[Emperoff]

Hey Nik, great clip!

I can feel you enjoying playing this


Guitar definitely changed my life... I've went through very good moments with my guitar, and also very bad ones. Sometimes, you feel like your guitars are the only ones that are always with you, and if you take care of them they'll never let you down.

[Dive-Baum]

First let me say that you are a rock star in the making. You are incredible for only playing for 2 years. And the fact that you improved over a very classic song says you are not afraid to try new things. I thought it was great. A little pitchy here and there but really a good job. What did you use to record and take the solo out of the song? I am currious about the set up there.
As far as the guitar being the best instrument...There is no question. It can play anything a piano can but you can pick it up and take it anywhere. There is no song it can't play and still sound good. It is limited only by the player's skill and imagination. Guitar playing saved my life. When I was in the 6th grade, I was in a school bus wreck. I fractured a vertebrae and hyrniated 2 discs in my back. within the next year one of them ruptured (popped) and I had to have an operation. I was out of school on homebound for the next complete year and a half. I started playing guitar in the middle of all of that. Jr high was a tough time to be isolated from friends. Everyone changed by the time I started going back to school part time. It was awful. Being of that age, thoughts of suicide went through my head but guitar gave me a happiness nothing else could. I had trouble standing up and walking but none of that was necessary to play guitar. I learned a few songs and some chords. Started writing. It opened up new doors to music and I could appreciate things more. EVH was my idol back then and I tried to emulate everything he did. Guitar was my saving grace back then.

[Nik]

Originally Posted by Dive-Baum

First let me say that you are a rock star in the making. You are incredible for only playing for 2 years. And the fact that you improved over a very classic song says you are not afraid to try new things. I thought it was great. A little pitchy here and there but really a good job. What did you use to record and take the solo out of the song? I am currious about the set up there.
As far as the guitar being the best instrument...There is no question. It can play anything a piano can but you can pick it up and take it anywhere. There is no song it can't play and still sound good. It is limited only by the player's skill and imagination. Guitar playing saved my life. When I was in the 6th grade, I was in a school bus wreck. I fractured a vertebrae and hyrniated 2 discs in my back. within the next year one of them ruptured (popped) and I had to have an operation. I was out of school on homebound for the next complete year and a half. I started playing guitar in the middle of all of that. Jr high was a tough time to be isolated from friends. Everyone changed by the time I started going back to school part time. It was awful. Being of that age, thoughts of suicide went through my head but guitar gave me a happiness nothing else could. I had trouble standing up and walking but none of that was necessary to play guitar. I learned a few songs and some chords. Started writing. It opened up new doors to music and I could appreciate things more. EVH was my idol back then and I tried to emulate everything he did. Guitar was my saving grace back then.

Thanks for the kind words; improving over other people's songs is actually one of the very first things I did on guitar, before I even knew scales. That's how I learned scales, actually: I had this chord progression in Am and I would VAMP it and hit random notes over it. Eventually, I memorized which notes sound good and which notes sound bad, and that way I figured out scales by myself. I've been doing mainly improv since then.

Anyway, the recording was made over a backing track I downloaded from www.guitarbt.com. Since this song is in Bm, I decided to take advantage of my 7-string and I actually doubled the chords that play under the solo. To keep things from becoming muddy since the BT was so wet, I had to lower the bt's volume in the mix. The solo was recorded through my RG1527 and PodXTlive.

I hear you man; while I've never experienced what you say first-hand, I can imagine how the guitar can become your main form of sustinance (is that a word?). On the cosmic scale, music is such a strange but wonderful thing...