Hey guys!! Peter just got some hi-rez photos of my new guitar up on his site for all to see. Just go to www.chellee.com and click "galleries" then click the image at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!!

Clarky's Theory Posse is in de house!!!! - Cheers Paul. I had a good read and, I have to say, it went straight over my head but I am going to have a few reads of it and see if I can make sense of it. If I cant I will shout.....

Yoda - Cheers for finding those for me. I did have a look but all I got was a load of bollox come up on the search results and then I had to go out. I am planning on getting off my arse and learning them all and then using them in some sort of context. Thanks again....

Mikey - the tricky parts to that lick are timing and transition.. personally I found holding the timing solid during such a long sweep to be the trickiest element.. the greatest temptation is to rush the sweep.. holding back feels un-natural at first.. so think time... think of 1/16 notes in groups of fours...

EVH marked a massive leap for me... he changed my whole approach... someone I used to [and still do] greatly admire..

pher - o - mones... uuuurrrrrrghhhhh.... lol... [a lil' Homer moment there.. lol]

since u people are so knowlegable

Brother al

TABS ARE THE DEVIL figure it out by ear! figuring out songs by ear is one of the things that people overlook but is one of the most important things they should learn.

well i could try, i was jus goin to have a thing in G and stuff, jus roots of the rhythm, I was hoping someone knew them, they're not for me, a shit bassist who needs them, and wont learn any songs >:( im coverin it on sunday and he needs to learn it, it looks n sounds simple, ill look at the LISF dvd anyways

5 things i think i think about EVH:

1 - i think EVH has some deep set psychological issues, perhaps counseling may help

2 - i think EVH is too emotionally sensitive, some may say unstable

3 - i think EVH will never join G3, it's not his cup of tea, he doesnt have the same perspective on guitar playing joe & steve have

4 - i think EVH was undoubtedly the most awesome guitarist of the late late 70's early 80's

Julie, Eva, Tony, Delfino, Clint, SupaaDave, Civgeek, Mikey, UF Dean - thanks for the congrats on the car :)

Civgeek, I meant shishi as in lion, not shishi as in peepee. lmao! I should stick to Engrish. lol!

Mikey, still undecided on a name for the car. We have to bond a bit more. I think for the moment it's name is Dude because every time I find something new or cool, it's the first thing I say. lmao!

Alexandre, hope you're feeling better and the antibiotics work quickly. Don't take them on an empty stomach because they'll make you feel bad. Drink lots of water too. Feel better hon!

Adrián, Congratulations! Aug. 14th is a beautiful day! It's my husbands birthday that day too. I wish you a beautiful day, and a long and happy marriage!

I have one word for all these escape spider stories...RAID!!! Get some bug spray people!!!

SupaaDave, when is baby-bean due? lol!

Mari, damn, still not feeling good! Is this the same ongoing thing or something different. Scary stuff indeed. Hope your feeling better and all is well. Cyber hugs to my Satriani sister. My oldest sis has been sick for 5 weeks now. She's been to the hospital 3X. They finally figured out that she has a bacterial infection. She goes to a lot of pow-wows and must have drank some bad water somewhere. She started her antibiotics today. Hopefully she'll feel better soon and be able to spend time in a room besides the bathroom.

Clarky, it was funny as fuck, wasn't it. LOL!

Jblaze, slow & easy is the only way to go :) We were getting hammered by the rain all week here, but it's finally let up a bit. Floods out the wazoo around here. Philly was hit wicked hard, as well as Camden county in NJ. A few miles from here in Birdsboro they got hit with so much rain it washed roads away and flooded the whole town. S'up wit dat? When it's raining an inch an hour - um no, I don't like the rain. lol!

jblaze1 for camera & guitar guard

Brother al

JS JS - If you have AIM, you can send the file to me that way. There are a number of other things you can do...if you don't have a website to host it, I could even upload it for you so everyone here can listen to it. Ask me again once you've recorded it and we can figure something out...

It's also a good idea to drop the strings about a whole step so they don't break...I forgot to mention that earlier.

"I had no idea you are Nitsua111!"

Yeah, that's me...Nitsua111 / ALewis525 / It is Stu Not Boo / Serak The Preparer / Do The Stu... I think those are all of my nicknames.

I don't own a red JS 100, though. My brother has a green Squire Strat...that's as close as it gets, LOL. I have two basses...a black Washburn and a sapphire Fender Stu Hamm Urge II.

Yeah, you're right...that was a line from Aerosmith's Amazing. That was the song that got me hooked on the band, actually...

Have fun at the Rush concert. Have you seen them before? I saw them for the first time last month...they blew me away.

Do the Stu: thanks buddy!! But don't tell me, tell Peter Taylor. Did you know that he's 23 and building guitars like that? It's amazing to know I guy like that!

Mowlie - Well, I didn't really find them as much as come up with them for the shapes I already knew... lol. Some people just call the seventh mode of Harmonic minor "mode 7" because of it's weird spelling but, me being me (ie. an ass... lol) decided that it needed a real name. I figured that it's exactly the same as the altered scale but with a bb7, and that a dim7 chord has a bb7. So that kinda stuck... lol

The vast majority of those modes aren't entirely useful, unless you specifically shoe-horn them in somewhere.

The most useful ones from the Melodic minor are:

Lydian Augmented: great on a maj7+ chord
Lydian Dominant: great on a non-functioning V7 chord.
Mixolydian b6: As above, but it's just a really nice scale too...
Locrian nat. 2: Great on a m7b5 chord
Altered scale: Perfect on the V7 in a maj ii - V7 - I.

And from the Harmonic minor:

Dorian #4: Great on a m7 chord - a bit of extra 'spice'
Phrygian Dominant: Perfect on the V7 in a min ii - V7 - i.
Diminished Altered: Great on a dim7 chord.

However, it always depends on the context of a chord. Sometimes a certain scale choice will sound quite odd due to it's surroundings. For example, using a German 6th chord as an example (you don't need to really understand that concept for this...), you could in theory use Lydian Dominant on it, because it is essentially a V7 chord that doesn't resolve to it's I. But, since the German 6th is a Classical concept, Lydian Dominant won't work too well stylistically, because it's a very Jazzy approach.

Have fun screwing with them though!

Clarky - Okay, thanks. I'll try that too...

Injector - EVH is the one and only Eddie Van Halen!!!

Hy everyone on Planet Satriania, hope you´re all ok, like always just a few minutes......