can anyone play serrana arpeggios by jason becker.
also at what year of playing did you decide to start learning
complicated song's like his.

any help would be great

I can't but I'm soon going to try. I think I'm at the level where I can learn them. I've been playing a little under 5 years.

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i have been playing for 4 years
but i guess its all based on how quick you learn
i mean im quite quick at learning stuff but this is definately
gonna be a challenge.

Well yu shoudl probably try some other Jason Becker?cacophony stuff taht isnt as heavy on 5 and 6 string arpeggios. "Concerto"was the first Cacophony song I learned and that was awhile ago.

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thanks man
as long as its got arpeggios
which is what i really need to pick up on.
how long did it take you to learn.

semi-related:
I was listening to the song Serrana by Jason Becker off the album Perspective. He made this album on a computer when he was unable to play guitar due to ALS?
He's a freaking genious. Amazing. I love his work.

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yeah i know what you mean i watched the documentary
about him he's an amazing guy still writing music before
and after he got ill.

GENIOUS.

I only recently heard of him....read alot and downloaded some samples from his website and must agree......pure genius.

i know this is not related with the serrana arpeggios.
but did he release the album with van halen front man david lee roth.
anyone know what its called im definately gonna get it.

thanks dude

i can play i bitt of it, never felt lik elearning more of it, busy on other stuff so
but i guess il get on with it sumtime:P

btw i can play it at SLOW speed, maybe like 40 to 60 pbm

awell

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You know,Im not trying to Show Off,But..I've only played Guitar 1 1/2 years,And I can hitt 16-17 notes a second and Jason Becker songs are SHIT easy to me,including every single other song. You people that can't play it aftter 5 years..well..You FreakIng SUCK SUCK SUCK!!!!!!!!!

Its either that,or I am a godly 14 year old. Message me to play or hear me,or look at my Guitar Competition Forum!!!!! MetalShredder182 on AIM!!

and how you can call jason becker shit
you seriously need to be shot

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he was a god send that changed the word music. on his sight it said that Eddie Van Halen is going to perform the music that he's writing on his computer.

I heard Eddie turned his back on it though....

Your lucky I'm not a mod...

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Concert isn't really too good for people who really want sweeping practice, maybe sweeping for beginners, but I bet if you have been playing metal for 4 years, you would probably not be getting any better by learning it.

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thank you. this guy is really pissing me off.give respect get respect.

You are seriously full of yourself and considering that you amount to a sack of steaming, part-decomposed shit, that makes you full of shit. Which is probably an improvement for you. In fact, you make Yngwie Malmsteen look like the meak little kid who's always last picked on the sports field and who, naturally, doesn't believe in himself.

Here's a fact for you: 99.99% of people don't like braggards and egotistical twats. The other 0.01% are braggards and egotistical twats.

Here's another fact: in about an hour I'll be going to the pub to converse and have a laugh with people who respect me. In about an hour you'll still be at home trying to up you picking speed from 960 notes per minute to 961 notes per minute. Guess what the vast majority of people here would rather be doing?

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yes i finaly memorized the whole song serrana

now for the speed im stuck at like 60, 70 bmp, some parts are faster some slower

awell who cares

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That Metalshredder Kid is a douche bag pansy who need to make others feel like they cant do anything, Well i have new for that little fag, playing 16bps on 1 note doesnt count for shit, and also your 14 and you've played for 1.5 years you obviously think your great because your friends are like O GAWD DUDE your so good, your nowhere near where you think you are, and you talk about challenging people to guitar contests in your pitiful profile, I would give you a guitar contest any day of the fucking week, and i am not even that good and i know, judging by your remarks and your actual offering a contest that I would smoke your ass! Also you have no band and no album coming in stores so shut the fuck up...

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totally agree

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congrats dude
keep it up

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hehe nice bunny in ur sig mate

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its manowar's

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Im not a fan of sweeps. You should learn them yes, but I go on the side of picking every note, but I know of Jason's work, and if some of you cats can play it thats fucking cool.

Now as for this 14 year old "guitar god", stop with your BS and go back to playing smells like teen spirit.

