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Posted by: maharzan Sep 30 2011, 10:21 AM

Posted by: rhoads Sep 30 2011, 10:31 AM

Love it !

Posted by: maharzan Sep 30 2011, 11:03 AM

Thanks rhoads!

Posted by: Ghrim Sep 30 2011, 01:16 PM

nice job man

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Sep 30 2011, 01:30 PM

i enjoyed

Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 30 2011, 03:00 PM

Brilliant playing, Chandra ! Dig that pre-bend at 0:25

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Sep 30 2011, 03:28 PM

Very nice Congratz!!

Posted by: maharzan Sep 30 2011, 04:45 PM

Thank you all once again. I broke 1st string 3 times to learn this lesson. ha!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Sep 30 2011, 06:29 PM

Great tone and nice playing man! I really like it!

Posted by: maharzan Sep 30 2011, 07:02 PM

Thanks Gabriel!

Posted by: jstcrsn Sep 30 2011, 07:27 PM

first off , Excellent
2nd i am going to hold your( feet to the fire) so to speak, I remember that you , in a earlier post refer to yourself as a
trained monkey ( trained to play it, not able to write your own) I believe this is what you meant-----------so
if I am right, I am encouraging you to now write your own solo to this backing
and if I interpreted your meaning incorrectly , Don't I look foolish

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Sep 30 2011, 07:30 PM

i agree with teh man !! We wanna see your Solo CD

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Sep 30 2011, 10:51 PM

Cool cover ,congratz !

Posted by: maharzan Oct 1 2011, 02:08 AM

Thanks Sinisa.

@jstcsrn & MonkeyDAthos, thank you so much for your words. I would really love to compose my own. Thats my ultimate goal. To be able to compose and produce instrumental songs probably earn a little part of living doing so (royalties?). What I suck at is playing faster licks. Whenever I try, I always have this 8th note pattern and it gets boring to me, can't imagine how the audience would feel. Heres one I tried ages ago.

Posted by: jstcrsn Oct 1 2011, 07:42 PM

no, you ain't getin out of this that easy
That's what this site is all about(helpin each other)
1 st start with what you have learned
then start tweaking his notes ,into your own choices(this will probably sound a lot like guthrie at first)
then move into changing the pattern /note choices of the quicker runs( count the # of notes and come up with your notes same number) and replace
this is a process of learning
now when you get used to this now you can start trying to make it sound different then guthrie , thus becoming your own
if your are able to send the backing I will try to give you an audio sample ,as I don't have video yet

asfor the fast runs_- I have seen your muris neo-clessical take
look at this as a big math game,if you don't like math you might be in trouble
take the very first count and put one note in it's place then take that same count and put 2 notes,then 3 notes , then four, then six
note this is the first count ,not bar,and 6 notes in 1 count should be 16th triplets

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Oct 1 2011, 07:52 PM

one thing that really help me out in "improvisation/composing" was the though "less is more", you don't need to run with the metronome to create "masterpieces".

you can also do like Dream Theater and many many others, taking ideas from jammings, and building up to songs.


i really enjoeyd your playing on that video, it would suit for sure a dramatic scene/flashbacks/Ending!

Posted by: maharzan Oct 2 2011, 02:03 AM

Thanks man. Thats a nice theory to know, very helpful indeed. I will try that at some point for sure.