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Alan Renkl

"more notes....yay"

About Me


'Terra-Firma'
'Brenda's-Melody'
'007'
'Improv'
'Sound check solo'
Welcome to my Myspace, I hope you like guitars. Cuz that's pretty much what I do.
I'm heavily influenced by players like John Petrucci and Joe Satriani, as well as less mainstream players like David Grier and Shawn Lane. If you like my playing, be sure to check out the other musicians on my top friends list. Be on the lookout for a full blown multimedia website and some video lessons from me as well as some blog tutorials on this page. It's hard to work online now because I'm kind of out of town. *cough cough-Iraq-cough*
I am most definitely seeking a label. So if you're associated with a label and you like what you hear please drop me a line.Myspace Backgrounds
Click on the link to visit my lesson site. You can learn the ancient arts of shred, without the threat of dismemberment. Or that pesky suicide code.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/17/2005
Band Website: Under construction
Band Members: Me.
Influences: Dream theater, Joe Satriani, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Metallica, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Morse, David Grier, Sevendust, Killswitch Engage, Shane Gibson, King's X, Shawn Lane, Paul Gilbert, Jerry Cantrell, Billy Sheehan, Dave Matthews band, Phil Proctor, Robbie Fleming,

Sounds Like: Sounds like: One of these things:

Progressive rock with an occasional metal sound, lots of acoustic sounds blended in with the heavy rhythms. Dream theater like electric guitar work with elements of bluegrass and classical acoustic guitar.

If you're a podcaster my music is on the podsafe music network. So feel free to podcast my stuff on your show.- PODSHOW.com

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Record Label: None.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

16 seconds of heaven

Hey all, Not really a lesson I'm giving here, just more of a suggestion. Lately I've been advocating playing with a metronome to improve your timing. When I was younger I used to just play everything ...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:35:00 PST

Lessons website

Hey guys, The lessons blog is finally off the ground! I decided that the Myspace blog system wasn't what I wanted to use so all my lessons will be posted on a blog site called Shred Cathedral Gui...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:03:00 PST

Lesson .2- Incorporating open notes

Welcome back everyone to my lesson blog. I hope the last one gave you some insight and that this one does too. We're gonna take a few steps back into something  a little simpler. This lesson's g...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:10:00 PST

Lesson .1- Warming up and the principles of shred physics.

*Important note: If the tablature at the bottom of the lesson is messed up, go back to the profile page and click "view all blog entries" then it should show up correctly* Hey there, I told you guys I...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:53:00 PST

Profile of a shred hater.

Man, I don't talk much. Sorry I never really got into the blog thing but since I found myself doing all this work to my page I thought it'd be appropriate. Let's see... what to blather about... I got ...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:36:00 PST

The bieberlabs podcast

Hey guys, Last month I got featured on the Bieberlabs podcast. he features instrumental guitar players so any of you with a solid demo worked up should give him a shout. The episode with me on it is #...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:30:00 PST

Holy shit my first blog!

Hey guys, Guess what. My recordings just got back from the studio engineer where they were remixed and compressed. So what that means for us is they don't sounds like arse anymore. Seri...
Posted by Alan Renkl on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:26:00 PST