guitarzombie

Nah. I mean I know enough about it from its popularity. But I couldn't care less. Oh stop it.

I had to vote that ive never seen it and never will. Have zero interest. Ive went all my life without seeing it and that to me is impressive. I think the fan base turns me off to it at this point.

Took my answer.

Thats pretty cool but Im not exactly sure if thats what he was talking about. That stuff is written out, which is ok. I was under the impression he wanted to improvise and create on the spot. Which is way harder. Two of my favs: and even though its jazz, or fusion, the best and the beast:

Haha taking baby steps to get to jazz. Jazz is just harmonic freedom where you can play with harmony and improvisation. But most of the guitar stuff that jazz people do is kinda boring because its just a bit more interesting pentatonic scales. Jazz was derived from the blues but became more harmonically adventurous, but I never was a huge fan of the early stuff as it doesn't really excite me. I enjoy more of the fusion, really harmonically free stuff, where every chord is interpreted as a new key.

I disagree but a little. You're not totally wrong, but its how you use it. I transcribe a lot of solos and sometimes I see someone play something in a way I didn't think before. So I try to use that. But not the actual line itself, but the way its viewed on the guitar and use that as a point of reference to improvise with. Its all about viewing the neck in interesting ways and you cant think of everything. So take from a lot of people but make it your own. But a LOT of guitarists nowadays, write very overly intricate harmonic and technical lines to use over certain chord progressions and to me, thats just really lame. Being able to improvise makes you a real musician IMO. You're creating music, not parroting something youve learned that'll work over something. It becomes less creative to me. It takes more skill, ear, and harmonic understanding to create on the spot while things can get complicated.

Playing to a backing track is certainly important too. There are more weird things and limitations with function harmony. (Functional meaning a logical chord progression, C-Am-F-G). Once you understand avoid notes, why is it sometimes they work and sometimes they dont? The most common avoid notes are the perfect 4th in a major chord, and the b6 against a minor chord. So for that chord progression, the first chord's avoid note is F (the p4), then when it goes to Am, its still F (the b6) but then when you get to F, it works, and then to G, F is the b7 which also works. This is important because you have to be familiar with what comes next in order to make a logical and musical phrase. So for C and Am, you might play a line like C D E, G E B E, then when it gets to F, you can go from the E to F, accentuating the change to F. Making the melody logical and appealing. Or you can play that F at the end of the Am chord that sounds a bit ugly, but then when the chord changes, that F gets resolved. Eventually this all becomes instinctual because you can hear/feel it.

Thats what happened to me at about 1230 am. Saw it, tried it, basically finished everything by 2am haha. Great fun and cute game.

This is my specialty. Its hard to even know where to start. Sometimes its as simple as just jumbling the notes around randomly. Cant learn to swim without being in water. Learn about avoid notes. Notes that are a b9 above a chord tone. They contain a lot of tension. Know what they sound like is really important. One easy way to be safe is any time you have two notes a half step apart, pick the one a half step lower (IE B/C, pick B) Understand you color tones vs your chord tones. Learn the entire neck, not just one position for a scale. The more ways you can play the same scale on different strings/different fingerings will get you out of getting lost. Especially when improvising and keys are changing fast. But thats an advanced thing. Understand the concept of modes. Modes are just parts of the major scale, but when used on their own, have their own unique sound. LIterally every note works over every chord, its just how you use it. Theres a pillar of consonance/tension. The most consonant is your root, then chord tones, then the next sounding good ones are your color tones (2s,4s,6s) but they might have a tiny bit of tension that need to be resolved. Next is dissonance which would be your chord tones outside of your key (like a maj7 against a min chord). Then your avoid notes in your key. They sound awful but are important in giving that key its character. Finally the worst sounding notes are your avoid notes not in your key (like your b9 against a maj chord). I often say it like this. If you were to paint a picture of the sky, what color would you use? Blue. But now I say, i want you to use green. Well how would you do that? An experienced artist or someone that knows color theory, can integrate that color while still making the sky look blue, that doesn't mean the whole sky will be green. Thats the same way that ugly notes/notes outside the chord work. So when chords sound nice, play nice, when chords sound ugly, play ugly/use tension. It seems very daunting but when you get the feel and control of the neck and develop your ear to recognize modal characteristics/colortones/avoid notes, its actually very easy. Also make phrasing more vocal/lyrical, than robotic up an down scales or just straight 8th/16th note rhythms.

