I am sure everyone has seen Zakk Wylde play.... In Guitar World magazine, he mentions some, uh for lack of better word, tricks he does (fake trem stuff, crossing his arms and doing weird shit) that look bad as hell... I know that is just him trying to hurt my feelings by doing that shit in the first place, but do any of yall do anything like that?

i do the technique mr vai practically invented
when i do a whole bunch of hammer on's with my left hand and
put my right hand holding the neck and all that does is mute the strings
so you dont get any horrible buzzing or any feedback
which makes the notes more clearer so i wouldnt class it as showing off
but when you see vai do it it looks like he is.

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thats the only flashy type thing i do is the vai thing aswell

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satriani did that first.

fuck satriani

all i meant was steve vai uses that technique alot and i mean alot
i have only seen satriani do it in the mystical potatoe head groove thing.

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ive seen him do it in a shit load, from like surfing with the alien Cd,flying in a blue dream cd, the extremist and a whole shit load of his other cds.

Kinda funny how Zakk said he hates all that whammy and trickery stuff, and he goes and gets a guitar with a Floyd Rose and does a video of him doing all that stuff .

well dime gave him guitars with floyds on them, hes does a lot of tricks on a ToM that sounds like a floyd the the ToM dive and shit.

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I'll was referring to his Randy wannabe Polkadot V with the Floyd .

I play alot of my solos inverted. I spent hours, upon hours, upon months practicing and perfecting inverted solos and sweeps. I can now do them like it is nothing. I like playing overhand for alot of riffs too, just to show off. Pure showboating. It is not like "look how good I am!" it is more like "look how much I fucking love the guitar!"

I just play. I don't need phunky shit

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I show off a bit when playing For Whom The Bell Tolls. I play rhythm and by friend plays lead. There are a bunch of breaks or pauses for the lack of a better word in that song, so I'll do the metal horns with my right hand and then continue playing. I also fill in the gaps with a bunch of palm muted E notes.
However, I've never really played this song in front of anybody else but my guitarist friend, so you can't really call that showing off, per se. And it's impossible for me to show off in front of this guy considering he practically taught me how to play the guitar and knows exactly just how bad I suck.
Headbanging while you play works too.
And of course, there's always Angus Young with the duck walk and spinning on his back while playing a ripping solo. He's got to be the most animated guitar player I've ever seen. I also heard of this one guy who was playing a small club, and he had a wireless guitar rig. Like I said, he was playing some small club, and there was a Dunkin Donuts across the street. This dude walked out, went to Dunkin Donuts, bought a donut, and came back eating it, all while still playing. My guitar teacher told me this story. He was there.

ohh tuff

Dude wirelss doughnut shredding, i might have to try that sometime.

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oh okay
i will have to see that

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If I really feel like being a show-off wanker I play Michael Angelo's over-under shit or just do runs whilst playing over the neck.

If find the first half of Chris Impellitteri's Spanish Fire main melody the best opportunity to do over-under.

e-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-5-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-8~

e----------------------------------------------13-
b----------13----------------13-15-17-13-15-17----
g-14-13-16----16-14-13-14-16----------------------

e----------------13-16-17-16-17-19-20~--
b-17-15-13-15-17------------------------
g---------------------------------------

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satch tapes. he looks weird with hair though. im warning u!! he looks weird

he he okay thanks dude

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ive played with a flat penny i found at Desiney world.

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i've done that before, just not from disney world cuz im poor. anyways u need to file it down a bit other wise everything will come out like natural and artifical harmonics. besides its looks cool if u have every thing filed and leave "in god we trust." another fun trick to do is play with ur teeth.

During last Christmas season, Wal Mart started selling the "First Act" guitars, and the employees set up a public display so that kids could come and experience the power of rock 'n' roll under parental supervision. I, of course, grabbed one of the guitars and you know what happened after that. In James Dio voice : "Do you kids wanna rock!? I can't hear you !"

