YTSEJAM Digest 3598 Today's Topics: 1) Atlanta Jammers and Rockline by Eric Desobe 2) Re: 8 finger tapping and email_address_removed by Calvin 6S 3) Re: Where to find LTE? by "Christopher R. Merlo" 4) Thshread by Banister 5) BOOTLEG FOR SALE (and no it isn't Lords of Sound) by WhoFooldU 6) 12 Toe Tapping by email_address_removed 7) Re: BOOTLEG FOR SALE (and no it isn't Lords of Sound) by "Christopher R. Merlo" 8) Impact, was "12 Toe Tapping" by Rick Audet 9) Re: More news around the hour by email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) 10) Re: Where to find LTE? by email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) 11) Billy Sheehan by K I L L M A R Y 12) dunlop jazz 3's by Thrak75 13) Re: 12 Toe Tapping by email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) 14) Re: BOOTLEG FOR SALE (and no it isn't Lords of Sound) by Rick Audet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:16:20 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Desobe To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Atlanta Jammers and Rockline Message-ID: Having only been in Atlanta for seven months and ignoring the radio stations, I was wondering if someone could tell me what station Rockline would be on if a station carried it. Satriani is supposed to be on tonight. Let me know, take the time. -Eric ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:25:18 EST From: Calvin 6S To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: 8 finger tapping and email_address_removed Message-ID: Stephen Dedalus asked about who to listen to for 8 finger tapping. I don't know if you are truly a beginner, but the first exercise I started (and still play today) is below. It uses every finger, but isn't super difficult. The hardest part is controlling open strings from ringing. Although it sounds like an exercise, if you play it really fast, it still sounds like an exercise. Here it is on the starting high pitched E string: (4) 4 (3) 3 (2) 2 (1) 1 |---15--8--13--6--14--7--12--5--| continue pattern up and down set up strings (as in go to the B string, then the G string, etc. etc.) the (#)'s mean right hand (if you play right handed). This is a really good starter exercise because of the mirror imaging with the hands. And just like the 1-2-3-4 picking exercises, it can mutate into just about anything you are working on. God, the technique talk is great, but perhaps somebody should start up email_address_removed (or is there already such a place) so we can keep it separated from the people who don't enjoy this stuff. We could go on endlessly and aimlessly on which player is the most exciting, but straight technique should be pretty tension free. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 18:30:32 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Merlo" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Where to find LTE? Message-ID: > Does anyone know where we are gonna be able to get Liquid Tension > when it comes out? Mall stores (doubt it)? Super stores (Best Buy/Tower)? > Mail order? Unless I'm wrong in my assumption that this is a Magna Carta release, you can get it anywhere you can get other MC stuff. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Man \|/ ____ \|/ "640 K ought to be enough email_address_removed "@'/ ,. \`@" memory for everyone." -Gates email_address_removed /_| \__/ |_\ "He won't need a bed http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Spirit of Radio" Saturday 2:00pm-4:00pm 90.7 WCWM-FM http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo/tsor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 18:43:59 -0500 (EST) From: Banister To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Thshread Message-ID: > My impression has always been (in an abstract sense): There is a minimum > time period in music during which emotion can be imparted to a note. I > don't know exactly what the duration is, but if you put more than one note > into that duration, then you are essentially "splitting" the emotional > impact over the multiple notes, and dulling their impact. Watch guitarists I've gotta disagree here. . . emotion is a tool which you can use to shape your performance, to imbue it with power. But the 'emotion' here is actually a huge range of feelings... you can use your anger in a raging passage (my favorite), your depression in a slow passage, your indifference in a blase passage, etc... you can't really generalize emotion to label someone when he's 'feeling' it or not... I've experienced (once) a sort of guitar orgasm, where I was playing so incredibly, so far beyond my ability, that It was like a climax (with no messy clean up afterwards). And I acheieved it through a cmbination of shred, tapping, chords, legato, slow vibrato, all other kinds of techniques. It was simply the most intense