What are you playing on your Instrument now?

dmpoole said:
On the live DVD the drummer sings and Morse gets on the drums and plays them professionally too. And he's amazing on guitar - in fact on the extras theres a clip of him and his brother playing on the same guitar - awesome.

Found this - Morse Brothers
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Awesome :cool: Neal Morse is a bit of a "jack of all trades," but a master of them all too!

There's a great Transatlantic one floating around where Morse, Stolt and Traweras are all playing guitar in a 3-way solo! Traweras has a double-necked guitar with one bass and one electric :cool:
 
I'm currently trying to play Weather Report's Teen Town perfectly all the way through. I've almost succeeded but I still can't do the first 2 bars well enough
 
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ooh harsh one ;)
I have to say, not being blessed with an amazing talent to play the 'real deal' (in his own words) I find working out anything by Jaco/Weather Report etc to be a long uphill struggle; I mean the guy leaves no space for making even one little mistake :eek:
Recently I have aquired some accurate TAB and notation for much of Jaco's music yay! unfortunately being able to read it doesn't mean being able to play with the same ease :boooo:
 
If it counts, I'm singing along to King For A Day... by Faith No More.

I deserve a reward 'cos I'm the best **** that you ever had, And if I tighten up my hole, You may never see the light again, There's always an easy way out, You need something wet in your mouth, All you need is just one more excuse, You put up one hell of a fight, I wanna hear your very best excuse, I never felt this much alive.

*n
 
jumpy said:
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ooh harsh one ;)
I have to say, not being blessed with an amazing talent to play the 'real deal' (in his own words) I find working out anything by Jaco/Weather Report etc to be a long uphill struggle; I mean the guy leaves no space for making even one little mistake :eek:
Recently I have aquired some accurate TAB and notation for much of Jaco's music yay! unfortunately being able to read it doesn't mean being able to play with the same ease :boooo:
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I used to be okay at The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines years ago... :(

*n
 
dmpoole said:
The album V is a must buy and don't forget the DVD - Don't Try This At Home.
This is one great DVD and besides a live concert it shows Neal Morse in his home studio and all the band in the proper studio. Theres 5.5 hours footage altogether.
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Yeah that was also on my shopping list although I thought I'd go with Snow first as the clips I heard I really liked, going to get V next when funds allow :cool:

Dave said:
Yeah, agreed. The album "The Kindness Of Strangers" is my personal favourite. :)

Neal Morse is a cracking songwriter/vocalist/keyboard player too - does a great job for Transatlantic :)
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Have you seen any of the Yellow Matter Custard stuff? :D If you're not familiar that's Neal Morse, Portnoy, Paul Gilbert and Matt Bissonette playing beatles covers, there's some videos on youtube/google video and a DVD is out.

Neal Morse has a great voice, sometimes he's playing guitar, keys and singing all at once hehe :)
 
arty said:
[...] and Giant Steps at 350bpm :)
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Any particular reason for cranking up the tempo, it's already pretty zippy in the recorded version? Just for the challenge?

Going to have to give it a listen now :cool:.

Not playing anything in particular myself, just jamming along to some blues backing tracks from Essential Blues Guitar by Dave Celentano. Fairly good book for getting some ideas and trying them out.
 
Andelusion said:
Have you seen any of the Yellow Matter Custard stuff? :D If you're not familiar that's Neal Morse, Portnoy, Paul Gilbert and Matt Bissonette playing beatles covers, there's some videos on youtube/google video and a DVD is out.

Neal Morse has a great voice, sometimes he's playing guitar, keys and singing all at once hehe :)
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I've heard of it from MP's website but I've never seen or heard the DVD/CD. I'll have a look around, cheers.

I am about to get the Transatlantic Live in Europe DVD though - I have the CD of this and they do some great improv. "Suite Charlotte Pike" is about 15 mins on the "proper" album, but when they did it live they played a cover of the Abbey Road album on top! (with a Mike Portnoy solo too :D )
 
thought i'd ask in here instead of making my own thread...

am after a solo guitar piece, not too slow not too fast, quite bluesy with a lot of feeling in it. anything at all, just want to learn something bluesy but dont really know where to start.
 
Matt try The Crush of Love or House Full of Bullets, both by Satch, crush of love is relatively easy and there's some nice bends and phrasing in there. House Full of Bullets is pretty groovay too.

If you need some tab i'll send ye some over msn.
 
lemonkettaz said:
:rolleyes: :confused: :eek:
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I seem to go through phases of playing for weeks then leaving it for several days / weeks. Sadly this prevents me from getting any better. All the music that makes me want to play the guitar I have learnt to play already....

I assure you my guitar is weeping in the corner :/
Andelusion said:
Burn the infidel :D
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Don't burn meeeeee!
 
i get like that sometimes.

i think im in a bit of a lull at the moment... im playing iron maiden but it isnt all great. a few weeks ago though i was obsessed and i was really good...

now i seem to think im crap so im not really giving it my all.

im trying to give some sweep picking a go but im hopeless at it... ive played classic rock/indie for so long i seem to be fixed...i want to be able to do the steve vai stuff but my fingers lack the co-ordination... im not sure how to practice it either...
 
lemonkettaz said:
i get like that sometimes.

i think im in a bit of a lull at the moment... im playing iron maiden but it isnt all great. a few weeks ago though i was obsessed and i was really good...

now i seem to think im crap so im not really giving it my all.

im trying to give some sweep picking a go but im hopeless at it... ive played classic rock/indie for so long i seem to be fixed...i want to be able to do the steve vai stuff but my fingers lack the co-ordination... im not sure how to practice it either...
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What do you mean by steve vai stuff?

*Wants to help - teaching hat on*
 
lemonkettaz said:
im trying to give some sweep picking a go but im hopeless at it... ive played classic rock/indie for so long i seem to be fixed...i want to be able to do the steve vai stuff but my fingers lack the co-ordination... im not sure how to practice it either...
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As far as I'm aware to get good at sweeping you have to REALLY put the time in....

I have sat down for hours... and played for weeks for hours a day practise, thinking I was getting nowhere. I'm a lot better now than what I was admittedly, but I'm nowhere NEAR professional and its very amaturish to say the least. I you want to get good at that, I imagine months and months of hours a day is needed... its by far the thing which is 'dented' the least with practise I find.

As for playing Steve Vai, can name about two of his songs... that 'solo-y' bit in bad horsie, phwoar! I think the 'tapping' bit sounds rubbish but there are two bars of awesomeness that even played slow sound so good, let alone at lightspeed.

If you want to get to that standard, put in the work. I find I can just about manage some of those phrases if I play for three hours solid, but I won't get better unless I play for over three hours solid more than 4 days a week.

You have been warned! :p
 
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