my guitar playing

[LeeKuanMajor]

Al DiMeola used to be my greatest guitar hero
he played with fiery determination
My main electric guitar is a Fender Stratocaster
with Al DiMeola DiMarzio pickups on it
it is wired like a Les Paul
with Gibson jumbo frets on the neck
and Schaller machine heads
Plus it has a pickup that connects to
a Roland guitar synthesizer
Now I like New Flamenco music much more
Don't listen to DiMeola much nowadays
However, this song is a classic of his

[LeeKuanMajor]

Eilias123 wrote:

From this angle you look a bit like DiMeola.
Really great playing! The more I watch it the more I like it. I'm a tough person to please. I like this A LOT MORE than that Megadeth clip. Although I feel there is not enough of YOU in the recording; more of what makes YOU unique and, lets face it, we are ALL unique in one way or another. Most have their uniqueness buried under a pile of 'monkey see - monkey do' copy-cat ****
After listening to this I felt that if you are going to play classical rock guitar the background should sound as acoustic as possible.
I suddenly felt as though you would do well to consider using the company Music Minus One as guitar background music.
It suddenly hit me like a bell!!!
I went over there for the first time in my life and found fantastic background music to play along with
Here is page one of the MMO guitar section:
http://www.musicminusone.com/guitar-c-17.html
Unless I trim it down, I'm about to make a $164.00 purchase
From Jam with Carlos Santana (GREAT! JUST WHAT I WANTED)
To Malmsteen, Yngwie - Best Of - Guitar Signature Licks (teaches you how to play his guitar lead licks & provides background tracks to play along with)
To Guitar Method: Jazz-Rock Fusion
To In Session with Jeff Beck
To Ultimate Guitar Play-Along: The Rolling Stones - Guitar
To Latin Styles For Guitar by Brian Chambouleyron
(What's great about the above one is I can also record in original bass & drum parts to the songs)

To Ultimate Guitar Play-Along, Volume 1: Led Zeppelin

*Hey, I really shouldn't be spending this money. It's all YOUR FAULT!!!!

Heck, I really want to play along with this. It's too labor intensive to record all the background myself. I can do it, but it's too much effort! Other musicians just can't seem to understand my musical vision. I'd rather play along with these background tracks than deal with other musicians

UPDATE: Well, I just finalized the order. I'll probably hate myself in the morning

[LeeKuanMajor]

LeeKuanMajor wrote:



There are no “free rides” with the Spirit of Intent
If you want Gifts of the Spirit
YOU have to earn them for yourself

My created "Stratopaul" also has a solid brass bridge for more sustain. The Stratopaul used to be a beige color. I sanded it down and multiple-spray-coated it with clear Liquid Plastic
I don't want to be taking the Stratopaul out and playing it up in the mountains. That's why I recently got the Ibanez guitar I call: The Raven

[LeeKuanMajor]

Here's a different Photoshop creation of: The Raven
Yes, this gives an accurate portrayal of how I play

[LeeKuanMajor]

Products
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1 x In Session with Jeff Beck (MMO CD 3662AP) = $26.95
1 x Jam with Carlos Santana (MMOCD 3666AP) = $26.95
1 x Latin Styles For Guitar by Brian Chambouleyron (MMO CD 6698HL) = $21.95
1 x Malmsteen, Yngwie - Best Of - Guitar Signature Licks (MMO CD 6649HL) = $24.95
1 x Ultimate Guitar Play-Along, Volume 1: Led Zeppelin (MMOCD 13667AP) = $21.99
1 x Ultimate Guitar Play-Along: The Rolling Stones - Guitar (MMOCD 9686AP) = $21.99
1 x Guitar Method: Jazz-Rock Fusion (MMOCD 9682HL) = $19.99
Sub-Total: $164.77
Shipping & Handling (2 - 7 day delivery US : 7 Items): $0.00
Total: $164.77

*MY COMMENT: Well, at least they didn't charge me shipping...yet....

[Eilias123]

I don't really care about making it mainstream. I basically play what I want to and don't really care for Genre meshing or trying to put a label on what I do. I simply play what I like the way I like. I played a 20 minute set of vivaldi, back, and a malmsteen song. Some girls were really cheering, so sex appeal is going up.
 thanks for the MMO links :-) I'm going to order bach's double concerto in D minor!!!

[Littlepaw]

Hello Eilias123,



I liked your guitar playing



: ))

[LeeKuanMajor]

Eilias123 wrote:I don't really care about making it mainstream. I basically play what I want to and don't really care for Genre meshing or trying to put a label on what I do. I simply play what I like the way I like. I played a 20 minute set of vivaldi, back, and a malmsteen song. Some girls were really cheering, so sex appeal is going up.
 thanks for the MMO links :-) I'm going to order bach's double concerto in D minor!!!

