alternate and economy picking... psycho a little over a week and cowboys about three days or so I think. Not quite sure thoug.

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i can play every solo from iron maiden from 1982-1988
adrian smiths of course.
cowboys from hell
35% of no boundries speed lives michael angelo
photograph def leppard phil collen
poison alice cooper.
rest in peace extreme nuno bettencourt.

Almost 7 years.

Cacophony- Concerto
Half of Jason Becker's "Air"

I used to know Jason Becker's version of Paganini's 5th caprice

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I'm going to practice my ass off on summer holidays.

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20 years, but on and off (mostly off). Probably equivalent to 3 to 5 years of hard practice as far as technicality goes but I'm more blues oriented than "shred" when it comes to solos.

I'm guessing Megadeth's "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" or "Set The World Afire" are the most difficult songs I know, but once you know how to play something...it's no longer difficult now is it?

no trem picking?
wtf is economy picking? :S

Yes,I can but not as fast as muhhamed

i have been playing for a little over 4 years, and i still suck, i cant play half the music i listen to, but then again i havent been playing as seriously over the past year, ive been trying to balance school, work, a relationship, AND guitar, and guitar usually comes last.

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Five years this summer. But most of what I've accomplished had been shown by the third year probably. I can't see myself getting any better. I'm not grand, but there's only a few things I can't do, and I'll most likely never be able to do them.

5 years for me.

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4

Leads for 2, but im catching up... FAST!

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yea, same here, my parents tell me i play guitar too much so i have to tone it down a lil and concentrate on my school more. then i work on weekends, and im too bummed out afterwards to play or do anything other than watch tv and eat.
but i do at least make sure i pick my guitar up everyday and play for a lil while, may for a bit in the morning and here and there.

btw, whats economy picking?

well trem picking is just fast alternate picking...

economy picking is like this:

e ----------------------------------2-3-4-4-3-2
B ----------------------------1-2-3-------------3-2-1
G ---------------------2-3-4--------------------------4-3-2
D ---------------1-2-3---------------------------------------3-2-1
A --------2-3-4----------------------------------------------------4-3-2
E -1-2-3------------------------------------------------------------------3-2-1 etc.

so you start by downpicking the 1. fret of the low e string so you up pick the 2. fret and downpick the 3. fret and then downpick the 2. fret of the A string. Like kind of a two string from the 3. fret e string to 2. fret a string. I'm not so good at explaining things thoug...

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that sounds just like alt picking chromatics... am i right, or am i making an ass of my self...well i am a n00b

your right

I'm not sure, I think 3,5 years or so.
I can pretty much play annything I sink my teeth in, but I find it hard to come up with my own stuff. I'm not too creative I guess.
I'm pretty decent rhytmicly, but I suck at leads.

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damit your right i forgot...

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Unless you wanna call that crazy tremlo masturbation thing at the end of RIB a solo

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As far as Slayer goes, that qualifies as a solo. It's funny that the official book doesn't even transcribe it though, it just says "*w/trem. bar effects ad lib. (2 gtrs.)"

Been playing 7 years strong. I can jam most Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Bodom lines and almost all solos from metallica and slayer, and some solos from pantera and bodom

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