I never thought i'd get everyone's attention on that one.

Yeah well screw all of you! You made me cry.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/180/oliver_chris_peters.html

Some amazing tunes. Check this guy out. OCPS470

Death Cube K - Cube Become I. I dig this. It's cool. Bassline is funny. What's that little blip that interrupts one of the notes? Cool shred runs too.

The Local Person - I'd say thanks but i'm still trying to figure out why I was in that ever so kind message.

Whojack - Problem.

PhrygDom - (Was a joke ... "ha ha?") ... haha next thing we know, there's a huge ORANGE post "you guys should congratulate clone 1 on his number of messages etc..."

DeathCube K - I dug that song anyways. Was interesting to listen to. I'm starting to realize there is a lot of repetativeness in instrumental guitar rock. Few artists can maintain my interest. Some guitarists who write songs are really great players but they're compositions don't have a whole lot to them to make them special.

-My hand, getting better. I'm playing every second day for 3 - 4 hours. It's really not enough time but I can't push it. Learning Hordes of Locusts all BY EAR (no tabs! tabs evil) to play at my school's xmas assembly. I'm learning both the NOTE version and the D#11 version. They're slightly different and they both have some parts to mix and match.

DeathCube K - The Whammy scream before the solo. It's a multi open string harmonic dive right? Ohhh yeah. Expect that in the video i'll have from rehearsals.

Phryg Dom - Haha yeah, I was laughing as I thought of it. Call it a stroke of genius.

Crystal Planet - I almost died when I saw that. I have never seen that JS7 custom before.

http://www.ibanezrules.com/images/used/js7_harpers.jpg

OCPS470...

Check out this guy's music. It's so good I could cry.

Any guitar players here ever strain their hands from lifting?

KhakiCoalition - People like that should be gagged, dragged out to the street and shot once in the stomach, let them suffer for a minute then one final shot in the head.

Plum Loco - Well yeah but for certain muscles. The stuff in the human hand is very intricate and delicate. I have to be careful. Small exercises help. Sometimes guitar if I stop when it starts to hurt a bit.

Invigor - Stop lifting like girls? Try heavy lifting while striving to be a musician and have my condition. I'm pissed.

I've lost 4 months of my life in which I could have been practicing music and guitar.

Death Cube k - Oh it's your right hand... and it's still recovering. I wish I was in your shoes.

Death Cube K - I'm up late tonight. 12:30am. Don't start school until 10:20am tomorrow. I am listening to some music and I decided to listen to your Cube Become I. I really dig this man. I ilke that little climbing and then dropping melody you do in the beggining and the shred solo run is cool. Very buckethead-ish. The bassline's kinda funky, funny, mysterious. Cool stuff man.

Let me know when there's more. I'm now officially a cube fan.

Matt - Are you kidding me?! WHEN? Holy matrimony batman. Big huge congrats.

Dragonchild/Ovation1 - What happened?

Death Cube K - Haha thanks. That speed picking part, did you play it on your BSB? I cannot pick on Jems well at all. To pick, my wrist must be anchored and there's no enough room to let my wrist naturally rest on that spot, plus it changes the pitch very slightly. On top of that, these guitars don't work well at all with anything heavier than 9's. Light strings suck. No tone in them. Then another thing, it takes extra effort to do multi string bends or bend one string while having others ringing. Sometimes you just can't get around it at all.

I've come to the conclusion that I hate my Jem. For some reason, I can pick easier on Nick Lee's FP or Clone 2's JS1000BP. Dunno, just better guitars in my hands but still, hardtail and fixed bridges are the way to go.

I don't care much for basswood either.

r6rocker - Well music is my life and when I have no ability to play it, it is like my life is being wasted. I'm kicking myself for not being able to play for that long. Where would I be now with 4 months of prior hardcore practice?

We'll see once I get my Xmas assembly video up (show is Dec20, 2002 at my school) if I can comeback well.

DragonChild - Passed right out eh? Because of stress or something close? I have passed out only onec and it was recent. During near the end of summer, I went for a few physiotherapy appts. and I got accupuncture on the last time I was there and 1 minute in, I went blind and started passing out. The doc gave me some magazines to read, I tried to read them but started passing out, so i'm sitting there, flipping pages thinking this will pass, and it doesn't. So then i'm just thinking, 'I can't wait until this is over'. It felt so weird. The doc walks by again, I moan, apparently my fave is all white and I had a blank expression then they started talking around me, next thing I know, i'm being walked to a bed, even though I could still walk fine, I was just blind and passing out.

...yeah.

Phryg Dom - My band will be my road to success. I love my band. We'll hopefully be cutting a good demo come January.

r6rocker - What did you agree with Phryg about exactly? There were a few things. I can't pinpoint it. For now, check out my iuma or tripod video site if you haven't already.

