i would like to know how to tune a guitar to drop b ive been told to tune to drop d and go down to steps only thing is i dnt understand tht

How's 'bout a video showing super-slow sweeps and explaining how to kill the notes when going to the next string? Both up and down, 'cause I can't even get them insanely slow half the time, lol.

Basically try using palm muting and when you move your finger to the next string lightly deaden the string with the tip/pad of your finger before moving on. Practice on simple three string sweeps really slowly and build speed on them. Then move on to bigger sweeps/more difficult three strings.

the best way to find that out is by trial and error. everyone is different.
and its very difficult to show that in a video anyway.
check this site out tho. there are a lot of sweeping lessons on there. The Shred Zone

the best way to find that out is by trial and error. everyone is different.
and its very difficult to show that in a video anyway.
check this site out tho. there are a lot of sweeping lessons on there. The Shred Zone

^It took me about five minutes to realise it was a double post, thought I was goin mad,im so fucking tired.

QUOTE(Tar of Chaos @ Mar 2 2007, 03:02 PM) [snapback]355256[/snapback]Doesn't that depend on how you treat the scale? Especially considreing that the minor pentatonic was treated as a seperate scale in Japan. Sure its not a mode of the major scale, but then every scale can be broken up modally.
And sure every scale of any kind can be treated as a modification of the Ionian, but thats limiting.
It depends what modes you're referring to. In terms of the Church modes, its not really a mode. But In non-western music, its defintely a mode. In Oriental music, pentatonic scales are very much a major part. Its kind of like timing, too. Timing in western music is(European), for the most part (excluding avant-garde, and fusion, and later periods) subdivided very evenly (4/4 2/4 3/4 12/8 etc etc) whereas in Indian music you have very weird rythms, some with patterns as long as 100 or so beats, all subdivided differently, with emphasis in certain places. oriental music is very free form too. Different beats, rythms etc. But the classical modes/rudiments are a good basis to compare (or at least a more comfortable bases to compare on) when discussing these types of things. At least they are more familiar.

How about artificial harmonics (pinched harmonics) on a bass using fingers. I'm working on it. Haven't perfected it yet but there are no lessons for this. Yeah for picks but not finger style.

Can someone give me something that teaches you all the modes like pentanoic scales,theory and etc?

Pentatonic isnt a mode, at least not part of the base classical modes. A pentatonic scale is just taking, most commonly, either the aeolian or inonian modes and removing certain degrees.