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You know Sean, before I heard you play, I thought nobody could make more random noise on the guitar than Steve Vai.

You, sir, have proved me wrong.

Colors, missed you, you on vacation or playing Guitar Hero??

I don't do Guitar Zero.

I was actually playing a show with my band Friday night. We rocked.

You should get out more - it's quite fun.

Pictures to post as soon as I get them... we had multiple people taking pictures and shooting video, but I forgot to bring my camera, so I'm waiting on everyone else's film.

Your musical content is interesting...

I cringed when I heard the canned drums.
The evh tricks and harmonics are boring and not good.

CONCENTRATE ON THE MUSIC!

I think if you left out the tricks, you are left with some good content.

Use the harmonics very sparingly.

You use them so much in that video, it detracts from what you are trying to do.

ColorsFade wrote:Aptly titled
I thought nobody could make more random noise on the guitar than Steve Vai.

I want to ad "beautiful random noise" to that comment.

Anyway...

If this guy bothers people so much, you all have the choice to ignore his threads. I bet if he has zero views on his thread... he'll stop posting.

Sorry, I meant that Steve Vai makes Beautiful random notes...

He's not bothering anyone. At least not me that is. Sean perhaps you should try the same tune without so much of the stuff those guys don't like so much and see if you can get that melody out a bit. I like the way you get it going , but then you lose me. Can you get it out on an acoustic version maybe ?

And its another day in Paradise !!!!

On a positive note:

DJ mixer's are always looking for 4, 8 and 16 bar guitar loops. Also, 12 bar guitar bridges.

All of your videos have these qualities in them.

Something to think about.

#1collaborator wrote:He's not bothering anyone. At least not me that is. Sean perhaps you should try the same tune without so much of the stuff those guys don't like so much and see if you can get that melody out a bit.

Sean has some melody in there, and that's the shame of it, because the melody sounds promising - like it could go somewhere - but it's buried in between a whole bunch of squealing and tapping and whammy-bar gymnastics and so it just gets totally lost. He may not even know it's in there since it's stashed in between all the tricks.

@ 2:36 Sean starts on a simple melody (it's about 8 note is all) and it sounds great - it sounds like the sort of melody you could build a song around. But then right away he's off of it, and then it's more shred... I'd really like to hear that melody expanded on and crafted into the meat of the song.

Oh well.

Sean I didn't listen. For me when someone just batters me with stuff it gets kinda boring, Yes I think you are talented but talent isn't everything, most certainly not the whole ball.

Have you ever written a song, got someone to sing to it, got a bass player in and.... well you know what I'm talking about right? If you are looking for people to say "Wow"? Yeah you might get a few but place yourself in a band situation?

That's what I would like to hear. There are enough soloists out there to create a bridge to the moon.

Sean Akins wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFgy0AlpIvU