Me improvising over Voodoo Acid by Steve Vai

[Rei_Arthur_Pendragon]

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]

That was phat!
I loved it

[Rei_Arthur_Pendragon]

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

[RhythMan]

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]

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

[slash89]

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

[sweeps]

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

[wholetone]

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

[j1mi_h3ndrix]

i like the fast parts

[Rei_Arthur_Pendragon]

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).