Lihis
Eero Lihavainen
Finland
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Matt King - At least your songs sound complex... I know what you mean with that songwriting thing. When I sit down and think "now I'm gonna write a song", I just start playing some Dream Theater sounding riffs and soon I'll end up playing their songs, for example. I get no own ideas. Then again, when I just play the guitar, I can get a nice sounding riff or melody etc. out of the instrument, which doesn't even sound like Dream Theater(or just a little :)
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Sat Dec 28 '02 3:36:50 am
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CrystaI Planet
Steve
Huddersfield,
England
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Hey guys, I notice Joe is doing a gig on the 31st January and 1st Febuary, lets hope its gonna be recorded!! <crosses everything> oo-er :-D .........Joe Rules..........
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Sat Dec 28 '02 5:35:33 am
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ianjf
Ian Finlayson
Athboy, Co. Meath
Ireland
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PHRYDOM -- Cool I guess it is reffered to as the rock a bye baby part so :) Ah well I guess we shall just leave it at that so!!!! Thanks for the quotes :)
ALL -- Still didnt get that link for the backing tracks for the guitars, or if someone posted it and I missed it I appologise, just sometimes there is just too many posts to get through.
Has anyone got the Attack of the Clones DVD Pack??? The second DVD is awesomely packed with cool documenteries. Even better than the Phantom Menace. I couldnt believe it when I saw Digital Stuntmen In certain scenes. Cant wait to see what technology they employ for the final film. ILM Rocks.
Ian.
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Sat Dec 28 '02 8:37:53 am
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Sharif
Sharif Jameel
Parkville, Maryland
USA
Plays: Guitar (30 years)
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PhryDom I'm glad you understood what I was talking about...no feeling, no emotion, no humanity! Anyway you can check out my T2J profile for my email, I didn't see yours. If you have any good MIDI stuff you can email it to me and I'll see what I can do with it. What did you mean by velocities that make it hard to tell it's computerized? Yeah I could put stuff on there that's so damned fast...but where's the melody and humanity behind that?
SJ
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Sat Dec 28 '02 9:03:34 am
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Rough Dog
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Hello all, Dumpin snow again in No. Cal. Does anyone else seem to go through periods hot/cold when writing songs on the guitar? Seems like I go through some kind of phase in between song creating. Yesterday I found new territory and it suprised me. Sometimes the dry spells can last for months.
PhryDom- --- I have the same problem with drum tracks. Cakewalks sounds stale, I tend to get a better sound out of my Yamaha sequencer, but it's a lot of work manually putting in the fills. Is Drum Trax a cakewalk program?
Lihis- I find that the hard part of creating new songs is finding new chords that work well together to give a different sound. Usually after I get the chord structure down, the lead usually comes pretty easily. In my 30 years of playing, I've found that you should play what you feel, and the trick is trying to find the chords to express that. The rest wil come along in the refining process. If I get an idea for a song, I immediatly try to record it. I save that idea and work on it when another progression comes to mind. It's easy to forget stuff you've created. Record it or write it down.Try different types of effects and find the combo you like. This should change things up a bit. Hope this helps. RD
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Sat Dec 28 '02 10:23:50 am
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mayhem
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PhryDom <-------------
If Yngwie doesn't do economy picking or sweep picking you totally have to be insane!!! if your not insane ,you defenitlyhave to go bye the Yngwie Malmsteen instructional video "Play Loud(2)" - Arpeggios .....
If that ain't sweeping or economy picking(although it isn't exactly the same thing) ,well .........
.It's ok that he do alternate much , but somethimes he uses sweep picking, espesially in arpeggios. Personally i prefer alternate but somethimes if your doing a quick arpeggio you feel forced to do the sweep picking thing. And does anyone here know if Joe does answer our mails personally and where can i read those if ?
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And does Joe play crushing day live ??
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Sat Dec 28 '02 10:28:44 am
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Sharif
Sharif Jameel
Parkville, Maryland
USA
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Meyhem I've seen Joe twice - once in August and once this past month in DC. Both times he played Crushing Day.
SJ
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Sat Dec 28 '02 10:50:23 am
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Lihis
Eero Lihavainen
Finland
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Rough Dog - Yeah, thanks for the advice. I really agree with you. It's very easy to write a melody when you can improvise on a chord progression, but the question is; how do you form that chord progression. I guess the best way is to just play - not to think about it too much.
