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Great to see ROTM. Live long and rock longer.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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I got the acoustic and it is signed by MAB with my requested dedication. Totally cool.

I guess I will have to look up how to varnish the signature so it stays fresh. I dont baby my guitars, I play them and mostly leave them out, so it will be good to have the autograph somewhat protected.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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Great song and fantastic solo. Sounds like Doug’s lead style sneaked in there, especially at 04:08. 🤘 By that I mean the lick’s rhythm and the way the phrases resolve.
This vocalist and song style reminds me a lot of a socal band that also has an AIC sound, they had some great tracks out, vudu fly https://vudufly.com/music . Not sure they are active anymore.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

Sounds fantastic. Will you release CDs for the album? Sounds AIC like. Vocal harmonies would make the chorus really pop like AIC.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

awesome headbanging. those are the best shows, tight stage and close to the band. hope she was wearing ear plugs.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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440,000 cassettes sold last year …

https://www.billboard.com/pro/cassette-tapes-comeback-taylor-swift-artists

As cassettes have come back over the past seven years — from 81,000 U.S. sales in 2015 to 440,000 last year, a 443% increase, according to Luminate — a small number of manufacturers, including ENAS, have capitalized on the mini-boom. cassette manufacturer, Nick Keshishian of ENAS Media, opened his Pasadena, Calif., company in 1985.

“There’s a small and dedicated cohort of people that buy it and enjoy it. I don’t see it ever taking a major share of the market again,” says Ben Swanson, COO of Secretly Group, which has put out small cassette runs for Mitski, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bon Iver and about two-thirds of the top independent label’s overall releases. “We’ll do anywhere from 200 to 1,000 copies, depending on the artist. Kind of meeting the fans where they are.”

the cassette business is stronger than the Luminate numbers suggest, according to Greg Frehner, co-owner and president of Toronto-based duplication.ca, since much of the market is due to indie bands selling tapes at merch tables, which are often not counted. Unlike ENAS and RTM, which manufacture the blank magnetic tape (a.k.a. “pancakes”), duplication.ca buys the non-magnetic tape components, assembles the cassettes and sells them to bands and labels. Frehner estimates the company ships 1 million units yearly, in part due to major-label orders. “It’s becoming a routine activity now, for some of them,” he says. “It’s been a steady increase.”

Cassettes cost anywhere from $3-7 apiece, depending on how elaborate and artistic buyers want to get, according to Stephanie Hudacek, president of Soundly, a Nashville distributor that puts out tapes by My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers, Major Lazer, Maren Morris and others. Customers can experiment with printed “J-Cards” containing liner notes and photos, and, like Swift, Megan the Stallion and other stars recently, order plastics of different colors.

“It’s still a novelty-niche item. With these cassette-duplication services, the minimum run is 50 tapes, so you can experiment. It’s an accessible entry-level point for artists and labels,” McQueen adds.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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good points.. Doug does have an exercise in the course where he moves the C up the neck to different spots to make interesting arpeggios against the open strings. Part of that technique seems like it is a pedal tone exercise, similar to MAB’s pedal exercises. I havent practiced chords enough really, after all this time, especially jazz chords, but then again the songs I want to play usually use only basic shapes anyway. It seems like sus shapes could be a “Speed Kills 1” type of exercise, maybe or maybe not. Or at least a big pinky workout since probably the pinky is doing lots of hammer movement on those shapes.

On the capo / alternate tuning thing, one of those spider capos seems interesting to play around with arbitrary open tunings. Seems like a spider capo would be good to do something like, tuning way down to open C, for doom metal or whatever, then use a spider capo to get back to E standard when needed, without the hassle of retuning.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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In some ways GP is better than the $699 competing packages (sibelius, dorico, finale). Below is something orchestral that i sketched up in GP, much much easier and better than the other software 10x the cost. So I view GP as much more than guitar software, it is all around great musician software. (Just like not all good photo editing requires $800 Adobe Photoshop..). I even used GP to help in scale singing practice by having it play piano.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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You can try posting the youtube links as one per post which might help. I never figured out what the antispam is actually doing when it trashes a post, it might be timing related too.

