All of those virtuoso Ibanez playing guys are faggots and you're a piece of shit if you like them.
Zachary Stewart
Who does Steve Vai think he is
William Powell
>vai is gay >posts link to vai guitar lesson
Fucking cuck. Also Vai>Satriani not even close
Cameron Hernandez
Joe Satriani plays 4 chords and wanks for 3-5 minutes. Steve Vai composes music and works in all sorts of clever playing styles and phrasing. It's apples and oranges.
In fact people comparing Vai and Satriani (or at least thinking they're extremely similar) is a great pleb filter.
Lucas Morris
>implying Vai isn't pure wankery
Lol fuck off m8
Hunter Cooper
>turns on song >no singing >"man this intro is long" >still no singing >"Wtf?" >guitar solo starts >"He's just fucking wanking!"
Brody Smith
>muh shit sandwich
Jayden Robinson
>turns on song >it's fucking shit >"Wow what talent and artistry! What playing tecniques!!!" >"I shall go on Sup Forums to validate my shit taste! I hope they accept me"
Eli James
>another thread spent jacking off arguing about talent less has been guitarists
Nathan Ramirez
Neither Vai nor Satriani are worth talking about.
Grow the fuck up you dumb virgins.
Jackson Wilson
>steve vai's output over the years it doesn't get any better than this right guys?
>starts thread with a picture of steve vai >literal shit is getting posted before the thread reaches 20 posts
I fucking hate you all
John Miller
should i buy this?
Liam Morales
>ibanez
No.
Aaron Cooper
What's wrong with Ibanez?
Ethan Davis
Nothing. In case you haven't noticed, you're in the shitposting general
Oliver Perez
>he thinks anybody cares about validation from him
in fact please trip up so I never have to see your window licking-tier posts ever again
Thomas Stewart
that lead pan from left to right was so fucking pointless
Jason Scott
>tfw you accidentally admit you eat pieces of shit
Grayson Phillips
badass LP
Hudson Sullivan
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Andrew Jenkins
I like how all the Vai white knights disappeared as soon as it hit 12:00 on the west coast. That high school bedtime routine kicked in hard and they couldn't hold their eyes open anymore.
Imaging going to bed that asshurt. Sweet dreams, right?
Isaiah Howard
Dude nobody wants to talk about steve fucking vai, shut up.
Eli Moore
Hi, I just bought a bass, and I have no idea what I'm doing.
Are these normal looking/well set bass strings ?
Bentley Long
I personally do not agree with the aesthetics of matte finish guitars, especially matte purple. It looks like it belongs to a Ninja Turtle
Lucas Murphy
kek >goodnight sweet prince
Easton Robinson
also should the E and G strings touch the head that way or is it bad design ? It just feels like they should go directly from the nut to the mechanic...
I might have to change the mechanics too, they feel weak and I have to tune the bass every ten minutes...
Cooper Ward
Does it have a nut?
Caleb Bailey
Looks like you bought crap.
Chase Ross
Well yes... don't all guitar have ?
Juan Russell
IDK i think Satriani is just wanking with some violins underneath. It was painful to listen to some song about God he did, can't recall the name.
Eric Johnson will always be the supreme guitar player because his music is actually good and the guitar playing compliments it as opposed to just showing off.
Blake Gutierrez
>Ibanez
No.
I can't believe they get away with it in 2016. Trash guitars propped up by Satriani alone.
I need your help /gg/. I'm trying to remember a multifx pedal I've heard of before. It had the ability to control multiple parameters at the same time bound to the expression pedal, a chord sustain feature, and really lousy distortion. I believe it was a fairly old pedal. It was a full size multifx, probably 4-8 footswitches plus the expression pedal. Anyone got any ideas on this?
I saw it in a video posted here a while back, maybe a year ago. Old video of a guy explaining why he used multifx pedals. Professionally filmed.
Jackson Morgan
maybe you should fix pickup height
Hunter Green
This?
It's a steaming pile of sonic diarrhea
David Scott
>how I know you're a virgin
Because he posts on /gg/
Ian Collins
I'm pretty sure that can do what I mentioned but I am thinking of an older pedal. I'm not sure if you can adjust more than one parameter simultaneously with the expression pedal on the GT-10 or not.
It might be an older boss one. I don't think old zoom pedals can do 2 parameters at once.
Daniel Murphy
What stand and cables do you use, /gg/?
Easton Gray
Maybe this?
Multi-effects pedals are an awful meme and you should avoid them like the plague
David Gonzalez
Vox ?
Jason Anderson
>steve vai He's mastered his instrument to a degree that, frankly, embarrasses me. I am totally in awe of his ability to transfer the contents of his head to and through his guitar. It's astonishing really. Too bad there's nothing interesting going on in that head.
Jose Gray
The fact that Vai has never looked out into his audience, thought "Holy fuck! I have dedicated my life to turning-on pubescent boys!", thrown his 'axe' to the floor and sworn never to play another note is somewhat telling I think.
Jace Lopez
Part 1
A high school bandmate got really, really into instrumental wank guitarists, he even bought a replica of Vai's Ibanez Gem to replace his Strat, much to all of our dismay. I've heard solid chunks of his career, but the only thing I can remember at the moment is "For The Love Of God" loses whatever "power" the guitar melody has as Vai goes into overly complicated lick after lick. It's the same thing that makes Jeff Beck's instrumental career such a colossal drag; the moments of actual brilliance are drowned out and neutered by suppressing the band for the sake of highlighting the guitar.
