Hello visitor! I am very glad of your presence here. This site is intended to be a good place to look for when you're in need for musical scores, tabs, sound clips, midi files and general resources about neo-classical, shred guitar and other musical styles. I play electrical and classical guitars since 1987, and I'm pleased to dedicate some small space to Ritchie Blackmore, progressive rock and baroque music, that are the major influences on whatever I play. Sometimes is hard to find sources for such musical tastes, and I thought that would might be useful to provide a good fountain for that and spread these words: Play loud!!, don't fear the MTV - they want metal to be dead!! (There are lot's of people in Europe, Japan and in small places in this whole world to prove that shred isn't dead!).
This is just the begining... I hope you'll enjoy it!
It's been a hard work to update this web site so far, to make things work out, I ask you to understand that I'm not a full time webmaster. Thanx for the patience!
Best regards, Mark.
"There was a time that I really wanted to become the fastest guitarist in the world.
Just like the track stars want to become the fastest runner in the world.
That was a goal I had. For what I wanted to achieve, I had to be fast.
But that is in the past. That goal is over. What's more important to me now is not how fast you can play but what you say with your instrument."
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Shred: Term largely used as definition for virtuose guitar players, true masters of the instrument, topmost musicianship and technique with influences varying from baroque (classical), rock and jazz; which was mainly created in the early 80's by legends like Yngwie Malmsteen, and that since then inspired a lot of ´maniacs´ like me and perhaps you (unless you came here by mistake or some strange force of fate). I would like to mention Uli Jon Roth (amazing guitar player but awful singer!), Eddie Van Halen (this one amazed the world with his Eruption, cool riffs, guitar solos and little solo pieces like Cathedral), Michael Schenker, Allan Holdsworth and of course, the master Ritchie Blackmore, who influenced many of the above. They deserves credit on what shred is all about today!
None of this would be possible without the inspiration and the genius of Jimi Hendrix, Fender Stratocaster guitars, Marshall amps and lots of distortion, dedication, musical knowledge and feeling.
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About me: My name is Marcus, I am from Raleigh, North Carolina, but I'm living in Porto Alegre, Brasil, from a long time ago. I have a great (and increasing) passion for baroque and classical music, progressive rock, neo-classical, and guitars. When I started playing, I was listening to a lot of Pink Floyd (Echoes!!!), Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Santana, and mainly classical. My first contact with metal occurred when I bought the album Powerslave, from Iron Maiden, in 1987. This record really impressed me, it has a powerful atmosphere and theme, all those tut-egyptian-stuff, melodical riffs done by Adrian Smith and Dave Murray, and the unbelievable voice of Bruce Dickinson. My life as a guitarist (I played classical before) started by playing some licks and riffs along with that album (cool exercise).
Nearly that same time I discovered Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Rainbow, Rush, Scorpions, Black Sabbath (Dio), Van Halen, Cream, Allan Holdsworth... and became addicted to hard/heavy/progressive rock and jazz fusion.
I still remember the important day when I decided to play seriously the electric guitar, being a musician. I was at the house of my friend Fabiano, and then he came with a record from his brother, Live in London, from Deep Purple (it was around '87). I listened to a lot of Deep Purple albums before, but the guitar solo in the middle section of You Fool No One was (and still is) one of the most amazing and incredible things I've ever heard from a guitar player in my whole life. Ok, this is not so great business for today, but you got to have in mind that Richie done that guitar solo in 74! How the hell did he get that colour or expression from that scraped strat? Richie made a lot of difference to my life!
Then during many years I played with a band called Blackberry doing mainly covers of Rush, Iron and Deep Purple and by that time I was heavily influenced by Blackmore, Randy Rhoads, Van Halen and the Maiden guys: Adrian & Dave, and then Holdsworth, Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore.
