Ez Drummer 2 and VLINN (for 80s drum sounds)
Yeah they often chip the edges of my guitars.
Just went one mode at a time, jammed it over its relevant chord from the diatonic scale until I could hear the difference between the modes. Then they should start to become practical information . Then you can apply them in music, musically.
We hope to when the album comes out later this year. Its just finding the right bands to go out with who want to do it with us.
My hands are clumsy anyway, I just make sure I warm up slowly and that I am not trying to play something faster than I can feel/hear it.
A couple of days. I just spent time on each section working on the tough bits slowly, making sure I could really get the time feel right whilst being relaxed...that's helped.
Network, gig lots, and be humble/easy to work with/keep good timing/sociable. Make sure you can play for the tune with the best sounds/timing/delivery and band communication possible. Sometimes you can find agents who put you on a roster and then they put you in bands...its a tricky world...its often run by contracts that last only a certain amount of time. So its not consistent work unless you are good at finding more work and planning. However, there is no reason you can't start your own function band and start playing pubs etc and then get yourself up to wedding/conference standard etc this is worth doing anyway, its good money, its fun and it will give you an excuse to learn loads of songs which is transferable to any other function band.
Don't worry about it. Volume will come with time. All the fast stuff needs to be lighter in touch, that's how speed works! The more you do it relaxed, the easier it will become to 'add' more volume in time. Its also important to note that many players who play these style runs use drive/compression (for clean stuff) in order to bring notes out. The light touch of the picking enables you to really change the tone of each note which gives the illusion of picking hard. Practice the run with light tough for a while, add different accents on different notes, give it a groove. Practising this will give you a bit more flexibility with that particular runs picking mechanics. I hope this helps shred warrior!
Yes.
Blue Maple neck one was given to me from Ibanez Japan, it means a lot to me. And it looks and plays amazingly. However, my RG2228A is also exceptionally cool and has a different tonal character entirely which is useful.
