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Petrovsk Mizinski 
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 Posted: June 09 2008 at 12:12 |
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Well, I've started recording stuff, just semi improvised post metal type stuff, but the Behringer V-Amp 2 sounds pretty good direct recorded, far better than I expected.
I've been spending time on vibrato again, and man, my leads are starting to get that scream and wailing to them again. I've got some insane calluses on my index finger from vibrato, but it's paid off for sure.
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: June 07 2008 at 23:32 |
Haven't played all day due to cousins graduation party. I am going to play before bed for about an hour right now though, I'd play longer if I didn't have to get up at 5 30 in the effing morning to get to the ice rink for a 7 am practice. 
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Passionist
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Posted: June 05 2008 at 03:03 |
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I'm currently teaching myself Tico Tico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To09Km0y8ic Not this version, but that's the song. Something a bit faster at this point.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: June 05 2008 at 00:47 |
I didn't mind Charlie Dominici's voice at all to be honest, it was the lack of good song writing on those other songs that didn't cut it for me. It's cool you got a new computer, finally man, now once you get it hooked up to the 'net, you gotta get that post count soaring like mine   Well I'm still trying to get my wide vibrato happening good again, by practicing the second guitar solo from Flight Of Icarus (Iron Maiden, Adrian Smith's solo more specifically), and just general Marty Friedman stuff is a good vibrato work out too. Once I get some recording programs, I'll start recording too
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: June 03 2008 at 19:25 |
 HughesJB4 wrote:
Petrucci tapping work was never particularly advanced, but as long as it sounds good I can dig it. The thing I hate about tapping is that it's so easy to get stuck into the bog standard one finger on the fretting hand stuff, something I'm trying to break free of lately.
Maybe I'll give Ytse Jam a go one day too, but I don't even have that album yet, lol, I've got studio every album except WDADU. I've heard it many times, but personally I only really liked about 3 songs off it, Ytse Jam being one of the good songs of course  . |
Let me guess...the other two are afterlife and only a matter of time? If that's true, that's my preferance too, I can't really stand the old singers voice  , but the music to those three songs is fantastic, thank god I don't have to worry about his voice on Ytse Jam, I probably wouldn't have the patience to finish it .
I am very happy to say that I got a new compaq laptop a few days ago and although it is currently not hooked up to the internet, I am using it to organize tablature for songs I'm writing, I can also record riffs for memorization when I come up with them on the recorder thing.
I've finished our 2nd song and am writing my solo (a clean solo) for the 1st song, and for the 2nd song my solo is over a riff that's a bit more heavy.
We should hopefully have those 2 on our myspace in the next 2-3 weeks, although it may take longer due to the fact that finals are right around the corner.
As for me practicing on my own, I'm still working on Ytse Jam, soloing techniques/methods, writing on my own as well as writing with my band, and examples from my John Petrucci instructional book/cd "Wild Stringdom"
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: June 01 2008 at 11:24 |
Petrucci tapping work was never particularly advanced, but as long as it sounds good I can dig it. The thing I hate about tapping is that it's so easy to get stuck into the bog standard one finger on the fretting hand stuff, something I'm trying to break free of lately.
Maybe I'll give Ytse Jam a go one day too, but I don't even have that album yet, lol, I've got studio every album except WDADU. I've heard it many times, but personally I only really liked about 3 songs off it, Ytse Jam being one of the good songs of course . |
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 31 2008 at 18:35 |
Well I haven't been focusing on my tapping too much lately, and it's gotten worse. Now that I'm up to Petrucci's solo in "Ytse Jam" i've got to work on the tapping.
We finished our first song, it's alright. I've started working on our 2nd by myself last night and I think it's already better, I'm about 5 mins into it.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 31 2008 at 08:17 |
Speaking of bands, that thrash metal band never ended up happening. The guitarist dude has been having some real problems lately, with a range of things and my bassist friend, well that's the dude that doesn't play as much because of his girlfriend and supposedly homework taking up his time.
So really outside of school, I only really get to play by myself. Actually speaking of something really cool, there is one dude in my music class that can play Midnight by Joe Satriani (that two handed tapping neo classical guitar piece), it was pretty crazy seeing some kid at school that could play it and make it sound good. I'll invite that guy to jam with me, he can't shred it like I can (in terms of alternate picking and legato anyway), but he has got a lot of feeling in his playing, one of those dudes you really want to listen to play.
I've just been making up some different sweep picking licks/patterns for myself, and slowly running through those.
Unfortunately, I've noticed my wide vibrato is not as good as it used to be  , which was really weird, because I didn't think it could do anything but get better, but no strangely it's gotten a little worse because I've been working on index finger wide vibrato a lot more in favor of bend up+wide vibrato. As for your band, sometimes the first song you write is not always going to be the best, but I think that happens to pretty much everybody (except for me ).
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 15:22 |
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Right now I'm off to band practice. We're working on our first song as of right now, it came pretty easy, but we're capable of writing much better.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 27 2008 at 22:48 |
Well I guess, 5 hours per day is still a lot of playing dude, and if you work effectively in that 5 hours you can do a lot with it.
