Recent content by sands of the seas

They're coming to Australia? :hypno: Where does it say this? Can't find it on the website.

Phish Emerson Lake and Palmer

If you know how to notate rhythm and use time sigs as you have said, and you know how to read/create guitar tabs i'd suggest either guitar pro or power tab. When it comes down to it the only real difference between the two is that guitar pro allows you to tab out drums and use a bunch of...

Oh yeah and i'm not overly familiar with that many fusion bands, but i can strongly recommend you check out two of the more well known ones: Weather Report and Return to Forever. Awesome bands. Check out Allan Holdsworth as well if you haven't already.

As far as 7 strings being appropriate for jazz, it wouldn't surprise me at all if 7 strings originated in jazz. I have been told as much. I mean there are jazz guitarsts like Charlie Hunter using 8 string guitars. It's all a matter of whether or not you think you personally would gain from using...

Allan Holdsworth - Looking Glass

Pat Metheny - First Circle

Well the later stuff in the article yes, but i think the first part could be very helpful. It's basically what made me understand polyrhtythms when i was in Fleshbleed's position

Sounds like some good explanations, however, no thread about polyrhythms would be complete without a reference to Steve Vai's Tempo Mental. It helped me out when i started to learn about the stuff. Well, the first half of it anyway. It gets a bit crazy for me towads the end...

Allan Holdsworth - Mysterious Conversation

As many others, i don't care what a band thinks politically, nor what they do with their time outside of the music they create. I really don't give much of a shit about lyrics so i guess this helps a lot. Sure if lyrics are good that's a bonus, but i'm still going to listen to the music if they...

Emperor - He Who Sought The Fire

Pain of Salvation - In The Flesh

April Ethereal

Dude that's freakin awesome! I can definitely see how that could be Opeth inspired. Awesome stuff, really.