1, 2, 3, 4. I declare a shredding war!

^10 minutes Naughty! I had another blood test today and when the needle came out of my arm, I got a striking pain, so I have to go easy on alternate picking again today Might be heading over to Billy's house again, jam with him and then we have our Bass/Guitar war thing where we do a certain lick on our instrument and the other does something else really cool, but it's a bit hard to judge who wins though.

hmm.. let me check my schedule.
ahh!! It apears I have a 6 hour slot free!!! What luck!!!

Im currently learning Bach's Cminor prelude, brilliant for getting alternate picking dexterity up. Hopefully by the end of the month, I will have doubled my speed. (not likely, lol)

To he who started this thread. You have inspired me! Let the shred-fest commence!

sbooth wrote: hmm.. let me check my schedule. ahh!! It apears I have a 6 hour slot free!!! What luck!!! Im currently learning Bach's Cminor prelude, brilliant for getting alternate picking dexterity up. Hopefully by the end of the month, I will have doubled my speed. (not likely, lol) To he who started this thread. You have inspired me! Let the shred-fest commence!

HughesJB4 wrote: SpaceMonkey wrote: Anyone know of any good materials out there, instructionals/books/artists/whatever, I could get a hold of to work more on the sweeps. I could never perfect the technique.   Perfection of the technique only comes with practice. I know the feeling, sweeping is one hard bugger to master, I would say it's my least natural technique, compared to my fairly advanced legato and alternate picking. Start on 3 string sweep patterns, is the best way to do it IMO, with the basic Major and Minor shape sweep patterns   E-------------12- 8 ---------8h 12------------- B--------------------10 -10--------- G-----------------------9---------- Use an up stroke on the 12th fret, down stroke on the 8th, still using down on the 10th fret of  the B string, but switch to an upstroke on the 9th fret of the G string, to make things economical, and use a hammer on with the pinky from the 8th fret to the 12th fret. This is the typical A minor 3 string arpeggio shape (you might already know that, but I figured I would put it here if it happens you don't or if the other shred wars dudes on here could use it)   Oh might I add, do it in 16th note triplets (6 notes per click), starting at a slow comfortable tempo of say, 60bpm, that's how I got my 3 string sweeps up to speed while still being clean and accurate.

MisterProg2112 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: SpaceMonkey wrote: Anyone know of any good materials out there, instructionals/books/artists/whatever, I could get a hold of to work more on the sweeps. I could never perfect the technique.   Perfection of the technique only comes with practice. I know the feeling, sweeping is one hard bugger to master, I would say it's my least natural technique, compared to my fairly advanced legato and alternate picking. Start on 3 string sweep patterns, is the best way to do it IMO, with the basic Major and Minor shape sweep patterns   E-------------12- 8 ---------8h 12------------- B--------------------10 -10--------- G-----------------------9---------- Use an up stroke on the 12th fret, down stroke on the 8th, still using down on the 10th fret of  the B string, but switch to an upstroke on the 9th fret of the G string, to make things economical, and use a hammer on with the pinky from the 8th fret to the 12th fret. This is the typical A minor 3 string arpeggio shape (you might already know that, but I figured I would put it here if it happens you don't or if the other shred wars dudes on here could use it)   Oh might I add, do it in 16th note triplets (6 notes per click), starting at a slow comfortable tempo of say, 60bpm, that's how I got my 3 string sweeps up to speed while still being clean and accurate.                               This actually helps me a lot to, thanks!   No Problems     Better day than yesterday....I learned Porcupine Tree's "Wedding Nails" which took me all of about 10 minutes . I'll be concentration a lot more on Vai's 10 hour workout this weekend.

MisterProg2112 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: sbooth wrote: hmm.. let me check my schedule. ahh!! It apears I have a 6 hour slot free!!! What luck!!! Im currently learning Bach's Cminor prelude, brilliant for getting alternate picking dexterity up. Hopefully by the end of the month, I will have doubled my speed. (not likely, lol) To he who started this thread. You have inspired me! Let the shred-fest commence!   It's not against the rules to join the shred challenge a week after it began? I didn't make the rules though, but in good spirits, I guess it's ok as long as your truly up for the challenge Never actually seen you around the forum before, how are you dude?   I think the rules should be if you join a week in, you have to continue a week after the month, to complete a full month that is

That would do more than well, we're not nazis here. If you wish to join, welcome then :) and remember, it's
 all for you, what you decide to do in the end.

