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zepp_rules
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zepp_rules
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03/14/2001 2:08 am
you're totally right, it's about time someone said something like that. pop music does not even come close to rock music. i once listened to Stairway to Heaven for 10 hours straight, and i still am not tired of it, it's still my favorite. rock music is still and always is the greatest, i have yet to see any guitarist, drummer, or bassist that compares to anybody from the seventies or early eighties, and i don't i never will.
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.

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