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- From: fbegin@bnr.ca (Francois Begin)
- Subject: Re: Steve Vai
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.152558.20844@bnr.ca>
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- References: <1992Nov19.055316.3771@iconix.oz.au> <1eh0lsINNn8h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:25:58 GMT
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- In article <1eh0lsINNn8h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu (Axeman) writes:
- >
- >ajm@iconix.oz.au (Andrew Mack) writes:
- >
- >>Hi netters,
- >
- >>Does it make any sense if I mention something called the "Steve Vai ten
- >>hour guitar workout" ?? I've heard vague things about it and I think it
- >>appeared in one of the guitar mags .. Guitar World maybe. Anyone have a
- >>reference, or better, have it online?
- >
- >I have it in a guitar magazine so it does exists, and you correctly titled
- >it. I think it is silly and frivolous. It's essentially 20 pages of 4
- >exercises. The reason it is so long is because they're all chromatic
- >exercises. For example, the Annoying Chromatic Position Change Exercise:
- >
- >-1-2-3-4------------------------------------------
- >---------1-2-3-4----------------------------------
- >-----------------1-2-3-4--------------------------
- >-------------------------1-2-3-4------------------
- >---------------------------------1-2-3-4----------
- >-----------------------------------------1-2-3-4--
- >
- >and after that they'd have
- >
- >-2-3-4-5-------------------------------
- >---------2-3-4-5-----------------------
- >-----------------2-3-4-5---------------
- >-------------------------2-3-4-5-------
- >---------------------------------2-3-4-5
- >
- >I think they would have saved many a tree if they just PUT:
- >
- >-(x)-(x+1)-(x+2)-(x+3)------------------------
- >------------------------(x)-(x+1)-(x+2)-(x+3)-
- >
- >etc etc. But then, playing guitar does not a mathematician make. :)
- >
- >
- >Then I think they had the shapes of the modes played in every key, and such.
- >It's better to create your OWN exercises based on individual weaknesses and
- >compile your own "ten-hour workout." I have a lot of exercises classified
- >by that which they .exercise. - like "Advanced Legato Technique" and "Hand-
- >Over-Hand 8-Finger Legato," etc. I can type some up if people want..
- >
- >-jq
- >
- That would be great !
-
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