Ravenous Yam

Yeah guitar is my instrument. Let's see... Mostly guitar is just practice, practice, practice. But it really helps if you listen to and try to integrate into your own playing as many different styles as you can find. And don't just settle for easy stuff either - try and incorporate really technical music styles into your playing, it'll really really improve your playing. Try some: flamenco, jazz fusion, 80's shred (Vai, Satriani, Gilbert etc.) - really just learn as much as you can. Jazz and classical are the most technically, harmonically, melodically, and physically difficult music styles there are, so try lots of various jazz styles, and some classical. One of the biggest guitar-playing epiphanies i had was the application of notes and patterns together. This is kinda hard to explain, but i'll try. Because the fretboard is pretty much a grid (totally different from most instruments), once you get the hang of it you begin to see how the notes connect across the strings in a very predictable way. All you have to know is the root note, and you can eventually see all the different chord, scale, and arpeggio patterns that build off that note all across the fretboard. For instance, if you look at the attached picture (of an Amin arpeggio), you can see how if you start at A, the m3rd ( C) is always a specific number of frets and/or strings away, regardless of where the A is. Same goes for the 5th(E). The patterns get kinda screwed up as they go over the G to B string transition, because they are tuned differently than all the other strings. E->A(4th) A->D(4th) D->G(4th) G->B(3rd) B->E(4th) The G-B screws up the patterns a little (the patterns are different, but they're still there), but once you get the hang of it, its easy. The patterns are hard to explain, and i've kinda been rambling, but the point is that if you know all the notes on the fretboard, you can pick any one as a root and build (eventually) any chord, scale or arpeggio with total ease, because you see it as a geometric pattern rather than notes on a staff, of fret numbers, or whatever. Hope that can be of some use.

Hahaha. That sounds suspiciously close to what caused my shoulder to hurt in the first place. I might be crazy though.

My shoulder hurts a lot. Somebody fix it please.

Cool, cool. If you have any questions, just ask.

I AM LAZY AND NAKED.

Yeah i hate that commerical so much. Although i found this quite funny:

Right handed. Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese cuisine?

Interesting. Maybe you have magic ice. Or maybe it only works sometimes, i dont know. But if you freeze a capped bottle of water the bottle will explode.

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Indeed, ice takes up much more space than water does. If the ice that is underwater were to melt, the ocean levels would drop dramatically. And since most of an iceberg is underwater, there's not really any threat whatsoever of the oceans rising from ice melting. Of course, the ice that is on land and not already submerged does not take up any space in the oceans currently, so if it were to melt, the oceans would rise. But i'm pretty sure theres way more ice floating than on land. Try it! Ice takes up much more space than water does.

Mild. But i prefer mozzarella. Iron age or Bronze age?

Aha. I never considered the difference, but that makes sense. Still, i'm not gonna see it.

Yeah its good times. Like our own little private music party. Their loss!

Aside from not really wanting to see it, im really not gonna see it because they said 'based on a true story'. Exorcism is pure and utter bullshit.

If he did pull it out of his ass, he must have quite an intelligent ass. Wikipedia I don't know that they're hard-and-fast rules, but rather general guidelines... or whatever.

Wilco - Any Major Dude Will Tell You

Haha. "Very well". Ok. A suspended 4th chord is neither minor nor major, but instead has a 4th in it in place of the (minor or major) 3rd. The chord formula is 1 4 5. Generally (although not exclusively) the suspension is used to carry over a tone from the previous chord in the progression. In this, a note from the previous chord becomes the (suspended) 4th of the new chord. Example: Bm (B[1] D[b3] F#[5]) moves to Asus4 (A[1] D[4] E[5]) The D note is carried over from the Bm to the Asus4. Then, generally, the Asus4 would be followed by the 4th moving down to the 3rd(C#) or m3rd(C ) depending on the active key. However, a suspended chord can be used any way you want in popular music, and does not have to either suspend a note from the previous chord nor resolve down to its own minor or major triad. Suspended chords used in this manner are used a lot in contemporary rock, especially styles similar to emo and the like. There is also the sus2 chord, which behaves in exactly the same way as the sus4 chord, except is spelled 1 2 5. In the sus2, the 2 is suspended, and would resolve either down to the tonic or up to the 3rd. Most classical musicians do not recognize the sus2 as a real chord, opting instead to refer to it as a sus4 chord of a different root. Dsus2 (D E A) is harmonically equivalent to Asus4 (A D E), the notes are just in a different order. And yes, answering these questions does entertain me; i like to test myself on my music theory knowledge as i am entirely self taught (never taken one music class my whole life).

Somebody think up more questions!

What the flying flaming fuck are you morons (especially Dan!) talking about?

British. Herpes, Syphilis, Gonorrhea or Chlamydia?

Approaching 1200

Umphrey's Mcgee - Syncopated Strangers

Shawn Lane - Peace in Mississippi

The Servant - Orchestra

The Servant - Beautiful Thing