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Watermelon in Easter Hay by Zappa has some great, classic lydian sounds in it. The #4 on the opening chord is the most prominant, leading note of the melody. If you're thinking of it as a modal tune, it's moving I(#4) to V. Because of the forceful presentation of the #4, it has a modal sound to me. ...

Find a song you like in each key, and play it, while saying the note name aloud.

Play scales, and then arpeggios, in difficult keys, saying the note names aloud.

I agree; I find myself thinking back to this song and Call it Sleep very often. Steve's playing sounds raw, naked, and fresh.

If you enjoy this sort of open improvisatory guitar style, I recommend Shawn Lane records such as Temporal Analogues of Paradise, Time is the Enemy, or Personae.

Root- Flat Fifth (Rush's YYZ or Hendrix Purple Haze) Root- Sharpened Fifth (Love Story) Root- Sixth (Tony MacAlpine's Sacred Wonder) Root- Minor Seventh (just has that funky sound) Root- Major Seventh (just has a distinct sound) Keep playing them a lot over different chords with different functional...

is your teacher perhaps named JOEY DAHLIA?

should be interesting to hear with the real allan in there, rather than tmac doing his best AH impersonation... :? seriously, i admire tmac tremendously, and he his keyboard solo was probably my favorite moment on the latest vai tour, but in his more recent fusion stuff, he sounds like an AH clone t...

malcom young, steve clark, james hetfield, eddie van halen,

honorable mention goes to steve stevens, "the edge", and whoever plays for the romantics

learning the patterns isn't too hard; learning the notes is probably harder. do both, and play all the arpeggios in there too.

you're from sweden, so you should be fine.

huge multitracked A Major chord; ultra high notes achieved with slide and/or pitch shifting, probably.

1. evh
2. pat metheny
3. alan holdsworth
4. george benson
5. john abercrombie
6. radiohead guy
7. angus/malcom young
8. sv
9. js
10. pg

honorable mention goes to: george lynch, tony mac, pat martino, yngwie, jeff beck, james hetfield, strunz & farrah, robert johnson.

kirk hammett is teh fastest evar i sware

My least favorite is probably Chris Impelleterri, but I think he's off the radar nowadays. PS: To those of you saying you hate Clapton, Angus Young, Hendrix, etc., I will say that your taste will probably change after you have been playing for several years. I used to dislike many of those players a...

wow, cool, thanks.

There's no easy way to understand and play in all keys. The process of learning how to play in all keys on your instrument is a lifelong process. The best you can hope for is to enjoy that process. Here are some steps to help you get started: 1. learn some scale notes up and down one string at a tim...