Music With Marky

Anyone have or played one? Whatcha think?

Awesome! I'll be there!

How is it? I haven't made that one yet, but am thinking of going this year.

Ahhh to be so famous. =]

They aren't supposed to sell individuals gear, but here and there they do anyway I think. I'll remember about that for the last day, though. Good tip!

Is anyone from here going to the NAMM show in Anaheim this month? It would be neat to meet up with some people if so.

You too brotha!

Keep at it, brother. Them callouses will soon be using the force. =]

Great truth on playing with a looper there!

You have your hands full of fun stuff! Enjoy.

I try to work on a set of licks or lick styles every month and get them up to whatever tempo I plan using them at in songs or improvs. I thought it might be fun to see what everyone else is doing too. http://musicwithmarky.com/files/lickworksheet12-19.png

Good 90s vibe there. Enjoyable.

This was all done in Guitar Pro 7. I use it quite a bit to transcribe other songs, write my own practice stuff and even hear what something is going to sound like at a certain speed, so I don't waste time learning it if it's awful sounding.

When I picked up a guitar 33 years ago, I had no idea where it was leading. I quickly became obsessed with learning everything I could. Within a year, I had the grand visions of tour buses and throngs of adoring fans. About 12 years later, after a failed record deal and one kick in the owie after another, I put music aside and "grew up." What I discovered shortly after was that, the love I had for music that first year was the real thing. The dreams of fame and gigs and all that was just window dressing. I enjoyed it the most when I was playing just for my own entertainment. And so I have spent every moment since enjoying the heck out of it and writing music so I have it to play in my car. I do, of course share that with others and make self released stuff (as well as do the You Tube thing now), but the dynamic is completely different when it's first for yourself and then if people like it, that's fine too. So all that is a very long (and self absorbed) way of saying that you shouldn't worry about where the journey is taking you with music. It is so much more fun when it is just the sound track for YOUR journey and not for what lies at the end of the road.

I love that!

It's fun stuff for when you want to get a little "out there." I love the way Randy Rhoads used to incorporate stuff like this.

Made a tab of these and figured I'd share. I'm always finding ways to jam one of these or something based off of one of these into improvs:

Back atcha! =]

So many cool tracks ya'll posted for me to check out. Thanks for sharing!

I'm feeling listy again so I want to hear ya'lls faves. Only criteria here is that it's not instrumental songs, but rather guitar leads in songs that share the stage with a vocalist. 1) Stone in Love - Neal Schon, Journey. Especially that outro solo. It's as heartfelt and soaring as the vocal parts. 2) Comfortable Numb - David Gilmour, Pink Floyd. All the feels. 3) In My Dreams - George Lynch,m Dokken. This is what I grew up on and this track was one of the first I learned all the way through. 4) Voodoo Chile - Stevie Ray Vaughan's version. Given the type of song it is, it's like 50% solo but it's all just brilliant. 5) Shapes of Things - Gary Moore's version. Another deep 80s cut. His lead work on this is sick.

I think adjusting the amp like you're saying is what 99% of people do anyway. I agree, though. I like having options there, just in case.

It's fine on a guitar like this which I use primarily for high gain tones or real sparkly cleans washed in verb. The only guitars I ever use a tone knob on are my Tele which can get way too bright and my one Kiesel with the very bright Lithiums in it. Other than that, if a tone is too crispy, I use a different sound.

It came from Omega Music in Belgium. I think it's just something they had in existing inventory.

Thanks. =] The other guitar player in my band thinks it looks too much like a counter-top. LOL.

Yeah, I can't argue with that, but I thought it was pretty cool for a free resource. When I got my couple of studio mics for vocals, I actually lined up a score of them at the store and sang the same line through each into a DAT (it was long ago!). We played them back and I picked the pair I liked best for my voice. I miss that store. =[ I don't now if you could ever do that in a GC type place these days.