hey guys, i've been playing my acoustic for two years and an electric for a year...i can play stuff like bon jovi and some nice chord-oriented music like green day or bryan adams...wat i find is i'm absolutely stunned and have this big question mark on my forehead when it comes to classic stuff like Petrucci or Vai or Satriani. I mean, i know getting their kind of music and being able to play that way requires a lot of dedication, practice and stuff, but how to I get myself some sense of direction?? Ppl tell me do scales, arpeggios, tapping, hammer-ons and stuff...i get lost when i see all those phyrgian/ionian/dorian/what-notian scales and all that 'schnozz.' I can't get myself to apply that knowledge either.... Any idea how i can get past this guitarist's block i'm facing right now??
Practice scales... They'll help u in undstanding the fretboard n improve fingerwork.. play a few chords of a scale in any rhythm, record it, n try to play random notes of the scale from all over the fretboard. Slowly try to put ideas into wt u play, lyk, try to express a certain feel in wt u play... It'll come slowly... . N listen to METAL
@distorted: Danke! Well, i do listen to some metal...Metallica, bit of System of A Down, Children of Bodom...I'm more of a hard rock guy...stuff like Velvet Revolver...okay then scales practice will try to get the hang of it