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Sweeping is picking every note.. its just some prefer to hammer on and pull of certain notes while others pick them.

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a-fucking-men

this guy is obviously a loser who parents push the shit out of him to learn guitar. you seriously need to get a life dude, staying at home 24/7 playing guitar is not fuckin cool dude. get a life.
dont get me wrong, i love playing guitar, but its not my life. i think you need to take a leaf outta my book.

and if you are that good, then why come here and brag? what do you get out of it? why do you call us lot shit just because we cannot play what you can?
i think i know the answer but your obviously gonna answer it differently.
you sum fucking dweeb whos fucking rejected by everyone and you bottle up your feelings and your only outlet is a fucking internet message board where no1 can do shit to you. you probably get the shit kicked outta you at school or sumthing.

go get laid bitch, and stop putting others down just becuase you MAY be a good guitarist. give respect to get respect and shut the fuck up in the mean time.

sum1 ban the prick, he isnt exactly treating us well

Need I say more than my crafty editting has already said for me.

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Well I should re-phrase what i said:

I like Alternate picking everything.

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That little 14 year old just wanted mommy to love him. Except she whored him out to that old man with the wheelchair from the bus station to support her cocaine addiction.

Such a sad waste of a human.

Jason Becker fuckin rules. Documentary kicked ass. Amazing amazing musician, true genious.


I agree with the rest on who cares if someone can sweep like a mad motherfucker after a year on the guitar. To me, it's all about having fun. I play an hour or two so till i feel like quitting, then I quit, but that's what keeps it fun. I'm not burning myself out on it. Now is 14 yr old thrasher having very much fun? Or is playing guitar like washing fuckin dishes... Don't do it to be the badass, do it cause you enjoy it. No offense 14 yr old if you dig the shit as much as you give off, just showing my standpoint.

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exactly its about having fun!

anyways, where did you see that jason becker documentary. i really like jason becker and his work. he is a real inspiration to me.
i really want to see it, do you know where i can find it? is it on the net?

cheers
user01

i must say i have to back MetalShredder up here, jason becker isnt all that good, its just most people dont practice enough ive only been playing 2 years and it didnt seem to hard, the amount you should be playing a day should be about 6-10 hours unless you are doing something

and apart from that writing music without your guitar is as easy as writing it with, you just use guitar pro or cubase, eg you put in
19-17-15-14
17-15-14-12
and it will play it back to you to see what it sounds like, same with bass, drums piano etc

Thanks. I had no idea.

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Meanwhile, people who dont play 6-10 hours a day are getting laid and socializing, key parts of human life. Practicing 2 hours a day is enough. Guitar isnt meant to really be practiced that much a day. Its meant to be enjoyable. If you practice 6-10 hours a day and enjoy it, please cut your wrists up and down and lay in a bathtub and wait a few hours, then you will magically know every song ever written on guitar, and play faster than everyone!

Stfu you no-lifed little pedophile. I know that "doing something else" really means you are touching little kids at the local playground you dirty fuck.

well said

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somewhere u have a point, cuz u can play everything u want by practicing.. on the other hand making music like that (writing it, playing it perfect etc) thats the hard part.

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doesnt mean you dont get any of those things, + it is enjoyable, if you dont enjoy it enough to play it then i dont know why you call yourself a guitarist,
its less than both becker and malmsteen who both play 12-14 hours a day anyway, and on top of that i said unless your doing something, which i count socialising as something and if you play say 6 hours you still have about 8 hours of your day where you arent playing guitar, it just means you dont waste your time on msn or watching tv when your in the house

okay now you put it like that
youve got a very good point

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amen!

woooo! etherealprince for president!!!

Next you'll be saying that Mozart was an over-rated, talentless waste of skin, bone, muscle and sinew. You're wrong: maybe one day you'll learn to live with it.

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actuall i love mozzart and raveli, vivaldi etc etc anyone who was or is good

It seems that you've missed the point I was making.

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I can sweep faster than you can alternate pick


Leave him alone John.. I never thought you'd be the one picking on metally handicapped children. Im disapointed... you sick, sick man.

