YTSEJAM Digest 3593 Today's Topics: 1) THE NEW QUEENSRYCHE GUITARIST IS... by Nick Bogovich 2) Re: Re: Maturity by Angus53 3) re: playing really fast! by AEllis1222 4) If there were no DT...? by AURACLE 5) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3592 by Nathan Rood 6) Re: Larry Carlton by The iban 7) 2 DT CD's for Sale by Tim Lodge 8) Help me, I am still here! by "Eric LaRue" 9) guitars by Chris Bowsman 10) Top 10 albums if DT never changed my world by Calvin 6S 11) Drummers and Wars by K I L L M A R Y 12) Sarcasm Reigns Supreme by Pat Griffin 13) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3590 by MentalHunk 14) Return of Shredology by Uroborosss 15) Economy Picking by Calvin 6S 16) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3592 by email_address_removed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:59:19 -0500 From: Nick Bogovich To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: THE NEW QUEENSRYCHE GUITARIST IS... Message-ID: <95D0B9C9CE8BD111B8DE0060971611D5144F58@BUDLITE> ..Yngwie Malmsteen. Who else? And before you post a flame to the jam about how irrelevant this post is: It's a freaking JOKE people! Do us all a favor and go to your local convenience store and buy yourself a clue if me or Graham or anyone else can't get this point across. in a Dr. Evil voice Thank you very much. Bogie ---------------- This spam has been brought to you in part by: Coldfire Medicated Pads - Cool down your flaming hemorrhoids with Coldfire Eckie's Philosophy on the US Government - Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. and by: Bogie's Whorehouse - When you need to get yourself a hole-in-one, Bogie will get you one above par. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:10:08 EST From: Angus53 To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Re: Maturity Message-ID: Well, my daddy will take a chainsaw to your daddies f--kin head!!!! So take that and like it! I don't know where this came from, its just a 2 cents. Not my 2 cents, just, 2 cents. later ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:17:55 EST From: AEllis1222 To: email_address_removed Subject: re: playing really fast! Message-ID: <<<>> Dude, you rule! You are so right! Joe is one of the coolest shredders! And you don't get the full effect of his speed unless you see him in person. Art The Official Joe Stump Website http://www.joestump.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:23:21 EST From: AURACLE To: email_address_removed Subject: If there were no DT...? Message-ID: Greetings, fellow Ytsejammers! In YTSEJAM Digest #3590, DragynLMC3 (Lisa) asked the $64 question: << I was thinking (oh ow, that hurt) and I was just wondering that if there was no DT (prog gods forbid) what would you have in your 10 CD player? (i do not have one, but this is after all just pretend...no more than 10 we don't want to scare people now with all your CDs) >> I'm thinking (OW! Hey, that *does* hurt!) that I'd want to have--AT LEAST--some Rush, some Allan Holdsworth, some Yes, some Steve Morse/Dixie Dregs, some Kansas, some Genesis, some ELP, some King Crimson, some fusion (maybe Brand X, maybe some Mahavishnu Orchestra, maybe some Return to Forever, maybe some Boud Deun, maybe some Jean-Luc Ponty or Shawn Lane), and at least one Shrapnel or Magna Carta or Legato release (but by whom? Greg Howe? Tony MacAlpine? Jason Becker? Cairo? Lemur Voice? Shadow Gallery? Altura? Brett Garsed & T.J. Helmerich?). Oh, and maybe some Black Sabbath or Marillion or Fates Warning or Rainbow or Twelfth Night or Threshold or Spock's Beard or Echolyn or Symphony X or Gentle Giant or UK...? You know, this would be so much easier if I only owned ten CDs. *sigh* That's probably more than ten, but I'm not sure. My head hurts too much to count now. Where's the Tylenol? OW! -- Jeff, corresponding live from Analgesia :^) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 22:25:56 -0500 From: Nathan Rood To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3592 Message-ID: > From: "Timothy P. Shough" > Subject: Guitarists and the sarcastically challenged > Among someone's lists of gratuitous CDs was listed: > > Larry Carlton > Is anyone here going to the > Berkshire Jazzfest this month in Reading, PA? He'll be there along with > Larry Coryell; this should be a great show. FYI-That's the Berks Jazzfest, taking place in Reading, PA. It's named after Berks County, where I grew up. I don't live