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[konx]

1st of all... i reli feel sorry about the guitaridol finalist result... but since cesar himself take it easy.. we got no reason to feel angry bout the result... lets juz get over it... we knew cesar was the best in our heart...

cesar... i knew u r quite busy nowadays as u r preparing for ur 1st album n touring with several bands... so i wont be hoping that u will reply me question soon... juz take ur time dude ^-^

so...this is my question...

1)lately... i ve been joining a band in my skul... n i realised dat i juz dun feel happy or comfortable when a guy doin sumthing that nt in our plan.... n we often quarrel over a small problem such as which chord sound better or who shud do the solo....

2) i found out dat i cant do sum riff or stretch when i playing with my guitar strap (Standing).... any advice on dat?? im about 174 cm... so how high shud my guitar hang on??

3) im more to a instrumental guitar songs den a band songs player... so sumtimes i reli feel hard to jam or join with other guitar player....

4) is there anyway to improve my theory...?? i know pentatonic scale... i know major scale... but i juz dunno when to use them or how to use them... example :

i do know how to play the five fingering for a minor pentatonic scales.... but how do i link all the five fingering together??? how do i join them from each other???

more explanation on keys of the song... proper usage of scale...
how to transposed songs to lower or higher key... how do a chord forms... this is all the things i reli feel confuse n .. i juz know ntg about them eventhough i can play sum reli hard stuff like canon rock... but honestly what im doin is juz reading the tabs n slowly get it down.... n im pretty sure dat i wont be improving by using dat way...

so i reli wan a change.... i dun want to be blur when all my bandmates talk about music theory...

ANY COMMENT N ADVICE IS WELCOMED..

if any of u met all this problem above n get it solve succesfully..pls share urs experience with me...thx

ROCK ON

[aero3132]

Well, I'm not Cesar, but one thing I can recommend is looking up Dave Weiner's Riff of the Week episodes on youtube. just search "Riff of the Week" and you'll find it. He covers a lot of things and gives some good advice.

1. Maybe they don't have the same ideas as you, but you can still take it as a learning experience, such as learning to play with a band, because even Vai has to play with other people. You can write your own original music and find people with similar interests to help you with more ideas or even put drums and bass into your songs.

2. It's really about comfort and how you stand. Just experiment a bit and adjust your strap a little til it's comfortable. I do what the late, great Dimebag Darrell said in an interview and almost always play while standing so I'm comfortable with it.

3. covered in "1."

4. Patience mostly. Takes a lot of work, I'm still learning. I'd recommend not using tabs and after you memorized the notes, you can find them on the fretboard just from listening. It takes a bit of practice, but it's a good investment of your time. About linking the scales. Just play on one til you feel you need to go higher or lower pitch and you can slide or something to another one, and as long as it's on key, it should fit in pretty well, the rest is just on how you play it, I guess. I'm not a master at soloing and improvising and everything, but from what I've learned so far I can't be too far off. So check out Riff of the Week, I've learned a bit from it when I can actually get to a computer to watch them. Hope any of this helps and good luck to you.

Aero

P.S. Confidence and patience go a long way in anything. Just take your time and put up with the things you're having trouble learning. Never give up, and work hard on it, and it'll make perfect sense eventually. Just remember to take time to do the fun things or playing will feel more like a chore than a fun activity.

[konx]

thx dude... thats sum reli gud advice n comment rite there.. and i wan u to know dat i reli appreciate it... THX ALOT

[aero3132]

No problem at all and glad I could help!