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no one will want to spend half a rehearsal explaining to you why that cool lick doesn't sound well with the chord or stuff like that. Why on earth would you need theory for that stuff? You hear it and that`s it! On the other hand if somebody really can`t hear it they should sell their guitar and fi...

Theory is of big importance because of the following points: -Comunication: You won't want to play guitar to simple backing tracks all your life, and if you're joining a band, not knowing theory is a big no-no, no one will want to spend half a rehearsal explaining to you why that cool lick doesn't s...

recommendations are welcome! acrid placidity, sublevels, vanished (from the Destroy Erase Improve album) Stengah, Straws Pulled at Random (from the Nothing Album) In Death-Is Death, Sum (from catch thirty thr33) also try to get a song called Unanything, it's form the japanese version of Chaosphere ...

my favorite song is probably sublevels or rational gaze, but i love them all, Meshuggah is my favorite band! check out Sol Niger Within, Fredrik Thordendal's solo album. it's like meshuggah taken to the next level, it also contains my favorite guitar song(and favorite song overall) Zeta-1 Reticuli. ...

top 10 guitarist list are always a goddamned cliché they always put hendrix at #1, not that hendrix wasn't THE pioneer and he was great and all, but i think there are MANY guitarist that regardless of it being thanks to him or not, have suprassed his skills, musicianship and overall good-guitarist-n...

compose a lot. i think trying new things while composing has helped me a lot to understand theory even when i wasn't even reading into it, it was until later til I read about and learned the names of the stuff i was doing

there are 7 notes, you can arrange them in countless ways, using 3, 4, 5, or even 6 note chords...

I learned(and still have a lot to learn) by fiddling around improvising with my guitar for undefined periods of time(3 minutes to 5 hours). play anything except excercises you already know or things you have learned, do in-the-spot kind of things, either over backing tracks or "a-capella" style...i'...

Die2Live wrote:"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the accordion, but chooses not to"

i vote crap

but Wing is worse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ZdTnJ9X9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovEASuIqVbY

shredlord wrote:1-b2-4-5-b7. Pick the string near the bridge on clean channel to get a very koto-ish feeling.

check out 1-b2-4-5-b6
i think it's called the "japanese scale" (at least that's the name they give it in guitar pro hehe)..other sources give me the name "sakura pentatonic"

And I just reply that their imagination is limited and I use Frank and Steve as examples, proof that rock guitar can be a starting point in one's musical development and grow into anything. Music is infinite. :peace true, but we were talking about standard rock, like ac/dc or something. and of cour...

true, but we were talking about standard rock, like ac/dc or something. and of course, zappa and vai are far beyond "standard"

FRETPICK wrote:Down a local, breaking a string is like a crime. The looks you get. I think it's funny but some none players have no idea with a floyd why it's so hard to carry on. I've died a death. & been given a pink strat to carry on with.
Now that's the blues.lol

LOL

I'm just adding that standart rock also does use (less often though) other church modes, like mixolydian and dorian(from wich minor pentatonic and major pentatonic are also derived) the other modes are used very rarely. and of course some progressive rock bands/musicians use almost as many(or about ...