Which style do you favor the most?

[Joseph]

How much has your style changed over the past few years, or perhaps months?

When I first started out on guitar I focused primarily on fingerstyle, classical pieces. I started out on the panio from a very young age, being that I was well in tune with theory and the notes, I wan'ted to feel very comfortable with the guitar from the very first stages. Gradually my style progressed into rock and blues, deep down inside I'm more of a songwriter than a technical virtuouso. But still, I love to rip out those killer shred solos every now and then.

Ive practiced all fields on the guitar, where I don;t believe I have left one stone unturned, but after playing various techniques over the past several years, I always tend to go back to the blues, naturally whenever I pick up my electric or acoustic, I tend to break out into a blues solo, its almost like I have this weird connection. When writing solos, I always tend to rely on the blues scales, we all love to play naturally with the tape recorder running, after the recording process is finished my solos always sound very bluesy.

Its not exactly a curse, I consider it as a gift, :).

-Joseph

[James Hetfield Is Jesus]

Heavy palm mutted and fast as physicly possible

[Kirk Hammett is God]

When I started out, I just wanted to play the fastest and heaviest ****in' music out there.








Not much has changed.









Actually, now I like to create good harmonized riffs kinda like classical stuff and I find it quite fun.



While still making it fast and heavy, though.

[Wide]

I've been playing classical guitar for 7 years....but now I go for that chicken pickin' pluckin country stuff!


yeeehaaaw!!!!!!

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Wide
I've been playing classical guitar for 7 years....but now I go for that chicken pickin' pluckin country stuff!


yeeehaaaw!!!!!!



You know there are certain guitar techniques that we swear we would never experiment with, I'm not really a huge country western fan, but its great to plays these licks on guitar. Its funny how we can easily gain a much better perspective for the many different varieties of music once we try them for ourselves. I love rock music just like the next guy, but theres nothing wrong with altering your style every now and then, it makes things more interesting, and practice sessions tend to proceed with more ease...

-Joseph

[Elmo45]

I'm still having to much fun with the Bluesy stuff.
My friends I occasionally jam with can appreciate those flatted 5th stabs!

[Mai Zure]

Shred up and down the neck until my fingers break, or the strings do....both of which happen at some point....

[Bardsley]

I like counntry licks, because I use them to joke. There is nothing quite like the comic element of shoving a few classic country cliches (the CCC, only slightly less scary than the KKK) into a rock solo. He he he. Het that got me thinking. Krusty the Kloown has twice appeared on shows in the SImpsons that are KKK, the Krusty Kinda Kristmas, and the Krusty Komedy Klassics. He he he, a jewish clown celebrating the birth of Christ with a KKK title is really very funny. And the time when he leaps out on stage on the Krusty Komedy Klassic and sees the three white Ks in the background. "KKK? That's not good...." And then everybody boos and throws things at him.
AAAAH ha ha ha. Maybe you don'y understand, I am laughing so hard it is hard to type. Aaah the SImpsons, truly a Krazily Klassic Kartoon.

[Wide]

hehe... I've also noticed that many people see country music as a joke... When I played "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" on the banjo in front of everybody in my school, almost everybody laughed....they thought I wasn't serious...well, I wastn't...

[fendermonkey77]

I play lead guitar in a country band....chickin' pickin' cluckin....and so on....and even I don't take it seriously sometimes! It's just a funny way of approaching soloing.