OCPS470, oh of course man, don't get me wrong, I think Dave LaRue's a fabulous bass player! I love hearing his mark stamped all over Steve Morse's stuff......it'll just be interesting to see how tight he's stretched, playing for both dudes!

ie. if you play a B Dorian over an A Major chord your scale will still sound like an A Major scale, and the same if you play C# Phrygian over an A Major chord.

However, each of these modes has a unique sound and structure in it's own right. So if you keep your C# Phrygian and change your chord to a C Minor you've suddenly got a completely different sound.

Sorry, that's about the best explanation I can come up with in a hurry....I usually spend weeks teaching people this stuff! haha. Hope it helps anyway :-]

I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight...if anyone hasn't done the midnight showing thing with this movie, you need to.

The thing here was with a staff that acted out the movie onstage with the movie playing behind them. Of course everyone in the audience was dressed up, we all had rice to throw, we were sprayed with water, and all that good stuff.

I haven't had this much fun in a LONG time...

Howdy everyone. How's it going?

Way to go Liverpool, beating United 1-0!!!! I thik it's a bit of a joke the way their goal scorer celebrated though, in spite of rcet happenings. You cna bet nothing will be done about it by the FA.

Can't wait 'til Tuesday, when Real Madrid give Arsenal a right good spanking!!!!! Good game good game, as the legndary Brucey Forsythe would say.

Climber - If you give me your e-mail address I can sen you a copy of a column I wrote for a guitar website a while back. It axplains how the mods of the major scale work (or at least it tries to). Most of my students hav found it really helpful...

Hey guys, have a look at this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm

Personally I am annoyed that Music Company just using their "big wallets" and Harvard lawyers to limit peoples ability to learn and appreciate music. And obviously the whole point is to make more money. I mean most people listen to music and try to figure out how it was made and the tablature on internet is someone's interpretation of an artist's music. So copyright doesn't really play into it , because it is a "person’s interpretation " . I could understand the whole debate on downloading music on internet, but this is a step too far. If u bring the whole copyright rule in it, you are just undermining people's right of 'freedom of expression'. It’s wrong. Plain and simple.

what do u guys think?

Hi Joe

Satriella: No problem on the credit maam', you deserve it! :-) Like guitar (or any other instrument), drawing is an art, and something that comes from within.... I used to draw alot when I was a child and was told I was very good, but I never kept up at it.... Having just a pencil and a piece of paper and turning it into a beautiful drawing takes talent, just like guitar, lol, keep it up!! :-)

962: haha, lol man, I can picute that!!!!.... Then Joe asks Pat if he can play bass for him, and Pat thinks real hard.... Joe then says: How bout' I get IBY to make you an ostrich bass, and the rest is history, lmao!!!!....

....Later peeps....

ovation1 - maybe you could pick up that pencil again now then...go on give it a go....you don't need anything special...I just pick up the first pencil I find! lol

962 - that's OK honey, any time...Just the truth...the truth is not always good...but I think it was OK in this instance hehe

Do The Stu - Wow the Rocky Horror picture show..I went to see that live @~#@+! years ago....dressed in my suspenders and black bin liner...with a white face...and oh like you said dressed up...hey do they still throw bounty bars at you when he does his speech and says paradise...oh and what about the kitkats when he says break....oh yes...I remember it was soooo much fun....I still love the soundtrack! Dammit Janet....tut a tut a touch me...wild and an untamed thing...sweet transvestite...and of course the dancing....all get up now...do the motions...do the time Warp!!!....I don't think anyone can beat Tim Curry as Frank n furter though....and I just love Richard O Brien...talking of him...they used to do a thing called the alternative Miss World which was for transvestites basically and Richard O'Brien came on as the entertainment one time...he looked fantastic...in a pink toutou, high heels and fishnets with a long white wig...he should have actually won the contest...the Real Miss World I mean hehe he looked stunning with legs to die for!

randybass... Thanx my man !! Welcome to THEE site...some great peeps here and as i'm finding out some very talented artist and kind spirts that will always help you out if they can,,,, Thanx again !! MT

Stevee T Thanks for all the help, I've been to NY once or twice already, and the last time I was there I ate at that Jekyll & Hyde restaraunt.

Ovation1 I was looking at a few videos on youtube (or something close to that) and I was watching some Racer X videos...you ever see the one of him playing Scarified (the one where they are all in space suits?) I also had time to check out the '88 video of him and Bruce playing Scarified. Awesome stuff, I have to check out more when I can. Yea, playing the counterpoint melody might give me some problems, I'll be used to shredding and then I'll have to slow down for the counterpoint!

marimariSRV My brother has been using his Apple a lot lately to find rare videos and songs by bands and artists...he found some pretty cool stuff for me, I'm pretty sure he said it was Vai playing Beethoven's 5th and Somewhere Over the Rainbow (i'll send both to you so you don't have to look). Hearing them made me have to figure them both out. Surprisingly, they didn't take that long. Other stuff he found: Ibanez 90th Anniv. show (Timmons, Gilbert, & Vai), and another older show, I don't remember what show, but it has a ton of great guitarist jamming together (Satch, Vai, Timmons, Gilbert, and 2 or 3 others that I don't remember.)

guitarmeister - I did have a look... but I couldn't find a bit in ovation1's post where they actually were playing anything....anyway my email is sandyjw95@hotmail.com...thanks for the help

mthead101 - I ALWAYS beat myself up over everything...I'm like that...everything is always my fault...so I am always apologizing...which is annoying for some people..understandable....but I guess it's ingrained...sorry...see there I go again hehe...hmm maybe I should try aliens then...actually I tried to draw Joe with no hair...that turned out more like an alien...hopefully that picture is on a rubbish tip somewhere! But thank you very much for the compliment...I have put a new one on..Elijah Woods...I am doing Samuel L Jackson at the moment...I will post the link again when I put him on so you can see.....how is your project going anyway?

Supadave - Sweet Dreams...hehe...I don't look at him the same way either!

cheese101...nice to remember the good times...that sound's very pleasant....

Rob310...okay...yourself?

DAKOOK...got yer mail...how are you...long time no hear?

arvin...welcome...hmmm...I think there's several lesson available on DVD out there....not Joe himself, but I think a student of Joe disecting his technique...give me a second, and I'll find it for you....Doug Doppler....ovation1 is right ...just watch LISF...there's the lesson...lol

hmmmmm OCPS470 Interesting...some people see maths that way too...there was a bloke on the TV a while back...he is like the rain man...can't remember what they call them..they had a special name...ummmm...no....anyway there are only about 50 of them in the world...but he recited pi for three hours exactly while someone checked off the numbers on the list...but he said it was like a landscape in his head and he just looked along the landscape...colours shapes etc...they tried to trick him later by reading out pi to him and hooked him up to some machine...anyway afterwards his monitor showed where they had quoted a wrong number..by whatever a blip or something...i think it was a bit like a lie detector...anyway he said..he could see that the landscape was wrong cos there would be a big hole or a tree or colour wrong...it was a very interesting programme.