Nagle would be proud of me

[Baliset]

After going through one of my "hardly touching the guitar" phases that I go through every once and a while I am back practicing everyday getting the chops up and I will even be busting out the metronome once i can afford a new battery for it.

Also I have given myself the assignment of learning Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" because of the unwritten law that every rock guitarist needs to learn it but I somehow never have.

 

[deadair]

this thread is nerdy and awesome at the same time.

 

[azal]

I was totally expecting something beer related.

 

[deadair]

oh yea... that too

 

[Baliset]

if we talked beer Nagle would probably get pissed at me because all i tend to drink is bud light or other varieties of american piss beer if I ever drink beer at all.

Now red wine is where its at.

 

[Demonspell]

I'm the exact opposite...I try to avoid our country's swill whenever possible...

Q: Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
A: It's fucking close to water.

 

[xfer]

I would argue that that's a benefit to American beer. Coors Light is fine because it does taste pretty much like water, so I can drink it without dealing with nasty beer taste. Yuck.

I wish we lived in a country where hard alcohol was the bevvy franca.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

let's get this thread back to Cliffs of Dover. what a bitch!

 

[chupe666]

troo dat.

i think the only eric johnson tune i ever learned was a slower one. trademark? think that was it. but i had an old guitar magazine with the tab for cliffs of dover in it- it had vernon reid, black metal originator on the cover.

 

[deadair]

if i remember right.. isn't Cliffs of Dover tuned down a quarter step? or something stupid like that.

 

[Baliset]

it sounded fine when i played along with my guitar tuned to A440

 

[chupe666]

i think jake is just tuned up a quarter step so everything seems lower.
jake himself, not his guitar.

 

[deadair]

maybe it's something else i'm remembering...

it was some 'popular' guitar wanker song tabbed out in guitar world

 

[Nagle]

I've been in one of those hardly touching the guitar phases ever since I recorded that stuff on your album. I use it for composition stuff but you can bet that if I had access to a piano I probably wouldn't touch my guitar at all!

At any rate, guitar practicing's good and I should get back in the habit of doing it. I play occasionally but not at all like I used to. I also learned Cliffs of Dover way back in the day. Maybe I should transcribe some Toxik or go through my old jazz books and learn the stuff in there.

 

[Nagle]

OH SHIT! I totally meant to post this in response to Greg's thread!!!!!! I clicked the "new thread" icon instead of the "post reply" icon. God... I feel like an utter idiot!

 

[FuSoYa]

I was totally going to use the 'merge threads' option but it looks like the admins got rid of it!

 

[goatschool]

regardless, it works for me.

 

[azal]

this is a great thread I think, because I read it three times to see whether or not beer was mentioned.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

this should go on the thread of lost posts!

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

merge threads worked ok for me