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pantera was a pretty good band.

check out eric vandenberg's articles on http://www.ibreathemusic.com

hope you own a metronome. good luck.

there's a pretty thorough lesson on slap/pop technique in this month's guitar player. it's the one with warren haynes on the cover.

no, Khimaros had it right. E major is only used in the verses.

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StarSlight wrote:No, they play it in standard. The first chord is an E7 at the seventh fret.

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No, they play it in standard. The first chord is an E7 at the seventh fret.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/g403z/

Catherine Gagné's site for John Mayer tabs is as good as they come.

an arpeggio is just playing the notes of a chord consecutively, so the notes don't NEED to start with the root.

if you do start with the root, you're playing an arpeggio of a root-position chord.
start with the third, a first-inversion chord arpeggio.
start with the fifth, a second-inversion chord ...

leo kottke is my hero. hands down, my favorite guitarist.

http://www.abandonhope.shetland.co.uk/lk_clips.htm

that site has a bunch of full concerts in .ram video. the video quality is awful, but the audio is pretty good, and you can at least get an idea of what his hands are doing.

i'd recommend ...

try actually listening to michael hedges, because justin king sounds nothing like him.

http://www.homespuntapes.com

Take a look around there. And they are actually DVD's.

i don't like how they play along with pre-recorded orchestra/guitar/keyboard tracks. sucks the energy out of the performance for me. either hire some touring musicians or stick to instrumentation you can actually play live.

couple things that helped me cut way down on string-breaking when re-tuning a lot - always play for at least a few minutes before changing it's tuning, and twist the tuning pegs slowly. go up a quarter step, let it set for a couple seconds or so, and repeat until you get to where you need to be ...

Jazz: Joe Pass.
Fusion: Al Di Meola.

I don't listen to enough blues to have a favorite guitarist in the genre.

Me, too. Fragile and Fields of Gold are incredible songs, but I definitely prefer the Police.

Oh, sorry. I completely missed what you were saying there. Answered a totally different sort of thing.

Yeah, the fingerings would be the same, except for anything played on that E string. If you fret the E string at the 5th fret, you get an A. But if it's tuned down to D, then you get a G. The capo ...