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James LaBrie - Slightly Out of Reach - Fast forward to about 3:10... Incredible! The first half is actually a keyboard running through a guitar modeler... second half is guitar, all equal parts Neal and John Petrucci. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PsjwrOIXDM

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:56 am**

Steve Lukather - Song for Jeff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAapUSeNdgU

:shock:

- Had the pleasure of seeing this one live, incredibly soulful.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:57 am**

Stephen Stills - Suite Judy Blue Eyes Live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NI4n8A2L8

Great acoustic alternate tuning playing

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:03 am**

Birtles Shorrock Goble (Little River Band) - Prelude in A Minor/Mistress of Mine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3BZk5GI ... PL&index=2

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:04 am**

Peter Cetera - End of Camelot - Outro solo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpT2mRtM3U

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:04 am**

Ehwmatt wrote:Steve Lukather - Song for Jeff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAapUSeNdgU

- Had the pleasure of seeing this one live, incredibly soulful.

Lucky bastard !

That was amazing!!!

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:05 am**

Thanks Beshad! You da man. I'm never going to get out of the house this morning if you don't stop posting all this good stuff. :lol:

It's Indian summer here in WI so I must go outside and enjoy the last warm day(s) before winter. Tearing myself away from computer now... will check back later. Keep em coming.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:08 am**

Behshad wrote:
Ehwmatt wrote:Steve Lukather - Song for Jeff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAapUSeNdgU

- Had the pleasure of seeing this one live, incredibly soulful.

Lucky bastard ! That was amazing!!!

When he hits that sustained whammy bar harmonic, it just gets crazy

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:03 am**

Check out my good friend, Steve Senes. He just won Guitar Player's Magazine "Guitar Superstars" contest in September and is on the front cover (top right corner), of the current issue of Guitar Player Magazine along with KISS. He has a 3 page spread in the magazine as well.

This video is of his winning performance of "The Swami" that blew the panal of judges away including Steve Lukather, Jennifer Batten, Elliot Easton, and others.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 0958522001

Steve is selling 2 of his guitars on eBay, one is a BC Rich that he won as a prize in the contest and the other is a strat.

BC Rich

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :MESELX:IT

Strat

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :MESELX:IT

Steve is about to release his debut album "De-Evolution Of Theory". You'll definitely be hearing more about this amazing guitar player. To hear more samples of his work, visit his following sites:

WWW - http://senesmusic.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/steve.senes
Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/9yu
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/stevesenes

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:34 am**

Behshad wrote:Matthew Mills – No one can play arpeggios like this guy, NO ONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7m3aIuGlUg

Oh, how wrong you are.....This guy, hands down, is the cleanest, most precise picker, guitar player I have ever seen.

Michael Angelo Batio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5QaCfm7bg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6qAhtLyCE4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiT6qtM09tI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLnOx4E-G1g&feature=related

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:36 am**

StocktontoMalone wrote:
Behshad wrote:Matthew Mills – No one can play arpeggios like this guy, NO ONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7m3aIuGlUg

Oh, how wrong you are.....This guy, hands down, is the cleanest, most precise picker, guitar player I have ever seen.

Michael Angelo Batio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5QaCfm7bg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6qAhtLyCE4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiT6qtM09tI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLnOx4E-G1g&feature=related

Michael Angelo is a great guitar player. But when it comes to the arpeggios, sweeping, combined with SPEED, he has NO chance vs Mills.....

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:47 am**

To me, sweeping arpeggios is a waste of time, and not very melodic....I'd rather listen to MAB than a guy like Mills anyday. Not to knock your guy. There is a lot of wasted motion in Mill's style....

Playing scales isn't very creative....there is no 'music' in there. Just up and down. PWNED! :lol:

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:57 am**

Agree!

Neoclassical wanking, to me, isn't musical. It's no different than rap music...there's no emoting. Just precise, scalular note execution.

Appreciating it is no different than appreciating diving or gymnastics. The execution is what gets graded. Sure, give Mathew Mills or Yngwie or Michael Angelo (fucking idiot name) a whole slew of 9.9 or 10.0's...

But communicating emotion, they do not do.

Purely from a technical viewpoint....the emotional players are the ones that carefully walk the line on timing or note selection...but never both. Players like EVH, Stevie Ray, Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Chet Atkins, etc....all true geniuses at their instruments....have done so because they have played with the use of micro-tuning (through bending) or creative rhythmic timing...

But let me stress, none of the above players did so while saying to myself...let me convey a little tension by "tugging that string a micro-tone sharp..."

They knew their sound would convey the msg, because they're just that good.

To me, none of the technical monsters (save for a few, like Vai and Petrucci) have ever considered anything other than pure execution of the notes...to me, that's not musical.

There was always something magical about EVH's playing in the 80s. Someone equated it to falling down the stairs and always landing on your feet. When you let go and stop worrying about playing 32nd notes to a metronome....you'll notice more girls showing up to your performances. At the same, you'll start being a conduit for emotion, instead of a faraday shield preventing it from getting out.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:42 am**

This isn't a very showy, highly technical piece, but I find the music very haunting and when I first heard it I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks.

Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6aCMgy0ES4

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:57 am**

Here's mine. It has "novice" written all over it.

I figured if I ever learned how to play I would invest in something good: :oops:

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:26 am**

Here's one of mine :lol:

(one of these days I may learn how to play a real one!)

And my current favorite 'guitar' performance - the guy in my av many, many years ago with SRV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svNzEIT38_0

Posted: **Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:53 am**

Ehwmatt wrote:Peter Cetera - End of Camelot - Outro solo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpT2mRtM3U

If I was solely judging Mills off the video posted I'd take the solo over the Cetera song of fifty solos from Mills. The playing in the Cetera song is melodic, soulful, and fits the song. The Mills thing is impressive from a technical standpoint but beyond that has almost zero musical value.

Posted: **Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:37 am**

shaka wrote:
Ehwmatt wrote:Peter Cetera - End of Camelot - Outro solo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpT2mRtM3U

If I was solely judging Mills off the video posted I'd take the solo over the Cetera song of fifty solos from Mills. The playing in the Cetera song is melodic, soulful, and fits the song. The Mills thing is impressive from a technical standpoint but beyond that has almost zero musical value.

Great playing, note choice, phrasing, and great clean tone. I love that solo, and I'll bet a lot of people have never heard it!

I am definitely partial to melodic players like Neal, Lukather, EVH, etc. But I do appreciate a good technical player that knows how to make the technique emote/speak musically like Petrucci or Satriani and yes even Yngwie. Yngwie gets derided for being formulaic but I think he's a good emotive player when he's at his best.

MR

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