Paul Gilbert Scarified TABS transcribed by Guthrie Govan

Back in the days when Guthrie Govan tallent was unknown to many, he used to earn his living by transcribing for Guitar Techniques UK magazine. And here i leave you the tabs for Scarified, another great tune by Paulo Gilberto! Have fun


https://mega.co.nz/#!Zpd3RCrY!Og4YU3VBW6NPO8caz19zkgUoQFd9GMaWJpqS6Lmgcis

Christmas Wishlist $$$

I'm not rich, in fact i'm far from being rich moneywise. But there are some guitars that I just now that someday I will have to buy them. Luckily what atracts me on guitars is also the realtion price/quality. i.e. I love the Fender Stratocaster American Deluxe, maple neck, sunburst body, but the price tag, even used is  easily over €1000, so it is still a dream guitar, but simply less desireable for me, basically cause i'm realistic about it. So with christmas around the corner, I took the liberty of making my guitar wishlist. In my opinion these are the guitars that are most wanted in used condition right now. Keep in mind i'm no headbanger metal fan. I do like it and enjoy playing metal, but it's perhaps 5% of my total play time. Metal directioned guitar are just beautiful. You can play anything on them though.

                                                                                                                                                         

ESP LTD MH-327 STR

with 27 XJ frets with flamed maple top in See Through Red (STR) finish. Mahogany body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, Seymour Duncan Custom-5 (bridge) /Hot Rail (neck) pickups. 

this is a metal monster (but very versatile, both humbuckers split into single coil), i love the tilted hot rails and the angular finish on the end of the neck. this one s a beauty and red ones will are definitly more desireable and the used price reflects that.

                                                                                                                                                        

  
GODIN REDLINE 3 

Body has silver leaf maple centre with poplar wings
2x active EMG humbuckers: EMG-85 (neck) & EMG-81 (bridge)
For me it had to be with a maple neck, either natural, orange or the lovely green finish. There are some unique features on this guitar apart from the wook used. the active EMGs make it also a metal machine overall, but then you get peculiar things live headstock 3x3 and the body feels quite small compared to most of the guitar outthere. I tremolo is Godin, but it is one of the best copies i've seen. Although i prefer the maple neck on this one, i prefer rosewood for playing heavier stuff.

 

 

                                                                                                                                                          

IBANEZ RG2610Z

I've been wanting one of these since i layed my eyes on it. Normally i would think that black on black with dark rosewook is boring, cause, we've seen this for years, but this one is a sweet thing. 

Transform a Dean ML into a Star

So I've got this Dean ML Dime o Flage around, and I simply hate the artwork and the shape of it isnt exactlz my cup of tea.. "Why did you buy it then?" you might ask... Well, it was cheap. So cheap the tuners and the bridge alone are worth more than double than what i paid for the whole thing. Anyways i see a nice project on the way. I gonna try to make it look more like a Charvel Star

So I went to photoshop and did this:

I also decided to leave only the bridge pickup and one volume knob. Just like the yellow charvel up there.. What do you think people of the internet? I know Dean purists will crucify me but i genuinely think it will look better and weight a bit less ,)

Guthrie's New Charvel Prototype

It may look like a normal strat, but appart from visual design, it has few shared features with the classic fender. Still a work in progress by the words of Guthrie, the most noticeable difference being the bridge, an original floyd rose (the first designs with no fine tuners that won't get in the way of the picking hand), and also two very discreet and mysterious buttons near the tone and volume knob that he left unclear so the web could opine about.

watch it by yourself

French Guitar Contest 2013

The french guitar contest date closed. Too bad I couldn't send my video on time. Good luck everyone!

Results come May 20th

Original Guitar Designs

So some months ago the SUSTAIN magazine (you can download here the issue #1) opened a guitar design contest. The prize would be to give life to your guitar, basically. Anyways I sent mine months ago, and the guitar for march never came out, so I wonder what went wrong with the magazine board. Did they quit? Are they just really busy building guitars? I wrote them an email asking what was going on, and as soon as I get an answer I will let you guys know what's really happening.

here are my guitar designs.

What are you waiting? Go create yours now ,)

The Ibanez RGR465 gets Floyd Rose Special!

