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hairballxavier
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Joined: Jan 16, 2005
Topics: 6 / Replies: 87
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RE: What paintjobs look cool?

If you spin the fetus around fast enoughh while playing the neck gets warped back and forth. Gives it a fetus vibrato sound, similar to a Leslie cab.

19 years ago
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RE: From Improv. to Solo

A great improv is just that, It's happens in one exclusive chunk of time and place. That's what rock 'n' roll is all about. It's alive. It's not some...

19 years ago
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RE: What paintjobs look cool?

Paint it flat black, carve your initials in it with a circular saw and hang a dead fetus from the headstock.

19 years ago
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RE: Alternate Picking

It restricts you if you keep your wrist stiff, especially your muting technique. It's good to have a range of motion in your wrist, just don't twist i...

19 years ago
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RE: Alternate Picking

Sounds like you may be twisting your wrist a little bit. Keep your palm facing the guitar, don't turn it upwards on those upstrokes if that's what you...

19 years ago
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RE: Why play a chord this way, when it can be played easier?

Notice that "x" that he keeps hitting on the 5th string and the slide.

19 years ago
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RE: Fancy Picks

Lately I've given up on trying to keep track of little coin sized pieces of plastic. So I just use my fingers most of the time, however if I do need a...

19 years ago
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RE: week 23 song - breeze

This is a cool song. It gets that feeling of detachment across. I actually found myself singing and playing this.

19 years ago
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RE: A question about scales...

I'm sure I'm missing something here but I'm not sure what??? Besides the fact that you can't play any notes that are higher or lower than your positi...

19 years ago
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RE: Lungs of Life week 23

I like this one. Don't know exactly what it's saying, but it has a certain spiritual quality to it that grabs me.

19 years ago
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RE: Rant on the closed minded

I tend to mess with alternate tunings when I fell stuck in a rut creatively. New tunings give you new ideas and freshens things up a bit. Or sometimes...

19 years ago
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RE: intonation problem?

Relax your arms and fingers a bit, you are probably pullng everything sharp by pushing too hard on the frets or bending the neck. That's just a guess...

19 years ago
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RE: Finding YOUR Voice

Eventually, you may find yourself INVENTING these details because your creative mind begins to feel freer to do so. My writing has developed to a poin...

19 years ago
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RE: Y3week23 Tempest in a teapot/Aspen beast

I didn't quite get the second one.But the first one I can relate to. We just have to deal with the bad qualities of a person we want to be with. Accep...

19 years ago
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RE: Air is Alive

I kind of lost track of the wind imagery. First I came up with the idea of comparing musicians to tornadoes and the crowd to tempests. I started think...

19 years ago
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