there anymore, actually I live almost a thousand miles from there; so obviously I won't be going. For all the Bela Fleck fans on the Jam, he and the Tones will be playing a Reading 250th anniversary show with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, should be dynamite. Some of my friends will be there bootlegging. :-) > Tim -Nate ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:28:23 EST From: The iban To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Larry Carlton Message-ID: In a message dated 98-03-01 21:53:20 EST, you write: << I strongly recommend his CDs (particularly Sleepwalk) to anyone interested in emotion and versatility. >> yea that was me, and sleepwalk is my favorite track, but it's not a song by Larry Carlton, it's an old 50's or 60's surf song that he redid and jazzed up Rocky ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 22:37:43 -0500 From: Tim Lodge To: email_address_removed Subject: 2 DT CD's for Sale Message-ID: Hey all.. Ok, this is it. I'm letting go of the following 2 CD's fro $20 a piece and I'll split the shipping with the buyers.... DT - Home Sweet Home DT - Live in Long Island. http://nw3.nai.net/~axe/dt98.htm for scans, pics, setlists, and everything else! First come first serve. Tim email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 20:07:06 PST From: "Eric LaRue" To: email_address_removed Subject: Help me, I am still here! Message-ID: In case I haven't told you, I have successfully subscribed to the ytsejam using my new address. However, when I try to unsubscribe using my old address,(Namely, this one) I keep getting a failed delivery notice stating that it doesn't like the address.(email_address_removed, right?) Could someone remind me how to unsubscribe, explain to me why I'm not getting through, or unsubscribe me, por favor? (Run for cover...the long ass signature file is coming!) Complete with burning guitars, bashed up drum sets and sealed with a kiss, Eric Paul LaRue "I'm the Firestarter, twisted Firestarter." http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/6289 "I dont think thereshould be smiling in rock n' roll. If you smile while you play your instrument, it should be taken from you and smashed."-Marylin Manson ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 23:58:26 -0500 From: Chris Bowsman To: email_address_removed Subject: guitars Message-ID: what kinda guitars, amps, effects, strings, picks, etc...does everybody here use? Jackson Ps4, Yamaha RGX121D, Fender Mustang, Roland JC120, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Boss Metal Zone, DOD Flanger, and a Digitec Rp6 here.... chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:14:56 EST From: Calvin 6S To: email_address_removed Subject: Top 10 albums if DT never changed my world Message-ID: So top 10 lists are bogus (especially when people posting obviously don't know how to count to ten!), but I think it is good to sit back once in a while and think about what you really like and post. Besides, I've already seen a couple I can't wait to get because of repeated Top 10 postings. I've been waiting for Impulse music to send me my damn Savatage "Wake of Magellan" forever now!!! And now that I see it repeatedly posted, it only makes it harder to wait. I had also given up on Megadeth's CW but witht he comparison's to Rust, I may have to check it out! Okay here it goes, I will preface wtih saying #1 doesn't mean it is my very favorite and so on. 1 Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn 2 Magellan - Impending Ascension 3 Beatles - Revolver 4 Craig Goldy - Insufficient Therapy 5 Haji's Kitchen - self titled 6 Genesis - Trick of the Tail 7 Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security 8 Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force 9 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 10 Savatage - Streets 10 Seal - Seal (2nd album) 10 Wolfgang A. Mozart - Requiem 10 Adam Sandler - They're All Gonna Laugh at You 10 Dokken - Back for the Attack (Hearing "Mr. Scarry" made me go buy a guitar) 10 Liquid Tension Experiment (is that cheating?) Whew, that was harder than I thought. Never thought I would be able to narrow it down to 10. Oh yeah, and if I couldn't have Dream Theater, this band called Majesty has some pretty cool stuff too. