OldSkool

On another note, if you do invest the time and energy to go digital and decide to get an audio interface -- I would go with either Focusrite or Motu. Little bit more $$ but worth it because the preamps are better and they both do better with latency, which is how many fractions of a second the sound takes to travel digitally to your output device. Forgive me if I am insulting your intelligence by stating that but I paid he77 getting a straight answer out on the interweb. Im probably gonna upgrade soon to either or. Focusrite: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=focusrite&crid=24314BZZW1CUT&sprefix=focusrite+s%2Caps%2C474&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 Motu: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=motu+audio+interface&crid=28LG3RFOZLMPO&sprefix=motu+audio+inter%2Caps%2C1121&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Im gonna use this track to mess around in Reaper, my recording software, and will arrange a few guitar tracks with a lead. Ill post it up when Im done. I can't get that piano out of my head and can hear a lot of melodic options to mess around with. This will get me back on the guitar and off the mic somewhat..lol...kinda sounds like kicking a dog somedays learning how to sing...or burning a cat...but either way Im starting to get it..lol

Man...never saw them live at all....really wish I had the opportunity. Actually, I declined going to see them on Delicate Sound of Thunder tour in 87. Big mistake there. They weren't metal enough for my little juvenile mind back then....lol I never thought I could until I started following along with a coupld expert vocal coach types. Ken Tamplin and Kegan DeBoheme. They both sell courses for professionals or serious enthuisiasts and I have been doing just fine with all their free offerings....no singing in tongues here...lol

Im thinking that Frankenstein Charvel and pedals/tube amp has a pretty sweet sound. I used to love Charvel...very underrated IMO. EVH really engineered a very worthy sound for himself over the years so most anything produced with the specs he came up with should be pretty sweet. I kind of had the same relation with Ampeg once Lee Jackson got in the mix. He used to produce Metaltronix heads that were all solid state and they were awesome...had one with a half stack cabinet - Marshall with 4 12" in it. Then Ampeg hired him and Ampeg took on new life. Of course they had Zakk Wylde advertising them but he did use them as his main head. I had one in the 90s and actually wish I still had it. With the Ampeg versions he modified they were solid state/tube mix and had an awesome sound. You could either do solid state, mixed tube/solid state, or stright tubes on the clean channel and add your own effects board. Dude - I've been streaky for years with my music. If I am working with a group I am the most committed individual you will find but If I am on my own? geezz....may be an extended hiatus...lol

Actually, serious intellectual discussion papers do not work that way. At the very least you would provide a well defined list of terms with their definitions and even indicate that you may be proposing a change to the accepted definition with your research. The fact that you don't know this indicates that you have no idea how to write a research/discussion paper.

Yw! I'm kind of on a learning curve with going all digital. I have a fender twin vern and digitech rp355 but don't use them any longer unless I play live. I personally love Reaper for a digital audio workstation. They have windows and Mac versions ... I'm a Linux head from way back but no need to endure the configuration hell that comes with Linux. I'm prob gonna upgrade my audio interface, Beringer to focusrite or moti maybe. Right now I'm going budget routes until I'm a little more clear on what I want to achieve. I am learning to sing so that's been adventure. Just trying to stay inspired...it's real easy to get bored and not play for a few months...lol

Not trying to cosign anything here, but - Mike, I before I checked out of this thread for the weekend I was asking why you didn't define your definitions up front and at the beginning. I've helped edit scientific discussion papers with my former wife as the lead editor (cause Im just not conan the grammerian) and one thing that's fairly consistent is terms are defined clearly and defined up front for clarification.

Thanks! That piano is on point. I would work the guitar down to a recurring melody with stabs on the piano melody. I love deep sounds like the piano bring to the mix, kinda erie but strong and confident. Could play off that in quite a few ways really. BTW - Im a HUGE David Gilmour fan. So anything in that vain has my attention.

Thx!

Shizzle sounded like Lawrence Welk on crack.

