Tough licks you cant seem to get

[phantomgt]

Most of the beginning of Zakk Wylde's Farm Fiddlin' , from the Guitars that rule the world CD.

[tralfax19645]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the info. I am too computer stoooopid to get the tab to open, even after downloading the program it still wont un zip ???

Anyway, i will try to figure it out on the old 1/2 speed Marantz piece of crap tape deck thing a bought a few years ago. I probably should spring for one of the new digital lick learners.

Thanks anyway,

Rob

[Jeroen]

A lot of Vito Bratta, Stevie Blaze stuff kills me... still can't do some of them

Jeroen

[Guest JackButler]

Rob (tralfax)...if you have a version of WinZip..you should be able to unzip it and then right click onto it and put it in your documents..then open the software (powertab editor) and click on open file and it should appear...I too am computer stupid..lol...took me a while to figure out a few years ago that I was unzipping them and then deleting them! ; )

Glad you found the site and got the software!

[Abaco]

Lately I've been trying to get a handle on some John Sykes stuff and it's been very humbling. Learning many of his licks is much like giving birth, I imagine.

[Guest JackButler]

Abaco....John Sykes is a MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His tone and vibrato...WOW!!!

I actually tracked down a tab book from Japan with all of his stuff in it a few years ago...just to help get a handle on it!

Definitely in my top 5 list of influences. Extremely under rated and overlooked.

[Guest Mike Lee]

It's a shame that Sykes did all the guitar work on the self-titled Whitesnake album, only to be replaced with Vandenberg and Campbell for the videos and tour. He should have gotten a lot more recognition for that album. Was he fired or did he quit?

Clapton in his prime - Beano, Cream's Wheels of Fire, Layla, etc. was a major influence on me. I saw him on the From the Cradle all blues tour and he can STILL play like that if he wants to. At least he could in '94. Lately his playing trips all over itself on the televised performances. The Clapton bashing does get tiresome, though.

[Tres Aardvarks]

the bass solo on Frankenstein.. the timing on that is goooooofy.

[mario]

Most Jeff Beck stuff. "cause we've ended as lovers" is just incredible. His tone and phrasing is mind boggling.

[tralfax19645]

Hey Jack,

I got the tab to come up.

Thanks a bunch, it turned out to be real simple, I just couldnt hear the notes at normal speed. Still gonna invest in one of the digital track leaning deals.

Rob

[ZR]

John Sykes rocks! I saw him w/ Whitesnake ...Slide it in tour? ...something like that. They were on the bill w/ Dio. I wonder if that's where the Vivian Campbell connection started?

I liked Sykes back on the Spellbound album of Tygers of Pan Tang. Am I the only one who remembers them?!

[Brewmaster]

Most Jeff Beck stuff. "cause we've ended as lovers" is just incredible. His tone and phrasing is mind boggling.

His use of dynamics is the real killer.

Roy Buchanan was another one with incredible dynamics.

[Hamer Bass Head]

the bass solo on Frankenstein.. the timing on that is goooooofy.

Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein???...I thought it was all keys!

Ihave always had trouble with some of the bass stuff on the old Alice Cooper albums...I suspect it's partially due to the short scale eb-3 he played and flatwound strings... I can play the notes but the vibe jsut ain't happening.

Other than that, dream theater is always consistently tough, Rush? only because it's a big snooze for me to listen to; they can play their asses off, but there doesn't seem to be any point to it.... saame with Yes, to a lesser degree. Prakash John's work on Lou Reed's "rock and roll animal" is very hard, and Hunter and Wagner's guitar work constantly distracts me every time I listen to it. I am not a Doors fan by any stretch of the imagination but the break in "LA Woman" is a cool one, and I can play the notes but repeating it smoothly is tough.