To come from these fingers. I need to practice practice practice. But that isn’t just me, you all need to practice too. You can’t expect to improve without some effort. My problem right now is that I have again fallen into my old trap. I have started to focus more on technique then on writing. Sure a really heavy part sounds great but if it appears to come from nowhere, it really doesn’t matter how cool that one part is. I need to just jam out, no more of this, “where can I insert finger tapping and sweeps without it sounding TOO cheesy?”
That issue aside…
I have fallen in love with my seven string guitar again. It is just so mean and it has a great eighties hair metal lead tone if I want it.
My goal for this summer is to get my own PA system. A new amp for the guitar, and maybe even a new 7 string. Longer scale, more chunk, maybe some sort of alder body super strat with some corksniffer pickups in there like some BareKnuckles. But BareKnuckles aren’t worth it if I get some cheapy 7 or even in my current Japanese made 7. I’m not going to cheap out on my next 7, simply because what sort of variations on a seven would anyone really want? If I just got one really nice 7 make specifically for tight clear and big sounding metal, I wouldn’t need any other 7 again. That isn’t true for 6 strings. You can get 9 entirely different guitars and you still could be unsatisfied with the overall diversity of guitars. Also, One nice metal 7 can replace a glam rock 6. It would accomplish the same thing if you used the appropriate amp settings.
RJ Ellsworth 