Yeah I know I will, I just wish I'd started earlier.

I don't think you should say you'll never be good because it just takes time and dedication and I've already put that in so far but I'm slacking lately.

I've noticed all the good bands nowadays have older musicians.

Racer X, Necrophagist, Symphony X, Bodom, Dragonforce, Nevermore.

That's just a few from my collection of favourites and I know there's loads more but you get the point. I think Trivium are doing well at a young age but the guitarists aren't amazing. Alexi was better at that age. At 21, he was writing/playing FtR or something.

i always was interested in music, but i had a teacher from which i started to hate it... my dad was playing classical guitar and i first picked it up at 10, then at 14 again, but he never was a good teacher, neither he wanted to show me anything. the third time i picked it up was wiht 18 (about 1yrs after i quit music-education with my teacher ^^) and teached it myself. my dad showed my only some chords and after a while showed my some sabbath and zeppelin riffs.

yes, and it takes time... PG played 9 yrs to get where he was 1986!

what do you mean by older musicians? so that they started writing music when they were 24?

Alexi recorded Something Wild with 18...

btw. i'm not sure but i think my wrist is getting better... maybe i will pick the guitar up again next week :D

edit: i don't know if you already did, but you should check out more of Michael Romeos style! you will love him!

No I don't mean older as in that, I mean the good bands TODAY are a lot older than the emp/scene bands that consist of 14 year olds.

My wrist was hurting today actually, but then again, I was going too fast on purpose so I stopped.

I don't like Symphony X that much tbh. I like Romeo's style but I'm not a fan of prog bands. They have some great riffs but I can't listen to a whole song.

imo i think 4yrs of practise and you're good, 6yrs and you're near you heroes.

I'm starting to think that too. I can paly pretty good when I'm properly warmed up. Like earlier, I was playing Alcatrazz tunes and improvising the solos and just going crazy and it sounded ok. I just need to start writing my own to see if I can play my own.

I still can't touch Racer X though.

[QUOTE=MRDuCran;13349525]I don't use sheet music to read from but it's useful for transcribing string concertos and stuff. Also, if you're trying to put piano music onto guitar and the only avaliable source is the sheet music, it helps to be able to read it for obvious reasons.

You don't sound like the kind of person that would use it alot or want to need to understand it, you're probably wasting your time.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. I dropped the class, but I'll work on Major/Minor scales when I've got some spare time. I picked up German instead, since I need that anyways.

I've been trying out the intro(and plan to learn the entire song) SNBN. I think the hardest thing I've played.

I only find the solo in that song tough tbh.

ooo mrducran is the leet at guitar!!!

i watched their tuska performancec in 2003 on youtube yesterday good stuff :smoke:

Yeah Alexi plays pretty well at that show.

he wears eyeshadow.

Nah, eyeliner.

[QUOTE=MRDuCran;13352009]I only find the solo in that song tough tbh.[/QUOTE]

Hmm. I've gotten to the verse. I'm going slower than I normally take a song since I want to get each part right.

The triplets aren't bad. The lead on the AD strings is somewhat tricky, but I'll get it. (cleanly)

You're a way better guitarist though.

[QUOTE=MRDuCran;13351170]
I've noticed all the good bands nowadays have older musicians.

Racer X, Necrophagist, Symphony X, Bodom, Dragonforce, Nevermore.
[/QUOTE]

Necrophagist are awesome, i didnt know people knew about em lol. i think im goin to see em soon.

by the way, how old was alexi when he started playing. i really wish my parents had pushed me onto playing the violin/viola at an early age lol

[QUOTE=MRDuCran;13352072]Yeah Alexi plays pretty well at that show.[/QUOTE]

Yeah he does. If I recall on the CHildren of Bodom solo he hit a lot of bad notes. Thing is with alexi, you never know if he hits the solos, he is never consistent with pulling his stuff off. I think he got lazy. On tokyo warhearts, he does really good.

my wrist is much better today; i can angle my wrist and it doesn't cracks anymore. though when i angle my wrist i feel the tension and a little pain... but its much better than 2days ago... :D

[QUOTE=metalhead_matt]Necrophagist are awesome, i didnt know people knew about em lol. i think im goin to see em soon.

by the way, how old was alexi when he started playing. i really wish my parents had pushed me onto playing the violin/viola at an early age lol[/QUOTE]

Me too. :) ([size=1]hopefully[/size])

Alexi was 5 when he started playing the violin and also learnt piano but started playing the guitar at 10 when he heard Passion and Warfare by Steve Vai.

