The 64 Tone Just Intonation Fretboard. The guy who makes these can't sell them because of some guy in Australia with a pattent on bent frets. I hope they reach a deal before I'm in a rocking chair! He's not a member.
Influences
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Tony Rice, Ricky Scaggs, James Brown, Curtis Mayfeild, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Yes, Gentle Giant, Rush, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Judas Preist, Van Halen, The Misfits, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Prince, Run DMC, NWA, Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, KRS1, Aesop Rock, Jurassic 5, Phish, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Corrosion Of Conformity, Beck, Ween, Jamiroquai, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Air, Squarepusher, Wilco, Flaming Lips, Iron & Wine, Kyuss, Queens Of the Stoneage, the Strokes, the White Stripes, Mars Volta and current favorite: Coheed & Cambria
It sounds exactly like tiny little burgundy people who are carrying a half chewed corn cob down the sidewalk in a silent movie that takes place in 4212 but was actually filmed in the seventies where the main character is always shivering cold and nervous but the villain has a good sense of humor.
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I'm a guitar player, singer and songwriter. I also play some bass, drums, mandolin, and keyboards to a degree but I'd still consider myself primarily a student of those instruments. I've studied music independently since age 11, starting with guitar. I've learned and played almost all styles to some extent and I try to incorporate my favorite elements from the variety of stuff that I like to listen to.
I can play along readily with about 95% of music that I hear. I do get stumped sometimes but usually I can do some detective work from there and figure it out. It's not a special magical talent anymore than recognizing colors is magical. The difference is that hardly anyone gets taught how to do it. So that's my contribution. I teach anywhere between 40 to 50 students a week at Marshall School Of Music in Portage MI and I'm working on a book for guitar players dealing with a complete understanding of theory, composition, improvisation and ear training.
I wrote and recorded these songs at home. I'm using a Mac G4 desktop with a Fast-Track Pro audio interface and an AT 2020 condenser mic. I'm recording with Garageband upgraded with the original Jampack along with the Remix Tools, Rhythm Section and Orchestral Jampacks. Thanks to Brad, Brian, Jeff and Ben for the help. I program the bass, drums, keyboards and orchestral parts from scratch in edit mode and then I lay electric and/or acoustic guitar parts, some vocal parts and the occasional mandolin part.
I'm building a pretty big catalogue of original recordings but it's so different from one track to the next that I've been forced to divide it all into albums in progress. I've begun consolidating some of it in to one diverse sound by mixing and matching different arrangement and production aspects. I like where it's going. I'll be releasing a complete album in 2008. It shall be epic.
I improvise all my guitar solos. I have themes that I use in certain solos but I play them different every time. Improvising is the most magical aspect of making music (as long as you have some idea what your doing and how it musically relates to what the rest of the musicians are doing). It's also the real test of a musician. If you don't know something really well, you can't use it when you improvise.
That's why some improvisers can captivate a crowd for hours (John Coltrane) and some start repeating themselves after 15 minutes. (Carlos Santana, no offence I love his music but a limited vocabulary just comes with the territory his whole "it can't be taught" mystery school of guitar philosophy.) I'm somewhere in between the two extremes. I'm a very serious student but I'm also a bit of a slacker. My real mindset when I'm playing, writing or recording is getting my feelings and ideas across to any random listener. Everything I've learned about music comes across in the process but I'm not very conscious of it in the moments of inspiration. Anyway, I've rambled enough.
check out my friend Dom, and I's Youtube account, some of those videos have nothing to do with guitars, and they are just weird, but if u want to u can watch them, they are really stupid though...but the guitar ones are pretty good!
hey i was looking over some of the old stuff that u gave me from the book that ur writing, and on "Fretboard mapping-part 2, page 29 i think (it's cut off) it says all the postions and has the R for the root note, but what is the root note? in Root position it goes from 7 to 2 so i was confused, bamboozled, and flabergasted...haha but really explain.
o and keep on shredding
oh yeah, do u have any suggestions on what to play or work on or something, i wish i could have more lessons b-cuz i want to learn how to sweep pick, and i just kind of taught myself pinch harmonicks but they still need work. and furthermore i've been a bit skimpy on the guitar playing and need to practice the scales more, i'm getting better at improvision though, but i need cooler sounding scales to improv on, and i might be seeing you because my guitar srting like well tuned down a half step, and can't tun to the high E but that's a long story and this is a long comment....
hey yeah dont worry about it just take your time. they have them up on their myspace. its the band grey holiday. i wanted to learn "let go" and the other one i cant remember. i will get back to you on that.
hey dude whats up? its been a long time since i have seen/talked to you. how are you? i miss guitar lessons very much. well i was wondering if you could do a favor for me. i have been wanting to learn a couple songs but am not sure really how to figure it out. im not very good at just listening and being able to play. well its this band called grey holiday and they have a couple songs that i really like and i was wondering if you would go onto their myspace(on my friends list) and listen to the songs and write the stuff down for me. that would be cool. hope all is well! ttyl.
Hey,hows it going buddie? Just thought I'd say hay! Tell Momma I said hello and I love her and my godchild.Your an awesome person and both big and little Joe said whatz up. Your fan Monica Luteyn
