Jason Becker and Malmsteem--where?

[David_C]

Jason becker uses a lot of arpeggios and Malmsteem seems to be able to pull fast runs out of nowhere and still be on key--sometimes he isnt, but most of the time he is---where do they get the ideas for their arpeggios? anyone know what scale they use? how on earth are they able to keep on key while doing all thsee crazy runs up and down the neck---anyone know how malmsteem soloed and what key/scale he used?

[lalimacefolle]

well, they have worked out their licks slowly, and then, they have increased the speed. Malmsteem uses a lot of diminished and harmonic minor you can hear it there (it's me playing BTW)
http://lalimace.free.fr/mp3/harmonicminor.mp3

[educatedfilm]

hmmm.... very cool, what did you use for the techno backing?
I like that very much.. :)
I'm not kiss ass here or anything, but if you could put some sampled vocals on there (with some of the anoying vocoder nonsense), you could have your self a mainstream hit...

[Christoph]

Originally posted by lalimacefolle
http://lalimace.free.fr/mp3/harmonicminor.mp3


Whoa . . . I love the tone on your guitar. The opening fifteen seconds sound very cool . . . and the snycopation at 1:40 is tight. I don't know if the "mainstream" peeps would be able to dig this though. It's too Satriani-like, in fact it sounds a lot like his Engines of Creation disc.

[lalimacefolle]

Originally posted by educatedfilm
hmmm.... very cool, what did you use for the techno backing?
I like that very much.. :)
I'm not kiss ass here or anything, but if you could put some sampled vocals on there (with some of the anoying vocoder nonsense), you could have your self a mainstream hit...

Thanks guys!!! Wow, what a success!
I have used Acid 3.0 with some samples that I have in some 9 dollars a piece programs. My tone comes from the zoom 3030, it has an awesome setting, (the one you hear) and the greatest sounding whammy I've heard so far, and from my guitar too, made by french luthier LAG ( http://www.lag.fr )