Restring your double locking tremolo equipped guitar easily

This was a pretty good walkthrough on how to restring your Floyd Rose (double locking) tremolo guitar. It also points out some niffty tricks.

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Remaining Dream Theater Complete Cover Songs List

This is just a quick & dirty, but I found a list of people discussing the BC&SL release -apparently they must’ve gotten their hands on a pre-release or some illegal download- and stumbled upon this list:

Stargazer – RAINBOW (5/19/2009)
Tenement Funster/ Flick Of The Wrist/ Lily Of The Valley – QUEEN (5/26/2009)
Odyssey – DIXIE DREGS (6/2/2009)

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Dream Theater Cover #2: Tenement Funster / Flick Of The Wrist / Lily Of The Valley (Queen)

The second cover leading to Dream Theater’s 10th studio album has just been released. The track in question is a medley of Queen’s 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack. The covered songs are Tenement Funster, Flick of the Wrist & Lily of the Valley. The track can be purchased from iTunes or from Amazon.com
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A little background on Stargazer & the album Rising from Rainbow

Since Dream Theater’s first cover release, Stargazer (Rainbow, Rising -1976), I deemed it thoughtful to dig up facts, figures and info about the Rainbow lineup of that era. What better way of discovering a new interest in a band than by learning about them, don’t you think? Let’s start with a little general background.
Rainbow was [...]

Why is following a tempo so darn hard?

So, I figured I’d play a couple of excercises to help me coordinate my left hand with my picking, jump between strings and most importantly, help me program and lock in on a tempo. I started out easy and simply messing around with some pentatonic / blues scales at a relatively slow tempo -plugged in [...]