I saw Vai live too, last year. The, um, "Generation Axe Tour." Vai, Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, Zakk Wylde, and Tobin Abasi from Animals As Leaders.
My former bandmate bought two tickets and asked me to go with him, and I figured there might be some moment where ridiculous instrumental prowess clicks and I "get" Vai and company. That didn't happen, but we were treated to the bizarre metalcore rhythms of Abasi, the 80's hard rock-hey-wait-this-isn't-terrible schtick of Bettencourt, and Zakk Wylde covering Sabbath and Thin Lizzy.
Abasi and Bettencourt had a duet of some Animals As Leaders tune that featured a riff I wished I could play - the only time that happened in the whole 3 hour event. Wylde, who I actually was looking forward to a little, was a total disappointment. I think he's had the best career of any of those dudes, but the Zakk Wylde we got was the pinch harmonic bullshit dude who's best left to solo on a Nickelback tune. "NIB" sounded cool until the solos, though.
Leo Perry
Part 2
Then Yngwie Malmsteen came on.
I've never heard someone assault an audience with such reckless fervor of anti-music until that Norwegian took the stage. Half an hour of white noise would've at least inspired thought, contemplation; instead he just did run after run down the guitar neck, spun it, kicked a pick into the audience, throw it to the roadie, repeat with new guitar. I was angry, frustrated, bewildered. There was no where to go, the bar was serving $8 Bud Light (hellloooooo theatre gigs in Cincinnati!) and the bathroom wasn't nearly insulated enough to save me from the barrage emanating from the stage. If I am truly just a brain in vat only responding to electrical stimuli, the scientists must've been feeling particularly sadistic that evening.
So yeah, when Steve Vai came on - what with his stupid fan under the pedalboard, the snarky comment on how "it wasn't cool to know how to play guitar in the 90's," and tremolo arm animal noises - I was grateful Malmsteen was gone. Is there melody in Vai's playing? Sure, absolutely, it was the most of that entire night. But it's still a far cry from the classical composition it aspires to, it still reeked of ego, and it definitely did not rock.
Compare that Wes Montgomery, or Roy Buchanan, or Lonnie Mack, or any of the surf instrumentalists. They sound like they actually enjoy music, not the accolades you can pick up from making it.
Ryan Lee
>"it wasn't cool to know how to play guitar in the 90's,"
Lol it must torment him every day of his life that his one really successful solo album came out the year before Grunge/Alternative broke out.
Brandon Murphy
Is Greg Sage one of the most underrated guitarists?
>inventing guitar styles 10 years before they got popular >being a genius lyricist
Parker Lopez
>it invalidates you opinion if you say this tastes like shit
Jaxson Stewart
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Landon Price
I bought it online :(
it does the same on my polytune :(
Levi Reyes
you might want to go ask your questions someplace that's not of full tilt retards man
Jace Foster
yeah... you're probably right... thanks
Noah Hill
>388 >399
Samuel Gray
>Zappa desperate son and Steve Vai
Hack overload
Jace Nguyen
>arguing against triptrips.
Jordan Barnes
nice quints, shit opinion tho
Josiah Peterson
That's Strat disquised as a LP
Cooper Price
I know you guys like to meme on anyone playing the minor pentatonic blues scale BUT Have you ever tried playing it without emphasizing the root of the chord underneath? And have you ever tried it in anything but the "standard" position where the root is index finger on E string? I'm thinking about shifting my hand down four frets so the root is the middle finger on the g string. In A you'd play in the first position which allows using open strings and puts all the bends (from minor 3rd, from 4th, from 6th and from 7th) on either the ring finger or extended pinky (5th fret) which could be interesting.
Noah Edwards
It's like you just started playing guitar last week
James Johnson
I've just neglected soloing a lot in the 15 years since I started. Yeah I'm shit. In any case, I'm trying to discuss playing the guitar here.
Joseph Hill
everyone plays this scale everyone has beat this scale to death over the last 50 years everyone has played this scale every conceivable way
Charles Rodriguez
>proceeds to post image that doesn't have the scale shape I'm talking about in it >no major 6th >no major 3rd >root not on second finger on g string You're one of those "special" kids huh?
Gavin Turner
steve vai = gay italian joe satriani = straight italian
Liam Ross
You were right in your earlier post. You are indeed shit.
Carter Sanchez
So you've played it in this exact way then?
Colton Watson
>vai listening party
Lincoln Sullivan
R8
Carter Kelly
nothing really turns me on id probably take the strat and spray paint it flat black though
Colton Garcia
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Christopher Mitchell
Am I retarded for wanting to buy a 100 watt amp even though I'm not in a band and will only be playing with myself (ayyy) and occasional jamming with another guitarist and a drummer?
Jaxon Morris
if its solid state, 100w is kind of low if its a valve amp, yeah you're insane
Ryan Young
Not retarded, but it sounds unnecessary. As someone who bought a 100 watt head and a cab I can say it's not even necessary if you're in a band and playing out. It just made loading my shit up that much harder.
Also, I got a Marshall and hated the tone so that may be another big factor into why I disliked the whole experience so much. But yeah, I'd say get a decent combo amp unless you find yourself in a situation where you feel a 100 watt amp is absolutely necessary.
Zachary Carter
>It just made loading my shit up that much harder.
Ahahah... *laugh vanishes as the back pain comes back*
