Long time coming...

Well its been a while since I last posted here, I'm not playing as much guitar as usual maybe a couple of times a week at the moment.

To tell you the truth I'm probably not as disheartened as usual but I still haven't been playing much.  As I said before I prefer to play lead guitar but getting a decent backing track to play over can be tricky, especially with the sort of stuff that I like playing.  I'm into a lot of the neoclassical speed metal stuff, things like Jason Becker and Marty Friedman's early stuff in Cacophony and their solo albums, but the sort of rhythm I play is a different style so things just don't mesh so well.

I did find a nice preset from the Altaire studio in Super drummer 2 that sounded good, I think it was called black beauty, but getting a good solid rhythm track still eludes me though :).  I am enjoying playing lead though, I must admit I love playing lots of sweep picking stuff, I had a go at a couple of sections of Concerto from Speed Metal Symphony but its as hard as hell!!  I have no idea how those guys could ever play like that, even remembering it is difficult!  I can manage a few bars then I forget the beginning doh!

I have been listening to Alice in Chains new album "Black gives way to blue" a lot lately, its a really great album production production is spot on too.  Also on my play list has been Megadeth's new album "Endgame", some of the tracks are good but others are boring and are very reminiscent of tracks from their last album.  I think the albums production also sounds a bit thin too, there doesn't seem to be nearly enough bass.  I suppose that's Megadeth's sound though, I listened to some of the albums from the early 90's and they seem a little lacking in bass too...

I will have to see if I can scrape a few snippets of playing and post them up here so you can hear what I'm trying to do...

Who needs rhythm and bass anyway :)

Until next time...