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The downside is that you will end up wearing a black turtleneck and beret, and star smoking Gitanes.

Certainly, but what great guitar work..!

Thank you so much guys for replying, i mean i must be still a beginer even with all this knowledge you guys are throwing at me, i will look into these artists such as Carl Verheyan, steve vai and setriani, also chuck berry.

Nice! Black Teles with a rosewood board always remind me of Joe's number one: Joe's was, from memory, a 66 burst that he oversprayed black - body and guard both. I have half an eye on the HB 52 style Tele myself. Seems like it should compare very favourably to the Squier CV 50s Tele or the JHS Vintage 52 style model, but at a more easily justified price...

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I haven't much to add other than, when you start learning about modes it can seem very daunting, but it's not really. If you look at the example of the C major scale mentioned above, the chords in that scale are CM Dm Em FM GM Am Bdim. If you play the notes of the C major scale at the 6th note you will realise that you are playing the Am scale or the Aeolian mode - Am is the relative minor scale of C major. You can do the same for each of the notes in the scale and you will be playing the different modes. I really hope I've got that right. I've only been learning about it recently and I'm sure someone can correct me if I've made any mistakes.

No pentatonic bashing here either, my favourite player, Eric Johnson, uses them all the time. Sometimes, all that’s needed is a bigger than normal interval jump (string skipping helps with this) to really spice things up (Carl Verheyen is the master of this).