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Quote:Cool man! What do you think of the colour options and the drive & fuzz on the HS? It is really am amazing versatile pedal. Well as I said good luck on your pursuit and keep on rockin’! Don’t forget though in all your learning don’t lose the feel, often technique can create sterility. Sorry I got your review post so off topic.
No problem man! And thanks again. As for the HS, I LOVE the fuzz feature. The distortion, is good too. I keep it in the FX loop, so I can’t use anything but the clean setting other wise it gets super loud and wont sound like a guitar. I keep the color on warm, I just think that sounds the best. I might take it out of the fx loop and give the fuzz another go
Quote:I hope the post didn’t sound offensive as I see how it could read that way. I just meant that when somebody knocks you don’t feel like you have to say “I’m getting better” or those videos were old. If things aren’t perfect or you think they are sub par you should not put them out there and then use excuses. I have made the same mistakes myself and it only opens you up to credibility issues. Just keep doing what you do and keep practicing and let your guitar speak for itself and you.
[Cater: alternate definition: Try to satisfy]You didn’t answer my band question either!
I’m also curious about your metal/jazz training you have? It seems like at your age you wouldn’t have much training time under their belt so I’m wondering how much studying have you done? Do you study under other people? I read you saying I like jazz/metal, anything from jazz to metal, etc but those are two very different genres and I don’t even know what technically runs between jazz and metal. So what do you think runs between those two genres?
I know this may seem like I’m asking a lot but I’m just curious and I’m a psychologist so it’s just part of my nature.
Last question, do you ever use the tone or colour knobs much on the HS? What about the drive and fuzz?
As for the excuses, thank you. No one has ever told me that. I needed to hear that!
Band, is a serious battle. Finding serious, professional musicians in Dallas that practice and are as committed as I am, is tough.
As for the training, I’ve played guitar for six years next month. Last year, I took the year off from gigging, to have my teacher teach me nothing but jazz and music reading. Now this year, he’s started to teach me the Berklee method for guitar. It’s going great! I can read sheet music, and have learned so much theory, and odd to modern chords, it’s mind blowing. I wish I knew this information earlier.
As for the difference in jazz and metal training, my teacher told me we were going to learn all the things that the metal guys in the 80’s did. Their teacher’s told them “Were going to learn everything all the jazz cats played. Then after you know all of that, you can put it into any genre you want, and it will sound far better than the average guy”. So, the Jazz training goes hand in hand with metal. My “shredding” skills have gone up a lot, expanding from the minor pentatonic scale.
The lessons are fantastic now, and really paying off :thumb:
