Hey I'm RIP Dime, but my real name is Jeff, some people call me Ace....ok enough about what to call me lol. I'm from Hawaii, and am a senior in high school(GO MULES!!).
I've been playing guitar for about 8 months, and for about the first 4 or 5 months I was very bad. The first breakthrough I had was when I saw Kris' first video on Ultimate-Guitar.com. That helped me SOOO much, and inspired me to practice seriously
. But it wasn't till I saw Kris' video
improvisational madness that I was able to wrap my head around the
concept of improvising and composing my own music.
I've basically learned how to play guitar from 3 major sources:
Kris' free video's from UG Dimebag Darrel's Riffer Madness
Marty Friedman's Melodic Control And of course learning other guitarist's riffs and solos.
I learned about riffing, harmonizing, evil intervals, weird movable diads, and making weird and wonderful noises from
Riffer Madness.
I learned how to improvise solos, some technique, and countless other things about soloing from Kris'.
I learned about following the chords in a chord progression with arpeggios, how to use arpeggios, making melody, bending from weird places from
Melodic Control.
EDIT:
I have tons of influences, but here are the major ones are Dimebag Darrel (Pantera, Damageplan), Marty Friedman(Megadeth, Cacophony, Solo), Glenn Tipton and KK Downing(Judas Priest), Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, Solo), Dave Mustaine(Megadeth, for his awesome riffs!), Alexi Leiho (Children of Bodom), Alex Skolnick (Testament), Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth), Eric Clapton(Cream), Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour(Pink Floyd), Jeff Loomis(Nevermore) and Kristofer of course!!!
Right now I'm trying to learn all the notes on the fretboard, and having a rough time of it
But ya, I'm new so be nice to the newbie
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