feeling I think I've ever felt (well, love aside I guess), and it's what I strive for every time I play, although I've never quite gotten there again... A big key in it is the physical side of playing... we tend to ignore sometimes the feelings in our hands when we abuse the fingerboard. But the point is, when we play, we exert ourselves physically, and that physiucality is a conduit for our emotion. It's like sprinting. There comes a point when you think you can't take it any further, and then you do, and it's incredible. If I've been playing an intense passage, and my hands are burning from the effort, and I think that it's going to kill me if I don't stop, but I keep it going, and burn a solo into the ground, that is an intense emotional feeling. When you strive for something you think is beyond your reach, then attain it. . . well, I think I've lost the thread (and most readers). . . Oh yeah. . I'm back. Kinda... I'm having the hardest time dealing with 90 jams in my inbox. . but I'm back trying to read em... And how fitting for me to come back and respond to something that has absolutely nothing to do with DT. . oh well. .. Hey Neal B. I'm alive! You still arround? figuratively, Rich ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:54:01 EST From: WhoFooldU To: email_address_removed Subject: BOOTLEG FOR SALE (and no it isn't Lords of Sound) Message-ID: Lost in the Sky (2cd deluxe digipak) shopping has been good recently. $50 min bid for this excellent soundboard of Dream Theater from Milan 1993. Taking bids through March 9. Glenn ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:04:50 +0000 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: 12 Toe Tapping Message-ID: > From: Pat Sullivan > My impression has always been (in an abstract sense): There is a minimum > time period in music during which emotion can be imparted to a note. I > don't know exactly what the duration is, but if you put more than one note > into that duration, then you are essentially "splitting" the emotional > impact over the multiple notes, and dulling their impact. I used to believe this philosophy as well, but then I searched for, and believe I have found, a paradigm counterexample. Listen to "For The Love of God" by Steve Vai (I chose this because most of you have or have access to Passion and Warfare). The song is obviously filled with soul and emotion, as well as technical control. As you listen, watch the timer on your cd player, and note the time that you think the song is climaxing emotionally. While this song just drips emotion like a Philly Cheesesteak drips phunk, the climax occurs, if you ask me, during a fast run. (3:50 - 4:17 with an aftershock around 4:30) If splitting the notes into subdivisions impacts upon the emotional value, then how can the most emotioonal part of this song (and many others) occur during a shred passage? The answer is simple. The emotion is not from any particular technique or tempo. It's from the phrase that's being played. The tendency is, more often than not, for people who can't play at a particular level to knock the guy who can, in any way they can. Eckie didn't really do this (though I disagree with his statement about M. Romeo) but a lot of people do. MICHAEL.ANGELO's response is: "I've never heard anybody who can play fast say 'Dude! Speed Sucks!!!'" which is amusing, if you consider that he's one of the guys just now recovering his soul after long years of "Shred for Shred's Sake" abuse. What makes something emotional, or soulful in guitar passages is how well the guitar is being used as a communicative medium. Usually, the song will dictate what should be played, whether that's fast or slow. Whether or not the playing is appreciated for its soul and emotion is another issue, though. The emotional appeal in music is at the very core of its inherent subjectivity. As such, one can study what about a particular passage makes it sound emotional to oneself, but can never judge for the next guy. There just happen to be coincidental agreements between players and fans, about particular players, like Vai, Satch, Johnson, Becker, etc... --------- > From: K I L L M A R Y > During Billy Sheehan's clinic, he mentioned that he just finished a > recording with Terry Bozzio and "some members of Dream Theater". This is called Impact. It features Bozzio, Petrucci, Sheehan, Guillory, and Sherinian, if my memory serves me. Look for it this summer (I think it's done, but Magna Carta doesn't want to release too many cds with the same players on em all at the same time). -------------- > I've got absolutely no experience with the technique, though I'm > quite advanced in alternate picking and sweeping. I'd like to start out > with easy stuff and work up to the crazy shit. Who should I start with if > I wanted to learn some 8-finger stuff? Well, the basic concept is to apply everything you do with your left hand (on the guitar, you perv) to your right hand tapping technique. Obviously, what you want to practice is legato techniques. Anything you can do to increase finger individuality is helpful. I'm going to have some stuff on my web page to detail this for people when i get a chance, because it's too hard to explain in just text. - Things to remember: 1). Always pull off the notes with your right hand... that is to say, never "push off" the notes. For instance, a pull off with your middle finger would not be an obscene gesture... you bring your finger towards your palm (though not that dramatically). 