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When I originally talked about the finger stretching I meant straight out, not bent back. But Leon is right, there are many ways and the ones he pointed out are good ideas. The bottom line at least in my opinion is you must take breaks when you are playing. Stretching the fingers is a great...

Sounds like thats what did it then. If you are going to do reaches like that a good exercise is to stretch all your fingers out real far, then make a fist, then stretch them out, then make a fist, etc. for several minutes. Thats a good warm up. Also I play for a while on the diatonic scales...

Having your wrist straightend out would probably be better, but the truth is most of us need to bend our wrists a lot to make certain reaches, especially on a 7 string. I have pretty long fingers and I have my wrist bent a lot when playing to reach certian areas. The main thing to watch out...

When that happens its usually a sign that you are either playing too much (if thats possible :P) or you tried a new exercise that makes you do a reach you arent used to doing or something similar. Ice the wrist a lot and make sure you dont play guitar AT ALL until its better. Sucks I know...

Ive often noticed that I seem to get better at guitar during the breaks when Im NOT playing. haha Its weird I'll practice something, cant quite get it, decide to give it a break for a day or two. Then when I come back to it I play it the first time perfectly. It could be because of the rest...

Yeah that used to happen to me a lot. This may not be the problem for you guys, but it turns out for me I was using my arm way too much when playing fast and tense up and get tired quickly. I had to learn to pick using primarily my wrist and then I had no problems anymore and its pretty easy...

When I try to learn a new technique, say sweep picking for example, I try to find a song that utilizes it and just learn the song. I have problems playing exercises over and over, I try to put it in the context of a song and that always gets me much more motivated to play.

As far as practicing playing fast I think its important to do it BOTH ways. Improving shows a good knowledge of the scales and its good to keep those patterns memorized, improving really helps that along. However writting it out in advance is also good, because if you improv you will...

Very true, since they sound so different its definitly a good idea to learn both ways just in case one fits better than the other. Great point Drew. :shred:

Yeah this sucks definitly. I was praticing some sweeping last week and there is a long reach in the progression. I had no idea I was doing any damage to my wrist at all, because it felt very comfortable. That is until the next day, I was hurting pretty bad. I seem ok now though, Im being...

LMAO! :metal:

Sounds like you guys do it like I do then, thats cool. I see mostly in instruction videos that you should mute with your picking hand, but I disagree with that. Seems like much more trouble than just using your playing hand.

Really good advice on here. Definitly a metronome is the best friend you could have in this situation. To really shred you have to be fast, but you also have to have great timing. Id recommend finding an example of a song that you think shreds, say a Malmsteen riff. Write out the tab or...

Oh by the way, for people new to sweep picking: Ive seen a lot of people recommend that you mute the strings with your picking hand while sweeping. That definitly works for some, but Ive found it much better to just mute with your playing hand. In other words, after you play a note lift your...

My two cents is its better to pick all the notes when sweeping, that is when two of the notes fall on the same string, than to hammer on and pause the sweeping motion. Not that hammering on sounds bad, because Ive heard people play that way and it sounds fine. My philosophy on it though is...

Not to offend any BC Rich fans here, but Im not much of a fan. They look cool, but thats about it, Im yet to play one that really impressed me, not even this custom made one that was surely thousands of dollars. It was nice dont get me wrong, but for that price it should have been better

Got a chance to play a custom shop BC Rich Warlock 7 string over the weekend. The kind that you have to wait a year for it to be built before its shipped to you. I was definitly impressed with the quality of the guitar itself, and it had a real nice tone and weight. Only thing I didnt like...

My Universe is the UV777BK if that answers your question, as far as what year model it is I cant remember off the top of my head, I bought it online 2 years ago for the incredible price of $850 brand new :D The 1527 is the Cosmic Blue (aka PURPLE haha) Thanks for the warm welcome everyone...

Ah! Right on! Thats a plan then, we are looking for a bassist at the moment but as soon as we get back on our feet we'll hook up for a show for sure. :hbang:

haha, nope not a priest. Yeah the band's website is www.fatherbrennan.com Desertdweller you should come down for a show sometime :)