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@steph 9735 wrote:

Hi!
The player is Patrick Rondat and the song comes from the record Amphibia.
Check it out :
http://www.rondat.com/index.html
😎

Amazing! Thanks alot man 🙂

[FretDancer69]

Wow amazing shot, amazing!!!!! 😮

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Wow very nice dude!! what guitar are you using? 😮

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Thanks, i mostly play John Petrucci type of stuff, and im kind of used to the strings being high but sometimes is annoying, i feel like i wont achieve the speed quick if i keep playing like this 🙁 :S , every time i change the strings, they always stay that high, i think i should lower them, how can i do this ? by the way im not a premium member 🙁 yet.

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Wow looks like an awesome affordable guitar :o, but i looked everywhere and cant find any non-used for sale, are they discontinued or something ?

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@rochus 8540 wrote:

omg, i think it’s a bit painful to play when strings is so high. i don’t advise you to change strings before gig, if it’s soon. change and lower stings after show, because new strings tends to go out of tune and you should inure to play with them when they are lowered if you dont want to muff up

i dont have any upcoming gig so i think it would be a good idea to lower them, if they need to be lowered. The problem is, i dont know if they should be lowered, and if so, how?! 🙁

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Here are the screenshots of the spacing of the strings, sorry i took so long xD:

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Yeah i think i know wich site you’re talking about, i used to be great fan and active member, but yeah it sucks what happened there.

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@Alejandro Osorno 8173 wrote:

It varies… Selkies is a short song for them (white walls is 14 minutes long)
But in longer songs it changes, you can hear death metal, prog, rock and even country 🙂
try listening to the complete song.
if you absolutly cant stand growls, check out nevermore… They never growl 😉

thanks ill check nevermore out 😀

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@Alejandro Osorno 8166 wrote:

cynic:
Evolutionary sleeper,how could I?, Integral Birth and adams murmur
therion:
Son Of The Staves Of Time,Summernight City,Son of The Sun and The Rise of Sodom and Gommorah
I added 4 🙂
Please excuse my choices ( more of a technical death metal type of guy)
please ask me if you are intrested in other bands

Thanks!, by the way, i just checked Selkies by Between the Buried and Me, and i gotta ask, do all their songs have growling vocals? im not much of Death Metal/Growling vocals kind of dude 🙁

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@Alejandro Osorno 8149 wrote:

lets see…

Between the buried and me (prog metal)
best songs: selkies, white walls, ants of the sky and prequel to sequel

Opeth (prog death metal)
best songs: the drapery falls, harvest, blackwater park and masters apprentice

Nevermore (prog metal)
best songs: the pyslam of lydia, Final product, The river dragon has come and born

Meshuggah ( math metal)
best songs: straws pulled at random, bleed, future breed machine and New Millenium Cyanide Christ

other bands you should check out
Epica ( symphonic metal)
Therion ( Symphonic metal)
cynic ( prog metal)
Protest the hero ( progresive hardcore)
Angra ( power metal)
firewind ( power metal)
sonata artica ( power metal)
The dillinger escape plan ( math metal)
Necrophagist ( progresive death metal)
Hammerfall (power metal)
Blind guardian ( power metal)

Now go and have fun 🙂

can you recommend me 3 songs for Cynic and Therion please? thanks 🙂

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@billmeedog 8150 wrote:

Hey Fretdancer69,

Here are a few ideas I’d like to share:

1.) Try to work on weaknesses more than strengths! (Be honest with yourself here!) :rolleyes:

2.) If you compose/write original music, try to leave some time for that (although it’s tough to “schedule” when your going to be “creative!?!“ (LOL!)

3.) Use a metronome to maximize your efficiency!

