Do The Stu - Yeah, it's always www.satriani.com that I visit. It's starting to piss me off a bit now, to tell you the truth...

Eek - exams in one week... :-s

Well that's just fucking terrific. The deadline for my unit essays has been moved forward from monday, which I could have coped with, to THURSDAY!!! I can just about cope with that, but it's a shit load of extra pressure I could really do without; especially since I'm practicing for my technical development exams which are on monday and tuesday... AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!!!!

Clarky - Here's a quick little query regarding the sixth mode of the Melodic minor scale (1, 2, b3, 4, b5, b6, b7): Would you call it Locrian #2 or Locrian nat. 2? I've heard both, but it seems to me that it should be Locrian nat. 2, seeing as how a normal Locrian mode has a b2. It seems like Locrian #2 would mean 1, #2, b3, 4, b5, b6, b7. And in that case the second note would be enharmonic to the third one. But then the argument is that, compared to a normal Locrian mode, it's a #2. This has been bugging me for ages.... :-/

Clarky - Right. Thanks. I hope you sprayed some air freshener, because judging by the sound that one fucking stank.... lmao

Zachary - Yeah, I'd love to check one out. Trouble is, I'm totally broke right now. I'll e-mail you sometime after Christmas to sort something out, if that's cool?

Oooh, my brain is fried; I just finished a heavy music theory lecture.... :-/

Oh the relief!!!!!!! I just finished all my coursework! Got to hand it in tomorrow. I can't forget. That be really dumb, consdiering if I miss the deadline the very most I can get is 35%, regardless of the quality of work. And that's a 'Borderline Fail'.... Not good, in other words. :-/

Clarky - Wow; thanks for those words of encouragement, dude. I'm looking forward to our next jam, too. Soon you say? Your nan must be doing well then, which I'm glad to hear... I handed in my coursework today, but as soon as I left the building I was like "I could have put that in there; I could have made this point..." etc. I'm never fucking happy. Another example - today I was doing a session for one of the production students. It was a trance song and he wanted a guitar solo and some acoustic lines. I came up with an acoustic line I was happy with, so was he, but the first solo I played I hated. This guy was like "Are you kidding? That was awesome!", but I made him delete anyway, along with the next five or six I played. I told him I knew I could do better. Turns out I could... :-D Good job we weren't paying for that studio time!!!! lmao

Clarky - Yeah, I agree. I'll be posting the track on my website, as well as the other one I did for my housemate - as I said before, it's unit coursework deadline time, so I've had quite a lot of sessions thrown my way. I seem to have picked up this reputation as 'the shredder on the degree course', which is nice... lmao

Clarky - the thing that gets me is all the studio effects have the same name as effects us guitar players use. You'd think they'd know what chorus, flanger, overdrive, and compression is. It seems they don't use that terminology in case we get confused... lol... I just went for a tiny touch of dirt, so the notes have a little extra bite and attack, on the back pickup (coil-tapped), with a bit of reverb and shallow chorus. They seemed to be happy with that...

Clarky - lmao... Or say "So, you're paying for someone to play badly? Surely you could have gotten anyone to do that...." lol

Matt Martinez - That's an Am11 arpeggio.

No probs.

Finally finished my 3000 word essay for Composition and Arrangement Studies!!!! Now all I have left is two solid days of practice before my practical on Tuesday morning. Then - it's Christmas!!!!!! I love Christmas....

Well, it's a nice sunny day today - I think I'll go practice outside... :-)

Oh, man - you know you've had a good practice session when your left hand tingles... Time to watch Die Hard II now!!!!!! \m/

Tired.... :-O

Exam tomorrow. Aarrrrrrgh!!!!!!

Oh, man - I just practiced for seven hours straight in preparation for my exam tomorrow morning. I'd still be going if it wasn't for the fact that my hand feels like it's about to fall off... :-/

I haven't listen to this album in ages - I fucking love it!!! Dream Theater's 'Images And Words'...

Well, I did my exam. I nailed all the Melodic and Harmonic minor scale modes; all the 9th, 7th, 11th, 13th, and altered chords; all the arpeggios; the sight reading; the improv., etc. What did I fuck up? Eb Mixolydian and C# minor pentatonic. C# MINOR FUCKING PENTATONIC?!!! How do you fuck up a minor pentatonic scale? I'm such a fucking retard...

mikesb - Anti Yngwie? Moi? You must be joking. His playing is from another planet and I fucking love it. I just think his attitude's a joke.

crucshingday - I'm studying a degree in Contemporary Popular Music. It's a BA(Hons) course at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford. Same place as Mr. Nick, just a different course.

mikesb - I'm glad you think so, because I was about to unleash said fury... lmao

Clarky - All of the above... lol. I was asked to play the third shape of C# minor pentatonic. Being a complete prick, I actually played the fifth shape of G# minor pentatonic. Then Pete (the examiner) said "Do you want to try that again?" I did, and I played exactly the same thing. "Again, maybe?" "Oh, yeah. Shit..." I said. Dumbass. lmao