Guitar

Hello everybody! Check out my cover of Colorful by The Verve Pipe (Rockstar version). Enjoy :)

 

Greetings again, friends!

Here’s a video of myself playing the solo from The Best of Times by Dream Theater, from their latest album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings. This video is quite old as I recorded it a couple weeks after the album came out, and goes back to last July. The minute I heard the solo on the song, I fell in love with it, this is hands-down one of Petrucci’s greatest guitar solos of all-time, and being on the progressive metal band’s 10th studio record, that’s saying a lot: The solo combines not-so-easy guitar techniques and simultaneously, a heavenly melody that perfectly suits the song’s mood (go here for more info about the song). Anyhoo, this cover as I said goes back to summer of 2009, and I had then the intention of posting it but apparently forgot to and got caught up with other stuff. Note that this is recorded by a phone camera with a basic distortion of a small Marshall amp. Enjoy!

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So many versions of Jimi Hendrix’ Little Wing have been made by various bands and artists. While going over some random YouTube music videos, I stumbled upon this awesome acoustic guitar tapping cover by Carlos Vamos. It’s really awesome, check it out!

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Welcome to Guitar Discipline. This is the first guitar lesson of many that will figure on UsefZ, where Ziad (who happens to be my brother, and one of the best guitarists I’ve ever met) will go through several guitar exercises, techniques and much more, ranging from the first ‘preparatory’ year lessons to considerably advanced ones, explaining each step carefully along the way.

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As weird and uncommon as the name sounds, ‘Ba3′ is the name of my instrumental music piece that I started composing during summer, and recorded its demo two or three months ago. Why ‘ba3′? Well, when I wrote the piece’s first line, I saved it as ‘ba3′, the first name that came to my mind, and, since then, I never thought or bothered to change the name.

Now, the recording is of bad quality, since I recorded the song at home, with my humble recording tools, consisting mainly of a built-in sound card and a primitive mic, plus, the last part lacks a short solo that I didn’t record back then. Anyhow, here’s the recorded Ba3:

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