4.) Put yourself into musical situations! If you’re in a band, this can be going over your band’s material (originals or cover/copy-songs) If you’re NOT in a band GET INTO ONE! :p (LOL!) If you like blues, perhaps sit-in at an area open-mic/blues-jam. Whether you’re in a band or not, WORK ON YOUR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS WHILE USING JAM-TRACKS/BACKING-TRACKS! 😎

5.) Reserve enough time to woodshed your favorite Infinite Guitar lessons/tutorials – (LOL!) :p

6.) If you really aspire to be an excellent all-around player, you should practice/learn songs from genres that you’ve NEVER played before! IE: Say you’re a “metal-head,” then try learning some Funk, Ska or Reggae! 😎

7.) Record yourself periodically for accurate evaluations of strengths & weaknesses. 😉

*** BTW, I love the fact that you allocate 10 mins. to strech-out/wam-up! (Sean Conklin would highly approve of this decision! – LOL!)

Best of luck, and I hope I’ve helped!

~Bill Meehan~ 😀

@arc_of_descent 8153 wrote:

Great advice all around. I’ll pitch in with one method which is really working for me. As Mosjem said, 2 hours a day is a lot. What I do is just think of the next 5 minutes. Believe me, you can achieve a lot if you practice/focus on a single phrase of an exercise continuously for 5 minutes (with 10 second breaks in between). This method is quite common and you should find plenty resources on the net I guess.

But then, take it to the extreme! As an example, I wanted to learn Through The Never by Metallica and its a crazy song with continuous downpicking with palm muting on the low E string. So I practice continuous downpicking for the entire 5 min slot. I can now play eighth notes at 190 bpm. Not all through of course. I play quarter notes when my hand feels tired and resume it back to eight notes. Check out Sean’s Speed and Stamina exercise which utilizes this method.

Have fun!
Rohan

Thanks for the input man! Ill try new styles like you say, reggae sounds fun and ska sounds interesting, im going to jam to some Marley tunes 😀

Thanks for all the help guys. Its been 2 days with the new 2 hour practice schedule and its going great, it lasts exactly 2 hours and 10 mins ( yay warmups :p ) and i dont get that tired and i still want to pick up the guitar later on the day to jam 😀

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Thanks, im gonna check those out 😀 . By the way, ive listed to Dilinger Escape Plan, but what is exactly Math Metal? I dont get it lol :p

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@Mosjem 8144 wrote:

Oh to be young and have that kind of time to developing your guitar skills :D. Fretdancer if I could give you a word of advice it would be this. You could easily combine some of those techniques to get some efficiency out of your routine. What I do for my routine…..since I’m 39 and am lucky if I get 2-3 hours a day to play 😀 …….is combine those techniques. Like for 1 hour I will practice sweeping and AP. Then for the next hour I will practice Tapping and Legato. I also think you should spend some time learning some songs. If you want to play like Vai learn a Vai tune. If you want to play like Rick learn one of his tunes. This is where you are gonna build up your lick vocabulary and get ideas for your own tunes. One thing I have noticed from watching youtube shredders is that there are a bunch of them that can shred like crazy but their phrasing is horrible. They haven’t learned any music they have just learned to play excercises……so that is what their playing sounds like…..excercises.:(

Another thing to think about is that when you practice a technique you really need to break it down and figure our what specific things need to be worked on in that technique. Like tapping for example. I have found that the biggest problem people have with tapping is tapping across the strings…..or changing strings. When you are descending in a lick and you change strings there are 2 ways to do it. You can change string by tapping the next note on a differnt string with your tapping hand or you can change strings by doing a left hand “hammer-on from nowhere” onto the next string. When ascending you can do the same thing. Make sure you have some licks in your routine that cover ALL these different facets of tapping.

Every technique can be broken down like this so make sure you do it for every technique. Shredding is nothing more than simple licks played extremely fast and accurate.

Good luck fretdancer……m/m/

Thanks man, dont worry, sometimes i just pick up the guitar to jam and play some licks, no serious practicing involved, and i guess thats why i got some really nice vibrato and nice licks tahts why i wanted to get more serious into the ‘complicated’ stuff.

Ive thought about it and im going to reduce it to 2 hours daily, but ill practice different stuff each day. Because i dont have much time, college, gym, and all stuff dont let me do 6 hours. So thanks for all the input and great advice guys i appreciate it very much 🙂

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Woah sounds very cool man, i wanna signup so bad 🙁 i think ill do it this year 😀 , by the way, what guitar are you using? I can see its an Ibanez, but what model? Btw, awesome playin man 😀

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