Thanks! Im running a Mexican strat into a Behringer U-Phoria UM2 into my PC running Arch Linux. The effects on my guitar are from Guitarix and I am routing all of that into Reaper DAW to record and mix over the jam track.

Bob's son is in Way P now. I mean they sound better than they have in a long time, and most definately better than under Craiggers and Rosie.

Cool!! Dave Mustaine is one heck of a songwriter/guitarist and he has always staffed up his band with extremely good musicians.

Heres a track of me running some scales, chords, triads, etc over a melodic backing track that I DID not write. Only thing I added was the lead track. Literally no prep or practice just some rough improv...put 0 effort into mix a well...so it's a little rough. OldSkool-Jam.mp3

This is one of my old teachers from GIT -- haven't seen or hear from him in 30 years but he is hands down the best classical player I have ever seen or heard live. http://davidoakesguitar.com/ http://davidoakesguitar.com/Mp3/Black_Orpheus.mp3

Guitar Institute of Technology. https://www.mi.edu/ https://www.mi.edu/programs/music-artist/guitar/

Ahh! Too funny. I was looking to join a band back in 93 and was back in NYC after LA. Was working as a carpenter and was building a bar at 103rd and Broadway on the upperwest side. So on lunch I go to the Bodega on the corner and get a chicken parm and while I was waiting I ripped an ad out of the Village Voice. That ad led me to the way internationl. The guys I joined up with had all been going to fellowship and stopped before I met them Then within a couple years they started going again and the rest of my life is history...the name of the band you may ask? Toho Boho - yep from Genesis Tohu Va Boho. As much blow as we were doing we were definately without form and void. However, we had a really popular demo that we recorded over in Hell's Kitchen on 8th Ave and 38th street. We had major label interest as well....we self destructed from the coke though. From there I cleaned up and started chasing all things TWI.

Ill run some scales and post it up in a few. I can play, but honestly, it's one of those things where no matter what compliments come or go..I still feel I can't really play the way I want to and I have been around some truly world class musicians and sat at their feet while I was at GIT. But I can hold my own.

Yeah...that's the real deal.

For reference:

I started playin guitar in 1985. I learned how to play using 80s metal, not the hair band garbage though. I was more into thrash bands --- you named most of them already. For a few years I idolized Randy Rhodes and learned the entire Tribute Album (except 2 songs - No Bone Movies and Revelation-Mother earth - just never liked them) over the course of a few months. I could play his guitar solo as well. Not note for note, but I could burn nearly every song up. I was somewhat of a teen prodigy when I started playing. Music is something that comes really easy to me. From the ages of 13 to 17 or so I practiced around 4 hours or more a day. Used to be extremely dedicated. Im not really into metal anylonger. From Randy Rhodes I got in to Stevie Ray Vaughn and then went to Musicians Institute out in Hollywood Ca. Guitar Institute of Technology. It was a jazz based curriculim and it was one of the best times of my life. I was 18, living at the corner of Sycamore St and Hawthorn, right where the walk of fame starts a block over from LaBrea. When I wasnt out chasing young ladies, messing around on Hollywood and Sunset Blvds (Santa Monica Blvd was all tranny hookers...lol) drinking, mountain biking through the hollywood hills, climbing firescapes late at night, and hanging out on Venice Beach I was playing guitar. Which meant most of my time was dedicated to playing guitar. Played the Sunset Strip too when I was there and in fact all over greater LA. But yeah... I started out playing metal. I have to give credit where it's due...while I can't stomach the song or that style of music anylonger, musically they did good work.

I just listened to the solo...dude's not a shredder though he stayed in the cut with his harmony. I could shred the heck outta that from a solo perspective. I think the entire thing reminds me of that awful dance routine....just a new version...

Gonna write a new song called...drum roll....War Puppies.....I think it'll be a hit.

I'd have to start a mosh pit in the auditorium .... from back in my Suicidal Tendencies days....lmao