2). Brace your right hand on your neck with your thumb. If you anchor your thumb, you have more leverage. There are times when you need to break the anchor, when you're moving around a lot, but it's helpful to practice with the thumb touching the top of the fretboard (conducive to better technique) 3). Don't feel like you always have to use all 4 fingers on each hand in a tapping lick. The reason some people like "Octodigital Technique" rather than 8 finger tapping, is that 8 finger tapping implies that every finger is in use in every lick... which is stupid. The most effective sounding tapped licks are often played with 2 fingers per hand (that's the best way to approach tapping 7th arpeggios, for example). When you play regular legato, you probably rarely use all 4 fingers on your left hand on each string, without changing position. This applies for tapping as well. Of course, one of the best exercises you can do for tapping is just the chromatic scale, which means you WOULD use all 8 fingers. I like to play with arpeggios, pentatonics, and an inverted mode concept I came up with when I tap. But I'm not nearly as good at this stuff as you might think. 4). Where are you going to put your pick? Toss it, hold it in your mouth, or, like I usually do, hold it in your right middle finger, and do your tapping with the other 3. 5). MUTE! You must mute the strings, or they will ring out and drive you crazy! You can do one of two things: Cheat, and use a muting device (either a hair tie, or a piece of cloth, or an actual fret dampener like Batten) or go legit, like T.J. Helmerich (my favorite of the 3 GIT 8 finger masters I know of) and Jeff Watson. To do this, you just have to be mindful of the digits that aren't in use, so you can move them quickly to mute a string before it rings out. This comes as naturally as it does with regular legato... if you're conscious of the strings ringing out, you'll be able to develop a method to mute. > Tacek, since we'ver heard about your two-handed talent, I'm expecting > stuff from you. See, this ain't fair. Bafu said I am some kind of tapping whiz, and now I'm responsible for playing at some level I haven't even achieved yet. :) Well... in case anyone is wondering, Bafu is a master architect, electrician, and plumber. If you have ANY problems with any of these areas (leaky faucets, broken cd players... need a high rise apartment drafted and designed by next Thursday), just drop him a letter, and tell him I sent you. . > This news broadcast has been brought you by KillMary, who reminds you that > Ptacek is NOT spelled D-i-n-o- -K-h-o-e, and is NOT pronounced "Ing-Vay". It's pronounced "Wank-Nub" > From: Phil Carter > Subject: Shredded Fingers Beautiful post. :) > From: "Elydian" > Subject: Picks I use Fender Extra Heavy picks. I like a full size pick, with only a LITTLE bit of give. I don't like the complete rigidity of a metal pick, or the sound it makes against the strings, and I hate little picks. There's no purpose for em! The best pick I've ever found is unfortunately my Michael Wilton guitar pick, which is more rigid than an Extra Heavy, while being physically thinner... it's the perfect pick material. Obviously I can't use this pick, though, and can't find a way to get the same pick without having to steal a gross from him. "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! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 19:21:02 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Merlo" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: BOOTLEG FOR SALE (and no it isn't Lords of Sound) Message-ID: > Lost in the Sky (2cd deluxe digipak) > > shopping has been good recently. $50 min bid for this excellent soundboard of > Dream Theater from Milan 1993. Everyone has been so busy bashing people that want good money for boots they're selling, that I thought I would back Glenn up on his pursuit to sell LitS. This boot kicks ass, and it's worth the 50 bucks -- or more. The packaging is top notch - in the long-box shape, with one disc stored above the other. A 10 page (or so - I'm at school, and I don't have LitS in front of me) booklet with all sorts of snazzy pictures. And the performance is great. (Then again, you knew that, because the set list features TLF, albeit without the harmonies.) If you have the money, get this. