I think you answered an email of mine, basically I was trying to get the same kickass setup as you had. I just wanted to know a few more things / had a request or two.
1) I recently bought a pair of DR 10 Hi Beams (guess who inspired me, haha). Do they make 7 string versions of that? Or do you get a custom gauge, I read here that you get 10-70?
2) Your 1527 is customized, is it not, you got one of the knobs removed and there is only volume. I usually turn down the tone on my Hellraiser to accomodate a Jazz feeling and switch to the front Humbucker( I will be buying an ENGL Powerball [who could be a reason why?] and I wanted to know if it has a real good Jazzish setting). Besides the pickups, anything else?
3) I'm really liking the guitar you have now. Any official (as in, a hi-res picture of it on white background or whatever) pictures of it? I love reverse headstocks on Ibanez, I saved up to get the cheapest reverse stockhead with a trem Ibanez I could find (RG5EX1)
4) I saw you use nylon strings on your classical/acoustic (is there a difference?) guitar. I was wondeirng if I could buy a semihollow (Ibanez Artcore) guitar and put nylon strings on them. If so, would a normal Jazz III pick destroy the strings?
5) I've only been playing for a year but I feel I am somewhat advanced in some categories and extremely behind in some--I am self taught and have taken music theory classes on my own (jazzguitar.be and cyberfret) but reading music is above and beyond me. how can you differenciate between 5th fret A string and an open D? what happens if you play an open D and it turns out you were supposed to play the 5th fret A because the next note is the 4th fret on the E string? I'm really bad at upstroking chords and moving power chords, yet, I can play Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (powertab) without making a single mistake. Also, I suck horribly at playing with a metronome, at music theory I'm stuck on modes (I know how to make them, what they are, but how to use them and why I have no idea) and I just forgot a lot since then. I have no clue where I'm going with this paragraph so I'll just list the projects I've been working on.
(Check marks mean that I successfully can play all of it) (guess where I got Rondo Alla Turka from haha)
Do you have any song suggestions that might help me with any of the problems I listed?
Thanks for answering questions and I really hate to bother ya haha.
PS, guess what my first (and possibly only) 7 string guitar will be. You're a really major influence of mine and I hope to one day honor you!
1) I recently bought a pair of DR 10 Hi Beams (guess who inspired me, haha). Do they make 7 string versions of that? Or do you get a custom gauge, I read here that you get 10-70?
2) Your 1527 is customized, is it not, you got one of the knobs removed and there is only volume. I usually turn down the tone on my Hellraiser to accomodate a Jazz feeling and switch to the front Humbucker( I will be buying an ENGL Powerball [who could be a reason why?] and I wanted to know if it has a real good Jazzish setting). Besides the pickups, anything else?
3) I'm really liking the guitar you have now. Any official (as in, a hi-res picture of it on white background or whatever) pictures of it? I love reverse headstocks on Ibanez, I saved up to get the cheapest reverse stockhead with a trem Ibanez I could find (RG5EX1)
4) I saw you use nylon strings on your classical/acoustic (is there a difference?) guitar. I was wondeirng if I could buy a semihollow (Ibanez Artcore) guitar and put nylon strings on them. If so, would a normal Jazz III pick destroy the strings?
5) I've only been playing for a year but I feel I am somewhat advanced in some categories and extremely behind in some--I am self taught and have taken music theory classes on my own (jazzguitar.be and cyberfret) but reading music is above and beyond me. how can you differenciate between 5th fret A string and an open D? what happens if you play an open D and it turns out you were supposed to play the 5th fret A because the next note is the 4th fret on the E string? I'm really bad at upstroking chords and moving power chords, yet, I can play Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (powertab) without making a single mistake. Also, I suck horribly at playing with a metronome, at music theory I'm stuck on modes (I know how to make them, what they are, but how to use them and why I have no idea) and I just forgot a lot since then. I have no clue where I'm going with this paragraph so I'll just list the projects I've been working on.
Code:
Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge [Solos] ✓
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata III (Presto Agitato) [Slower BPM]
Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ✓
Necrophagist - Epitaph [Beginning Rhythm & part of solo]
Death - Crystal Mountain [Rhythm / Chorus / Acoustic Solos] ✓
Necrophagist - Only Ash Remains [Solos]
Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
Dave Brubeck - Take Five [DGDGBe tuning]
Mozart - Ronda Alla Turka [Opening]
Death - Symbolic [Solos, some Rhythm](Check marks mean that I successfully can play all of it) (guess where I got Rondo Alla Turka from haha)
Do you have any song suggestions that might help me with any of the problems I listed?
Thanks for answering questions and I really hate to bother ya haha.
PS, guess what my first (and possibly only) 7 string guitar will be. You're a really major influence of mine and I hope to one day honor you!
