Me improvising over Voodoo Acid by Steve Vai

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Rei_Arthur_Pendragon · #1 Post by **Rei_Arthur_Pendragon** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:56 am

Just got a BT from a guitar teacher and friend and tried to get my own melody for it.
Hope you like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMiNO1u4-I

user112 · #2 Post by **user112** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:06 am

That was phat!
I loved it

Rei_Arthur_Pendragon · #3 Post by **Rei_Arthur_Pendragon** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:00 am

hehehe thanks! glad that someone liked it... it's a cool song to improvise.

RhythMan · #4 Post by **RhythMan** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:11 am

Very nice man, good techinque and good chops....could i sense a lydian scale going on? I could just hear a maj7(#11) chord working over that.

Rei_Arthur_Pendragon · #5 Post by **Rei_Arthur_Pendragon** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:41 am

Its basically G# phrygian... i added G#m, 9th arpeggios and the pentatonics to give some flavor.

slash89 · #6 Post by **slash89** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:15 pm

It was good. I liked the arpeggios. Not very Vai-ish, but still good dude!

sweeps · #7 Post by **sweeps** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:43 pm

hmmmm i thought it was ok dude... id defately get some other vibratos happinin but then again i judge harshly so good job....

wholetone · #8 Post by **wholetone** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:17 pm

Nice stuff man...
what is your warm up like? how long do you practice before you plunge into the outer world?

j1mi_h3ndrix · #9 Post by **j1mi_h3ndrix** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:36 pm

i like the fast parts

Rei_Arthur_Pendragon · #10 Post by **Rei_Arthur_Pendragon** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:21 am

wholetone
It depends... I usually start some picking patterns slowly... starting with downstrokes then upstrokes with the same thing... then ill do some left hand legatos... etc or basically ill play parts of songs i like slowly till i feel my hands loose... like 20 min.. then ill take some time off for coffee and back to play. If im not ok ill do more time... cause sometimes i just dont have time to play the guitar... sometimes for days and when i get back to it my hands are just not moving right heheh. Its a good thing to stretch you arms and hand muscles(like J Petrucci does in his video lesson).