I could never imagine LS and Panic being SUPER rare because they had multi-page features in Nintendo Power advertising them. If they were being featured, they had to have made enough to expect some demand for it. While a game like Swamp Thing was never even mentioned as even released. My 2 cents.

I think the only 'legit' way to do it is in 3-3 IIRC. EDIT... I see it was mentioned. Nevermind.

I saw a 5 screw Gotcha with an 88 date. Makes me think, maybe it's possible they put the shells together but then ran out of chips and needed to wait for a new batch? Just throwing an idea out there, I think there was a chip shortage at the time. Not that it was fake, but I have seen some legit 5s have a later print date than they should have.

Looks really interesting. I have a couple of friends that will probably get one. Im interested too but ill make my decision after I play theirs haha.

The point was, times change and things were being judged at the moment. Now, because of all the hype/speculation/bubble/whatever, hindsight is 20/20. No one knew five years ago how things would move to today, and who says they'll stay. Thats why I think its dumb for people to say "This is the future". You dont know! No one does. Either you get lucky or you dont. So I say, do it cuz you enjoy it, not because you're looking to make a profit.

Funny you mentioned this. I had another Instagram account that I used for sales and stuff I picked up/games I beat etc. I ended up hating the VG IG community so I stopped posting/logging in. Yesterday I went to post something and decided to pop in for the first time in over 2 years. Someone commented how I was all salty because I was calling out Rarebucky on some silly prices he had on loose cheap games and how he was ahead of the game. The post I put up was from FIVE YEARS AGO. Dude just started collecting VGA stuff last year.

You know what I meant haha. 90% of the NES library is less than $87.

@Sumez as a musician I thought Loom was pretty easy. I played on hard too but certainly its for musicians. Most of the annoying stuff was built around knowing and recreating the melodies. Although I will say I thought it was BS they give you a thing to learn all the commands, and it turns out, out of the lets say 20, you only learn 11. Can't go wrong with DoTT. I loved it too but id probably switch places for MI 1 and MI 2. Id put Zak McCraken last because it really requires multiple play thrus to know where to go so you don't run out of money. Of course that was a different era. Still need to play Dig, Sam/Max, Full Throttle and Grim. Ive played quite a few on the switch and all I think were very good in their own right. I can't think of one off the top of my head that I totally loved though.

The greed or grift is amusing to me. If purchased at that price, it'll be more expensive than about 90% of the NES library cart only.

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AFAIK there's no way to tell any from each other except for date code and possibly revision if it has one.

Funny, im the opposite. I don't have the cheap stuff, so I can't play this. But Zombie Nation? No problem!

This is insanity.

I couldn't read every part of this thread, but the impression I got was the issue was not YOU, but perhaps Heritage was shilling the game, (as apparently they have in the past?) in order for them to collect more money than they normally would have. Hoping to create FOMO

Wait... are you joking?

People frown on money being thrown around because until recently, this hobby was relatively cheap, compared to others. Now the game they want, they cant get because some fly by night person swooped up some game for more than it was for the current market and helped raise the price. At least thats how I see it, else they wouldn't care. Most of those people aren't into sealed stuff anyway, I also think they're turned off by the avarice of some, and the idea of 'investing' with the idea of buying it now, and selling it later. Not to own out of love. I think its silly whats going on, but ultimately it doesn't affect me because I got all the stuff I wanted anyway. Now give me 10k because I love Maniac Mansion. @ExplodedHamster