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:17:16 -0500 (EST) From: K I L L M A R Y To: email_address_removed Subject: Drummers and Wars Message-ID: Tom Cox: >EXcuse me, > >but I believe I was speaking of MARSHALL AMPS in particular, and the way >they sound different with different power tubes. I have jammed with a >LOT of different guitarists and, IMHO, ithink that an older Marshall(JCM >series are pretty good) with EL34s kick the holy crap out of most of the >newer Marshalls that have 6L6s(5881s). The EL34s are extremely heavy, >but its not real easy to get a super clean sound out of them though. Oh sorry, I didn't know that's what you meant. I know a lot of people here, when they say they don't like Marshalls, say that about Marshalls in general. The JCM900s I played that I didn't like did have EL34s in them, as did this SL-X head that in my oppinion kicked total and complete ass. And my 30th Anniversary Head also kicks total ass IMO, even though I switched over to bass a while ago, I never sold that head cuz it just rocks all. >and BTW, I didn't post that damn Yngwie thing because I'm a fan of his, >I do like SOME of his chops, and I hate his rythm stuff. But I live in >a smallass hick town that is very deprived of music(good music) and it >just didn't seem all that productive to bash someone that at the very >least knows how to play a decent guitar solo. I know I was just a lot >too pissy about it, but its kind of hard sometimes when you get country >music shoved in your face everywhere you turn. Well, the ytsejam is NOT the best place to place your frustrations. Next time, chill down and make sure you post stuff when your mind isn't taken up by anger... I know cuz I've said things when angry, and all that happened is I made an ass out of myself. Take care, Christian. ____ ____ ____ /\ /\ /\/\ /\ / / /\/ /\/ /\\ /\ /__/ / / \/ \__/ / / /___/ /___/ \\/ \____ /\ \ / / / \/ / / / / /\ \ // \ / / \ / / / / / / / / \___\// / / / / / /__ /__ / / / / / /\ / / / \ \ \ \ \\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ / / \___\_\_\__\\__\__\___\_\___\_\___\_\__\__/ / \_________________________________________/ "Kill her. That's all you have to do." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:41:42 -0600 (CST) From: Pat Griffin To: ThE NuGgeTjAm Subject: Sarcasm Reigns Supreme Message-ID: >From: Bert Baldwin > > 1 - I find it helpful to simply check out the subject lines, skim > the posts, and if it doesn't look interesting, don't read it. Actually, I find it much more helpful to scan the 'From:' lines. > From: Chris Bowsman > > I am pretty sure "Yngwe" is pronounced "Ing-vay". If i am wrong, does > anyone else have any clue? "Dough-boy" > From: Jeremy Lucas > Subject: HELP > > Can anyone help me unsubcribe from the Ytsejam? I have tried both > addresses twice, and they bounced. E-Mail me privately. Send a message to email_address_removed subject: asdfatass messagebody: shred > From: JKorby1973 > > "My daddy can beat up your daddy!" > "No way!! My daddy can beat up YOUR daddy!!!" "Yeah? Why my mom is better than your mom!" "I guess you're right, my dad says the same thing." h t t p : / / w w w . p r o g n o s i s . c o m / g a b b o / | Pat Griffin Reality Squared Design | | email_address_removed email_address_removed | h t t p : / / w w w . p r o g n o s i s . c o m / g a b b o / ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:24:53 EST From: MentalHunk To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3590 Message-ID: In a message dated 98-03-01 16:33:59 EST, email_address_removed writes: << He said that Steve Morse had made an album called "Guitar Battle" (or something like that) where rock guitarsists played classical pieces and that he (John) played bumble bee there. I don't know if it's already released. >> For those interested, goto JArt music's web site : http://www.jartmusic.com/ They have this in their new release section (import right now) Hope it helps...... