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

HughesJB4 wrote: As for what theory I know, I'm completely self taught, and have never done any formal theory lessons anywhere, what I know has come from reading books really and figuring out some aspects myself. I can only really use Tab, reading proper notation takes way too long for me. I'm very very well versed in theory with modes, and chord progressions, and I know some classical music concepts as well. As for skill, I can imagine you're about equal to me, but then again, I've never actually tried to play Cliffs Of Dover from the start to end, but I might give that a go later this year. I'm working on a Buckethead song right now, and I've just about nearly nailed the main guitar solo from Pull Me Under. I've got a performance for school next friday, but  have run into some complications, due to our rhythm guitarist completely dropping out of school, so we have a whole week to teach our replacement dude the stuff, not sure how well that will go, but I'm hopeful at least

That's quite alright

I'm looking forward to the 2nd half . Sounds like it went pretty good so far, besides the amplifier situation that is...it seems like you did what you had to do to get a good sound anyway.

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.

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

You lucky dude, being able to see Prog Nation! I wish that sorta thing could have come to Melbourne

Wow HughesJB4, you definitely added a few thousand posts since I've last visited.

Edited by SpaceMonkey - May 25 2008 at 02:13

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.

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.

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.