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[Ironhead85]

About me!!! Howdy, I am Chris. Incase your wondering what the hell is Ironhead, I am a Harley Enthusiast from right outside of Philadelphia, PA USA and I have a 2006 Dyna Wide Glide. I have been a guitarist since I was about 15 or 16, and I am 21 now as of Dec 27, 2006 - and no I do not get screwed on presents . I have been with my gf for over 3 years. I do not consider myself good based on the fact that I have been playing for 5 years. When I first started it was because my brother borrowed a friends guitar and he never took it back so I picked up it up and learned the 2 main chords to what I consider one of the easiest songs ever, Horse with no name. I was hooked. But I never got serious, I made a bad habbit of not caring AT ALL about theory and scaled and such and I learned RIFFs of my favorite metallica songs, and for some reason always skipped the solos and that stuff. I am all self-taught. But recently my older brother, age 29, discovered he has an awesome voice, and my best friend is a drummer so we started a band, I have gotten so serious. In the past I would stop playing guitar for months at a time cause I'd get frustrated. I never took into consideration that I was practicing all wrong.

My tip for newbies, if you have musican friends, start a band and set a goal to play a small club. I have never worked so hard. Mondays, Thursdays, and Sundays my band practices songs from Metallica, Shinedown, STP, Skynyrd, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Pearl Jam, and basically any soft rock/ hard rock/ heavy metal we like. So in short over the last few months I have progressed at an insane rate. But I am stumped, I cannot improvise or shred for the life of me, that is where GMC comes into play. I picked GMC cause Kristofer reminds me of my friends and myself, we are all retarded (that is a compliment hahahaha), I just mean we are ourselves, we are crazy and you know what.....screw what people think cause we have fun.

IF ANYONE LIVES NEAR PHILLY AND PLAYS BASS EMAIL ME TO JOIN A BAND OF INTERMEDIATE MUSICIANS.

I own two Verizon Wireless Authorized retailers, and we constantly have slow points. So I get in about 1 hour of practice a day at work, 5 days a week. Not to mention 2.5+ hours 3 times a week with band.

My Gear:
Fender Strat (Mexican) - Old and abused, my first.
Epiphone Acoustic Guitar- cheap as hell.
Jackson RR-5 - Freaking cool looking, but I hate Floyd Bridges
My Baby - Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded Wood (Awesome Tone - Awesome Price)
Fender MS-2 (Belt Amp for practice at work)
Fender Stage 100 (Practice AMP POS)
B-52 ATA-100 (All Tube tri-rectifier half stack, amazing sound for only $1000)
Boss Tuner, Boss Delay DD-3, Boss Flanger, Boss EQ, Bad Horsie Wah
SKB Pedal Board

For New at Shreding, would you suggest starting at The Pentatonic Scale lessons??

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