Well, in many ways we're on the same 'sheet of music'. I used to be a professional musical entertainer. I was doing well until my father died. Suddenly I realized the truth that the more "famous" I became the more I realized that I didn't like being famous. My father died, I lost all desire to be "famous" and I retired young. I live from hand to mouth, but at least I can now play my music for Nature and Nature is a much better audience than humans ever were.
I enjoy the concept of developing my abilities to the point of being better than anything anyone has ever heard and not allowing them to applaud. I deliberately stop the songs I play at parks somewhere in the middle. There is never any clear idea when the song ends so that people never know when to applaud. If they start to applaud I continue the song and they stop. I wait until I KNOW they will not applaud before I stop the song in a manner where they think I am going to continue. I like doing that
I go into very deep trance states when I play music and people applauding can be like an 'alarm clock' that wakes me up. I don't like to be woken up when I am in deep trance states!
Let me tell you that being forced to play music when you don't want to can be a living hell. I was forced too many times when I was a professional entertainer. I especially remember the times when I had to sing even though I had a very sore throat. It felt like my voice was on fire with pain and I had to act as though I was having the time of my life.
((( HORRIBLE!! )))
So, if you love playing music it's best to keep the thing you love as a hobby so that when you play music you can really enjoy it. It's a horrible thing to be forced to play until you slowly hate what you once loved.
Glad you found the MMO site useful!
Thanks to you I will now have fantastic background music to play my guitar with

Thanks again!

[LeeKuanMajor]

My overall goal is to improve the quality of the performances I give for Mother Earth and pacify Her Wrath in order to keep the weather moderately nice in the area I live all the days of my life.
With humans you can get away with a superficial show. Not so with Mother Nature. She 'sees' right through you and if you are thinking of other things while you are performing She can easily get bored with you. I have to play as though my life depends on it and give it EVERYTHING I'VE GOT. That means using all my sexuality and the mirror to improve.
So, what are your goals with your music? Is your biggest dream to become more technically precise? Is that the best you can do in your greatest vision of yourself? How would you want the people who hear your music to react? I've learned that the bottom line is: YOU have to be in the mood you want people to be in when they hear your music. If you want them to be amazed YOU have to be amazed while you play. The mirror helps you to see just how you are coming off when you play. If you look bored in the mirror that's how you can expect people to react when they see you play.
So, I have given you special information I learned the hard way in order to help you be the best that you can be. If you appreciate it that's great. If you do not appreciate it...that's equally great. As a matter of fact, if you don't appreciate it I will get greater rewards from the Sentient Universe as long as I was sincere when I shared the information. So sharing this information with you is a win-win situation for me. Aren't you happy for me? Of course you are, of course you are! Oh, you like me? Great. You don't like me and think I am arrogant? Equally great!
I refuse you the power to affect me one way or the other. You don't deserve that power over me and I refuse to give it to you!
I have shared these important things because I was inspired by your playing. I happen to love Baroque music and you really do an incredible job of it. I tell you there is more to a great performance than technical precision and copying what others do. If you believe me and reach for greater things, that's great. If not...equally great.
Checkmate. Ha!
*I'm doing my best to teach you that you should NEVER allow people to command how you want to feel about anything. Of course, you may have to PRETEND you are allowing them to manipulate you in order to get along with them, but YOU ultimately have the power to allow people to bring you up or bring you down. How you choose to react to any given situation is YOUR responsibility and business, not theirs

[LeeKuanMajor]

Eilias123 wrote:I don't really care about making it mainstream. I basically play what I want to and don't really care for Genre meshing or trying to put a label on what I do. I simply play what I like the way I like. I played a 20 minute set of vivaldi, back, and a malmsteen song. Some girls were really cheering, so sex appeal is going up.
 thanks for the MMO links :-) I'm going to order bach's double concerto in D minor!!!

Well, try envisioning having to play music in order to pay the bills OR ELSE! Envision having to play four to five hours a night five to six-days a week whether you like it or not. Imagine having to do this for over ten years. Imagine what that would do to your love of playing music. Yes, that was my life.

[Eilias123]

holy ****... MMO has THE IDEAL backing track for yngwie's Far beyond the sun.... I'm going to have to save some money.

