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zepp_rules
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zepp_rules
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11/01/2002 2:18 pm
it was just for my english class. after 4 years of playing this was the first time i performed in front of anybody. i played the entire version of Metallica's One. i arranged the two guitar parts into one and played unaccompanied. i played decently though i thought i could play better. i made a few mistakes, but i think i'm the only who noticed or cared. but in the end the class was really impressed so i guess that's what matters.
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.

--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By