read this man-

Pepsi tastes better, but if I drink it in quantity I get sick of it very quickly.

Coke tastes... well, like Coke but for some reason NEVER gets old. Just don't let it warm up.

I personally try and drink as much water as humanly possible.

coke is like...old people diet mountain dew

sunkist orange !! or mountain dew.
Hey inc. sounds like your on the right path. The key is to be open to everything and play as much as possible. Does your school have a jazz band? If so ask to join, you'll learn a lot and maybe meet some new people. School is a good place to learn the skills to make it in the real world, play in the pit for the musicals or talent show, whatever there is take advantage of it. Good luck.

yeah. well im in 8th grade. in 9th grade there is a jazz band i will be in.

What a freaky thread this turned out to be, rage, advice, jamming, murder, body disposal, soft drink reveiw, I swear I heard all this on an old Suicidal Tendencies song once

pffffftt... You can keep your Coke/ pepsi/ sunkist!
The best drink of all is MILK AND ALMOND SYRUP (the sweet almond syrup, not the bitter stuff they use for cooking) !! The milk has to be quite cold though...

Hey educatedfilm i heard about Milk and something else being a really good remedy for hangovers. Not to sure, but i agree with this thread it is a weird one but i must say it keeps people interested in the forums ahahah
I'll tell ya a good HOT drink, four teaspoons of Milo and two teaspoons of sugar pour 3/4 hot water then chuck in 2 scoops of ice cream....scrumcious LOL i'm cracking myself up here..oi but it taste fantastic.


[Edited by SoS on 02-04-2002 at 04:58 AM]

ok, back on track here-

im startin wo whoop some ass at certain parts of the A major scale. im not completely proficient in it yet, but i could jam with somebody in the key of A with me improvising, probably for a half an hour at least before me running out of an idea. maybe longer.probably longer, because i can always repeat things in a different kind of way, change stuff up, etc.

i guess you could say im gettin really alot better than i used to be at scales. i used to always worry about my pinky finger, try to make it get some of the notes on there, but that was slowing me down. now that i didnt worry about that, i got alot better. pinky was holding me back. in a year or so i will probably have my pinky dex up a bit, then i can use the pinky more...but its fine now, i think.

i rented two grateful dead movies, and jerry cheats his pinky over, i've seen times when he should have used his pinky but used a different finger instead...which makes me alot happier.

my right hand is amazing, some how the alternate picking seems to me, that i can go as fast as i possibly can, and my right hand is still hungry for more...usually the right hand and left hand are out of sync for a while, but since i take lessons that wasnt a long period of time.

now here's what i am wondering - now that i can 'play' the A major scale decently, should i just go to a G major now, or just keep workin the A major?

It's just A two frets lower.

Once you get a feel for moving things around everything you learn applies everywhere else.

didnt read all the post just the first few but
inci be careful man i had a friend who went nuts i mean REAL nuts.
his parents bought him a guitar when he was about your age and he became obssesive bout it...
he practice about 11 h. a day and sometimes more (!!!)
his parents went abroad for two months when they got back they found him lying half dead on his bed fingers bleeding playing the guitar (it had very lil paint)... that two months he didn't go to school, (almost) didn't sleep, (almost) didn't eat...
they sent him to a hospital (you can guess what kind of a hospital) and now he is not allowed near anything that can make music...

no see, i HAVE to eat. so that wont be like me:)

why do i sound so jazzy when i improvise? i mean jazz is okay but i sound waaaay too jazzy. im not even really a fan of jazz that much, its better than alot of music, but i dont listen to too much jazz...

also, although i can fill some space and sound on that A-Major, i believe there is something i am missing. Im playing completely by what notes in the scale sound good with others, and i can do fills not that bad, but solo-ing , like an all out solo, still kind of stumps me. probably because im playing an acoustic, right? i dont know... on friday i'll probably ask my guitar teacher.
is there anything that can help that, or should i just keep goin at it and i'll get it after a little bit?