[quote=Po0sH]Yeah he does. If I recall on the CHildren of Bodom solo he hit a lot of bad notes. Thing is with alexi, you never know if he hits the solos, he is never consistent with pulling his stuff off. I think he got lazy. On tokyo warhearts, he does really good.[/quote]

Unfortunately, that's true. It's a shame he messes up sometimes because his solos are really well written but he did play really well on TW. :) He always seems to play SNBN really well too, the arpeggio interlude part.

[quote=repcak]my wrist is much better today; i can angle my wrist and it doesn't cracks anymore. though when i angle my wrist i feel the tension and a little pain... but its much better than 2days ago... :D[/quote]

That's good news. Keep resting it and hopefully it'll be healed soon. :smoke:

My wrist pops all the time,doesnt hurt tho and i hope it doesnt start either

yeah, i will... and start rebuilding my muscles and movements slowly...


btw. when will you see Necrophagist? they were in vienna, but one week before i discovered them (i think i already mentioned this several times ^^)

They're in London on my bday, 15th October.

wow... great.

btw. bodom played on my name-day -> the holy three kings -> kacper, melchior, baldasar (don't ask me how to wrote the other two ^^)

Weird, I don't even understand that. :D

MRDuCran, where ya from?

other than lake bodom lol

[QUOTE=MRDuCran;13355890]Weird, I don't even understand that. :D[/QUOTE]

you know the three magi? who brought jesus the presents when he was born? the christians celebrate the three magi on 6 january (or was it the 7th?!) - well and the names of the three magi, were kacper, melchior, baltasar... my name is taken from one of the three magi (Kacper).
and children of bodom played on 6th january in vienna...

[QUOTE=metalhead_matt;13356123]MRDuCran, where ya from?

other than lake bodom lol[/QUOTE]


Hes from England

[QUOTE=repcak]you know the three magi? who brought jesus the presents when he was born? the christians celebrate the three magi on 6 january (or was it the 7th?!) - well and the names of the three magi, were kacper, melchior, baltasar... my name is taken from one of the three magi (Kacper).
and children of bodom played on 6th january in vienna...[/QUOTE]

By "magi" I'm guessing you mean kings?

As far as I know, Christians celebrate Jesus' birth on December 25th, hense Christmas. So I dno really what you're talking about.

[quote=metalhead_matt]MRDuCran, where ya from?

other than lake bodom lol[/quote]

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[quote=Lil’ Bloodred Ridin’ Hood]He's from Brazil[/quote]

:thumb:

yeah, kings.. dict.leo.org translated it to "magi"... whatever. yeah... ok... in christmas we celebrate jesus birth but there is a day for the three kings too... well, its not celebrated in all countries, but there exist a special day for the holy kings... its the 6th january.


yeah... mitch is a latin american dude

[QUOTE=repcak;13356696]yeah, kings.. dict.leo.org translated it to "magi"... whatever. yeah... ok... in christmas we celebrate jesus birth but there is a day for the three kings too... well, its not celebrated in all countries, but there exist a special day for the holy kings... its the 6th january.


yeah... mitch is a latin american dude [/QUOTE]

Oh right, I didn't know that.

:lol: i just found this guitar trade mark: scheiß

[url]http://www.musik-produktiv.de/shop2/shop04.asp/artnr/100034062/sid/!x38deatc/quelle/listen[/url]

and do you know wha scheiß in german is? its "sh[I]i[/I]t" ... thats a "sh[I]i[/I]t"-guitar

:lol:

Ahaha, nice.

interviewer: "and what kind of guitar do you play? esp, ibanez, jackson?"
you: "ah, no... its such a sh[I]i[/I]t-guitar, ya know?"

:lol: