death cube k
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scubadaz hmm.. sounds like your jealous.. lots of guys i think suck .. but i could not be bothered mentioning ..
perhaps you should change your practice routine .. if you have been doing the same thing for 20 years.. you are likely fallen in a rut
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Sat Apr 25 '09 5:50:59 am
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cosmic_ape
Aron Ortega
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I think all you guys have interesting points... It's hard to me to react to Matt Rach because he lives a reality that I have never experienced.
I purchased all the gear that I own (I'm still paying for most of it) and when you do that on your own it takes time. I am 25 and I'm just now attending music school. My parents did not pay for college or anything like that. They have supported me in every way they could, but they were not financially stable by any means. I got food, shelter and a high school diploma. And that was pretty much it.
I do think that being forced to mature this way and take of biz my own way has also reflected in my playing. So even though there might be a little jealousy involved when it comes to opportunity and resources, I gotta say I don't envy this guy. Things happen for a reason and life will put everybody in the place they deserve to be put.
What I do really think, and I apologize in advance for the language, is that if you have the money and the resources to do whatever it is that you want to do with your life, then you better fucking do it and do it right. If you can go to your room and practice for 8 hours a day because you don't have to get a real job to pay for all your shit, then you better become a good player. If you don't have to worry about house payments, utilities, health and car insurance, credit card bills and student loans along with time to devote to your family, then more power to you, brother! But you better get on it. It will an insult to everybody if you don't. There's nothing worse than a poser with a truck load of cool gear who can't play. There's a bunch of those in my school!
I apply this philosophy to myself every day. See, I never meant to move the States, things just happened that way. But now that I'm here, and just by being here, I have access to things I could have only dreamed of in Ecuador. I can get a job that will let me buy stuff and not just pay for housing and food! I can go to school. You can't get student loans where I'm from! And here, even though it's been very difficult to just get started, I have been able to do it and pursue my dreams. So, I'm on it.
Time will tell if this guy's good. Right now, I hear lots of skill but I think he needs to mature in terms of musicianship and taste. And that is something you can't buy... So, he better be on it...
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Sat Apr 25 '09 9:55:03 am
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cosmic_ape
Aron Ortega
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yeah, well I didn't mean unemployment in that sense... you gotta understand where I'm coming from... I go to school with a bunch of teenagers who don't work because they don't have to... Their parents pay for all their shit... you gotta love it when they complain about how "broke" they are and they can't afford to go out and drink...
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Sat Apr 25 '09 10:52:46 am
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I have a question I'm asking on behalf of my son, I'll read him the reply(s) and if there's an internet site that would work, he can check it when he comes home for a visit in a coupla weeks....
The question is....He's been working on what he thinks is called the 2 & 3 octave scales...he'd like to know how to take a scale that's within a 5-fret box range and turn it into a much more expanded scale that uses more of the fretboard...
For example, if he's working in E Phrygian in 3 different positions on the fret board, what notes are changed or removed to go from low string to high string, low fret to higher fret in a linear fashion? Joe touched on this during his lesson with Chris and he's trying hard to work on it, but is having some trouble. It's the transition from one position to the next position without starting over back on the same string he started on.
Thanks, he sez any help would be very appreciated all u guitar players!!
Joe, he's trying, LOL!!
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna
Dublin
Ireland
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you can change your name without making a new account
and at least link the friggin url im not copying and pasting shit >:(
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Sat Apr 25 '09 1:27:30 pm
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz
Santa Clara, California
USA
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Scubadaz--"...you can give someone a protective net, doesn`t mean they`re going to use it (how many ppl are killed every year through not wearing a seatbelt when driving yet they are fitted in every car)."
Have you checked out the website Joe sent us--www.nothingbutnets.net? From what ya wrote on Wednesday, I think you need to check out what the site is all about and read the articles in the Financial Times this past week. Are you aware that one child dies every 30 seconds from malaria? If you had a way of preventing (by education and distribution) those deaths, would you do it???
I sure as hell would!!
GoldenGirl2
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Sat Apr 25 '09 2:15:57 pm
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz
Santa Clara, California
USA
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Scubadaz--Don't know how many people are out there, but there are lots of countries in Africa and a lot of square kilometers to travel to get to these people. Then with the militias and fighting going on in Sudan and the Congo, it complicates things even more. I'm not an accountant.......maybe there needs to be several to keep track of where each penny is going. Would that help?
Sorry I'm in a bitchy mood today.....I woke up crying because my man is a walking zombie with all the f**king medications he takes. He tosses and turns most of the night and doesn't sleep very well. I'm angry about having to take 5 medications for 3 stupid chronic conditions I'm dealing with. It's so f**king crazy dealing with all this shit and the doctors are overwhelmed with patients, I am lucky to get an oppointment within 3 weeks of when I ask for one. I just hope to God my psychatrist doesn't have to cancel my appointment on Monday as he did twice before. ;-(
Listening to The Yardbirds "Birdland" Joe stars on the song Train kept a rollin' and Steve Vai is on Shapes of things---great classic songs.
GoldenGirl2day
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Sat Apr 25 '09 3:05:25 pm
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slanshroom
roy marchbank
Scotland, Barcelona
Spain
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scuba:In all fairness....if ya spent as much time on recording as you have been posting here you would have a mighty track even if it is just you & a guitar.Makes no difference if someone is born into money or not.I came from the sticks had sweet fuck all but ended up recording/touring the planet out of want & hard work & plan on that again with that same drive
The man that thinks he can can
If yer bitter n playing the poor man card noone wants t know, get a fuckin grip man.There are many here in a position of wealth, there many without...doesnt matter bro deal with it
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Sat Apr 25 '09 3:05:36 pm
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hybes
Mark Hybers
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Hey Joe - I was just checking out the Best Buy pre order info. I like what you guys have added to it. You can check out a song now and the site allows us to check out the album art work in action. Very cool stuff.
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Sat Apr 25 '09 3:07:10 pm
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz
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pvy---James Hetfield went to the same denominational sunday school I went to growing up---Christian Science. Prayer and bible study is part of the daily schedule.
Here's are a couple of special songs from Birdland--Mystery of being AND Dream within a dream.
GoldenGirl2
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