Hi Emir,
first of all, I cant explain how exalted I was, when I heard you are gonna be my mentor. Cant think of anyone better since gengres closest to my heart are
- progressive metal (mainly Symphony X and Nevermore, then Beyond Twilight, Dream theater etc..),
- neoclassical (Yngwie ofc... I dont really love that style, but I'd like to incorporate some licks and diminished arpeggios to my playing style)
- some Steve Vai and Joe Satriani stuff
and I also really love Kris Norris's style of playing (ex-guitarist of Darkest hour -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5t4w0K1Ds this is good example of his playing style - solo starts 2:45). Cant stand any other metalcore/melodeath band tho..
About my abilities - I play for 2.5 years, cant really say, how long daily do I practice - I have quite a lot of free time (at University atm.) and I just tend to grab the guitar at some point of a day... and then just practice until I cant hold the pick anymore...
Regardig theory - I know almost enough I would say. I know all basic modes and their perspective boxes (cant really play on the whole neck yet tho - lack of licks that would help me get from one position to other), have some knowdledge of harmonic minor modes
About recordings - Ill post here two videos from my Youtube account (youtube.com/user/phoenygzus), one cover (quite simple song by Gojira) and one of my own riffs (dont mind the timing issues, I just bursted it out on camera) and tomorrow Ill record some AP, tapping, sweeping, riffing video, to show roughly where I am at, what I am practicing, at what speed...
My biggest pain at the moment is extremely fast alternate picking licks vocabulary (that "speed burst" sort of stuff you did on Yngwie and Romeo lessons) and also a issue with composing - I have a lot of small licks, riffs etc, but cant really connect them well - say putting rythm under some lead section etc. Dunno, if there is a way to help me tho.. maybe it'll just come in time.
If you want any other info, just fire your questions on me
Cheers
Jakub
LINKS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBk1A9AG_ro (some riff I wrote.. wasnt recorded to sound neither clean or precisely time-wise)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ev2bC4kkEA (my cover of Gojira - Oroborus - learned it in like 1 hour.. was really simple)