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Juice by Gustavo Guerra
I am simply impressed with this guy can play. Juice is one of my favourite Vai numbers and he does complete justice to it
Canon Rock by Gustavo Guerra
Just today morning, one of my friend sent me to some link with a guy playing Canon Rock. This just reminded me of the version played by Gustavo Guerra. Check it out.
Summer Song covered by Gustavo Guerra
Just cant get enough of Gustavo
Can you get closer to the original? Absolute effortless playing. I would like to see him jam with Satriani sometime.
Silent night by Gustavo(another masterpiece)
I never get enough of this guy. He is just too awesome. A simple song like silent night soloed on a guitar with all the emotion possible gives birth to a masterpiece.
You should checkout out Gustavo Guerra’s videos page for more of his videos.
What do you think about this guy?
Gustavo comes the closest to Malmsteen
If you are a fan of Malmsteen like me this guy will blow your minds out with the ease with which he plays Malmsteen shit
An amazing guitarist
Of late I have been watching this guy Gustavo Guerra and his amazing ability to play various kindsa styles. A must watch for any aspiring guitarist. This guy makes a very clear statement in all his videos. You dont have to play shredding parts to be effective. Just enjoy what you are playing. I will be posting some of his really good videos on my blog. Check out the first one. Its Manhattan by Eric Johnson.
TEN things you should not say to a DJ
Flicked this off a website but they really piss off a DJ(experience, although very little)
1. PLAY SOMETHING GOOD…SOMETHING WE CAN DANCE TO!
The DJ has to play for more than one person…so what you hate may be another’s favorite song and EVERYTHING played here can be danced to one way or another.
2. WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A “BEAT”
BE SERIOUS! We know of NO songs played in a club that don’t have some sort of BEAT!
3. I DON’T KNOW WHO SINGS IT AND I DON’T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS….
PLEASE don’t sing for the DJ. They have to put up with smoke filled rooms and dangerous decibel levels all night long…Do them a favor and DON’T give them a rendition of your favorite song.
4. EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT!
Oh, sure … you polled everyone in the club and, as their spokesperson, you’re requesting the song.
5. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE IF YOU PLAY IT!
The DJ won’t. I guess that blows a hole in that theory!
6. I CAN GET LAID IF YOU PLAY IT!
Why settle for one night? Buy the album and get laid for a whole month!
7. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT!
The ONLY people who can get away with that statement write the DJ’s paycheck!
8. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
It’s a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the DJ to recite the name of every record in the booth!
9. HEY, MAN, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS!
It’s NOT advisable to say this when the dance floor is packed (but some people do anyway) ! HOWEVER, even if there is only ONE person on the floor, it STILL contradicts the statement!
10. PLAY IT SOON, BECAUSE WE’RE LEAVING!
If your gonna leave after he plays it, why shouldn’t he wait till the very last song so you stay all night!
Picture of my setup
Allright then. Came home really late last night(in fact, in the morning) so wasnt able to post the picture. But here it is
I was provided a Pioneer DJM-800 mixer by the resort guys. Apart from this I used my Compaq laptop which was running Traktor DJ Studio 3.2.2. I then use the Numark Total Control USB midi interface to control Traktor DJ Studio.
When it comes to output routing, I used the Numark DJ/IO to split the output in terms of monitor and master.
The setup is pretty straight forward and one of the easiest to control. There are not many effects possibilities though. The few effects that i use are Delay, beat masher, flanger(i use this a lot) and the T2 filter. I thought these are good enough for a small show. You can play around with the T2 filter quite a lot as well as the delay. The only limitation I felt was having to use the mouse every time i wanted to change the kinda effect. Otherwise the effect control are very easy to use.
The best part about this setup is the ability to load songs faster. The middle knob of the Total Control allows you to quickly scroll through the tracks in the view. Pressing the know down preplays it on the monitor o/p. Each deck has its own set of load track buttons. which loads the selected track in the particular deck.
I will post a detailed video of the basics with this setup and a few simple mixes. Hangon till then.
As for any aspiring DJ, I would like to say that this is a VERY portable setup. Its a must have actually.Its worth the money at least.
Cheers till then
Pretty good show for the first time with the Numark Total Control
Ok,
Yesterday went out to an offsite with the team I work with in the office. We did not want to invest on a DJ so I(chance pe dance) agreed to DJ for the evening. This was the time to test my new gizmo. It was pretty easy tp carry it. The laptop went into my laptop backpack and the mixer along with Audio interface fitted neatly into another laptop sling bag. The setup was pretty straight forward and took just about 5 mins. I have a lotta USB peripheral connected to my computer right now leaving me no extra unused USB port. I will find some time today to post a picture that I took yesterday from the console. Will explain how I did the whole shit. Hangon till then.
One hell of a blues guitar god
I had finished a lot of work yesterday so I decided to start watching some guitar videos on You Tube. I dont remember how to started to search for this kid who I regard as on eof the blues guitar god. His name is Quinn Sullivan
On TV
Playing on stage with Buddy Guy
At Ellen Degeneres show when he was 6
