Recent content by TrickyBoy

Just got to this thread. First off, great playing as always. Personally, I like the pentatonic one the best. It's definitely how I'd attack it, just adding the F# over the D and the C# over the A chords. In my experience, when dealing in the blues/rock genre, often times you can ignore the...

There's more than just that riff?? :D The only think I'd warn about the Ramones stuff is the right hand can be a little difficult for beginners. Most any AC/DC song is a good place to start. Old Scorpions tunes (Rock You Like A Hurricane, etc) and yes, old Crue isn't a bad place to start...

Yeah, 30 years of playing and I just figured out that's what I was doing. I always did it because I like the sound of adding the 13th... Plus it's all over Prince's rhythm playing :)

Now to completely screw you up, if I were soloing to that progression, I would actually play F# instead of F. I like the way that sounds better.

Am pentatonic is the 1,3,4,5,7 notes from the Am scale A, C, D, E, G move the A from first to last and you have C, D, E, G, A which are the 1,2,3,5,6 notes of the CMaj scale (this is the C major pentatonic scale). So in short, yes add the 4th (F) and 7th (B) notes to the scale and you've got a...

I play a lot of this kind of stuff. After watching the video, I grabbed my guitar, because I had no idea how I did the muting, I just did. Almost exclusively with the left hand for me.

I'll play with these tonight, but my initial reaction is they'll whoop me. As I often say, my pinky is much like the letter X, it is for the most part useless and should rarely be used. :D

I do utilize shapes and I also look at the fretboard in terms of relationships. Not sure if this will make sense, but I'm generally not thinking in terms of notes (letter names); instead I'm thinking about their relationship to other notes (min3, 5th, 7th, etc.). If I'm on an Eb note, I can...

OK - this is probably the dumbest question ever, but if a tritone splits an octave into 2, why is it called a TRItone? EDIT: OK, I missed Pops post a few above, now it's official, that was the dumbest question ever! :D

The pinky on my right hand is much like the letter X. It is for the most part useless and should rarely if ever be used.

I totally agree that any solo I constructed would revolve around E, I just would still think in terms of soloing in Am and then utilize the Em7 Arp as my main "stopping points" if that makes any sense.

Actually no typos, just stupidity (I inverted the strings :facepalm:) Show you how much I use tab. Anyway, yeah, I never really took the time to "learn" modes in terms of their names because in my mind they were always just "stopping points" for other scales. For example A Dorian is really...

Mo, I love and miss the jamming over backing tracks! Glad to see you're back at it and I need to get back to playing to them as well. Now to this little ditty... OK - I know I'm a theory dummy, but if I were asked to solo over that chord change, I'd simply say I was soloing in Am. I mean the...

Personally, I regularly substitute 9ths and 13ths for Dom7ths and IMO it has no real effect when I go back and solo over it. Conversely, when soloing I really like the sound of resolving to the 13th over a 7th chord (ie resolving to F# over an A7 chord). SRV will even throw in 7#9s (aka...

I'm not saying that I don't do a lot of those things. I guess my point is that I USED to try to go for a specific "sound" (ie my EVH, Steve Vai days). Now days, I just learn and play, and let the final product take care of itself. The original post was what do I do to try to sound like me...