I have no specific moves.....but suppose I could always use my ASSets to show off a little....

heh



Oh man...you are so correct about that.
Our local mega super levithan Wal-Mart has all of those "First Act" cheapy guitars up front.....I always stop and throw a little Type O into the store and get dirty and approving looks. But I never can get that Metal crunch going as the crappy amp have no ass behind them......I could bring my Boss distortion pedal I suppose....heh

definatley

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Of course, most of the show-off shit just makes you look like an ass. I love Vai and all but show-off's are show-off's no matter how good. I do a little bit of the palm muting with the pick hand or I just basically "hand capo" it to do certain hammer-ons and pull-offs. Other than that people consider pitch harmonics as show-off things and I'm sure plenty of you do those. Other than that sometimes I refuse to use my pickhand. . . I just do complete hammer-ons throughout a piece. Behind the neck bends, playing with the guitar body behind your head. . . laying on the ground and spinning on your back. I do shit like that when I'm totally plastered, it's kind of entertaining to make an ass of yourself on stage. Other than that, pick scrapes classify. Tremolo arms aren't really my thing any more but when I had one I loved to do dive bombs then pull it up as far as I could. Switching your pick-ups mid-solo tends to throw people off occasionally. Playing amazing grace in natural harmonics. . . that will definitely impress if the people are slightly musical, not cuz its too hard. . . just neato.

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I was surprised when I found out First Act makes actualy expensive guitars. . . I thought they only made crappy guitars then I bought a Guitar World or One and I say one of their guitars that looked really nice and it was like 1,500 or some shit. I'd so tape their logo if I got one 'cuz their logo is just too shitty, same as the company name.

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people who show off really annoy me, play guitar for yourself, not play it to look good

I wouldn't say what I do is to show-off, cause the tricks I try still sound like shit when I do em. I would say when improvising, legato, taps, double taps, sweeps, pinch harmonics. It's crazy... some might say one is showing off, when another feels it's style. Look at jason becker, ... One might say his sweeps are for show-off purposes cause the man can sweep at blistering speeds, but if you ask a well enthused guitarist, they'll say the sweep gives the music it's key characteristic sound. So personally, all these "show-off" tricks to me help define the sound of the music in their context. Hrmm.. not sure if that makes a goddamn bit of sense.

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i didnt mean it like that m8, its just the way you said it, sounded like you wanted it because it looked good

well according to raige he's not that good of a guitarist

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dont get me wrong hes better than me, i just meant compared to the mass of guitarists out there

cool man
no problem im just still pissed off a that metal shredder retard
nothin personal with you dude

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great stuff, btw does anyone know any fast songs which has alot of slide picking(alternate picking while sliding down a single string)

it sound's cool
but i have never heard of that technique before
and i have never heard of any band's that do it

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my favorite thing to do, is to try and play along with that speed kills video and try and do that slap happy shit with the fretboard(lol), but of course thats the only part i try and play everthing else im just amazed, and stop. sort of like a beginner looking at malmsteens full shred

do you mean the over under technique cuz that is fuckin solid
i cant do that i mean anyone can just go over and under the neck
but to hit all the right notes is brilliant

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yea that's what i ment. its hard as hell but very entertaining

and you can actually do it
well done dude

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practice=perfection. i can do it just not fast

very true.
im gonna practice the speed lives dvd version tomorrow actually

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I play slap bass with my cock because I'm 9riM and KvLt

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Most show off with SOUND.....not "look"

Concern for a bands looks is massively retarded.
If my guitar heros wore pink leotards and all looked like Dee Snider.....I could care less.
There is no visual comming from a stereo speaker.....unless you just popped several hits of really good LSD

like iron madien or led zeppelin. I hate spandex

I like some of Zakk Wylde's fake trem tricks.... Watching him play makes me want to dye my hair and cut myself though.... It is pretty humbling.

NO! Spandex is brilliant!. the only thing better is mullets!

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i think showing off is important... not the visual part of it but the musical part of it... like, where would we be without Eddie Van Halen saying "look at me!" and taping, or Jimi Hendrix going "look im on acid!" and making weird bar noises?

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haha that kicked ass... i liked him with hair

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i think jimmy page was a pretty cool showoff.. anyone see on the led zeppelin DVD dazed and confused.. how he took it like 15 minutes with soloing and that fucking violin bow!? damn it was kool lol and yea like mentioned before angus young too much of a showoff

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has anyone hear of jelly fish picks, their basically built for showing off or at least they look like it. has anyone played with one? they say their gay, but it sounds like an intresting subject
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7.../base_id/121832

looks weird... but if it works like it says it might be cool to play around with...

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