I've started working on another Buckethead song, called Ghost Host. It's kinda catchy, but the solo is pretty blazing when it hits the climax of it, so I've been working at the solo at 3/4 speed so far.
Personally I don't even watch TV shows at all anymore (although I did used to watch Scrubs a while back though  ), and man I don't even have any DT DVDs right now. I have a friend that has both the 20th anniversary concert Octavarium DVD and Live at Budokon, but I just haven't had the money to be able to buy either of them. I've moved away from DT for a while, maybe listening to them once a week. I've been listening to that new Protest The Hero album a LOT lately, I love it. |
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 27 2008 at 15:05 |
What I've been doing lately is working on DT's "Ytse Jam" still, I've just gotten up to Petrucci's solo, about 3 mins into the song. I've also been working on some Paul Gilbert excercises out of one of my issues of Guitar World.
I still haven't gotten my new computer yet and it's really frustrating me, but I think sometime in early June I will be getting it.
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 27 2008 at 15:00 |
HughesJB4 wrote:
Just found out something interesting. It seems we really shouldn't be playing more than 35 hours a week i.e 5 hours a day. Lately anatomists have found playing anymore is actually detrimental to your progress because your finger muscles/tendons etc don't have enough time to recover for the next day if you play too much more than 5 hours a day, so for me, it's 3-5 hours a day, and more time on the music theory.
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That sucks. I guess I'll have to be learning some music theory sooner or later as well, and it gives me more time to watch "Scrubs" or some DT dvds  .
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 04:41 |
Just found out something interesting. It seems we really shouldn't be playing more than 35 hours a week i.e 5 hours a day. Lately anatomists have found playing anymore is actually detrimental to your progress because your finger muscles/tendons etc don't have enough time to recover for the next day if you play too much more than 5 hours a day, so for me, it's 3-5 hours a day, and more time on the music theory.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 25 2008 at 02:27 |
DUDE! I was wondering where the hell you were!
When will you be getting a permanent internet connection? any idea?
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SpaceMonkey
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Posted: May 25 2008 at 02:12 |
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Wow HughesJB4, you definitely added a few thousand posts since I've last visited.
Edited by SpaceMonkey - May 25 2008 at 02:13
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SpaceMonkey
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Posted: May 25 2008 at 02:10 |
HughesJB4 wrote:
Hey Brandon, are you still in the shred war? |
Alright, I guess vacation is over. It's probably been a solid 2.5-3 months since I last visited the sight. This site was eating up all of my free time, and paycheck, so I took a break for a while.
As for logging in the hours on the ax it's been on and off. I'm leaving Okinawa pretty soon and wanted to get around as much as I could before I'm out of here. Plus I have a lot of friends I may never see again so I'm just trying to have a few more good times. I'll be back when I can get my own permanent internet connection.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 23 2008 at 23:47 |
You lucky dude, being able to see Prog Nation! I wish that sorta thing could have come to Melbourne 
I've never heard 3 yet, I'll check them out one day.
I confess I'm still listening to Colors from start to finish at least 3 times a week, a seriously good album, and man, how cool is the outro instrumental bit on Whitewalls? It's been about a week and a half and I still haven't figured out half the functionality on my V-amp2 yet . Today, I've barely got anything I need to do, one of those lazy Saturdays, so I'll see about getting at least 8 hours in today  |
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 23 2008 at 23:40 |
Just some progress:
I am currently working on my alternate picking, and solo techniques above everything. I am also about 2 minutes into DT's "Ytse Jam", it's probably DT's least difficult instrumental (maybe "Hell's Kitchen" is easier but I have no clue).
I also just saw Dream Theater (for the 2nd time), Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, and 3 last night on Progressive Nation 2008. It was an absolute shred fest, I loved it, I got to meet BTBAM's guitarist Paul, and after watching all of those unbelieveable players, it really is pushing me to work harder and become better and better.
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 23 2008 at 23:36 |
HughesJB4 wrote:
So got back to the actual school campus at around 11am I believe, and then we set up our music room so we could have space for anybody that wanted to come and watch us jam. We had about 40 or so people in there (bear in mind we are pretty much the 'odd' people at school, so the 'popular people' don't really like us lol), and we proceeded to do various chord progression jams, with me and my bass played billy trading solos and the like. SInce the only people that were in here were people that actually wanted to listen and watch, I let loose with the showmanship, playing the head, and even repeatedly tripping a girl over in the crowd . There was even a ridiculous mosh when we began to play a rendition of the Trooper by Iron Maiden, several peolple seemed to be getting hurt, which might be a good thing lol.
An awesome day, yeah  |
That's insane! I would love people moshing to me playing, that'd be sick .
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 19 2008 at 05:16 |
Just an update on recent playing. I've been playing up to 40 hours a week on some weeks in recent weeks, due to me not having to go to the school as much recently, and my sweep picking is still getting a little bit cleaner too.
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