!!Guitarist!!

[Hamsalad]

Hey guys just thought I would make a post for us guitarist out there to share our guitaring experiances or give eachother some tips or advice. So far I just know me and ironmaiden are the shredders not aware of anyone else but please everyone is welcome with a relevant / helpful post.

Also possibly share our favorite songs to play or what guitars we have etc... I'm sure you get the jist!

[Alex™]

yay! i was to lazy to make this!!! awesome lol.

so what guitar do you have/what do you want to have?

[Hamsalad]

i have a yamaha RGX, I know the newest version out is yamaha RGX A2...I guess its lesser quality than mine and they discontinued mine; I'll try to get a pic / description for it. Its really nice the action is real low and its a sweet transparent red...no dots on the fret board and a tribal symbol centered on the 12th fret. and nice smooth mahagondy neck.

also my friend pointed out to me that the lead guitarist from three days grace has my same guitar but in transparent black instead of red; which i thought was pretty neat.

I kind of want to be cliche and get a black gibson les paul. I like the look a lot; or a real good quality dean razor back prob dime bag darrel edition

same questions for you?

[Alex™]

I have a Epi Les Paul in sunburst and an old washburn maverick... i HAD a schecter synyster gates custom... before it got broken at a band practice lol not replacing that till end of summer though, need to do my GCSE's first, and i use a vox valvetronix 15w amp or my 90w fender automatic SE

edit: lol i forgot to add: sweet, i love those guitars man

[Hamsalad]

ya my 15W fender practice amp w/ built in distortions / effects just went to crap on me . the power light comes on but no sound...hmm...even tried different cables.

i'm looking at this 150W ibanezz amp on musiciansfriend, its like $380 but its got just fantastic reviews and people even said you don't even need any distortion pedals because the distortions so nice the only you will need is an effects processor because it only has delay i think.

the next amp i get i want to be able to play out w/ so i think ill get that one

I saw the ephi les pauls are great, they say cant really get a better guitar for the price

[Alex™]

nice i want a marshall stack...but they are like more than £1000....lol gtg sleepytime though

[Hamsalad]

i saw they have like a mini marshall stack its actually 2 main amps and the header peice or w/e i think it was around $400 or $500. looked like a pretty good deal IDK i think im gunna go w/ the ibanezz though i'll research it a little

[UmJammerSully]

http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6138

Thread merger plocks!

[Whalio Cappuccino]

Yeah, I was about to post that chaz. Beat me to it...

And I play the guitar too, I have in Ibanez, don't know the brand though.

I'll look for a video of the guitar.

Ah here we go, exact same guitar, just black, and no that's not me, although I probably can play that.

Mine is black btw.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XfW-ZYEB4"]YouTube - Avenged Sevenfold Afterlife SOLO[/ame]

[Hamsalad]

cool looks like a nice axe whaaaale, suprised you found that one chaz its been inactive for a while. i was planning on keeping this one active.

[Snrm]

woah nice guitar whaaaale!



erm yep heres my guitar.... you can even play rock band with it XD.

just joking i played guitar once but found i wasnt good at reading notes and stuff... idk music aint one of my talents

[Thegide]

Sweet, just the thread I was looking for to geek out in!

This is me:

[nomedia="http://youtube.com/watch?v=I6k8JUuGtQY"]YouTube - All That Remains - Become the Catalyst (solo)[/nomedia]

My main guitars are an Ibanez Jem (signed by Steve Vai at G3 '03) and an ESP Ltd. MH-400



I have a custom built rack powered by a Mesa Triaxis and a 2:Ninety stereo power amp. I also have a G-major effects unit in there. All my sound banks are programmed by MIDI and controlled by a Behringer FCB1010 footboard.


Rear view /w sexy sexy tubes:

Yeah, I was about to post that chaz. Beat me to it...

And I play the guitar too, I have in Ibanez, don't know the brand though.

I'll look for a video of the guitar.

Ah here we go, exact same guitar, just black, and no that's not me, although I probably can play that.

Mine is black btw.

I hope you can play that solo better than the guy in the vid^^ haha...

[Snrm]

you double posted it mate :O

but sweet setup!