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:37:29 EST From: Uroborosss To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: Return of Shredology Message-ID: > From: email_address_removed > Subject: Shredology > > There are very few people who can play a shred passage greater in length > than 30 seconds, without rests (the musical kind, not the "Gee... > I'm tired" kind) I agree. I was referring to the "Gee... I'm tired" kind. The "shreddaz" who actually tire out, as in have to put their pick down, massage their hand, massage their shoulder, drink some Gatorade, etc. Some choose to hold their breath while playing and tense up their arm so that the picking stems from the whole arm shaking instead of a controlled hand motion. These are the sort of people who can't masturbate for longer than thirty seconds, either. It's all in the technique! Loosen up! Stop making your entire arm rigid! Recognize the flexability of the wrist! You'll be more satisfied, and not just with your guitar playing! Boy, what a foul thing to say. (punches self) What I MEANT to say was that I was referring to the shreddaz who mentally bug out after fast passages with that "I can't play any more notes" attitude, i.e. "We usually don't play that song until last because I can't make it past the solo blah blah blah." Usually it's due to lack of warming up, but there are guitarists whom I have patiently listened to who crash and burn after playing fast for too long, be it thirty seconds or two minutes of chromatic drills. Be the limitations physical or mental, it's still amusing to see someone who can play faster than you for a minute or so, then promptly devolves into a numb sponge of shred inactivity. Once I figured out that I didn't need to tense up my entire upper torso (including the eyebrow muscles) to play fast, and discovered that I could actually play the guitar from the elbows-down, from out of nowhere I suddenly had the stamina to practice for longer than an hour. Clarified? > I have never met someone who has practiced speed fundamentals > and not become a reasonably fast player. This issue also depends on one's standard of speed. Mine has changed several times over the years, usually whenever I hear a level of playing I've never heard before. "Whoah, I thought THAT dude was fast...but THIS dude...THIS DUDE IS FAST." Your definition of "reasonably fast" just might be Kirk Hammett, whereas mine might be Mr. Malmsteen himself. Do you base the definition of "reasonably" on what YOU can do, or by how many other guitarists can play at that level? Is that standard set by Shrapnel Records? Is "reasonable" defined by what the individual is "satisfied" with? Or by the amalgam of what is considered fast playing in the world of guitar? > Believe it. Everyone who practices the right things can learn to play fast > in one way or another. This is true as well. When I said "NOT EVERYONE CAN PLAY FAST" I was referring to the mental aspects as well as the physical. Practicing complacency is much harder than practicing arpeggios, but both are necessary to succeed. The defeat usually lies within the mind. Occasionally there are physical limitations, such as low manual dexterity. More often than that are people who just can't think that fast, and they will actually say "I can't think that fast, my ears can't keep up with that stuff, etc." Sometimes they break free, sometimes their fear confines them. It is a lack of belief in oneself that keeps one from true shredding. Even those who believe in themselves can sometimes get carried away and begin believing in themselves TOO well, becoming impatient with their slow progress, becoming angered, and finally giving up, frustrated and cursed to remain at 80% of their full potential. Belief in oneself is not enough; patience must follow, for without time nothing can develop. Now, go home and practice. Patiently. And warm-up first. And stop doing that. Dream Theater rules. Bafu Vai p.s. this must be boring the hell out of the non-guitarists. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:47:00 EST From: Calvin 6S To: email_address_removed Subject: Economy Picking Message-ID: Now let me start off with - am I the fastest guitar player on the planet? No. Am I close? Not even. So don't take the following as anything but a personal experience with guitar technique. I noticed that Alternate Picking was #2 in what is already an infamous list (I liked the breakdown personally). Any guitarist should be able to play atleast with some degree of accuracy and fluidity, all techniques. I usually just leave it as legato and staccato, because everything else (besides experimental) is just a division of these two effects. Anybody who excels in one and can't execute the other is just a circus show. Well, I take that back. I lean more towards guitarist needs help if they turn licks all legato because their staccato is poor, and vice versa. It is like Petrucci so eloquently put: The expression thing is kind of blown if the technique isn't there to express yourself (that's a paraphrase, don't want to go find the