I have a Jackson guitar powered with DiMarzio Evolution pickups, a Washburn N4 (with Seymour Duncans '59 and TB4), a custom scalloped Strat (with YJM and HS3 pickups- he, he) and a Trilogy guitar (brazilian, heavy, but with a very good clean sound) and among others, a solid-body Classical guitar from Giannini (GWNSB) that produces a unique, magnifique embodied sound (this is heaven). The amplifier is a Laney TF200.
My gear consists of Ibanez Tube screamer (TS7 or TS9), a Marshall Shred Master (this is the best distortion unit I ever heard, versatile, that produces a powerful, hot analog distortion!), a BOSS SE-70 effects rack that I use mostly for modulation effects and delays, Morley Bad Horsie and Vox Wah, Boss equalizer EQ7, Boss noise supressor NS2 and a Whammy from DigiTech, BOSS EV300L foot volume/expression pedal. I use also MXR Phase-90, Dunlop Rotovibe & Crybaby, BOSS OC-2 and DD-3. Strings: Ernie Ball and Darco .009, and for classical, D'Addario Classic and Takamine 160NR, normal tension. Picks: Dunlop and Ernie Ball 1.5.
Pedals order: Vox Wah, Marshall Compressor, Shredmaster/TS-9, NS-2. Yeah, I don't use all the pedals at the same time, so this is the basic, favorite gear.
Today, my favorite guitarists are Vinnie Moore (he is the best!!!), Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai (when he is not singing), Greg Howe and 'the maestro' Yngwie Malmsteen- even despite all the amount of repetitive s**t he have done on the past few years :( ).
I can't forget to mention R. Blackmore, Jeff Beck (I do have all of his fusion albums, really good stuff!), Joe Pass, Ulrich Roth, Steve Morse (it's amazing the way he developed his technique over the years), Michael Schenker, Randy Rhoads and Allan Holdsworth.
Here are more about my personal tastes and indications- they're all very musicianship oriented albums:
Some of my favorite albums (I still like the 70's)
Deep Purple- Burn (74)
Jeff Beck- Wired (76)
Scorpions (featuring Uli Roth)- Taken by Force (77)
Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell (80)
Yes- Close To The Edge (72)
Rainbow- Rising (76)
Ufo (Michael Schenker)- Lights Out (77)
Rush- Moving Pictures (80)
Free- Fire And Water (71)
Al Di Meola- Elegant Gypsy (77)
Led Zeppelin- Physical Grafitti (75)
More recent:
Dream Theater- Awake
Joe Satriani- The Extremist
Whitesnake- Restless Heart
Vinnie Moore- The Maze
Steve Vai- Passion and Warfare
Badlands- Badlands (featuring the late Ray Gillen)
Glenn Hughes- Blues (with Richie Kotzen & John Norum)
Classical:
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Cello Suites BWV 1007/1012 (I do like playing some of them on guitar)
Violin Concertos nos. 1, 2, 3 (BWV 1041/1043)
Violin Partitas nos. 1, 2, & 3
Brandenburg Concertos
Orchestral Suites nos. 2 & 3
Well Tempered Clavier, Books I & II
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The 4 Seasons Op. 8
Violin Concertos Op. 3 (L' Estro Armonico)
Violin Concertos Op. 10 (including La Caccia)
Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Violin Concertos 1/6
24 Caprices
Centone Di Sonata
Gran Sonata & Sonata Concertata in A
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
The 41th & 25th Symphonies
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K525
Clarinet Concerto in A K.622
L. V. Beethoven (1770-1827)
The 5th, 6th and 9th Symphonies
Violin Concerto in D Op. 61
Moonlight, Apassionata and Pathétique piano sonatas
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*Acknowledge: this page have nothing to do with a band called Pantera or their music, althought Dimebag Darrel is a cool guitar player.
Thanx for the patience! Soon there will be no more "Mans at work"!
Special thanks to Fabiano Mussi, Eduardo Klein,
Milton, Marlos & Cristiano Mendonca and Orlei Silveira
Very special thanks to Nane.