[Thegide]

I can't get the stupid youtube video to link up... so yeah double posted during edits. You caught me! haha

EDIT: Perhaps the video is too old, or perhaps it was because previously embedding was disabled for this video on youtube. Oh well, click the link!

I've got a camcorder now, so hopefully I will have more videos up before long. This was done with a shoddy webcam synced up to audio capture in WMM.

[Snrm]

Yay caught!!! :O

and i really like the blue guitar!

[Thegide]

Yay caught!!! :O

and i really like the blue guitar!

Thanks. She's a real joy to play. The body styling is almost identical to some PRS guitars I've seen. It's got active EMG81/85 pickups which give it a really solid sound. Compared to the Ibanez, it wasn't even very expensive!

[Hamsalad]

**** man that is a sick *** set up... wow im impressed i've only been playing for a year but i play like a machine so i've gotten quite good quickly....

deffinitly plan on playing until i die as hard core as i have been. currently working on getting some buddies together to start practicing to do some covers out at some bars or something just for fun i would love that.

here is the amp i'm prob gunna get http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/p...Amp?sku=480945

reviews seem awesome and i havnt heard anything bad about ibanezz im going to try to find some pics about my guitar or just take some when i get home tonight

[Edit]: @snrm you don't really have to read notes you can tabs if you want thats what i am doing. i plan on learning theory / sheet music later

[Edit2]: Also the paint style of your bottom axe is almost just like mine except mines like cherry red main style w/ a darker red...actually the body is very very similar your pick ups look nice though I'll prob get some new ones for mine w/ tax returns along w/ the amp

[Thegide]

Back when I was in high school I was bugging my parents to send me to Berklee. I used to play about 3 hours a day then. Needless to say, things didn't turn out the way I liked so I never got to go. Sometimes I'll still play for 8 hours in a day, but those days are more and more rare since work and school keep me far too busy, not to mention video games are a total distraction :P All in all, I don't think I'm as good as I used to be, but I could probably get back there with only a few weeks of hard practice.

Anyways, I've been playing for about 17 years, and teaching on and off for the last 3. The best advice I can give you is practice a LOT and go and get professional lessons. Even if you don't *think* you need them, do it! Find an instructor who is interested in teaching you what you want to learn (not what they think you should learn). You will save yourself years of learning by doing so, that I promise.

If shredding is your thing, you should check out a guy by the name of Rusty Cooley, if you don't already know him, that is. As far as I'm concerned, he is the godfather of modern shred and has nearly inhuman technical ability. If you're in the Texas area, he also gives lessons^^.

I can't comment much on the amp, since I'm no longer familiar with amps in that price range. But if you ever need buying advice for guitars or high end gear let me know.

[Hamsalad]

ya when i first started playing i worked at this store by myself and it was slow as hell...i had my acoustic and i would literally play all day for 11 hours and probably even go home and play some more, so you can imagine why i progressed rather quickly..

currently i am taking lessons, the guys great but i don't just want to go in and be like teach me this song; although it is easier to learn from someone i'm more interested in techniques / scales.

ive had quite a few lessons where i learned that some times i tell him to teach me a song for fun but i've been messing around w/ the pentatonic and different patterns w/ that as well as learning the major scale and a dimished scale.

and your top guitar kind of looks like an ibanezz jem but black. I really need to keep consistantly giving it at least an hour of practice a night i usually always do but i work my *** off and like to chill w/ friends so ill usually get home and stay up later than i should practing.

working on sweep picking kind of now not as much as i should really hit the bricks on that.


and that name kind of rings a bell not really though, I know hes not the founder but bucket head shreds to what appears to be unrreal. i bet is were hes at and still practices at least 4 hours a day

[Thegide]

It IS an Ibanez Jem! I don't think they make this model anymore, but it is a 7DBK. The body is contoured so that there's these bumps all over the surface. It feels like someone dripped hot wax all over it. Very cool finish! It's got screw head inlays for fret markers and DiMarzio Breed pickups instead of the Evolutions that come stock on the VWH (white /w gold hardware) model.

While I absolutely love the Jem, these days I favor the ESP simply because of the different sound of the pickups. The Breeds are very hot, but solo playing on the EMGs is much more fluid, so they are more forgiving.