So, not two weeks are past since i bought this guitar and i'm starting to believe the ones (everybody basically) that said that the Edge tremolo in the rgr465 is crap. I disassembled it completely to the last piece.








It's a complex tremolo well built and designed, to me, much better than a floyd rose... but does it keep your strings in tune? hum, not exactly, the thing is, they are in tune, but after you use the tremolo, if you ended with a bar pull, than all the strings will be pitched up, and the reverse too, so it will be in tune itself, but if you're playing with someone, or along some music, you'll notice something doesn't sound so right  anymore. I had the Original Floyd Rose Special (OFRS) waiting to be tried, and i haven't seen anyone who attemted this, so i switched the tremolo.

This is how it looks --->

as you can see, the routing isn't perfect but everything else is fine. 

Also I had to keep the ibanez studs, because they are slimmer, but they hold up pretty well. There's a bit of play in them, but so in the OFRS

The locking nut are exact copies! you can switch them or switch only the screws.

So, the tremolo seems to be built in a high quality stell, and its well designed, so i dont understand what causing this unstability. I'm gonna switch the springs now (the original ones are crap too), and see how it behaves. Another thins I forgot to mention, is that if you set the saddle farther back as possible for intonation purposes, than the routing is to enough for the string locking screw to go "inside" the guitar. Also one cool feature about the ibanez is that you can put the arm on top, and install this in a left hand guitar, but you'll have to drill the metal plate that covers the hole. Both weight about the same.

Paul Gilbert Technical Dificulties Sheet Tabs

Here are the very hard to find Paul Gilbert Technical Difficulties Sheet Tabs from guitar techniques magazine Jul 2007. So hard to find, that actually this version is the only i found and it seems to be pictures that someone took to the magazine, the text is pretty hard to read but the tabs are all there. As a complementary video you can watch this fellow (and a jolly good player) here explaining step by step.

TABS DOWNLOAD LINK 

Ibanez RGR465M CA

So I recently acquired this beautiful Ibanez RGR465 CandyApple. I was never an Ibanez fan to be honest. The name sounded to spanish cheap replica guitars, but over the years, watching Petrucci (long time ago when he didn't look like a fat homeless virtuoso), Vai, Reb Beach and ultimately  the guitar god Paul Gilbert, made me look at these guitars with other eyes. To the point that I told to myself, I gotta try that neck! Always heard amazing things about Ibanez necks! This one has a wizzard II incarnation  and I must say, I'm very pleased with it so far. And also with everything else. Ibanez is not that bad at all, and I only tried under-a-grand Ibanez... Could I tell the difference if I tried a Prestige?

The neck is 3 parts maple with maple fretboard and some kind of plastic (I guess) dot inlays.
I actually prefer the reverse headstock, and the tuners are ibanez, probably the cheapest, but they are pretty sturdy and do their work well, although with a locking nut, you don't really need €100 machine heads. I thought about some other upgrades. I heard terrible things about the tremolo bridge Edge III, and so I thought about changing it immediately  but when I got the guitar, it looked rather good. I heard Gotoh makes all Ibanez tremolos, but I don't know if that's really true. I had a Floyd Rose Special ready to install, but so far the Edge III behaved really good, so I'm still not sure if I should just leave it. The routing is perfect for an original FR, I heard they even got sewed for that, but the studs look smaller, so I dont know if it will  be a direct swap yet. the pickups are pretty much perfect for now, two Dimarzio with configurations that I dont seem to find anywhere. I'm pretty sure it sounds like this:

5 way selector starting from all the way up:
Pos1 - neck humbucker
Pos2 - neck humbucker paralel wired
Pos3 - both humbuckers
Pos4 - bridge single coil with neck single coil
Pos5 - bridge humbucker

This is made in Indonesia, and its allright, some things are not perfect, like for example the cavity routing for the back plastic covers someplaces is deeper than around half mm. The tone knob needed screwing. The plug in is TIGHT! I dont know if thats good or bad, but if your cable gets pulled by accident, its really unlikely that it will come off. The tremolo is well designed and looks like its made of good quality steel, I see no reason for it to be more unstable than other ibanez tuners. I want to get some plastic knobs, 80's style, but the ones that came are also quite good, for swells and everything.

Guthrie Govan has a new axe!

He left his Suhr endorsement, and is now playing this beautiful Charvel super-strat