Really? I've been spending all this time trying to use my fingers exclusively (well, there's some muscles in the hand itself working too.)

haha that's what im thinking cliff, thanks for the advice though delta

heres a great vid about the pinky



and one explaining my post above better than i ever could fast forward to 2:10

Oh wow. Thanks for posting that! Looks like I need to revisit all this...

ye thanks for posting those ones

Doing more trills trying to keep the fingers curled pretty hard to be honest. Kinda sloppy but ill keep at it.

These are the two solo's ive been working on.

F2B was the first solo I ever learned hahaha funny small world! BBBBUTT I wish now I had only spent that time learning sarod instead of wwanting to be like kirk hammet....

Hahaa! Kirk rules man. you seem to have an obsession with sarod lol, I think im still couple years away from even starting to learn it. How long have you been playing guitar?

i started almost 3 years back on the dot...i saw buckethead in guitar hero and since I could pass jordan on expert difficulty setting...I thought that electric guitar must be easy tooo....(-=

HAHA kids spent to much time on that game ... it's a false sense of accomplishment to me.

just a short video of picking exercises, thanks for all the advice guys definitely getting somewhere now.

Awesome stuff, Mat. You know, I would advise learning an actual piece of music over technique any day. I mean, what are the benefits to learning a Jeff Beck song note for note and being able to play along? Sure, your tremolo picking might not be as fast but, hey... you would know a Jeff Beck song note for note...

Keep on jamming out what you love, brother. Nothing wrong with it, and you sound great!

Thanks man means a lot! and will do hahaa

Ok...So I my objective is to channels my sarod pickings technique into something that is reminesque of the photo from belows...I know I will get there sooner or later if I keep practicing....But I wonder what sort of thoughts people here might have on what the shortest path (basically a straight line) between where I am with this stuff now...and how i eventually would like it to sound/be structured....



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I make another one week from not to see if and what I am able to improve upon.

It would improve your guitar playing more to do Scott's picking challenge from Pebber's daily practice module

Nick; go do the challenge. Just try it, I bet you have fun.

As far as a jam goes, I would say this is the best thing I've heard you post since your Bark at The Moon cover. It could be a lot better, though.

Why not try the challenge as well as this jam, and repost both in a week's time to see what impact the challenge has on your playing? Can't hurt...

Oh hey, here's something I thought you might find cool.
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Badass...

what guitar is it? or are you keeping it secret until you get it haha? and who's in the picture there?

Thats the one and only Shawn lane.

I suggest you go check out his playing..

definitely will check him out

yea I just watched a couple videos on youtube! He is AMAZING

That picture is of an Ibanez Universe I gave Shawn, him opening it up at at a gig. He had no guitar at the time and needed one, so I sent it. He was a heck of a nice guy, and a monster musician who loved all music. Country, Jazz, metal, classical, whatever. Really into soundtrack music... Oh yeah, absolute phenom at piano, too...

Started working on another cover. Still a ways to go, but I think I'm at a point where I'd like to read your feedback. Got this tone with a POD HD, but the whammy effect isn't great (to my ears), so I tried to avoid using it as much as possible. Thanks!