Dear Lemmy, rest in peace. Your contribution is remembered.

Metal's Roots seeds from this Pandora.com station here; 

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The Station's Seeds Are Here:

Saxon                                Motley Crue

Dream Theater                   Rush

Van Halen                         W.A.S.P.

Suicidal Tendencies          Led Zeppelin

Death (Metal)                    Overkill

Testament                          Corrosion Of Conformity

Helloween                         The Misfits

Slayer                                 Exodus

Celtic Frost                        Anthrax

Venom                               Rainbow

Deep Purple                       Manowar

Motorhead                         Black Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne                  Iron Maiden

Metallica                            Megadeth

Dio                                      Judas Priest

Adult Club Rock on Pandora

• Link to this station here:
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seeds:

• Mike Tramp                           Sarah Jarosz
• Cosy Sheridan                       Madeleine Peyroux
• Lyle Lovett                             Imelda May
• Parov Stelar                          Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire
• Solace & Fury                       Caro Emerald
• Mirah                                     The Pierces
• Dirt Daubers                          Skittish
• Eilen Jewell                           Good Lovelies            
• Clare Fader                           Katzenjammer
• Squirrel Nut Zippers              The Klezmatics

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Anarchy Pop from Pandora

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This post is for my internet radiostation, "Anarchy Pop"

http://www.pandora.com/station/2849637371551922863

It’s a station of early punk and hardcore influence.

Station seeds below:

Sick Of It All                                            Black Flag

The Circle Jerks                                                          Suicidal Tendencies

Gorilla Biscuits                                         Rancid

Fugazi                                                       Slapshot

Operation Ivy                                           The Misfits

Youth Of Today                                        Bad Brains

Minor Threat

(more coming - I am just getting started)

Come Listen - Metal on Pandora

FYI, my main page is here:

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It has everything from metal, to jazz, to classical and more.

This station: Speed Thrash Power & Progressive, is one of my profile's stations.

It is a station all about heavy metal music with sung vocals. I have tried to screen the seeds to keep out bands that shout, growl, or cough their guts up on a microphone for this station.

Please feel free to listen to this Speed, Thrash Power & Prog station:

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The seeds of the station are:

Royal Hunt

Nocturnal Rites

Serenity

Falconer

Pagan's Mind

Threshold (Rock)

Anubis Gate

Angtoria

Eyes Of Eden

Nightwish

Andromeda

Redemption

Iron Savior

Excalion

Circle II Circle

Within Temptation

Russell Allen & Jorn Lande

Nuclear Blast Allstars

Riverside

At Vance

Silent Force

Steel Attack

Circus Maximus

Armored Saint

Fates Warning

Savatage

Symphony X

Primal Fear

Cynic

Iron Fire

Life Of Agony

Kamelot

Vanden Plas

Spheric Universe Experience

Masterplan

Edguy

Sonata Arctica

Angra

Sanctuary

Demons & Wizards

Gamma Ray

Jag Panzer

Blind Guardian

DragonForce

Nevermore

Iced Earth

Pandora’s Best Modern Progressive Rock Station

Check out my "Modern Prog Rock" Pandora internet radio station.

Link to the station with the seeds listed below here:

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If you like this and are interested in more diverse music, my Pandora station with much more diverse music is available with everything from jazz, to metal, to contemporary pop and more here:

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· Queensryche           · Black Label Society

· Van Halen               · Rush

· Ayreon                     · James Labrie

· Pain Of Salvation     · Steven Wilson

· Porcupine Tree         · Blackfield

· Dream Theater          · The Jelly Jam

· Platypus                    · King's X

· Derek Sherinian        · Jordan Rudess

· OSI                            · Gordian Knot

· Planet X                     · Chroma Key

· Liquid Tension Experiment

· Tony Levin                 · The Flower Kings

· Flying Colors              · Lunatic Soul

· Neal Morse                 · Fish

· Gipsy Kings                · Marillion

· Phish                           · The Winery Dogs

· St. Paul & The Broken Bones

· Snarky Puppy              · Riverside

· Spock's Beard              · Transatlantic (Prog)

Giving Up Music and Software Piracy

The other day I started throwing out unlicensed software and torrents with full discographies of various bands burned on to DVDs because in a discussion with a Rabbi, as this is what he advised me to do, and as opposed to just not downloading anymore, and enjoying what I have (no longer).

This was the advice of Rabbi Yisroel Cotlar for Chabad.org 

- You can be careful about it in the future. 

- You can spread awareness to others.

- You can erase files of music that you did obtain illegally 

- You can make a point of supporting the artists in the future

For some time, I had promised myself that I would not engage in software and music piracy, even before I found Pandora.com. Honestly, when I first heard of Pandora, I thought I was going to be majorly disappointed; however, now I think they are great!

With Pandora I feel like Gd has given me a multitude of blessings. And no, they, Pandora, don’t have all my favorite music, but they do have a lot, and especially they do have enough! (I am a huge consumer of music)

This actually made today’s next step easier; today I threw out hundreds of pirated cds. Some of them I cherished, but many of them would have disappointed me if I bought them. However, before today, yesterday to be precise, I wanted to listen to music while on my way to play MTG (Magic the Gathering). This became a problem for me as I told myself I would give one last listen to a Flower Kings cd on my way to the store, and then when I got home, I would throw it out.

Well that last pirated cd; well guess what, I wouldn’t work in the player, so I had to switch it out with a purchased cd! Imagine that, a miracle of Hashem! Being the religious geek that I am, I was glad that the player wouldn’t play the pirated cd, as it was a way to break the melancholy of giving up something loved. So instead, I popped in my personally purchased Niacin cd (with Dennis Chambers and Billy Sheehan), and listened to it, before bringing the cd notebook holder inside order to fill with music that was personally purchased, or gifted.

Don’t get me wrong, while I have thrown out hundreds of discs, I have yet to fully purge all my music; that I am here today is thanks to Gd’s mercy, and may Gd reward me with much blissful music in the years to come for following His Law!  I will probably get around to destroying all I have pirated someday, but now it is enough to get rid of many with the intent of completely erasing the history of my piracy altogether.

I can rest today knowing that I have done some good deeds. There is no need to be a zealot over this, but I feel Shalom in the home knowing that I have done a good thing, and by doing so, I will be serving my son and family by being a good example, and hopefully, I will be helping bands and the music industry get the money they deserve.  Maybe I will get more rewards from Gd for my works in return.

Great Guitarists on Pandora: New School Jazz & Classic Jazz

~Two Stations~

Station #1 - New School Jazz Guitar:
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Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm & Steve Smith                 Frank Gambale

Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood                                 John Scofield & Pat Metheny

John Scofield                                                                 Allan Holdsworth

Steve Morse                                                                  Jeff Beck

Bill Frisell                                                                      Mike Stern

Steve Lukather                                                             Eric Johnson

Pat Metheny


Station #2: Classic Jazz Guitar
www.pandora.com/station/play/2516767574931782319

Jimmy Raney                                                                 Les Paul

Lenny Breau                                                                 Charlie Byrd

Grant Green                                                                  Barney Kessel

Herb Ellis                                                                      Kenny Burrell

Django Reinhardt                                                          Kevin Eubanks

Pat Martino                                                                   George Benson

Joe Pass                                                                       Tal Farlow

Wes Montgomery

For more original stations unlike these please visit or follow:

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Best Classic Metal Station Mix at Pandora.com

Find this station here:

www.pandora.com/station/play/2527263448506022575

Listen to more of my radio stations here:

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Seeds:
· Black Sabbath                       06-28-2015
· A Perfect Circle                      05-28-2015
· Tool                                       05-28-2015
· Queensryche                          05-28-2015
· Motley Crue                           04-30-2015
· Evanescence                           04-29-2015
· Black Label Society                04-22-2015
· Ozzy Osbourne                       04-22-2015
· Iron Maiden                            04-22-2015
· Metallica                                 04-22-2015
· Megadeth                                04-22-2015
· Dio                                          04-22-2015
· Judas Priest                             04-22-2015
· Soundgarden                            04-13-2015
· Rush                                        02-24-2015
· Alice In Chains                        02-24-2015
· Van Halen                               02-24-2015
· Jane's Addiction                       02-24-2015
· Nirvana                                   02-24-2015
· Rage Against The Machine       02-24-2015
· Led Zeppelin                            02-24-2015

Suggestions are welcome!

To Each Guitarist an Alternate Tuning

There is a lot of fun to be had for all guitarists in exploring alternate string tunings.  My 7yr old’s guitar to Emaj for example.  Not E standard, but the guitar was set to play an Emaj when the guitar had all strings open.  The band called the Black Crowes taught me that.  They also do things like tune to a Gmaj chord.  This basically makes it so that it is easier for him to sound good.

