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TODDLER 
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 Posted: May 10 2012 at 08:52 |
This is a vid of me playing in 1987. I still play in the same way, but have progressed over the years into a more melodic jazz/fusion guitar player. I also play folk and classical. At this jam session I drank a pint of "Jack Daniels" because I was very hyper-active..so there are mistakes. This is just a stupied jam in E and nothing else. Other people seem to donate this crap to youtube and I have nothing to do with it.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 16:55 |
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Get a tuba player instead.
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Smurph
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:41 |
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And wouldn't it be great if they just got rid of taxes on alcohol for certain holidays? Like you could just get wasted for cheap on Independence day or Christmas Eve?
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Smurph
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:41 |
 frippism wrote:
^ Guess it must've been a new law because I was not aware of any prog fans when I was in the States.
And wow, 4 years? That must be tough. Go on without one, to be honest. Do you really feel you music to be less effective without one? You can fill up the void with something else! Like bassoon. Bassoon f**king rules. |
Bassoon does rule... but as you probably know I have already written parts for bass, and we just play live to tracks or without bass live... it loses a LOT of its effectiveness. I need a bass player more than anything but I'm also going to be adding a keyboard player and a random instrument player so I think bassoon could eventually be worked in there. Haha
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frippism
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:35 |
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Sunny days..barbecues....Gold Star...cheap vodka...I kinda miss it. |
Love the sun here, after 3 years of godawful NY suburbia winter. It makes everything so much better.
Ahhhhhhhhhh god I really hate alcohol, but the cheap vodka really taste like ocean volcano mud.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:28 |
frippism wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
frippism wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
frippism wrote:
^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :) |
Happy Independence Day btw.  |
lol thanks.
To be honest I hate this day. Bunch of annoying music and drunk people and fireworks and trash and other bloody sh*t. Considering Memorial Day (probably the most depressing day of the year) is a day before (with intention), I find it weird that people go this apesh*t.
But yes. Thank you, you too (sorta???). Here's for the next 64 years! |
Plus the smell of burning meat. |
I'm fine with that  |
Sunny days..barbecues....Gold Star...cheap vodka...I kinda miss it.
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frippism
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:26 |
Snow Dog wrote:
frippism wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
frippism wrote:
^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :) |
Happy Independence Day btw. |
lol thanks.
To be honest I hate this day. Bunch of annoying music and drunk people and fireworks and trash and other bloody sh*t. Considering Memorial Day (probably the most depressing day of the year) is a day before (with intention), I find it weird that people go this apesh*t.
But yes. Thank you, you too (sorta???). Here's for the next 64 years! |
Plus the smell of burning meat. |
I'm fine with that
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:23 |
frippism wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
frippism wrote:
^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :) |
Happy Independence Day btw. |
lol thanks.
To be honest I hate this day. Bunch of annoying music and drunk people and fireworks and trash and other bloody sh*t. Considering Memorial Day (probably the most depressing day of the year) is a day before (with intention), I find it weird that people go this apesh*t.
But yes. Thank you, you too (sorta???). Here's for the next 64 years! |
Plus the smell of burning meat.
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frippism
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:22 |
Snow Dog wrote:
frippism wrote:
^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :) |
Happy Independence Day btw. |
lol thanks.
To be honest I hate this day. Bunch of annoying music and drunk people and fireworks and trash and other bloody sh*t. Considering Memorial Day (probably the most depressing day of the year) is a day before (with intention), I find it weird that people go this apesh*t.
But yes. Thank you, you too (sorta???). Here's for the next 64 years!
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frippism
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:16 |
^ Guess it must've been a new law because I was not aware of any prog fans when I was in the States.
And wow, 4 years? That must be tough. Go on without one, to be honest. Do you really feel you music to be less effective without one? You can fill up the void with something else! Like bassoon. Bassoon f**king rules.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:13 |
frippism wrote:
^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :) |
Happy Independence Day btw.
