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I've become painfully aware of how bad my playing is. All this time I've been thinking of pickup changes, buying some pedals or getting the Laney Ironheart studio amp... when what I really need to is practice more. Well, I've been trying to learn Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train... and... the main solo is soooo hard. Even if I hit the right notes, I'm nowhere near the fluidity. No gear change is going to change that...  :( I guess my message here is that if GAS seems to be getting to you, just try and learn a new, really difficult song. It will go away!

And Rhandy Rhoads really was an awesome player, such a shame he passed away so soon. I don't know which song to learn after that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLp7YNTznE

I've even looked into Michael Angelo's Version, as he doesn't tap the solo... but it's even harder that way to get it smooth (at 3:15).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7CELTF0cIo
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2013, 09:50:01 PM »
Learn Diary, Tonight, Little Dolls or Mr Crowley next.

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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2013, 10:52:50 PM »
I guess my message here is that if GAS seems to be getting to you, just try and learn a new, really difficult song. It will go away!

Or just give in to the GAS and learn songs another day!  :P
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2013, 03:36:08 AM »
"I hit about 50,000 other notes ..."

I find MAB really hard to take seriously.  The wig doesn't help, but really it's just his whole attitude.

The difference between RR and MAB is that RR was a tasteful player.

And I totally agree that GAS often originates in frustrations that have more to do with the connections between brain and hands than anything to do with your instrument

I should also add that it might be the case that part of the issue is anxiety.  An anxious player is never a fluid one!  Just let go of the expectations and standards you are placing on yourself and keep plugging away at it.

Personally I think that if you are doing a half-decent job of a RR solo with just a few 'fluidity' issues you must be already a very good player.  I don't even contemplate trying to play his solos at the moment, as they are completely beyond my ability.  But I think that at whatever level your ability fear is the mindkiller (I think this is a quote from the novel Dune).  Much better to keep plugging away as you are doing than give in to GAS etc
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2013, 04:59:02 AM »
I find batio's far more entertaining lol really want to see him though without the wig!

yeah rhoads was a genius good on you for learning some of the solos, I can play the riffs but not really the solos.
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2013, 11:55:58 AM »
Oh my, Batio is just a well practiced hack... horrible.

And when heard next to Randy an absolute master he's shameful.  PDT_038
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2013, 12:25:57 PM »
I've got an old album called "Little Monsters" by a band called Holland, featuring a certain Mike Batio on guitar.  They were a pretty odd looking bunch (is that Klaus Nomi on drums?) but I don't think Batio had a wig then.  Or any silly multi-neck guitars.

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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2013, 12:33:36 PM »
He was in a band called 'Holland'?
Isn't that like naming your band 'Boring'?

(I love holland really)

Does Batio ever play in a band any more? All i see of him online is him jamming at NAMM or playing along to a backing track somewhere, dressed up like a evil disco dancer.

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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2013, 12:54:41 PM »
Seems like Holland was the last name of the vocalist.

MAB seems to have been wearing a wig since Nitro, which was a VERY long time ago (second from right).

The goofballl with the blonde wig ended up married to Lita Ford.  For some reason she ended up with him rather than Tony Iommi.  Ouch

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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2013, 01:01:30 PM »
The goofballl with the blonde wig ended up married to Lita Ford.  For some reason she ended up with him rather than Tony Iommi.  Ouch

Then, I believe, there was a rather acrimonious divorce.

And of course Iommi ended up with Maria Sjoholm.
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2013, 06:56:49 PM »
fear is the mindkiller (I think this is a quote from the novel Dune). 

Bravo  8)

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fear's path, and only I will remain.

Oh my, Batio is just a well practiced hack... horrible.

And when heard next to Randy an absolute master he's shameful.  PDT_038

Yup Batio is a $%&#ing travesty

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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2013, 07:21:49 PM »
Yeah, MAB is defintely a weird character, but seems a friendly guy. Too bad for him that in the end it is still about the song and not how fast he can shred.
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2013, 03:51:26 PM »
Ignoring all the MAB talk before I join in to mock his wig: GAS is really just a distraction. I often find myself thinking about getting new stuff although I actually have everything I'll ever need instead of just sitting down and practicing. Heck if I only had my Micro Terror Head + the small PPC 108 cab with the Bad Monkey and my first guitar, it would be enough.  :lol:

I found a good way to ignore it though: just sit down and practice everytime GAS hits you. Save a 100 quid every once in a while putting it somewhere you're not urged to grab em the next day again and eventually over the course of time you'll have enough cash to make a decent purchase whilst you're not rushing to get some cheap stuff you eventually will never need. It's just letting go of the thought that it could always be better, it's your fingers that do the talking, gear is just 10%. It's hard, but it can work ^^

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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2013, 10:17:30 PM »
I've become painfully aware of how bad my playing is. All this time I've been thinking of pickup changes, buying some pedals or getting the Laney Ironheart studio amp... when what I really need to is practice more. Well, I've been trying to learn Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train... and... the main solo is soooo hard. Even if I hit the right notes, I'm nowhere near the fluidity. No gear change is going to change that...  :( I guess my message here is that if GAS seems to be getting to you, just try and learn a new, really difficult song. It will go away!

And Rhandy Rhoads really was an awesome player, such a shame he passed away so soon. I don't know which song to learn after that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLp7YNTznE

I've even looked into Michael Angelo's Version, as he doesn't tap the solo... but it's even harder that way to get it smooth (at 3:15).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7CELTF0cIo


I get that, I realized GAS was a distraction when i was forced to teach and play on a cheap in-store jay turser guitar for a while as a means of promoting the brand. with the right approach and technique adjusments i could sound just as convincing as with my other gear for the students. of course in the long run some tiny details are lacking but it proved to me the saying that ''tone is in the fingers''. ever since then i get a kick out of taking import guitars and upgrading them to milk just about every inch of tone out of them, in a very personal and unique way.
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Re: GAS is just a distraction from practicing... (Rhandy Rhoads related)
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2013, 10:41:39 PM »
He took everything that made Randys playing special and just sped it up into generic, overplayed, shreder (sp?) cr@p (I do like some shred btw).

His tone wasn't totally awful though. I wonder what he was playing through as neither of the amps behind him were switched on by the looks of it  :lol:
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