You'll figure it all out in time.

Improvisation is an aquired ability.

so the more i practice it the better i'll get at improvising, rriiiight?


god i hope so, you'll see me playin 5 or 6 hours every day just improvising then :)

5 or 6 hours improvising ??? That certainly can be fun and help develop your instincts for improv, but you need a foundation of musical / technical knowledge to apply to your improvising. Since you're still a "beginner" (don't take that the wrong way - LOL ), I'd strongly suggest that you practice scales, chords, rhythyms, melodies, SONGS, a lot more than just improvising. When you have that foundation built, you'll understand how to use your knowledge / technique and your improvising should improve greatly.

Originally posted by John O'Carroll
5 or 6 hours improvising ??? That certainly can be fun and help develop your instincts for improv, but you need a foundation of musical / technical knowledge to apply to your improvising. Since you're still a "beginner" (don't take that the wrong way - LOL ), I'd strongly suggest that you practice scales, chords, rhythyms, melodies, SONGS, a lot more than just improvising. When you have that foundation built, you'll understand how to use your knowledge / technique and your improvising should improve greatly.

well, i do. i just mentioned the improvising because whenever it feels right to improvise, i do it. the past few days i took an improvising break you could say,and learned a few more songs. it is kind of crazy to improvise every day, that long, just hitting notes ya know...
my fingers are almost black, full of callouses, none of my other friends fingers are that play...

the thing about it is, i am familiar with the A major scale all through the neck now, and have tried numorous combinations, but the "Zazz" that i mentioned earlier still isnt here. what i mean by "Zazz" is that stuff that pro musicians have 'in them' while they play that adds some colour to their style...style...thats it, i think i need to develop a style. probably towards jerry garcia's style...any body help me out with a way to develop that? there arent many fully tabbed dead songs on thenet

That's the stuff you'll figure out. Anybody can play random notes on a scale and not sound bad. But what you learn is what to do when and how it relates to what you want to say. These are things that you'll only figure out over time, and if you're remotely like me they'll just come to you out of nowhere. "Ooooo... I can do this can't it?!?!!" And low and behold you now have added unison bends or string rakes to your pallete.

I don't think it's so much practice as a familiarity thing. You'll do things without thinking yet have have a better sense of how it will fit the song as a whole.

Practice will give you to technical skills to do the things you want, but the learning aspect of this happens to you.

well rask i know for a fact you are certainly right, but i dont practice just because i want to get better. i practice because it is a drug. seriously, im hooked. its like a journey, and the more you are prepared for the ride the better off you are. thats how i figure it. i had a pretty cool breakthrough tonight, when observing the ascending scales and descending scales i've been working on in A. they move all around, its really neat to see. i am still technically a "rookie" to the level you all probably are at, but i can move on the guitar pretty fast ( not bragging...) and i think if i keep it up i'll be a pretty phat guitar player in my area. Rhythmically, all i have come up with so far is Jazz stuff, but im okay with that i guess, i know some stuff about jazz so its not completely wasted.

My appreciation for Jazz snuck up on me when I wasn't paying attention one day. I got my hands on a Charlie Hunter Trio CD (since Charlie Hunter was on Les Claypool's solo album), and it rocked. My Jazz collection is pretty much limited to him and Jaco Pastorius so far, but the genre is growing on me more and more.

If you're looking for ways to diversify your rythmic work, here's something that has worked for me: Think about what you're doing, then think about a way to do something totally different. I'd make up little riffs or progressions that I couldn't quite play then practice them until they were in the bag. Two Bocce Wagon songs (The Northfield Special and Moose Hunt) came about from doing just that.

As for my guitar playing, you may allready be more proficent than me; I only really do technical things on bass.

maybe, or getting close...i seriously got to thank whoever recommended GUITAR PRO 3.0 because it is SOOOO GREAT! i finally understand in my mind what my fingers are doing on the frets! like REALLY understand, not just partially.