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Smurph
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:00 |
^ Dont even joke about this. I been looking for a bass player for 4 years. I'll call my local United States government offical and they will make Israel give up the holy land and you guys will all have to move to the US... JUST so i can get a bass player. (Because my government is on my side and every politician in America loves prog- its a fact)
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 13:23 |
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^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :)
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Smurph
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 10:23 |
frippism wrote:
Smurph wrote:
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I play bass so good that guitarists tremble. Therefore I have no guitarist in my band anymore :D.
Bass for life.
I'm the greatest by the way. |
Funny. My bandmates and I play well enough that everyone that tries out for bass gets told they aren't good enough. |
Challenge accepted
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Ok, first step is to up and leave your entire life and everyone you love and move across the world. :-P
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frippism
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 23:07 |
Smurph wrote:
frippism wrote:
I play bass so good that guitarists tremble. Therefore I have no guitarist in my band anymore :D.
Bass for life.
I'm the greatest by the way. |
Funny. My bandmates and I play well enough that everyone that tries out for bass gets told they aren't good enough. |
Challenge accepted
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 21:04 |
Smurph wrote:
frippism wrote:
I play bass so good that guitarists tremble. Therefore I have no guitarist in my band anymore :D.
Bass for life.
I'm the greatest by the way. |
Funny. My bandmates and I play well enough that everyone that tries out for bass gets told they aren't good enough. |
My drummer and I recently split off from our original band in order to form our own, and we just got a new bass player a couple of weeks ago. The first song we played was "Crosscut Saw," an old blues standard which my drummer and I had been playing for a long time. I took about 2 minutes to show the bass part to the new bassist, promptly jumped into the song - and when it was over, I realized that he, with no practice at all, had played it better than I had.
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I love dogs, I've always loved dogs
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 20:43 |
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I'm not technically good at all (can't even play with a pick for my life) but I can solo just like Marc Ribot and I very rarely hit wrong notes.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 19:49 |
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I've been playing for about 4 years now. I'm working on improvising over jazz standards and reviewing my positional playing. I really wish I could get band together, but they're barely any musicians in my school willing to. My friend is a fantastic drummer, but he's more into bands like August Burns Red, Escape The Fate, etc. I'm really not fan of that music, nor would I want to play it, but some of the drummers in those bands are great players.
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 18:51 |
Epignosis wrote:
I've been at it half my life now. That's fourteen years.
I was admittedly a much better guitarist four years ago because I practiced and actively learned challenging pieces. After I lost my job, I forgot how to play many things because I was too busy trying to get money any way I could and keep a roof over our heads.
But I have, as of this past Saturday, started practicing again. And I mean truly practicing: Any time I would pick up a guitar in recent years with every intention to practice, I would wind up writing music.
You can hear my playing by clicking the link in my signature. I'm particularly proud of "Bold Eternal Day." That fast riff during the middle section is one I wrote a long time ago when I was- you guessed it- attempting to practice.
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I have the same problem as you do. I sit down to practice and spend half my time randomly improvising and making up new songs, and then realize that an hour has gone by and I've only got through my warm-up exercises.
I love that riff on Bold Eternal Day; I figured it out by ear, but I'm pretty sure I play it in the wrong key (and yes, Rob, my review of your album is coming soon; I get out of school in a few weeks, so then I'll have time to put in a good amount of effort into it)
EDIT: It seems as if I have forgotten to answer the original question. I like to think I'm better than I am, but in reality I'm a good guitar player whose real strength lies in composition.
Edited by Ambient Hurricanes - April 25 2012 at 18:55
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Passionist
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:00 |
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I used to be a pretty ok jazz-guitarist with some finger-skills too. I remember composing a lot of songs with cheesy lyrics, though I've forgotten them all. I've still got some of the basic skill left in me, something that will return in a few weeks time, but I must say, since I got a girlfriend, I haven't been playing or composing at all. For some reason :/
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