arglebargle said:
How long you been playing? Any books/videos/whatevers you can recommend?
I've been playing since '98, and I'm largely self-taught... it's not as hard as it sounds, you just need to be stubborn, and keep playing, and eventually one day you just take a listen at your technique, and say "hey man, not bad!"
The only keyboard video I saw was Jordan Rudess' "Keyboard Wizardry". It's not "the" keyboard bible, but he sure shows some interesting excercises and tricks. Apart from that, there's one thing I'd try to recommend to keyboard players that want to improve their soloing, and primarely pitch bending abilities... try learning guitar solos!
if your technique isn't advanced, you can start with Slash or Angus Young, and you can build up to, for examp. Petrucci (he has some really easy stuff if you look for it), or Romeo, if you're really an idiot like me...
Dressed To Kill said:
I mean, I can play the 2 keyboard solos, but I don't think I can play the guitar ones...
I learned the keyboard solos pretty fast, cause I think I'm much more similar to Pinella in pattern forming, so I've got it mostly in my hand already. but don't be fooled, Romeo is
, and he gave me a really hard time! His tapping solos often have like... five tones in place of four... He's crazy
SevenString said:
may the prog be with me... always!
Divine Wings Of Tragedy said:
hohoho you are here too, i'm the one who commented first in your topic at jordan's forum
kepsilon, right? well.. you got me
again, I'm really glad you folks liked it this much....
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I guess it won't hurt to post you some more links...
here's another thing, that you may or may not know....
it's a solo part from the song "Scarred" by Dream Theater...
(both solos on keys again)
Scarred
this may not be as impressive as the previous, but it might be interesting to those of you that are DT fans...
Have fun, folks, and prog on!