Invigor - Yngwie has good technique when he picks. One reason is that when one picks, the right hand does most of the work and the left hand's job is quite easy. When you compare a picking master to a legato master like Joe, you notice Joe's left hand is moving a lot farther and more flappier than a picker. This is because the left hand has to work to get all the smooth hammer ons and pull offs to sound. Also, legato tends to allow more freedom on the neck so you can change positions with legato more readily than picking. Also, a lot has to do with the fact that Yngwie plays arpeggios a lot. You can play up to roughly 10 notes without moving your hand with extreme speed when playing arpeggios. Depends on the arp.

I am strongly going to recommend The Jester's Dance by In Flames for anyone involved in an incredibly melodic, heavy metal instrumental. These guitarists are some of the best I have ever heard.

Death Cube K - High action is cool but low is sometime needed for certain things. High action tends to train your fingers to be a little stronger, and if you have strong attack when riffing, high action just helps your tone overall. Too low action is bad.

Death Cube K - Yeah lotsa metal palyers are wimp players. Always have so much distortion with 9's tuned a whole step down. Not to say they don't sound good when they play it but they're still wimp guitarists.

What guage do you have on your BSB. I assume 4 springs in all spots but the middle.

OCPS470 - I know what you mean about the S series by Ibanez. I traded my Jem555BK for an S540BK LTD. It's a custom shop 540 with a binding going all along the fretboard and headstock. Unfortunately, I took the Edge off my S to replace the Lo Pro in my Jem7V because the original gold Lo Pro in the Jem broke strings so often. With the Edge from the S on my Jem, not a single string has broken yet. It works out quite nicely.

I noticed though, the whammy action with the Edge on the 7V made it a little stiffer which I far prefer.

I only played my S in the guitar store for about 1 hour and at home for a out 45 minutes. Then I had my hand injury which didn't let me play plus the guitar needed a fret dress and some neck adjustments cause it buzzed quite badly. It was used but in excellent condition. I love the trem tensioner in the back of those guitars.

DaveMC - Well the *right* thing to do would actually be attempt it by ear and get what you can't get by tab. To learn something by ear makes you so much better. Music is a listening experience so the more powerful your ear, the better you are at understanding music. Tab is like doing math homework and getting all the answers from the back. All that happens in the end is you fail the test.

Kinger - Yeah that's one of my fave instrumentals. In Flames can get pretty heavy man so i'm not sure if you'll dig the vocals or riffs in some of their songs. I really love about 70% of the music they put out. Give some vocals songs a try.

For In Flames instrumentals: Dialogue with the Stars, Man Made God, Hargalaten, The Jester's Dance, Acoustic Medley, Timeless, Pallar Anders Visa, Wayfaerer.

If you end up liking the vocals, then In Flames will take over your playlist/cd collection.

Sharif - I listen to that song often. All I know is lots of delay makes it sound harder than it is. It should be relatively easy to get the rest.

Invigor - Well, it's always safest in the case but that doesn't mean it's not safe laying on your bed (seeing that the headstock isn't supporting the whole guitar). Case when not using for long periods of time.

As for your strat not staying in tune, did you try that thing I told you? Looking for the adjustment on the machine head, tuning knobs?

Kinger - You should get all of the ones I listed. They instantly hook you.

Being a metal head, the vocals work just fine for me. I had to get used to them at first because they were the first band I ever got into that had Death Metal-ish vocals. It's not actually death metal. It's what is called "Gothenburg" or "Swedish Sound". Swedish metal.

I can understand though how you feel about the arrangements being ruined by the vocals. I was exactly the same way but I got very used to them somehow.

DaveMC - Oh, that's really good then. Like me, phhhbt, i'm nothing.

Dyer - You live in England and Poland?

Oh, one more In Flames instrumental. An alright song but my least fave of their instrumentals.

Megaboyd - 6 cylinder? For a truck that size, you sure you're getting enough power? The VW Passat V6 last year was 190hp. It's a 3000lb car. VW engines got more powerful this year though.

Man, an amazing engine to me is the VW 1.8T. A little 1.8L turbo engine puts out 180hp. Or the 3.0L Accord V6 with 240hp. Wow.

Ya Yo - That car looks a hell of a lot like a Testarossa. Ferrari of course.

I dunno man, when you compare the super sports cars of yesterday to the ones of today, you just feel sick.

Let's take the Testarossa for example. 5.0L engine, flat 12, 0-60mph in 5.4sec, top speed 170mph, 390hp.

Now a Bugatti EB110

3.5L engine, V12, 0-60mph in 3.5sec (!!!) top speed, 212 (super sport model top speed 221mph), quad turbo, 552hp.

And still, with a smaller engine, the Bugatto EB110 still get 450lb-ft torque over the Testarossa's 360lb-ft.

Then look at mileage, 14mpg for the Test, and 18 for the EB.

Technology moves so quickly. I think the only street legal car faster than an EB110S is the McLaren F1 and that things's probably huge.