Hi there, beautiful Grace! Keeping busy? Welcome to your world! Please get adequate rest, and pray. I'm doing OK over here. I've been trying to get a perfect vocal take from Mary for the song "Gyrlie Roxtar". I might as well get a kid from the elementary school down the road to sing it: Mary might be too old for this song. One element that Mary doesn't have in her voice is innocence. It's all tears, tears, tears. Wah, wah, wah. In the end, she gave me an OK take, now I have to edit it to make it sound better.
Ah guitar! Jared Dines put together a list of shredders on YouTube that you should check out, Grace. Jared said it right in the intro: gone are the days of guitar heroes, now everyone can shred. Which may explain why guys like Slash are turning to the blues. Well, there's guitar everywhere now. And the problem with everyone playing fast is that they all sound the same. Even Jared's favorite, the guy at the end of the video, is just a modified piano player who doesn't look good in a dress. People have been playing fast on the piano for centuries already. In the end, these guitarists can only play with themselves, because no singer would ever want to work with them. Perhaps Jared could get them together for a yard party, and they can play dodge ball.