[Eilias123]

[LeeKuanMajor]

Eilias123 wrote:holy ****... MMO has THE IDEAL backing track for yngwie's Far beyond the sun.... I'm going to have to save some money.
I only saw one Malmsteen MMO product and I ORDERED IT! Should be here by Fed Ex very soon. I listened to the samples of the songs. Really first rate stuff. So is the Zeppelin and the rest. MMO is about to transform my electric lead guitar and Spanish guitar playing. Oh yeah. Still, the moment it stops being fun I stop practicing. Being forced to play guitar when I didn't want to has made me this way. I no longer care what people think of my playing. I think more about becoming greater than anything they have ever heard in their lives and then...ignoring me. Giving them no choice whatsoever except to ignore me no matter how much they may want to applaud. I like that concept.
Whatever egomaniac narcissistic tendencies I may have had died with my father.
The more I think about it the more amazed I am by your playing. You are really something! Thanks for the inspiration.
So, what are your musical goals? What's your grandest vision of yourself and your music? Surely it must be more than just becoming a better guitarist. Do you have any abstract goals for yourself and your guitar work?
BTW: How old are you and how did you get so inspired by Baroque music?

[LeeKuanMajor]

Eilias123 wrote:


What's really cool about this is he is obviously playing along with his own created MMO type of background music. I don't want to sound like him. However I like the effects of those fast riffs he does and want to incorporate those types of effects into my playing. I already have, but now I'm going to really polish it and make my playing a lot more impeccable.
These particular fast types of riffs don't go too well with New Flamenco music. Mainly because there is not much place for distorted guitar sounds in New Flamenco music. They do up to a point. Beyond that point they don't fit. So I'll be working on developing a style that embraces heavy metal, Classical and New Flamenco. I usually turn the treble all the way off when I play along
with Spanish music. Unfortunately, the very fast riffs get somewhat buried when there is not enough treble on the guitar. This is the "woman tone" that Eric Clapton made
famous in the old days of Cream. It works best when I play slide. If people are to comment I want people to say that I sound MUCH BETTER than Malmsteen. Let's face it, the guy is not very wholesome and his way of life is obviously tearing him apart. He doesn't look so young and beautiful anymore. Selling your soul to the devil obviously eventually takes a 'hell' of a toll on your complexion.
Yes, much, much better and more beautifully wholesome than Malmsteen is the goal for me. Better in all wonderful ways.

[LeeKuanMajor]

I am not allowed to tell you why the name Elias is very special to me. This coupled with your incredible guitar playing makes you extra incredible
Chances are you were brainwashed to believe that your talent all comes from you
In fact, all that we have and are comes from the source of everything. The wise will be increasingly, lovingly grateful to their source.
No amount of properly played notes can make up for a heart devoid of loving gratitude and appreciation to their source
It is said the devil plays a mean fiddle. I find it easy to imagine that his playing has lots of fast notes...and no love whatsoever
Something to think about

[LeeKuanMajor]

LeeKuanMajor wrote:Eilias123 wrote:

From this angle you look a bit like Al DiMeola.
Really great playing! The more I watch it the more I like it. I'm a tough person to please. I like this A LOT MORE than that Megadeth clip. Although I feel there is not enough of YOU in the recording; more of what makes YOU unique and, lets face it, we are ALL unique in one way or another. Most have their uniqueness buried under a pile of 'monkey see - monkey do' copy-cat ****
After listening to this I felt that if you are going to play classical rock guitar the background should sound as acoustic as possible.
I suddenly felt as though you would do well to consider using the company Music Minus One as guitar background music.
It suddenly hit me like a bell!!!
I went over there for the first time in my life and found fantastic background music to play along with
Here is page one of the MMO guitar section:
http://www.musicminusone.com/guitar-c-17.html
Unless I trim it down, I'm about to make a $164.00 purchase
From Jam with Carlos Santana (GREAT! JUST WHAT I WANTED)
To Malmsteen, Yngwie - Best Of - Guitar Signature Licks (teaches you how to play his guitar lead licks & provides background tracks to play along with)
To Guitar Method: Jazz-Rock Fusion
To In Session with Jeff Beck
To Ultimate Guitar Play-Along: The Rolling Stones - Guitar
To Latin Styles For Guitar by Brian Chambouleyron
(What's great about the above one is I can also record in original bass & drum parts to the songs)

To Ultimate Guitar Play-Along, Volume 1: Led Zeppelin

*Hey, I really shouldn't be spending this money. It's all YOUR FAULT!!!!

Heck, I really want to play along with this. It's too labor intensive to record all the background myself. I can do it, but it's too much effort! Other musicians just can't seem to understand my musical vision. I'd rather play along with these background tracks than deal with other musicians

UPDATE: Well, I just finalized the order. I'll probably hate myself in the morning


They said that once Fed Ex ships the package a tracking number will be sent to my email address. I hope they get their act together and send me that email. I want to know exactly when to expect the package.

