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Dustin Giesenhagen and grain are now friends
April 16
grain added 2 songs
  •  play My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama [Live] - Frank Zappa
  •  play The Mudshark Interview - Frank Zappa
May 3, 2009
grain added a video
Something to do with A Major?
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May 2, 2009
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May 1, 2009
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April 29, 2009
grain and Trevor Gates are now friends
April 29, 2009
grain added 15 songs
  •  play I'm the One - Van Halen
  •  play Feel Your Love Tonight - Van Halen
  •  play On Fire - Van Halen
  •  play Little Dreamer - Van Halen
April 28, 2009
grain joined Drew Krag's group
Video Guitar Lesson Courses
I embedded the video lessons into playlists so you can watch them in the correct order. Enjoy!
April 27, 2009
grain added 14 songs
  •  play Lords of Karma - Joe Satriani
  •  play Midnight - Joe Satriani
  •  play I'm Leaving You - scorpions
  •  play Echo - Joe Satriani
April 27, 2009

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intermediate
What is Your Favorite Style?
rock/fusion/blues

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At 12:06am on June 21, 2009, Datadave said…
OH and, so is the EVH :)
At 12:05am on June 21, 2009, Datadave said…
Those Charvel guitars are really nice
At 10:55am on May 2, 2009, Datadave said…
Hello Grain
Cool web site
At 7:22am on May 1, 2009, kyle robert smith said…
thanks for the comment, im new to this but i have had some extra time for practice. the guitar sounds sweet, but being a beginnerit sounds like +!@#$ alot. thats cause the guy holding it isnt that good. not yet . having fun with it. i find myself at work wanting to get home to practice . plus girlfriend thinks i touch the strat more than her. i tried to tell her i need the practice, and she could use some practice (she doesnt play guitar) but she has no sense of humor.
At 5:48pm on April 29, 2009, David Marble said…
sorry I mislead you. the song is "Nobody knows you when you're down and out" track 4 on "Derek and the Dominos,"
album "Layla and other assorted love songs." Written by Jimmy Cox, played by EC.
At 10:52pm on April 28, 2009, David Marble said…
Dude I don't know who's been drilling this box crap into your brain (excuse me if it's Drew or someone like that) but find yourself an intro, short solo, or outro that you really like, learn it without that crap in your head - then - go back and see how the stuff you learned relates to the boxes, etc. You're going to find that they are stealing a lot of blue notes, aux blues, major scale notes etc. They're not sticking like glue to any box. Then you'll see that the blues ain't so hard after all.
And with your finger problems. When playing with your fingering on the fretboard, play lighter and lighter and lighter until you're almost not making the notes. Then play just a little harder to make sure you're getting them. Then you'll find you can play a lot longer and after playing the same guitar for a while you wont see those groves that the monsters make in their frets. There's no need for all that pressure on the fretboard to get the notes you're going for. Even the bending will seem easier.
I had an epiphany a while back and that was to use my pinky as well when bending. You've got 3 more fingers to help you make that bend. It takes some getting used to but boy does it make playing easier. I always did used all 4 fingers but never could bend with the 5th. Now I can. Holly Cow.
At 1:56pm on April 28, 2009, David Marble said…
Copy of thread I just wrote to Drew Krag:

Well I finally got back to taking lessons at "Beautiful" and Chris
Ptacek was all filled up so I got with a guy named Elliot Esparza ???
I think he's great. Finally got to the kind of lessons I wanted. I
bring in, right now, 3 songs I'm working on and play them for him.
He then gives me feedback and shows me some things to practice
for them and some generalized Blues stuff to do.

Working on Derek and the Dom . . . "Nobody knows you when you're
down and out," (intro, 1 verse and Solo), Robben Ford's version of
Sweet Sixteen on his "Discovering the Blues" CD (just the intro for
style - the song it 10 minutes long I think) and Marriage Madness
from John Mayall's "Archive to the Eighties" CD ( and "Back to the
Roots"), solo only because it's being done by Mick Taylor ( I love
his early stuff), he was with the Stones from about '70 to '74 +/-'

Those selections are style oriented and that's what I'm interested in.

The lessons are an hour long, as you know I need the hour to have
time to absorb anything.

The blues definitely don't have to be played in 1 area or on 1 scale. We are doing that right now for my simplisity in learning but will branch out to using the entire keyboard as does Eric Clapton after I've familiarized myself with where I am.
Don't let anyone lay this 'close-minded' statement on you
that the blues is the easiest type of music to play so you should get into that first if you want to get going fast.
It's all what you make of it.
From what I've seen the power chord playing is the easiest because a lot of those kids "NOT ALL" but a lot, only seem to learn the power chords and nothing else because they don't want to take the time or have the inclination to learn anything about music.
I you think Blues has any limitations then study Eric Clapton from the beginning. He has "always" been a bluesman, as have many so-called rock and roll groups.
The first 2, mabe 3 Rolling Stones albums were mainly made up of OLD blues songs, Led Zepplelin's first had 2 of 9 OLD blues songs, most of Clapton's early work was OLD blues songs and the list goes on.
There's an old saying, "The blues had a baby and it's name is Rock and Roll." Don't take that saying too lightly.
At 7:56am on April 21, 2009, Warren Hyslop said…
sorry I havent heard of Frank but listened to song on your page & agree its good also checked your new photos cool Ill put up photo of my parrot Charlie hes a Cockatiel Ill also post photos of wild Lorrikeets that visit me on my balcony they eat apples and sit on me & their wild it just blows me away
At 7:46am on April 21, 2009, Warren Hyslop said…
hey Grain yeah my Marshall cranks alright I jam with a drummer at a music studio in Redfern in the city costs us 20 bucks each for 2 hours, my amps a 65 watt valvestate if I turn on full I cant hear the drums & my ears ring for 2 days
At 10:27pm on April 17, 2009, Jonah said…
no problem do u have an email i can send it to i dont like the font on this sight

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