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Man \|/ ____ \|/ "640 K ought to be enough email_address_removed "@'/ ,. \`@" memory for everyone." -Gates email_address_removed /_| \__/ |_\ "He won't need a bed http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Spirit of Radio" Saturday 2:00pm-4:00pm 90.7 WCWM-FM http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo/tsor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:39:04 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Audet To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Impact, was "12 Toe Tapping" Message-ID: Chris (p)Tacek wrote: > > From: K I L L M A R Y > > > During Billy Sheehan's clinic, he mentioned that he just finished a > > recording with Terry Bozzio and "some members of Dream Theater". > > This is called Impact. It features Bozzio, Petrucci, Sheehan, > Guillory, and Sherinian, if my memory serves me. Look for it this > summer (I think it's done, but Magna Carta doesn't want to release > too many cds with the same players on em all at the same time). Yes, except I think the full title is The Age of Impact, which will be released in June, hopefully. I was at a party this past weekend with Matt Guillory who happened to have an advance copy of Liquid Tension Experiment he played for us, and if I remember correctly he told me "Yeah, Age of Impact is heavier than this. I think you'll like it." The Spine ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:39:17 -0800 From: email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: More news around the hour Message-ID: On the Eve of Destruction, K I L L M A R Y said: > > >Oh yeah, I got more news. > >Concept has split up. Bummer. I love the band, I thought Flow was a kickass >CD, the other CDs were cool as hell too. Good songwriters. Singer Khan is That would be... ConcepTION... :) >Finally, Gordian Knot should start recording in April. For those who don't >know, it's Sean Malone's second solo album that now has a band name, >featuring Sean Reinert, Trey Gunn (King Crimson), Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower) >and special guests John Myung (what's his band again?) and Frank Snelwar >(Ever), among possible others... This should be a twisted project... All guitarists should try playing in the rain once... maybe we'll be rid of more of them ego maniacs ;) -The Doc -- #$%*#$*@ E-MAIL: email_address_removed #$%#$#$% _+_+_+_+ Unix, Internet, Intranet Engineering _+_+_+_+ [][][][] Dr. Mosh's Progressive Feast [][][][] #$@#$#@# http://progmetal.gmsnet.com @#$@##@$ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:42:54 -0800 From: email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Where to find LTE? Message-ID: On the Eve of Destruction, "L. Jason Hartman" said: > >Does anyone know where we are gonna be able to get Liquid Tension >when it comes out? Mall stores (doubt it)? Super stores (Best Buy/Tower)? >Mail order? Well, it's on Magna Carta... so you should be able to find it just about anywhere... Borders bookstores, Tower Records, etc, under the title: Bafu Vai is not fast compared to US -The Doc -- #$%*#$*@ E-MAIL: email_address_removed #$%#$#$% _+_+_+_+ Unix, Internet, Intranet Engineering _+_+_+_+ [][][][] Dr. Mosh's Progressive Feast [][][][] #$@#$#@# http://progmetal.gmsnet.com @#$@##@$ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:46:11 -0500 (EST) From: K I L L M A R Y To: email_address_removed Subject: Billy Sheehan Message-ID: Emporer of Earth: >I've also heard rumors he might play with David Lee Roth on his "Hey, >I'm not dead, I just sound like I am" tour. There is also talk that >he may take Michael Anthony's job in Van Halen because Mikey has lost >80% of his brain to Jack Daniels and has a hard time remembering how >to actually "play" the bass instead of just throwing it around the >stage. ]From the man himself: Nobody has approached him yet for either position. He said Dave Lee Roth just went off and started saying stuff without having ever talked to him. He also said as of now he has no plans of playing with Van Halen, but he added that Eddie is an excelent guitar player he'd like to play with. So basically these are rumours like the one about Nuno playing with= Queensr=FFche. When asked about other rock bass players, he said Doug Pinnick of King's X kicks ass :-) >I'd like "Useless shit that means nothing to me" for $500, Alex." ;-) Oh I'm sorry, I forgot this list was created just for you!!!! I know there's people in here who would like to know if there is a project with members of DT going on. Oh, and for the instruments thread... I'm a bass player who plays a Yamaha 