14 downloadable Jam Songs

8675309 Jenny (Standard Tunning ebgdae)
Always on the Run
Blue Suede Shoes
Born on the Bayou
Born To Be Wild
Breakdown
China Groove
Cocaine
Hey Joe
Keep your hand to yourself
Mony Mony
Rock this Town
Wanted Dead or Alive
You Really Got Me (Standard Tuning ebgdae)

Jam Songs

This is a link to the songs I've been playing. You can click and listen or Right-Click and download to your HardDrive.
They're backing tracks, yo!

Crazy Train
No More Tears
Living On A Prayer
Wanted Dead of Alive
No More Tears
Mr Crowley
I Can't Drive 55
Another Brick in The Wall
Always with me, Always with you
18 and Life

New tubes in my amp

I just got my amp back from a local guitar shop. I (they) re-tubed it with the Eurotubes Kit for the DSL 401
I must say that there is a difference but is not that noticeable at low volume. Unfortunately I have to keep a "lease safe gain".

Quote: "They have a deep, tight low end, the mids are very harmonically complex and highs are sweet and not brittle. We have had great feedback from others players with these tubes. So I would recommend using a matched quad of the JJ EL84's and four of the JJ ECC83S preamp tubes. I would use a graded and balanced ECC83S in the phase splitter hole which is the preamp tube that's closest to the power tubes. This will eliminate any dead spots due to phase cancellation.

The high gain ECC83S's have about 10% more gain than standards which adds a bit of bite and a sharper dynamic but does not hurt the clean tone. The other attribute that these tubes have is a faster filament rise time which is great for an EVH, Petrucci or Satriani type style and is also good for fast palm mute style" -End Quote

Now I must say that the clean tone is much nicer than before.

Joe Satriani Pedal's Placement

With the exception of a couple here, this is pretty similar to what I'm trying to achieve.

Randy Rhoads Soloing Strategies

IN THE WORLD OF HEAVY METAL, HOT GUITARISTS ARE A DIME A DOZEN. YET only a precious few stand the test of time and become enduring guitar gods. Randy Rhoads was one such player. Joining forces with singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979, Rhoads burst onto the metal scene like a bolt from the blue. He was blessed with dazzling chops and an innate comprehension of music theory, and his style had a perfect blend of flash and melodic structure. Flowing legato sections segued to impossibly fast, palm-muted picking passages; incendiary trills and daring chromatic maneuvers coexisted with classically influenced melodies—all of which were derived from a seemingly inexhaustible supply of scales and arpeggios and laid out across an ever-shifting rhythmic landscape. What's more, Rhoads was so precise that he could seamlessly double-track anything he played, for maximum sonic density.

Tablature 1

Tablature 2

Audio Files

Fig 1, Fig 2, Fig 3 A-B, Fig 4 A-B, Fig 5, Fig 6, Fig 7, Fig 8, Fig 9

Fig 10 Backing track, Fig 10 Full Track