  Is there somewhere I can go online to see this?  I would love to learn the scales and the circumstances under which the scales are applicable, but have no idea where to begin.  Any ideas?
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allright

learn the major scale

the major scale can be played over any major scale chord progressions


the minor scale can be played over any minor scale progression and can be used with the major scale for bluesy feal


use the Ionian(major scale),or Lydian over major 7th chords


use the dorian, phygarian, or aeloian(minor scale) over minor 7th chords


use the mixolydian over dominant 7th chords


use locrian over minor7th flat 5th chords

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(0 replies, posted in Songwriting)

yes this is the song im entering in  the contest

anyway discuss it- how could it be better

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(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Pink Rose in a Plain Bouquet




free birds always fly away

too curious to just sit and stay

but deep down they long for a tighter chain

they say the early bird gets the worm oh but you never know

there might be a better prize on the other side

but i think itd be to hard to go


be

a different color in a plain white field

dont try to fit in

strive for something different but dont forget to buckle up

cus its bound to be a tough ride


you say dont slip away but im slipping any way

why should i stay here when all my hopes and dreams

all the things i want to see are just over there

oh



be unbalenced but stay the course

it wont be easy trust me

youll love it ifen only you take my words and see

theres rough roads ahead

and ugly turrain

but just over the mountain

are blue skies and no rain


solo


dont compromise to stay inside the lines

If you want to live you gotta learn how not to give up


you say dont slip away but im slipping any way

why should i stay here when all my hopes and dreams

all the things i want to see are just over there

oh

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(6 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

hey lets not play that card

sure i didnt make any money

but look at there music

is there any bit of talent in there

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(6 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

personnally i see green day as a bunch of anti american fags who are extremely untalented

R.I.P.

Stevie Ray Vaughn

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(32 replies, posted in Acoustic)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>JeffroFiddlemaster wrote on Mon, 04 September 2006 03&#58;38</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
First of all, apologies in advance to anyone who will be offended by this post. You all who have responded are so off the mark. Let me begin by saying that i am a professional player with over 30 years of experience. I play every week, usually 3-4 nights, I have a crack band that performs over 600 songs. (www.theconvertiblesband.net). I also teach both classical violin and rock guitar. So here's the real deal:


First of all, those posters who suggested learning theory are absolutely right. Scales and arpeggios are the basic building blocks. Scale patterns and little fragments of melodies are advanced building blocks. You guys who claim to practice "improv" are full of crap. You cannot improvise if you don't know what you are playing. It is partially true that it "doesn't have to be in the scale to sound good"....but who is to say what sounds good? Some composers in the 20th century thought that if you sat down on the piano keyboard and simultaneously struck 30 adjacent keys that cacophony sounded "good".


The key is to play melodies, melodic content. Raw improv usually sounds like garbage...sorry if you spend 5 hours a day making up crap. I probably shouldn't say that because if you truly spend 30 -35 hours a week you are bound to come up with SOME good stuff. But it's like the analogy of 100 monkeys sitting at typewriters randomly typing...eventually they are going to type the Gettysburg address.


Melodies are made up of scales, arpeggios and other compositional techniques...inversions, reversals, elongations and truncations of little melodic ideas....


Scales are very useful in learning how notes function with regard to each other and how they fit over a chord progression, but don't over simplify the word "scale". You must remember (here'a a bit of theory): Each scale has 7 MODES affiliated with it, and each mode is a scale and a "key center" unto itself. Each mode has a "flavor"...each mode conveys a "mood".


The legendary players DO play what they "feel", and they are able to do this because their technique is superior and they DO know what notes will fit over a certain chord. Part of this is the result of hours of practicing, and part is connection with what we call "the muse"....the creative force of the universe that infiltrates those of us who call upon it. (Sounds goofy and corny..but it is true.) However, you can hum the most coolest melody, the most awesome riffs that you hear in your head and FEEL, but without the technique to bring them to life, you are dead in the water.


I encourage all my students (24 in all) to practice with records they like - learn other people's licks, learn the signature licks to your favorite songs, to practice with a metronome (time keeper) so they can start slowly and day by day crank up the speed.


Playing music is like telling a story. You have to have a good vocabulary to tell a good story. Imagine if you only knew 15 words. What kind of a story could you tell? NOT MUCH. And those of you who think you are "improvising" and making stuff up, try making up words that don't exist and see what kind of story you can tell....


There is only one way to get better....PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.


Good Luck to you.


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when i was talking about playing notes that break the rules or dont fit in the scale i was talking about jsut using the scales as a base.


I mean look at EVH what are most of his songs

you got it minor pentatonic with a bunch of random accidentals thrown in that sound incredible

im not saying that he put them there randomly no but you got to remember EVH said often times hed sit on his bed and practice from 7pm till 3am instead of going and partying with his brother so maybe he was just playing a lot of shit that turned out sounding good but i doubt that.


i may have only been playing for oh idk 8 months but my teacher tought me before id been playing 2 months how to use the scales and how to use the notes outside the scales with them


in music rules are there to be broken

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(11 replies, posted in Electric)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>JeffroFiddlemaster wrote on Mon, 04 September 2006 03&#58;41</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
There is no such thing as "the pentatonic".


A "Pentatonic" scale is a scale made up of 5 notes. Like a pentagon is a geometric figure with 5 sides: PENTA = 5.


Any scale (sequence of notes) which covers an octave in 5 notes is a pentatonic scale.
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i think jeff deserves a cookie

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(32 replies, posted in Acoustic)

learn your theory

then learn how to break the rules

learn how to play things that shouldnt work that do

cus those are the ones that sound the best



also i play improv like 5 hours a day.

i mainly do a blues mixed with major scale impov

i doesnt have to be in the scale to sound good the scales are just there to be guidelines

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(15 replies, posted in Songwriting)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>upyerkilt wrote on Tue, 29 August 2006 17&#58;33</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
wish you were here by floyd or if ti's in you by syd barrett.

or behind blue eyes by the who

or all my favourites, Wild rover, black velvet band, whisky i nthe jar,  rose of allendale, loch lomond, fields of athenry,


or Creep by radiohead.


sorry if you were only wanting one song, I couldnt pick one, depends what I remembered one the night,lol. But I usually remember all these




Ken
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i forgot about wish you were here

hmm layla or wish you were here

its a tough decision

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(19 replies, posted in Acoustic)

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>upyerkilt wrote on Tue, 29 August 2006 10&#58;58</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
what is that all about spammy?


ken
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its pretty cool game i found yesterday

if you sign up through my link i get special stuff

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(15 replies, posted in Songwriting)

everybody loves the accoustic version of layla