I know I’ve been posting quite a bit today ’cause I had a lot to say but I think this will be my final post for the night.

Earlier this afternoon I decided to finally re-string my hollow-body electric guitar and then re-tuned it. Plugged my electric into my amp and I’ve been noodling around. Just playing electric riffs and some leads.

Ya know, I think I am capable of playing good guitar solos that will be pretty face-melting. I know the scales, the techniques and all that stuff but the only things I need to practice and work on are the phrasing and ear training. In lead guitar, you don’t even need to be all technical about it. You don’t need to learn over 20 scales. All you need is just a few scales… the basic ones like the Minor/Major Pentatonic, The Blues Minor/Major Pentatonic, the Major Scale, and the Modes. I already know most of that stuff but I still have a lot of learning to do on the Modes which is getting worked on.

One thing I’m admittedly not very good at yet is the improvisation and ear training but I’m working on that too and practicing really hard. Once I improve my music theory knowledge and improvisation skills… pretty soon… you’ll hear me do some face-melting guitar playing that other musicians (and hopefully non-musicians) will enjoy.

I believe I’m pretty good at rhythm guitar and riffs but lead guitar I wanna get improved on and that’s what I’m most focused on. I love guitar solos and long jams. That’s the kind of stuff I prefer to listen to and that’s the kind of stuff you’ll hear if I ever get my own band going. I love listening to music where the band plays a song and it extends into a long jam. That probably explains my obsession with music artists such as Led Zep, Hendrix, Neil Young, The Allman Brothers, and Joe Satriani.

I like to write long songs between 7 – 10 minutes sometimes ’cause I can’t help it. I get that by listening to those artists above. I try to write short songs but I can’t help writing the long ones. That’s how I always play. It’s amazing what music does to ya. If you’re the type of musician who plans ahead of how long a song should be… then you’re doing it wrong. You should never really be able to tell how long a song is. A song stops when it wants to and that’s the end of it, ya know what I mean?

Kev