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Posted by: DanielM Jun 20 2006, 04:26 PM

I'm a 16 (17 on friday) year old guitar player living in the UK. I'm in the middle of getting my A-levels.

I first picked up a guitar about 5 years ago, and after about a year of playing and lack of serious progress i gave up for a good 2 and a half years. About 18 months ago i started playing again and in the past 6 months i've been getting serious!

the shred masterclass lessons on UG along with kris's amazing abilities motivated me to go to freelicks.net and i found my way here. Just payed and now signed up to the forum.

i downloaded your band artifex's album and its cool btw.

i look forward to being able to speak to the master. your an inspiration and i like how you make difficult solos easy to learn and practice.

hello everyone

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jun 20 2006, 04:59 PM

[The Master responds:]

Heya Daniel, wellcome to the GMC!

Can't tell you how glad I am you picked up the guitar - would have been a shape put it down forever... now GO PRACTICE!!!!!! :wink:

/Kris

Posted by: DanielM Jun 20 2006, 05:03 PM

hey kris. cant tell you how cool it is to actually speak to you.

im playing right now actually. i do all my practicing at my computer. the amps interfere with the damn monitor though >:<

im just going through your kirk hammet lesson. i keep going back to curious coincidence though in between lessons. that solo has took up like 6 hours of my day everyday for the past month.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jun 20 2006, 05:05 PM

Posted by: DanielM Jun 20 2006, 05:10 PM

well its not quite as much as steve vai (8+ hours come on!) but im rather happy with the progress i have made since you released those UG lessons. i have probably doubled my skill in a month

out of interest how long do you spend practicing? i mean i know you spend a lot of your time making lessons and performing with artifex, but as far as just sitting down and playing goes, how much?

Posted by: DanielM Jun 20 2006, 10:27 PM

damn england almost beat sweden

Posted by: Norven Jun 20 2006, 10:45 PM

damn england almost beat sweden

Posted by: DanielM Jun 20 2006, 10:52 PM

yes they played very well and its a shame as we were so close to beating you.

was a very tense game towards the end.

Posted by: BollyRotten Jun 20 2006, 11:07 PM

Welome DanielM The forum is full of usfull info so enjoy!

As for the game i was soo close to posting on here seeing as Kris id the only Swedish person i know (except Sven!) To remind him how victorious we were.

How wrong was i SOOO SSOOOO bad at set pieces we threw it way yet the first half we had it.
Kris England will beat the Swedes aprently its 30 odd years since we did! Which means i was 4!
NIGHTMARE

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jun 21 2006, 08:18 AM

Well what can I say - I have victorious blood!!

Btw I am half Greek... How is Greece doing? Are they even in the contest?

/K

PS I must admit that we where a bit lucky in the first half..

Posted by: DanielM Jun 21 2006, 02:15 PM

looks like they're not in it nope sorry

on a brighter note sweden and england are both through

Posted by: Solo You Cant Hear It Jun 23 2006, 02:39 PM

Well what can I say - I have victorious blood!!

Btw I am half Greek... How is Greece doing? Are they even in the contest?

/K

PS I must admit that we where a bit lucky in the first half..

Posted by: DanielM Jun 23 2006, 03:28 PM

thanks.

most aren't from my experience either. i can't say im a big fan of football but i do enjoy the world cup.

im 17 today !!!!

Posted by: Solo You Cant Hear It Jun 23 2006, 03:36 PM

Happy Birthday Man!!!! here! have a ciggy on me :smoke

Posted by: DanielM Jun 23 2006, 04:40 PM

thanks

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jun 24 2006, 07:18 PM

QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl)

Well what can I say - I have victorious blood!!

Btw I am half Greek... How is Greece doing? Are they even in the contest?

/K

PS I must admit that we where a bit lucky in the first half..

To my knoledge guitarists arent usually involved in football...and when Kris asked if Greece are in the "contest" (no offence dude :wink: ) I almost died of laughter!!!. Welcome to the forums DanielM ( lol its funny the way im telling some1 who has been in the forum longer than me "Welcome")

Posted by: DanielM Jun 24 2006, 07:54 PM

that's not a bad thing

the guitar is a true art form.

Posted by: Solo You Cant Hear It Jun 26 2006, 05:28 PM

Daniel is right!!!

ALL the guys do is kick some balls! Im not saying that gyuitar involves more skill (although it does )..but seriously...the men that play football are a bit too old to be dribbiling around everywhere... Ok...you got me....The World Cup is taking away precious practising time away from me...

(GO BRAZIL!!!!) :mad >:<

Posted by: DanielM Jun 26 2006, 06:12 PM

Posted by: Norven Jun 26 2006, 11:49 PM

I´ve been playing football about 7 years, but when i got 2 injuries i decided to stop football and I found a new friend a "Fender squire stratocaster" :>
Btw I watch nearly every match in the world cup.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jun 27 2006, 07:32 AM

Posted by: Solo You Cant Hear It Jun 27 2006, 12:01 PM

QUOTE (DanielM)

while i enjoy watching the occasional match during the world cup, it confuses me how everyone gets worked up and excited to such an extent, and why fights break out, all because of a ball being kicked about over some grass.

yes I also enjoy occasional "high quality" game. I find it very hard to sit at someone's house and scream my lungs off... Just doesn't feel natural. Anyway, I guess I am the problem...

/K

Posted by: BluesMan Jul 1 2006, 08:37 AM

Hey Guys, I'm new here so I'd thought i'd drop a few lines to say hi. I'm a 26 years old guitarist from Venezuela, who has been playing for almost 9 years, but still stuck on my old same old stuff. Even though I'm not a frequent blues listener, I would like to add a bigger piece of the blues to my style, along with some of my guitar hero's influence: Slash.

I currently play on a band in Catholic Church(for almost 4 years now every sunday at 10:30am), where people get their weekly dose of "Wows" from the fact that christian music doesn't have to be slow and mellow. :sun

Well, i guess i wrote a little to much for an intro....good luck with your world cup Teams!!! I'l stick with Brazil ..

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jul 1 2006, 11:27 AM

Hey Guys, I'm new here so I'd thought i'd drop a few lines to say hi. I'm a 26 years old guitarist from Venezuela, who has been playing for almost 9 years, but still stuck on my old same old stuff. Even though I'm not a frequent blues listener, I would like to add a bigger piece of the blues to my style, along with some of my guitar hero's influence: Slash.

I currently play on a band in Catholic Church(for almost 4 years now every sunday at 10:30am), where people get their weekly dose of "Wows" from the fact that christian music doesn't have to be slow and mellow. :sun  

Well, i guess i wrote a little to much for an intro....good luck with your world cup Teams!!! I'l stick with Brazil ..

Posted by: DanielM Jul 1 2006, 10:05 PM

and that's england out

Posted by: Norven Jul 1 2006, 11:17 PM

And Brazil

Posted by: BluesMan Jul 2 2006, 11:20 PM

Since I'll need to use Kristofer's blues stuff to write a "Brazil is out" song.... Guess I'm on for Portugal

Posted by: lezenko Jul 3 2006, 12:24 PM

Im from england, blues man.... u ever heared a song from misfits/metallica called Die Die my darling?

I can assure you they had you in mind when they wrote that song

lol j/k. i just hate any team that beats my country at football :/