Any guitar players?

[metalwolf]

I recently started making my own picks out of prescription lids. They make perfect medium 'jazz' picks, and the CAUTION letters are raised which gives you a better grip. I never even buy picks anymore. ( as long as my 95 year old father in law keeps taking shit for whatever ) I don't do pills unless absolutely necessary.
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I use dunlop max grip picks.

I wonder though how long should one use guitar picks before they discard them

 

[the other mike]

I use dunlop max grip picks.

I wonder though how long should one use guitar picks before they discard them

I sharpen them on carpet and with sandpaper or nail files.

Used to buy these all the time---that hole makes a perfect grip and
kinda make it easier to shift to pinch harmonics or pick tapping and stuff like that.

 

[metalwolf]

I have dozens of guitars and play every day.

I have a whole room dedicated to my guitars.


I am glad I am not the only obsessed jukebox hero wannabe.

Amps, too? What are your favorites?

I once had a Line 6 spider valve, don't laugh. Everyone has to start somewhere.

I sold the Line 6 and currently have a Peavey blazer 158.

 

[the other mike]

So this is where ZZ top got that La Grange riff from....
@2:00

 

[Orangecat]

I once had a Line 6 spider valve, don't laugh. Everyone has to start somewhere.
I sold the Line 6 and currently have a Peavey blazer 158.

I have a Matchless modified by Dumble.

 

[the other mike]

My friend Jack Thammarat in Thailand......

original;




Vinnie Moore style wmggw
uploaded today

 

[Canon Shooter]

Killer U2 tribute.

Jesus, that drummer was on-point...

 

[Canon Shooter]

I once had a Line 6 spider valve, don't laugh. Everyone has to start somewhere.
I sold the Line 6 and currently have a Peavey blazer 158.

I have a Matchless modified by Dumble.

I'd need to see a picture of that...

 

[metalwolf]

Now that's a player!
Playing is not beating on a guitar nor is it screwing around with all sorts of altered tunings because you lack the necessary skill to play chords and are too damn lazy to learn.
BTW to be a chord it has to have at least three notes not some bullshit two note crap you call a power cord because you're a hack and can't play fer shit. And pissin away a lot of money on gear doesn't make you a player either.
All that said, I play like shit but at least I know it and am trying to learn to really play.

Don't you think though that playing fast has some talent?

It actually takes talent to play fast.

Like i seem to have trouble when playing metal songs and it gets to the really fast part of a song and i have trouble pulling off the guitar solo correctly.

You have to build up speed.

And seriously, who knows if you won't be in a guitar duel like with the karate kid and Steve Vai.

 

[the other mike]

 

[the other mike]

 

[the other mike]

It actually takes talent to play fast.

To play fast and accurately, and make music not noise.

Fastest dude I know of is this guy.
Faster than MAB, Petrucci, Gilbert, Yngwie, Satch, Vinnie Moore, MacAlpine, Al D....anyone.

 

[metalwolf]

It actually takes talent to play fast.

To play fast and accurately, and make music not noise.

Fastest dude I know of is this guy.
Faster than MAB, Petrucci, Gilbert, Yngwie, Satch, Vinnie Moore, MacAlpine, Al D....anyone.

Kewl

 

[Orangecat]

I'd need to see a picture of that...

 

[Orangecat]

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I like those, too. Great design.

 

[the other mike]

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I like those, too. Great design.

I actually file them down to 'jazz-pick' size
for my alt-picking style and easier pinch harmonics I do a lot.
Better control and less resistance or something. It took awhile to get used to strumming with a smaller pick tho.....like Just got Paid or something where you're mixing it up a lot. I like the mediums - not thin or too thick.

 

[the other mike]

One of my fav players -

You cannot play with much more feeling than this.


He's like Gary Moore and Steve Morse in one.

 

[the other mike]

 

[the other mike]

Speaking of Steve Morse;

 

[metalwolf]

I wonder if you heard of Luca Turilli, he used to be in a band called rhapsody of fire, but is now in a band called rhapsody of fire.

It's complicated.

He knows the scales like aeolian,harmonic minor,phygian,locrian,melodic minor,pentatonic scale and a Japanese scale called the Hirajoshi.