irrelevancy

PSN released over a hundred games last week. Picked up a slick version of Tetris. Play ‘Til Your Eyes Bleed mode and a few crazy ones. Purchased a tower defense game. Only ever played a few online. Nice to have a quality one. I didn’t want to buy God of War as a short action game isn’t really worth $40. They put it on PSN for $16 and it’s a stunningly beautiful game. Plays very smooth and the combat is very satisfying. I was excited for Motorstorm to come out and it’s a blast to play. The tracks are massive. Every game should have a screenshot feature. I could’ve taken a million of these.

Pulling ahead

Huge jumps

Levels are varied and beautiful

Laser show

I’ve had this song in my head the last few days. Absolutely beautiful, I wish I could do it justice. I can play most of the song, but I need to work on my bend release technique and timing for the solo. Otherwise, you would do well to seek out the original version.

KH – Intro to Hey (by Red Hot Chili Peppers)

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Had the song “When the Lights Go Out” by The Black Keys in my head all day. Great song and easy to play, but not very interesting without the other instruments.

This one was good practice. Getting better at moving around quickly on the fretboard and quick hammer-n-pulls sound better. Got it pretty good with one take. Not the first take, mind you, but I didn’t do any editing besides noise removal.

KH – Some random part of Lies (by The Black Keys)

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Otherwise still just trying to memorize chords and move swiftly between them. Practicing the blues scale to hopefully get my fourth finger to be useful. Playing around with different tunings, like dropped D to practice Tool’s “No Quarter” (alright, it’s a cover, but I like theirs better than Led Zeppelin’s).

Got rid of a lot of noise, but there’s still a little fuzz here and there. Still play too stiffly. Had about 3 minutes of recording and this was the best I had. Even did it over as I over-amped the entire thing by having volume knobs set to 10. Practice makes perfect.

KH – Solo riff from Stranger Things Have Happened (by The Foo Fighters)

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