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    • November 26, 2009 at 6:47 pm
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    TheAngusBurger
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    Hi there,

    I’ve been on the forum for quite a while, but have never gotten round to posting, so I thought I may as well introduce myself…

    My name’s Angus, Tom will know me as I’m taught by him, along with Tom’s ex-tutor Graham Young, on a Sunday at a music school in Leeds. I’m 14 and have been playing since I was 10.

    I’m currently into a lot of jazz-fusion, Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan, Greg Howe, Frank Gambale and the like. I’m nowhere near being able to play like them in the slightest, but I’m working on it! I also play a bit of classical music, specifically Bach, along with Kreutzer, Vivaldi, Bartok and some others.

    What else…I use a Fender Mexican Strat with Sperzel Locking Tuners, and a Zoom G9.2tt (which I’m looking to replace, I’m not a fan of it really…) I also share Tom and Graham’s use of Perfect 4ths tuning. Oh, and I’m left handed!

    I’m contemplating a Premium membership, but for now I thought I’d get to know you all!

    Angus

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    • November 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm
    Sean Conklin
    Sean Conklin
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    Hey Angus, welcome to IG! That’s awesome that you’ve taken lessons from Tom. And that’s also really cool how you’re starting out at such a young age. Keep it up man!

    Looking forward to having you around. Take care,
    Sean

    • November 29, 2009 at 6:44 pm
    Richard Lundmark
    Richard Lundmark
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    Welcome Angus!
    At first i reckoned (by your user-name) that you were heavily into AC/DC šŸ˜€
    Cool to hear you’ve been taking lessons with Tom, can’t imagine a better tutor
    to teach you fusion man =)

    • November 30, 2009 at 2:24 am
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    billmeedog
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    @TheAngusBurger 9524 wrote:

    Hi there,

    My name’s Angus, Tom will know me as I’m taught by him, along with Tom’s ex-tutor Graham Young, on a Sunday at a music school in Leeds. I’m 14 and have been playing since I was 10.

    I also share Tom and Graham’s use of Perfect 4ths tuning. Oh, and I’m left handed!

    I’m contemplating a Premium membership, but for now I thought I’d get to know you all!

    Angus

    Hi Angus, šŸ™‚

    Welcome aboard! šŸ˜‰ Richard Lundmark is correct in that Tom Quayle is what I would consider to be one of the finest teachers of fusion I’ve ever experienced šŸ˜Ž (and I’ve been at this for a very long time my friend! – LOL!) Best of luck with your studies and your journey on this strange instrument we all play!!!

    BTW, I think it’s an awesome idea that you’re already into fourths-tuning. I transcribed one of Tom’s improvisations (if you’re interested, search the forum-boards here at Infinite Guitar and look for “Tom Quayle Transcription.”) and after messing around with the fourths-tuning one day (just to see how strange it would seem) I was surprised at how quickly I was getting use to it! That said, I do have about 27 years of standard-tuning contributing to my finger-muscle-memory – (LOL!) :rolleyes: (Although I’m fairly handy at Drop-D and I do like playing slide/blues-rock in the open major-tunings: Open-G (or A) and Open-D (or E).

    Incidently Angus, you have a very impressive set of influences/guitar-heroes BTW! For what it’s worth, I read an article where Allan Holdsworth claimed that if he were to start playing guitar all over again, he would DEFINITELY start-out in fourths-tuning!!! Imagine that! šŸ˜‰

    Best of luck and see you around Angus! šŸ˜Ž

    ~Bill Meehan~ šŸ˜€

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