How good are you ???

athlon · #1 09-23-2002, 04:33 AM

guys

how good are you ?? how long have you been playing ?? is there any technique that you have mastered ?? whats your fave and best lick that you can play ??

regards

kirk · #2 09-23-2002, 05:10 AM

I'm horrible. I only hang out here because guitarists are cool and chicks dig them. I think I am what they referred to in the eighties as a "poseur."

Mr Orange · #3 09-23-2002, 06:57 AM

I'm a bad mutha'. I don't play licks.

Rabin · #4 09-23-2002, 08:04 AM

Good enough to impress a non guitar player and bad enough to make a real good guitar player laugh his ass off!

jem7vwh · #5 09-23-2002, 10:03 AM

I'm no good. I try though

AlexBHome · #6 09-23-2002, 10:25 AM

I'm 'ok'. I've got a number of songs I can play decently... more than words, solisbury hill, 316, crash, so much to say, run around, heartbreak hotel, closer to fine, dust in the wind, and maybe a couple others, and am just starting that long winding road of learning the fretboard. I can basically play major / minor scales in first position but I want to be able to journey beyond the 6th string for improv work, so I'm dling all the website info I can and just learning the notes as well as doing a few vai rhythm exercises each day. Painful but worth it!!

-Alex

MidnightFlamed · #7 09-23-2002, 01:52 PM

There are always plenty worse and plenty better, no matter how good you are.

Willin · #8 09-23-2002, 10:34 PM

AlexB - here's a little tip that can help for learning the notes on the fretboard which I am doing right now as well. Of course in open position the strings are EADGBe, at the twelfth fret it is an octave and once again the notes from strings 6 to 1 are EADGBe. At the Seventh fret the notes spell out "BEAD" then F# then B again. So at the seventh fret from the 6th to 1st string it is BEADF#b. This makes it a bit easier to memorize and locate where notes are.

Also, where did you find Vai Rhythym exercizes? I would like to try them out...

Willin · #9 09-23-2002, 10:35 PM

AlexB - here's a little tip that can help for learning the notes on the fretboard which I am doing right now as well. Of course in open position the strings are EADGBe, at the twelfth fret it is an octave and once again the notes from strings 6 to 1 are EADGBe. At the Seventh fret the notes spell out "BEAD" then F# then B again. So at the seventh fret from the 6th to 1st string it is BEADF#b. This makes it a bit easier to memorize and locate where notes are.

Also, where did you find Vai Rhythym exercizes? I would like to try them out...

AlexBHome · #10 09-23-2002, 10:42 PM

Thanks for the tip Willin! I'll give it a shot...

I found the exercises (so to speak) on Vai.com in his little black dots section... ' here: http://www.vai.com/LittleBlackDots/8...strumming.html

and a few bits and pieces from the Martian Love Secrets section... essentially all I'm doing really is starting the metronome at 120bpm, then alternate picking a single string, then going as high as I can as cleanly as I can, when I start to screw up around 200bpm or so I stop, then go back to 120bpm, and alternate pick between two strings, doing the same thing. It takes quite a while and its BORING AS HELL but if you can get through it, just like Steve says, "you'll be flailing in no time", no time being around 6 months