Floyd Rose Problems..

Well, I'm really not sure where to post this, but hopefully the GMC board members can help me with this issue.

I've just restrung my guitar, and converted tunings from DGCFAD to EADGBE. I tightened the springs in the back to get my guitar back to E standard, but now, it seems that if I even touch my whammy bar. (A dive for instance) - everything will go flat (almost..), but if I even tap it away from the headstock, it will go back to being semi-in-tune....

If anyone has any help or advice, it would be greatly appreciated... Thank you.

Improv Dimebag Style

Alright, first off, I'm not even sure if this is the correct board to post this topic in, but if the mods feel this post is un-necessary to the forum they can just lock it up. (BTW: I made this post a long time ago at UG and no one was too interested, my username there is Abbott. )

I've always been a enormous dimebag fanatic, and if I had some way of recording this textual lesson, I would.

The purpose of this post is to show you a lot of simple techniques done by the great Dimebag Darrell, his mixture of de-tuned guitars, fast riffs, amazing vibrato, and unique sound really define him as a amazing guitarist.

I've been observing dime's old playing styles, one of the main thing I noticed that he really , really, really, based himself of the pentatonic scales like crazy, he could take a pentatonic box, do a really modern day bluesy lick, and just improvise off that till he got something he liked.

Dime was a major fan of this sort of lick, I noticed that a lot of the time he'd work inside the pentatonic box and work his way up to a certain lick, then repeat the lick a few times with a few minor changes. I also picked off that he would like to bend up to the note he wanted to end on.

Example:

He wants to end on the 7th fret, 3rd string. He would usually end by bending on the 5th fret on the 3rd string, to make the lick/run sound longer and fuller.

(I winged this just for a small demonstration):



I attached a GP file for anyone that has GP, this ASCII text tab doesn't really do the lick justice.


So as you can see by that demonstration, it's mainly pentatonic, a lot of repetition, but every now and then he'd throw in a few "odd" notes to give it a weird vibe, and make it sound like he wasn't just repeating the same pattern. I have a lot of other demonstrations of Dime's playing that I will continue to update about if this thread is successful, if not, I hope somebody learned something.
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CC Deville. Warren Demartini. Rodes.

Just throwing out idea's of some great shredders that would definetly earn my love. And probably a lot of other people.

CC Deville from Poison (He's a great axe-man. Too bad you sorta have to close your eyes to listen to them; but with solo's like Nothin but' a good time' and every rose has it's thorn... Looks are overseen).

Warren DemArtini from Ratt (Ratt was a bit glamish. But when you hear songs such as "Lay it down", you just fall in love with his style)

And Of Course.

Randy - Who doesn't love randy? His style is so great and unique. When you have songs from Suicide Solutions, to Goodbye to Romance, to Mr. Crowley. Wicket stuff. Hopefully you will consider some of these guys !

And i'm back.

Finally decided to purchase the masterclass subscription. I'm glad that all my stuff from freelicks transfered. Any reason why the board is no long on freelicks?

Great site kris. Worth.Every.Penny.

Can't wait to buy all the dvd's. :wink: