I seldomly re-share life inspiring memes through facebook ’cause most of them are total bullshit, but I only re-share the ones that reminds me of myself and ones that actually makes a lot of sense. Well this one actually makes a lot of sense.

I’m sure some of you go through the same thing. You’re either loved or hated by people. Yep, I go through the same thing myself and I’m okay with that. I know a lot of people in my life and there are those that love me out there and there are definitely those that hate me too. I’ve always got a mix of love and hate online and offline. I can never understand it but that’s the way life is, I guess. You can’t make everybody happy and that’s all there is to it, ya know? I try my best to make people happy, but I know I can’t do that.

I do find it funny how much hatred some have of me out there and it’s interesting how some would have raging tempers over the way I talk and the way I think. You know what? I don’t give a shit really. I’ve had plenty of people over the years of my life who I thought was a friend and stabbed me in the back. That’s cool, though. You just got to learn to accept it and keep moving forward. That’s all you can do. I’m fine with a mixed reaction toward me as a person ’cause all I care about right now is music and bodybuilding/fitness.

Whether people like you or hate you, it shouldn’t matter. Just be you. Over the years, I’ve learned to be me no matter the situation. It may have pissed people off over the years but that’s tough. There’s nothing wrong with being yourself. Of course, there are gonna be people who think it’s wrong and if they don’t like the way you act, they’ll try to control you. It’s interesting how people think it’s okay to try and change you just because they don’t like who you are. I’ve dealt with that shit for many years. Not just in the internet world, in the real world too.

People don’t like your attitude? Fuck ’em. People don’t like your opinions and views in certain topics? Fuck ’em. People don’t like the way you are as a person? Fuck them. Once again, just be you and there’s nothing wrong with it.

Yeah, I definitely did meet people over the years that either loved me or hated me. Once again, it’s all fine and good. Life is good for me either way. It’s not the end of the world if people decided not to like you. It’s your life that matters, not theirs.

Seriously, I did all I can to become a positive person and be good to everyone but no matter how positive I try to be, there will always be someone who won’t like me but that’s okay. Just keep being positive and be good to everyone ’cause that’s probably why you get haters to begin with. That’s the way I look at it. You’re definitely gonna get jealous people ’cause they know you’re a good person.

With that being said, I am who I am and I won’t change for anybody. You shouldn’t either. Live life the way you want to and screw everyone.

Kev

When I first started out on guitar, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I was only able to play basic open chords back in the day when I was starting out. I was a shit guitar player back then. Have been shit for a long while admittedly and now I’ve been doing all I can to improve myself. Take my guitar playing to the next level.

A lot of people want to knock people who shred and play fast. People call it “noodling” and shredding all sounds the same, blah blah blah. You get the deal. That’s why instrumental shred music is so underrated and overlooked. People always say when playing lead guitar solos, “less is more”. They always say don’t overdo yourself. I disagree. I would say play as many notes as you want in a guitar solo and play shred all you want to. You can play a lot of notes in a guitar solo as long as you make it sound musical and it can work.

Admittedly, I do have aspirations to become a shredder and virtuoso type of guitar player. I want to play like all of my heroes. Lately I’ve been listening to all the shred guys like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Alan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola and others.

I’m trying to solo like a shredder. I want to do all the crazy techniques like fretboard tapping, whammy bar tricks, sweep picking, pinch harmonics and all that stuff. I’m still trying to improve my perfect pitch and ear training which is getting better. You gotta have a good ear if you want to be considered a virtuoso and you also got to have good knowledge of music theory which I do. I studied pretty hard on music theory over the last several years and I pretty much know music theory pretty well now.

I don’t necessarily care to melt people’s faces and knock people’s socks off — all that is fine — I just want to play and improve myself. Keep moving forward in my guitar playing and take it to the next level. Just want to write bad-ass rock songs, ya know?

I really love playing lead guitar, though. I’m loving that a lot more than playing rhythm guitar. I’ve always learned that if you want to be a guitarist, you should learn both rhythm and lead. I feel that you can’t separate the two. If you play guitar, might as well play both. You’re not a real musician if you don’t play both.

When it comes to guitar solos, I’ve always loved improvised solos. Ya know, just wing it out. I love spontaneous guitar playing. I’m not a big fan of guitar solos that are written out. I like jamming. I love shredding and improvised jams.

When it comes to scales, I don’t go too crazy on scales. The only scales that I usually solo on are major/minor pentatonic scales and the modes. I love modal soloing too and I experiment with that a lot.

As for how fast I can play when playing along with a metronome, I’m not a speed demon yet ’cause the fastest I can play on a metronome as if this point is about 90 bpm or a little over. Shredding means playing over a 150 bpm. I still have ways to go but I’m working on it. I’m really working on trying to improve my speed too. I want to be able to shred on both acoustic and electric.

You can achieve all of your guitar playing goals. Just gotta work hard, practice and it’ll all pay off before you know it. Just gotta stick with it and don’t give up.

Kev