[LeeKuanMajor]

This is the first Al DiMeola song I ever heard
and it sure knocked my socks off!
I bought everything of his available
Don't remember seeing any Al DiMeola at MMO
HA!

[LeeKuanMajor]

I then bought his first album
love this song!
It goes through incredibly cool changes

[Eilias123]

How I got into baroque... Well in high school I self taught me some piano songs from the classical era. Eventually I got big into Bach... and started learning some of his stuff on guitar. Then I got into shred when i discovered Malmsteen and other neo classical bands... but eventually that got boring for me and found myself years later back to transcribing Bach music. A year ago I discovered that Bach seemed heavily influenced by Vivaldy, as he did many re compositions of vivaldi's works to keyboard. So this past year I'm big into Vivaldi... he has a flashy essence!

[LeeKuanMajor]

Growing up as a child I eventually became interesting in rock music, but the stations that played Motown were what my family tended to play on the radio. Then the Beatles came along and I wanted to play guitar just like Paul McCartney. It took a while before I learned that Paul played bass. I still wanted to play guitar like the Beatles. I knew I hated classical music, just like my friends did. However, every once in a while I would hear some classical music that I liked. I would rarely hear it on classical radio stations, by chance, but I liked it and I was indeed surprised. Later I was to find that it wasn't classical music. It was Baroque music that I liked. Baroque was the forerunner of classical music and it is indeed considered to be a whole different style just as jazz is different from rock music.
As the years went on and I began to buy classical music I gravitated towards Antionio Vivaldi; especially the violin concertos. Yes, I gained a passion for violin concertos. I now have all the best of Vivaldi. I also enjoy the violin concertos of Bocherini and certain things by Bach, like the Brandenburg concertos. I like Vivaldi more than I like Bach. To see the opening clip of you playing on this thread was quite a shock. I am a very harsh critic. I only like the best. I don't have time for mediocre **** and I don't want to be influenced by mediocre ****.
At first I was too certain that you were no good. I couldn't see past my prejudice, but you had the right name, Elias. One of my friends who is helping me learn how to fix and build my own computers is named, Elias. A couple of days ago he gave me crucial help that enabled me to get Vista off my backup computer and put a clean install of Windows XP Professional on it and that was not easy! Research into the process. It is fraught with problems. I am typing this on the computer right now. So far it is working fantastic. It's great to get all that HP bundled software **** that was clogging up my computer out never to be seen again.

Yes, you have the right name, Elias
If you can believe the truth it is that the DNA of Vivaldi is part of all humans. It's in our genetic makeup somewhere as is the DNA of DaVinci. We are all made of the exact same energy. At the core of our atomic structure we are all made of the exact same energy. If you can believe in yourself you can create your own original Vivaldi type leads breaks and adapt them to whatever style of music you like. MMO can indeed help you in this regard as it is about to help me. You can use Baroque music as a launching point to become better than Vivaldi. A Vivaldi for the modern age. Of course, if you can't believe in yourself at the point where you stop believing in yourself that is the point the miraculous in your life will stop manifesting.
Thanks to your inspiration I await an epoch in my electric and Spanish guitar playing. An MMO package is on the way that is going to transform my guitar life. It's exciting. Indeed it is!

[LeeKuanMajor]

[Eilias123]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S3Z79AAA I took your suggestion and did solo section over a backing track... the time 0:33 -1:04 I tried to use some various vivaldi riffage

[LeeKuanMajor]

Dude, you have only begun to tap your potential!
Believe in yourself!
I believe in you and I honestly feel most people are about as inspiring as my bowel movements. I'm only inspired by the very best
You should consider all you have done so far with your guitar as climbing the ladder and walking to the edge of the proverbial diving board. Expand your potential and dive into the ocean of original greatness, that is just as much yours as it it everyone else's, and become whatever your most wonderful imaginations of yourself you can conceive of. You've got what it takes, dude!
Like I stated, it's at the point where you no longer believe in yourself that the miracles stop manifesting. Face reality, dude. It's miraculous that you can play as well as you do. Everything is equally miraculous and YOU are equal to everything!
((( YOU'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO NOW IS TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!! )))
Don't let it go to your head, but as far as I am concerned...
YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
Decide how you want people to react to you music and strive to ALWAYS feel that way when you play
True greatness is of the mind
It is the mind that gives birth to the body, not the other way around

[LeeKuanMajor]

[LeeKuanMajor]

I just got through putting a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate onto my main computer, that had XP Professional on it, and I'm testing it out now.
It's been a real computer weekend for me
Got all the HP bundled software **** off my main computer now as well and I'm feeling awesome and able to do anything I wonderfully set my mind upon!
As far as I am concerned...
((( I NOW HAVE TWO NEW COMPUTERS!!! )))