[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Trespass

Noffense, but the more I see of Rusty the more of an asshole do I think he is. He claims he doesn't want to worry about a tone knob when he should be worrying about the music... I don't think he ever cares about music; the entire guitar seems to be about making this thing be the most ergonomic and greatest scale runner possible. Last time I checked, thats far from music. Thats exercise.

I dunno, i dont see what's wrong with wanting a guitar that fits your playing style to a T, regardless of how you sound. I agree with him about the tone knob, too. If you change the trem on the guitar for an OFR, and make around 900$ like the loomis, then i'd say it'd be a great competitor for Schecter, but not at 3000$.

[Gilbucci]

Originally Posted by Trespass

Noffense, but the more I see of Rusty the more of an asshole do I think he is. He claims he doesn't want to worry about a tone knob when he should be worrying about the music... I don't think he ever cares about music; the entire guitar seems to be about making this thing be the most ergonomic and greatest scale runner possible. Last time I checked, thats far from music. Thats exercise.

You're judging him based off of his youtube videos, I can bet my life on that. Have you ever even considered listening to his Outworld stuff? I know I am probably coming off as a Cooley nut-hugger, but all this hate is getting really out of hand and seriously pissing me off. People need to get the fuck off youtube, and on to the Outworld site to buy their CD. I can promise you that you'll be shocked at how heavy/musical it really is.

[Reece Fullwood]

Cool Lick, learnt few months ago.

[Kotex]

Originally Posted by Gilbucci

You're judging him based off of his youtube videos, I can bet my life on that. Have you ever even considered listening to his Outworld stuff? I know I am probably coming off as a Cooley nut-hugger, but all this hate is getting really out of hand and seriously pissing me off. People need to get the fuck off youtube, and on to the Outworld site to buy their CD. I can promise you that you'll be shocked at how heavy/musical it really is.

I actually have heard some Outworld stuff and honestly, I didn't like it. No that I'm for Rusty or against him, just my opinion. He had too many shred just to shred moments for me to like it. Although, I will say he did have his share of tasteful moments on there too.

[RiffRaff]

Back on topic to the 'Betcha Can't play this' lick.

I found a normal tab for this and put it into Powertab so that people who want to learn it can practise going slow then eventually build up.


click here for the powertab

Good luck

[Anthony]

Thanks!

[progmetaldan]

Originally Posted by 74n4LL0

I remember Gambale saying in a clinic that him and Petrucci changed from Ibanez because Ibanez released some prestige models that were too similar to their signature ones.

Interesting...

Originally Posted by Gilbucci

You're judging him based off of his youtube videos, I can bet my life on that. Have you ever even considered listening to his Outworld stuff? I know I am probably coming off as a Cooley nut-hugger, but all this hate is getting really out of hand and seriously pissing me off. People need to get the fuck off youtube, and on to the Outworld site to buy their CD. I can promise you that you'll be shocked at how heavy/musical it really is.

+1

And if people need a guitarist to hate, at least hate someone who actually is a tool, and who is actually way overrated and thinks they're awesome and is worshipped as such by the kids who think they're into shredding because they listen to Dragonforce, but they're actually really sloppy and unprofessional... *looks at Sam Totman...*

[Meh]

i think its funny how he spends two minutes of that video trying to sell his guitar and 20 seconds on his lick. Dont get me wrong hes an awesome guitarist, but no one is going to go buy that thing just because he said to, especially at that price.

[shaneroo]

Originally Posted by Trespass

Noffense, but the more I see of Rusty the more of an asshole do I think he is. He claims he doesn't want to worry about a tone knob when he should be worrying about the music... I don't think he ever cares about music; the entire guitar seems to be about making this thing be the most ergonomic and greatest scale runner possible. Last time I checked, thats far from music. Thats exercise.

Random slagging of Ibanez? We get it, its not funny, its not professional. Screaming about your signature seems a little foolish when its not even out yet. I mean, you keep telling us how great it is, back it the fuck up! Seems a bit pretentious telling us how great his guitar is and how bad ours is in comparison, and it appears to me we'll never be as good because we can't get his guitar.

Iono, I've been sick the last week and may be out of my mind.

Cheers!

well, i personally believe that the only thing that matters in music is how many notes you can cram into a measure. my theory is "whenever you run out of ideas, just add more notes!"

on that note, this thread seems to have dropped into a huge well full of poop.

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

A well playing guitar isn't all about the quantity of notes you can play on it, it's about how comfortable your hands are playing any notes on it, and how ergonimic the control layout is set up in the sense that it does not interfere with your playing.

For me, I find that the location of a strat's volume knob is right in the way of where my pinky sits, I don't care for the tight radius on the fretboard, and I don't like the tiny frets, nor the limited upper fret clearance on the lower cutaway, but I absolutely love the sounds provided by strats. My alternative, I prefer the older ESP Vintage Plus Pro, strat sounds in a players instrument.

It's all very subjective. I might like the Rusty Cooley guitar, even though he's not someone that I'd consider as one of my influences. I just think it's a well designed simple instrument that fits a particular need for players that have particular preferences.