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A jem with the special frets?

I have 440 reasons why I don't want to change the standart tuning of A=440

I see the notes, the scale i'm using at the moment in the entire fretboard and all the possible arpeggios.

He should play that song live.
C'mon steve, bring a 7 string to road!
Petrucci does it and doesn't bring a back up! Why wouldn't you be able to do the same?

Don't drink energy drink, drink water, they are right.
Eat.
Rest for 5 minutes or then every now and then.
That's it.

it depends.
try to play van halen riffs, all those triads with distortion, it will sound horrible.
running with the devil for example.

and why did you said that?
I don't get it.

what?

Play that chord, listen to it
put distorsion on and listen to it again, then tune correctly that note and listen to it again, even with distortion it will sound in tune.

Anyone that learned Die to Live would notice that the A chord on the riff is out of tune, it's more noticeable when played with distortion. The C# of the 2nd string is the most out of tune note of that chord. The awesome thing, is that if you out of tune a little the 2nd string (I think that making ...

I thought that it was strange coming from Steve.

Mikey wrote:

Luan wrote:That is not cool, I thought Steve had more respect for the people that plays with him.

Uh, dude, they are joking. Neither of those things happened.

Mikey
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ahhahaha, for a moment I thought he was a tirant!

That is not cool, I thought Steve had more respect for the people that plays with him.

When we talk about flat 7th, we are talking about mixolydian in a way. When we talk about sharp 4th, we talk about lydian. But! there is a mode called lydian b7 (or more rarely, mixolydian #4) that is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. Basically it is a major scale with a sharp fourth and flat se...

That scale is cool for making effects, like in movies/games, etc

Hi to everybody, it would be great if steve or anyone could tell me something that I have doubt: When Zappa improvised, his choices of notes were awesome, he played notes like if he were a violinist, it is hard to explain in words. My dad said he uses indian scales, wich I can't confirm, but it coul...