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A 70's big head stock Strat, Natural swamp ash body, black pick guard, maple neck, Steinberger S Trem with Steinberger double ball string head piece, SD Custom Custom Humbucker in the bridge, middle pickup screwed down to the pickguard and the wiring disconnected. SD hotrail in the neck position wi...

I quite liked her stuff at first then i saw her as a guest on jonathan ross's chat show and she came across as a complete spoilt brat.... :roll: She was then a guest on the tv pop quiz 'never mind the buzzcocks' where she again came across as an arrogant bitch (frankly) So ever since then i've been ...

Heres mine..

Ibanez jem
Gibson SG
Fender strat
a classical one
an acoustic of some sort



Owned at the moment

EBMM axis
Ibanez RG2550
Carvin dc

had in the past...

ibanez s470
kramer focus 2000
Maverick F1
westone thunder 1 !

Found this cool guitar site with loads of interesting stuff....check out the steve vai audio file...

http://www.mikesguitarsite.co.uk/audio_ ... e%20Vai#SV


enjoy !

Tuning up on a Floyd Rose equipped guitar is not that easy. I thought EVH's guitars all had non-floating dive-only trems. One of the "things" he has on all his guitars and signature models. A dive-only trem tunes as quickly as a fixed bridge... . How was eddie supposed to loosen the locking nut the...

Whatever you do dont get the 'Steve Vai - Master Session' dvd by Wolf Marshall !

Its a pretty bad quality VHS conversion to DVD and Wolf cant really execute most of the licks IMHO !

GuitarBizarre wrote:I HATE having the action too low on a guitar. it makes harmonics harder to hit, reduces sustain, causes buzz etc.

I like my happy mediums on action. The lower side of 'normal'.

I completely agree...i like the strings to 'breathe'

believe it or not i didnt enjoy eddies solo. His trademark tremelo picking felt weak and his tapping wasn't as clear as previous times ive heard him. But hes been through it all and i cant say he blew the show I dont understand why Eddie still feels obliged to play the same solo hes been playing fo...

I've only seen Zack on youtube and i think hes an absolute breath of fresh air...I would probably go and see him live before Steve !

I play it every day without fail. Have done for years. Some times it really works & others are a oopps. String skip section's the killer. Not the arps. which part contains the string skipping ? O.k I ment the hugh leaps around the high E & B...where your going up & down,followed by the diminshed ru...

FRETPICK wrote:I play it every day without fail. Have done for years. Some times it really works & others are a oopps. String skip section's the killer. Not the arps.

which part contains the string skipping ?

Hmmm i've just realised something else too...

I'm playing using a set of 9's...10's or 11's are gonna be very slightly tighter which will help the picking with this i think and i need all the help i can get no matter how small !

I'm begining to HATE eugenes trick bag

no matter how much i practice the really fast part i just cant get it sounding like vai
Musically its a dead end too i mean its just a really fast piece and doesnt really relate to my style of playing yet i really want to master the damn beast lol

BobDaNob wrote: An added benefit is that after trying to grapple with the 16th at anything even slightly resembling full speed, Steve's piece will appear SOOO much easier and you'll seem to breeze through it.

Lets hear it Bob !!

Hey Mike i went with the configuration you sent me after all !!

Heres my latest effort..still not quite got it 'down' but not to bad..

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3789438f3ceee8/