Ok... ive been playing guitar for 2 years now. I play an Aira Pro 2. Picked up at a second hand shop for 80 quid. I play through a SM7 Smashbox, plugged into a creative soundcard and hooked up to a sony 200w amp and two 150w pioneer speakers. I play every day... when i can... which is usually every day.. for about 1 to 3 hours. I play alone, along to bands, backing tracks, with my girlfriend on sax/bongos and to a shitty freeware drum machine.
I can play quite a few different scales quite fast in single and fast picking... im faster just using one string atm than moving up the strings... Plus i dont use my little finger yet... only the other three and my thumb which i normally wrap around for the lower strings. I tend to play in threes alot. I use a pick for the fast stuff and thumb /fingers for slower stuff... and i have to put the pick down when i double tap.
I can double tap quite well with 4-5 fingers up and down and broken up on quite a few scales.. can go quite fast.. and again can move faster on one string than up the strings. Big fan of classical style double tapping... if you could call it such a thing.
I only kind of just started to learn chords.. but the ones ive learnt so far i can move up the scales quite fast. But really none of this means shit... I need to record some stuff. Just need to fix the recorder so when ive done it ill make a post or something.
Recently just got an acoustic again from a second hand shop for 50 quid. Dont like it as much, but its nice to play at night after a good
session.
I like a huge variety of bands/artists... but to name a few.. Frank Zappa, Van Halen, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Andy Timmons, Pink Floyd, Joe Satriani, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Jimi Hnedrix, Santana, BB King, Derek Trucks Band, Electric Boys, Yngwei J Malmsteen, Chuck Berry... on and on.
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