actual issue and quote). But where was Economy Picking in the list? For a quick reference, this is economy picking (because sometimes the term has been bastardized) |---------------------------------------------------------------| |---------------------------------------------------------------| |---------------------------------------------------------------| |-------------------------6--7--9--10------------------------| |-------------6--7--8-----------------------------------------| |--5--7--8----------------------------------------------------| /\ \/ /\ /\ \/ /\ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ = downstroke (as in towards the ground) \/ = upstroke (as towards the ceiling) Sorry, if it seems so "trivial" to do this, but just because you love Dream Theater, doesn't mean everyone is familiar with some guitar jargon, even guitarist. The Frank Gambale method!!! This is how I started playing when I first picked up the guitar (I also started with a Dunlop Jazz III pick), but then I took lessons and my stupid guitar teacher told me I should pick everything Alternate Picking and get rid of the tiny little pick! My first year I progressed quickly, but I could never play as quickly or as cleanly as I wanted to. Then I went on for a couple years with little to no progress until I got to MI. Then my roommate from New Hampshire said I picked funny (Alternate Picking) he showed me economy picking, where I responded "That's how I started playing, but was told I would never be fast this way." Well, I started to revert back to economy picking, bought some Jazz III picks, and within a matter of a month I was playing much, much faster and cleaner. I had also noticed that with the economy of motion, I felt like wasn't even working hard. I could play for as long as I wanted with no fatigue. It just didn't feel like I was struggling anymore! So the point(s) I am trying to make is 1) Economy Picking was left off and 2) Alternate Picking is just as valid, but play however you feel natural (as long as you don't forget dynamics!) is the best way of picking. If it feels natural to you, odds are you will struggle with it less later on. Economy Picking seems to be the minority compared to Alternate Picking. In a sense Economy Picking just combines Sweep and Alternate Picking, so it's like two techniques in one. Does anybody else Economy Pick? I don't switch between Economy and Alternate picking because that just makes both of them sound sloppy because I could never feel comfortable doing both. So I kinda threw Alternate Picking out the window. My own personal shortcoming, I'll get over it. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:07:52 +0000 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3592 Message-ID: > From: "Vincent G. LuPone" > Subject: Re: Shredology (sweep-licking in particular) > > At 05:23 PM 3/1/98 -0800, you wrote: > >1). Complex multi-finger tapping (Ron Thal once called it > >Octodigital technique) is equal to or greater than alternate > >picking, which is equal to or greater than sweep picking, > > I agreed with you until you said that. I dunno about you, but I've found > sweep picking to be the fastest way to play a passage. I should have made myself more clear. That was my ranking of how techniques are respected and acknowledged. Sweeping and 8 finger tapping are, without a doubt, the fastest non-power-drill way to play the guitar. But at maximum speeds, 8 finger tapping becomes difficult with respect of having anything else to play, and sweeping is usually limited to chord tones, and sometimes you want to play parts of scales as well. I am aware, of course, of Stump and Gambale's alternative picking method that applies a slight bit of sweeping technique to alternate picking... I just don't care to practice it, because I'm not hurting for that extra 15 BPM in my playing... I'd rather just work on getting everything clean and smooth. > Among someone's lists of gratuitous CDs was listed: > > Larry Carlton > > Wow...I've never seen another Carlton fan on this list before, but > considering all the recent discussion of various guitarists' styles, > Larry's is certainly noteworthy. There are a few of us around. :) "Apathy is the "suckbird" on cynicism's bloated carcass." - Dennis Miller Chris Ptacek email_address_removed http://www.prognosis.com/madsman Go Home and Practice! ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3593 **************************