I have yet to meet someone who tunes their guitar like how I tune mine.  I tune to what might be called F standard.  Below is E standard tuning which should be familiar to any guitarist (borrowed from Google images):

Whenever I talk about guitar, however, I use this chart with the same notes but upside down.  Thus, this fret board would say that for E standard, tuning is:

E              fattest string,

A             2^nd fattest string,

D             3^rd fattest string,

G             3^rd thinnest string,

B             2^nd thinnest string,

E              thinnest sting

However, when I play, I like to jam tuned to what might be called F standard.  Explained here:

F              fattest string

B flat      2^nd fattest string,

E flat      3^rd fattest string,

A flat     3^rd thinnest string,

C             2^nd thinnest string,

F              thinnest string.

I play a lot of jazz, and when I play rock or metal, I usually never try to duplicate what the artists are doing.  What I do is jam to the music I hear.  Much jazz and metal are in the key of E flat.  This is not a problem for a well trained jazz guitarist, yet I would still call it a hindrance.  The hindrance is that E standard tuning prevents is that it subtracts from the glory and ease of open strings, especially when jamming.  Please notice, that when tuning to F, 3 important open string flats, B flat, E flat, and A flat, that are very common in jazz gain much easy accessibility.  That is the goal!  So, try it.

12th Hopping Wires: Root, flat 3, flat 6, 2, and in 4s

12:1 Except for the 4^th and 5^th strings this pattern of intervals is true at any place on the guitar.

12:2

The root is always played with the index finger in this exercise.

The 2^nd note, a flat 3 interval, is always played with the pinky finger in this exercise.  A flat 3 is three half steps higher from the root on the same string.  A half step is a distance of 1 fret.

The 3^rd note is a flat 6 interval in comparison to the root note, and it is reached by skipping to the next thinnest string, but 3 frets higher than the given root note.  It is to be played with the pinky finger.  For instance, on the 1^st string, if the 12^th fret is played as a root, then the flat 6 is played on the 2^nd string at the 15^th fret, where the 1^st string is the fattest string.

The 4^th note of the repeatable pattern is a 2 interval.  It is played with the ring finger on the same string as the root, but a whole step up from the root.  A whole step is an interval that is 2 frets apart, as opposed to a half-step which is only one fret apart.

12:3  Thus, it is such that a pattern is formed.  This pattern if played at the 12^th fret on string 1 and 2, the two fattest strings, is: (12^th fret, index, 1^st string), (15^th fret, pinky, 1^st string), (15^th fret, pinky, 2^nd string), and (14^th fret, ring, 1^st string)

12:4  The aim is through repeating exercises like this one many times, speed, fluidity and outright finesse will be developed.

12:5  Whether you are positioned at the 12^th fret, the 7^th fret, the 5^th fret, or the 1^st fret, or any other fret for that matter; or if you use the 1^st and 2^nd string, the 2^nd and 3^rd string, 3^rd and 4^th string, or the 5^th and 6^th string, the pattern remains the same.  The index finger will play the lowest note with respect to tonality, and that will be the root note.  The root note is the same as the key that you are in.

Note:  When making the lesson name, the numbering system used reflects each note of the system with respect to the major scale, where “1,” is the root note of the Ionian Major scale, and all Ionian notes are considered to be major, instead of flat or sharp.  Thus, a lesson may be of a different scalar mode, but that will be disregarded in favor of Ionian labeling, such that though the Ionian major scale has no minor 3^rd, or “no flat 3,” if there a flat 3 in the lesson, this flat 3 will be labeled as such where major 3 is just simply a 3 interval.  For example in the key of G, the note B is the major third.  In G, if a B flat is used, then B flat is flat 3.

11th Blues Pentatonic Drill: 2 Fattest Strings. Mode 2, Position 1. Root, 3, 6, 2.

If at any time you are experiencing pain during the exercise, please stop playing.

1:1:2:11:1:a – The first note - Root

With your pinky finger, play an E note at the 12^th fret of the 1^st string (the thickest string).  This place on the fretboard is usually designated with a double dot marking.  The E is the root note and the key.

1:1:2:11:1:b – The second note – 3

With your ring finger, play a G# at the 11^th fret of the 2^nd string (the second thickest string).  This note is a 3 interval.

1:1:2:11:1:c – The third note – 6

With your index finger, play a C# at the 9^th fret of the 1^st string.  This note is a 6 interval.