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Sat Dec 28 '02 12:45:07 pm
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greg parnell
eureka, california
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Joe,the first time I saw you was at the roxy in L.A. forever ago and since then I have seen almost every tour frm G3 in portlandto blue dream in santa barbara w/ eric.I missed G3 last year and I kick myself because only recently have I become familiar with john material, and to see my three all time favorites together well. Anyways I saw you and dream theater at concord last summer but I couldn't get enough of either one of you. I will see you again in feb. at konocti I love that place,it'sonly 200 miles.I usually travel at least 500 miles to see your spirit cleansing guitar work. I am a single dad of a10 and 13 tear old and your music is my path for sanity. hey could you send me a pick, I can never get close enough to catch one. See you in kelseyville in february.......greg
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jblaze1
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Hi Joe:)Oh yeah!....I was watching a documentary on war tactics last week with Joan Lundin(Londen or however you spell it?.."War" was playing in the backround when they where doing dive training!...Just the begining then the very end of the song....Pretty well done I thought:)
Anyways.....I trust that everyone had a great X-mas?.
L8ER
jblaze1
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Sat Dec 28 '02 1:54:35 pm
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WG20815
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Hey sup dude, well i have searched everywhere and can't find a single guitar tab for FLYING IN A BLUE DREAM. i downloaded the video of you playing it on the G3 tour and it was pretty awesome, but it would be great if you could send me the guitar tablature for it at washburn8715@msn.com . you can jam dude. thanks a lot.
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Sat Dec 28 '02 2:49:25 pm
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Blazy
Alexander Polezhaev
Pskov, Pskov region
Russia
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I can not understand, it you see a site professional guitar master, and I see here everything, except for questions to Joe. At me a question: whether you Heard something about Russian guitar masters? For example ours guitar master Victor Zinchuk is a "fastest guia"r in the world. That you think on this account?
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Punkdude75, thanks for the nice words. I'll try to get an update soon.
Ovation, I was rolling when I read you post. Tires for OUR van have been on our list all month! Hopefully we'll get them before the next snow.
JBlaze ~ werd!!
Favorite presents ~ a candle from my son (which I used for the 23 hr. blackout ~ lol!), a poem my daughter wrote titled "Children's Eyes" with pictures of her and my son when they were little, and a pretty copy she made of the words to Joe's song "I Believe", and my fav thing from my husband was a copy of the Drowning Pool dvd "Sinema". Little things mean a lot :)
HI JOE, JEFF, MATT, GALEN, JON & CREW! Hope you all had a happy holiday :)
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III
Costa Mesa, CA
United States
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mayhem - Joe will post here every now and then. His posts are in blue. If you want to read all of them, click the "Joe Messages" button.
...Austin...
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Sat Dec 28 '02 3:05:04 pm
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PhryDom
Dave
Atlanta, GA
USA
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ianjf: it's amazing what you can do when you can be arsed ROFL!!!!!! What's this about backing tracks?
Sharif by velocity I meant how "hard" the notes are "played"... most apps allow you to draw in curves,,, it certainly helps..... my DrumTrax files are on my music PC which isn't on the network right now... there are demos at drumtrax.com and they're all MIDI files, so you can load em right up :-) Either way, feel free to email me for anything else ;-) (sorry for not giving it earlier)
mayhem, you completely and utterly misread and misinterpreted what the conversation was about... get back to me when you get it..... AFAIK Joe doesn't get our emails, so I imagine he doesn't reply.... and Crushing Day has been on the setlist for pretty much a year... a shame you missed it mate ;-) it was pretty fine :-)
Nick, I *think* a sweep is (to certain people) *only* considered a sweep if you play all six strings, although I'm starting to suspect it's a terminology thing and not a playing thing.... :-/
WG20815 so you downloaded the video and now you want the TAB from Joe? hmmm..... wanna kick sand in his face while you're at it?
Hey Joe, you're probably chilling and (I guess) snowboarding right now, but I hope you're enjoying your break from work, and tell me, what's your take on Trent Reznor? (I'm listening to the "quiet" CD that came with the live CD right now :-)
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Hi Joe. Im an 18 year old guitarists from derbyshire, England and have recently been introduced to you music through my girlfriends mums CD collection. I have been playing the guitar for 14 years with my chief influence being hank marvin of the shadows. But your music is out of this world. You truely have inspired a new style of music within me. I was lead guitarists in my dads band at the age of 9 (he himself a semi-pro musician for 35 years). I am a huge fan of all of your work and am currently creating a website on the top10 guitarists of all time, a list in which you most definatley feature. I hope that I have your blessing to include information from your web site. You are a true inspiration to my guitar playing. Thank you
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