6-string :-) Most guitar players here play Ibanez, but I bet there aren't that many Yamaha bass players here... I didn't get the bass because of JM though - I really think that Yamaha makes kickass basses. I also have a Neuser 5-string that I strung C-G-D-A-D rather than G-D-A-E-B as it originally came as. Later... NP: Adam Sandler - They're All Gonna Laugh At You. ____ ____ ____ /\ /\ /\/\ /\ / / /\/ /\/ /\\ /\ /__/ / / \/ \__/ / / /___/ /___/ \\/ \____ /\ \ / / / \/ / / / / /\ \ // \ / / \ / / / / / / / / \___\// / / / / / /__ /__ / / / / / /\ / / / \ \ \ \ \\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ / / \___\_\_\__\\__\__\___\_\___\_\___\_\__\__/ / \_________________________________________/ "Kill her. That's all you have to do." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:51:30 EST From: Thrak75 To: email_address_removed Subject: dunlop jazz 3's Message-ID: someone mention dunlop jazz iii's? i love em. not just that..... i swear by them. that's the only thing i'll ever play with, really. got the idea to do so by reading about vernon reid playing with those. he even claimed that there was a slight difference in guitar tone with the black and red picks. i believe he said the red picks give you a glassier sound (forgot what he said about the black ones). i don't exactly subscribe to that point of view, but i still fell in love with them, anyways... koba, wild. ************************************************************************ david y. kobayashi the new york law school email_address_removed "living comes much easier once we admit we're dying." -j. petrucci ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:53:10 -0800 From: email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: 12 Toe Tapping Message-ID: On the Eve of Destruction, email_address_removed said: > >> During Billy Sheehan's clinic, he mentioned that he just finished a >> recording with Terry Bozzio and "some members of Dream Theater". > > This is called Impact. It features Bozzio, Petrucci, Sheehan, >Guillory, and Sherinian, if my memory serves me. Look for it this >summer (I think it's done, but Magna Carta doesn't want to release >too many cds with the same players on em all at the same time). Yes, to be more precise, that would be AGE OF IMPACT... written by that phunky dude from Magellan, Trent... featuring the above mentioned shreduosos... So to break it down, we have from MC (www.magnacarta.net): Liquid Tension Experiment: March 10th Chaos Theory (with new name): Sometime April, maybe May Age of Impact: Most likely around June bordering on July. And of course the other notable releases like Platypus (Myung, Tabor, etc), Gordian Knot (those Cynic guys and that one madman from Watchtower). I have no idea at this point when they plan to bomb us with that stuff yet. And of course... Symphony-X's Twilight on Olympus (smoke that, EENNNGVAY), which should be released in Japan... Supposedly Angra is coming out with an album this year... and rumor has it they're talking to a big label here in the U.S. (ie: not MC, or Noise, or Massacre, or Metal Blade, we're talking label the size of Elektra). Stratovarius is coming out with a 2CD live set. And last but not least, Fates Warning is gonna release their live stuff later on this year, Video and CD I believe. And of course... Ptacek will be playing at an ARENA near you... with special guest Bafu of course. -The Doc -- #$%*#$*@ E-MAIL: email_address_removed #$%#$#$% _+_+_+_+ Unix, Internet, Intranet Engineering _+_+_+_+ [][][][] Dr. Mosh's Progressive Feast [][][][] #$@#$#@# http://progmetal.gmsnet.com @#$@##@$ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:59:26 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Audet To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: BOOTLEG FOR SALE (and no it isn't Lords of Sound) Message-ID: Christopher R. Merlo wrote: > > Lost in the Sky (2cd deluxe digipak) > > > > shopping has been good recently. $50 min bid for this excellent soundboard > > of Dream Theater from Milan 1993. [snip] > If you have the money, get this. I posted a praise about Lords of Sound and I'll praise this one too. This bootleg puts even legitimately released CD packaging to shame. It is the ultimate in packaging I've seen so far. The source is from an FM broadcast, however a couple of tracks on disc 2 are from an audience source tape. I forget exactly where, but it reverts back to the soundboard source a bit further into the disc. Another point of interest is that this was made by the now deceased boot company in Italy called "Why Not?". They have closed their doors, I believe, nearly two years ago, which means yes, you guessed it, this boot is long since out-of-print. Grab this gem if you can. Rick Audet ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3598 **************************