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Yea, it's on the net. I've mainly just found bittorrent files of it. Not sure if your familiar with bittorrent, but you need a client, so, ... for instance download BitComet, it's a pretty good client. use www.torrentspy.com to get the file, I think it's called "The Legendary Guitar of Jason Becker.mpg" something like that. If it's not seeded well there, check out www.torrentsearch.com PM me if you need help with bittorrent.

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OWNED!

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ive gotto say that was a really childish comment, ive said plenty of times, most people have 16 hours of the day awake which is easily enough time to spend plenty of time doing a hobby(guitar) and socialise (which for you is pub) this bloke probably does both so give it a rest, and to be honest you seem to me to be a pathetic social climber who lives off the doal, which i cringe at, social climbers who think they are actually mr cool are more cringing than any other type of people, and no im not stereotyping or being prejudice

im getting so lost in this thread

but maybe im just rilli drunk

wich i am :d

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Haha, im fast man, but my left hand is the one who i have to work with

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ive been trying lately to alternate arpeggios and it feels pretty good, not as fast as sweeping though but i some cases it is more acurate

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Oh dear. I work full-time as an accountant, you fucking retard. You only had to look in my profile, it's there for the whole world to see under the heading of, no surprises, "occupation". Generally, occupations preclude a person from spending 16 hours per day practising and/or socialising so if anybody is the "pathetic social climber who lives off the dole" it is the fuckwit that I was replying to.

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not my fault you werent able enough to start your own succesfull business, so you dont waste your life working for someone else is it?

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Please, enough with the personal stuff.

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i know
this thread originally started out helpfull.

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yeah some peeps rili know how to fuck shit up around here

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Yes it did, I really enjoyed this thread.

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if you mean the documentary about
him still writing songs even though he has als
you can download it from kazaa.

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How is working for somebody else wasting my life? First you assume that I'm a scrounger on the dole, and when I inform you of my employment (which happens to provide a valuable service to people in self-employment and without which many small businesses would go to the wall) you then launch into an attack on me not having my own business. Basically, you're not man enough to admit you got it wrong and so brought an irrelevant argument into your response so you didn't have to back track.

So let me get this straight, you're calling me childish? Your response was straight out of the pre-teen text book on arguing and akin to the "Yeah? Well so's your mother" retort which is often the last vanguard of defeat in an exchange.

I had some facts for our egotistical twat up there and now I have some for you: running your own business takes up even more time than if you're employed. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a fucking liar or a shit businessman in charge of a business that is either failing or just about breaking even. How do I know this? I see it day in, day out at work. So where does owning your own business allow you 16 hours per day to practise?

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after this post dont bother because people are getting quite annoyed, but



i run my own bussiness of a cerhome for the elderly and i pay someone to manage ot for me, so i spend less than 3 hours a week dealing with it which is alot less than you seem to be making out




anyway back to the thread, has anyone heard some of beckers versions of racer x that he wrote when he was 16

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yea...thats much better than a job at an accountancy firm



your just proving johnmansley right, your wrong now your trying to change the subject


you got owned bitch

I'll be the judge of that.



The number of people who allow other people to manage their business is a very small proportion. It's you who seems to think that every owner of a business takes a back seat and pays other people to run it. I'm happy for you that you seem to have a successful business, but it still does not answer my question of how I'm wasting my life away "working for somebody else"?

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look mate ive got nothing against you, and there are people complainging already so how about we leave the subject for now and get back on topic

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Can't We All Be Friends??

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haha, you know you've lost. cant back your statements up can you bitch?

go kill yourself

A little bit delayed but Raige you are kind of biting a hand that feeds you either way. . . that is if you value your membership. Mansley, I think you know you are cool with me but seriously drama is never cool. . . that's on my profile. Raige, by the way you were trying to "end" the arguement. . . but only so you could feel as though you were on top or superior in some way. I don't know if you intended for it to be so obvious that you wanted to have the last word but eh, you did. Anyways, later. . . Hugs not drugs. . . erg

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