There was a lot of discussion about troy grady when his vids were first coming out.

I was able to build much better fretting hand accuracy by very slow nonmetronome practice (use metronome to set pace at 40 bpm 16th notes then turn it off and practice at same tempo… yes it is very slow). I logged practice in a notebook at least 6 days/wk for several months on SK1 and S&A, using a stopwatch to count time to at least 20 mins (often kept going to 40 mins). Ususally i dont keep that discipline but inwas fed up enough to do it. i dont really believe the often-repeated stuff about “bad practice makes permanent” or etc because some mistakes resolved rather quickly with this slow practice (so the saying should be “correct practice regimine can quickly resolve all prior mistakes”). Whats that slow bpm have to do with going fast? Well… I do believe in MAB’s saying “gotta play slow in order to play fast” and string hopping correctly is part of that. Anyway i never broke thru about 120 bpm 16ths but i was able to fix accuracy to not be tense, sloppy, or unpredictable at speeds below that. I mention all this because i believe the GP speed trainer or metronome is not always the way to go, I used that a lot previously and hit a lower, messier limit. Now i would say alternating with at least half of practice without metronome is the best way to go (not using metronome actually allowed my slower fingers, ie 3 and 4, to catch up without that feeling of “rushing”).

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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I gave this cajon to my girlfriend as a turkey-day gift. She is obsessed with it and jams on it every day in front of the stereo while CD’s play. Absolutely loves it, will even push other people off of it so she can get more play time. Various little kids came over for the holidays and they also could not get enough of banging on it and shaking the shakers, so it also worked great to keep them occupied. Now she has looked up some local exuberant drum-circle-friendly professional drummer guy for future cajon lessons.

So I can easily conclude that all guitarists should build one and give it to their partners (and then buy themselves a new guitar on the side 😂 …but that’s a different story 😆 ) …

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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they are either humbuckers or P90, arent they? distortion should come from the amp not the pickups.. if it is a P90 then it will definitely sound different, more clean/bluesy, I think. maybe what you mean is compression. usually humbuckers have a kind of internal compression with their higher gain, I think, so there is less ‘expression’ but more ‘aggressive volume’. maybe that is what you mean? but I dont think P90s have that characteristic.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

Yep.. for those types of exercises, also ones like speed kills, i feel it is better to slow way down and focus to fix the problem. If it was a guitar solo or a lick, thats different, use whatever fingering is comfortable.. but Speed ad Accuracy etc, best to practice the precise ‘correct’ fingering, because it is designed to fix problems or expand capabiities.
..for speed kills when i had similar situations, i slowed down to 40 bpm and eventually by focusing on accurate finger movement, the problem went away.. for Speed and Accuracy i have a strange problem where i will play the patterns perfectly until like the 7th time, then i will have like a “hiccup” in the fingering, kind of bizarre, even regardless of tempo too. But similarly with focusing on the correct pattern very slowly i am sure it will correct itself, over several weeks of daily workout.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

For fretboard memorization also check out Sarah’s course “Rock Guitar Scales Workshop” where she has a new exercise for this. Sarah seems to be including different fretboard exercises at the start of her newer programs. The RGS video is beginner level so is perfect for following with Doug’s course. I went through it pretty fast although it was still fun and good solo material. “Easy Guitar Modes” has a really good exercise for fretboard memorization. Overall the exercises are more intermediate level. Actually in that one, the fretboard memorization is a byproduct of memorizing the easy mode patterns too because they are based on the root note for placing the patterns.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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Blackie Lawless interview from 1989 where they talk about how The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc shouldnt be going on tour because they’ve peaked/too old/etc.. funny.. at around 17:00 ..

The best BLACKIE LAWLESS (W.A.S.P.) interview you’ll ever see – MuchMusic 1989

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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on the topic of age and vocals. I ran across this and it is an interesting A/B comparison. Vocals are subject to aging, I dont know how much it affects ability to use proper singing techniques. Vocalists will have some changes in tone for sure, but it should just be a ‘different’ tone, still musical, not a ‘bad’ tone.

James Earl Jones voice isn’t like it used to be

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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