^Serrana is an awesome piece But I only have 22 frets! I just remembered the song Eugene's Trick Bag, by Steve Vai, from that movie Crossroads (no, not the Brittney Spears movie, but the one from the 80s that had that dude from the Karate kid movies in it)

HughesJB4 wrote: MisterProg2112 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: SpaceMonkey wrote: Anyone know of any good materials out there, instructionals/books/artists/whatever, I could get a hold of to work more on the sweeps. I could never perfect the technique.   Perfection of the technique only comes with practice. I know the feeling, sweeping is one hard bugger to master, I would say it's my least natural technique, compared to my fairly advanced legato and alternate picking. Start on 3 string sweep patterns, is the best way to do it IMO, with the basic Major and Minor shape sweep patterns   E-------------12- 8 ---------8h 12------------- B--------------------10 -10--------- G-----------------------9---------- Use an up stroke on the 12th fret, down stroke on the 8th, still using down on the 10th fret of  the B string, but switch to an upstroke on the 9th fret of the G string, to make things economical, and use a hammer on with the pinky from the 8th fret to the 12th fret. This is the typical A minor 3 string arpeggio shape (you might already know that, but I figured I would put it here if it happens you don't or if the other shred wars dudes on here could use it)   Oh might I add, do it in 16th note triplets (6 notes per click), starting at a slow comfortable tempo of say, 60bpm, that's how I got my 3 string sweeps up to speed while still being clean and accurate.                               This actually helps me a lot to, thanks!   No Problems     Better day than yesterday....I learned Porcupine Tree's "Wedding Nails" which took me all of about 10 minutes . I'll be concentration a lot more on Vai's 10 hour workout this weekend.   Go for the 30 hour workout! 10 hours spread out over each day Ever seen it, it was in a Guitar World Magazine issue from about 3-4 months ago.

MisterProg2112 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: MisterProg2112 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: SpaceMonkey wrote: Anyone know of any good materials out there, instructionals/books/artists/whatever, I could get a hold of to work more on the sweeps. I could never perfect the technique.   Perfection of the technique only comes with practice. I know the feeling, sweeping is one hard bugger to master, I would say it's my least natural technique, compared to my fairly advanced legato and alternate picking. Start on 3 string sweep patterns, is the best way to do it IMO, with the basic Major and Minor shape sweep patterns   E-------------12- 8 ---------8h 12------------- B--------------------10 -10--------- G-----------------------9---------- Use an up stroke on the 12th fret, down stroke on the 8th, still using down on the 10th fret of  the B string, but switch to an upstroke on the 9th fret of the G string, to make things economical, and use a hammer on with the pinky from the 8th fret to the 12th fret. This is the typical A minor 3 string arpeggio shape (you might already know that, but I figured I would put it here if it happens you don't or if the other shred wars dudes on here could use it)   Oh might I add, do it in 16th note triplets (6 notes per click), starting at a slow comfortable tempo of say, 60bpm, that's how I got my 3 string sweeps up to speed while still being clean and accurate.                               This actually helps me a lot to, thanks!   No Problems     Better day than yesterday....I learned Porcupine Tree's "Wedding Nails" which took me all of about 10 minutes . I'll be concentration a lot more on Vai's 10 hour workout this weekend.   Go for the 30 hour workout! 10 hours spread out over each day Ever seen it, it was in a Guitar World Magazine issue from about 3-4 months ago.   Yeah I've got it, that's what I'll be working with....you are talking about the issue with satch and vai on the cover right? Where Satch is talking about the re-issue of Surfing with the Alien and vai's is talking about his signature?

After my shower (I prefer to play my guitar after a shower and importantly with washed hands too, sounds kinda OCD, I know) I'll get right on to it. A bit steamy down in Melbourne today, so I've got the air conditioner on to prevent me from sweating too much and rusting out my strings. Going through my iTunes list, I'll play Mr Crowley-Ozzy Osbourne, which I've totally masted the second solo, but no the first one, Lucretia-Megadeth, the first guitar solo which has some damn hard phrasing and vibrato in there, Pull Me Under-Dream Theater, the guitar solo from just after 6 minutes, trying to pin down the alternate picked part, the legato parts were almost too easy, legato being the most natural technique to me.