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RE: Dream Theater - A Choose Your Own Adventure - musical tour
I actually met Dream Theater back on their Octavarium tour. So much fun.
I actually met Dream Theater back on their Octavarium tour. So much fun.
Me <- Jealous. For pure technicality they are my favorite band. I still listen to them quite often. Anytime I need to hear raw skill at work they are my go to band.
Do you like Symphony X?
Kind of like asking me "do you like to breathe?" I am a guitarist though I haven't played or practiced in more than a year. I need to, I miss it. When I was at my top skill wise I'd set my vision I learning Set the world on fire as a song to push me into new areas. I think I could pull it off, but I needed a guitar with a decent tremolo/whammy bar to pull of some parts and all I have in the electric guitar department is a beat up B.C. Rich Warlock. That guitar has sentimental attachments for me, so I'll keep it but I do need a nicer electric. I also have a Guild Nylon Classical, a 12 string acoustic, and two 6 string acoustics. Yet I haven't practiced... my fingers are tingling thinking about it. And yes Symphony X was what I was going to push myself with. I think I could perhaps pull off some Symphony X and perhaps some Dream Theater, but there are some DT songs I couldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. Petrucci is just too damn good.
When i was young and niave i thought i could learn michael romeo or petrucci... oh how starry eyed i was!
That is close to the sound of stuff I wrote myself when I make stuff up and do what I call doodling on the guitar. That guy is better than I ever was, but I wasn't too far from that.
You're making me want to practice again... this is a good thing. It would make various members of my family happy.
EDIT: I actually know I could play that with a month of reconditioning my hands. That was well within my capabilities. I really like this guy. He makes up stuff that sounds like what I do. Yet I really don't like the vocalist of Psycroptic. :)
Ooh... you do realize you are opening pandora's box by talking about music with me? I can geek out over music almost non-stop.
Joe Haley put out a new video...
Romeo... I could likely do some of his stuff... I chose Set The World On Fire as a goal as it was just slightly beyond where I was at the time so I thought it'd push me to get better. Iconoclast that song... that's beyond me. :)
Haha. Im a music nerd too. As ive gotten older, ive branched out a lot. I was way into harder stuff like Meshuggah for a while.
I like hard stuff, I like soft stuff. I like some Messhugah. My main criteria is if it is not Prog Metal/Prog Rock then it needs to sound unique. If it is unique then I like it. The band I do tomorrow I'm pretty sure you'll be familiar with. They are unique, not as technical as DT or Symphony X, but sometimes classified as Prog Metal, sometimes something else. :)
Doing it tomorrow simply because I've already done my 4 posts for today.
Did you check out the Arch/Matheos album Sympathetic Resonance?