1:1:2:11:1:d – The fourth note – 2

With your index finger, play a F# at the 9^th fret of the 2^nd string (the second thickest string).  This note is a 2 interval.

1:1:2:11:1:e

Repeat this pattern until you get up to speed.

It is a good idea to play with all down strokes or alternate picking or use palm muting.

1:1:2:11:2

Play the same pattern a half step lower, the key of D#.  Moving this pattern up and down the fretboard causes key changes.

1^st string 11^th fret using the pinky finger (root).

2^nd string 10^th fret using the ring finger (3^rd interval).

1^st string 8^th fret using the index finger (6^th interval).

2^nd string 8^th fret using the index finger (2^nd interval).

1:1:2:11:3

Play the same pattern a half step lower, the key of D.  This sequence will follow the established pattern:

1^st string 10^th fret using the pinky finger (root).

2^nd string 9^th fret using the ring finger (3^rd interval).

1^st string 7^th fret using the index finger (6^th interval).

2^nd string 7^th fret using the index finger (2^nd interval).

1:1:2:11:4 Repeat this pattern moving up and down the fretboard, changing keys in order to develop speed and fluidity.

1:1:2:11:5 Information about the lesson title, which is 1:1:2:11

The first 1 of 1:1:2:11 refers to that this lesson belongs to the following group: “1^st 1^st Position Pentatonic Soloing Drills: Mega Lesson Syllabus for 2 String Play of Single Notes”

The second 1 of 1:1:2:11 refers to that this lesson belongs to the subheading: “1^st Almost Killing the 1^st Position Blues Pentatonic Scales in 4s on the 1^st and 2^nd Strings.”

The third number in the sequence 1:1:2:11, a 2, refers to that this lesson belongs that this lesson additionally belongs the subheading, “2^nd 20 Lessons for Mode 2 Blues Pentatonic Drills in 4/4 Time on String 1 and 2, Position 1”

The fourth number in the sequence 1:1:2:11 refers to the lesson title, which is “11^th Blues Pentatonic Drill: 2 Fattest Strings.  Mode 2, Position 1.  Root, 6, 3, 3.”

The lessons of the 1:1:2 series select from the intervals: 6, root, 3, and 6 on the 2 fattest strings.  This is the 2^nd mode of the 1^st position of the common pentatonic scale.

In the key of E minor the pattern for the first position is

1^st string; 12^th and 9^th fret

2^nd string; 11^th and 9^th fret

3^rd string; 11^th and 9^th fret

4^th string; 11^th and 9^th fret

5^th string; 12^th and 9^th fret

6^th string; 12^th and 9^th fret

We are only working on the 1^st and 2^nd string, the two fattest strings, and the root note for this pattern starts at the 12^th fret on the 1^st string.

Intervals are written with respect to a 7 note Ionian major scale, not a 5 note scale.

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54th Guitar Snake River Rapids Exercises: Pinky, Ring, Middle, Index in 4s

Note: If experiencing pain, stop playing.

Note2:  The Snake River Rapids exercises are intended to be atonal.

Note3:  When picking, only use motions of the forearm wrist.  Do not use the shoulder, bicep, or tricep muscles for these exercises.

54:1 Pick a string, position your fretting hand at the 12^th fret, and play the following pattern using all down strokes:
15^th fret pinky finger

14^th fret ring finger

13^th fret middle finger

12^th fret index finger

54:2 That string.  Position your hand at the 11^th fret, play the following pattern using all down strokes:

14^th fret pinky finger

13^th fret ring finger

12^th fret middle finger

11^th fret index finger

54:3 That string starting at 10^th fret, play the following pattern using all down strokes:

13^th fret pinky finger

12^th fret ring finger

11^th fret middle finger

10^th fret index finger

54:4 That string at starting at the 9^th fret, play the following pattern using all down strokes:

12^th fret pinky finger

11^th fret ring finger

10^th fret middle finger

9^th fret index finger

54:5 Work this pattern down to the 1^st fret.  Then, work it back up, a half step higher each time.

54:6 Repeat exercises such that each string is used.  For example, first do this exercise on string 6, and then after working up and down the fret board, try string 2.

54:7 Repeat exercises using alternating strokes (up and down), and/or palm muting.

54:11 Patterns may be played at higher frets than the ones listed.

54:12 Play this pattern start at frets above 12, working your way to the smaller frets.

54:13 Work your way back to the 12^th fret using the same pattern.  Possibly consider moving the pattern down the fret in larger steps, such as whole steps.