Aaron Shawn Gray's Entry for the 2009 "PetrucciFever" Guitar Solo Contest on YouTube

[Kammerz10]

Can't wait til you do another one! This one is beautiful.

[aminmatamin]

nice skill & good arrangement too, keep a good job men!!!!!!

[razorhell]

dam dude this is awesome wish i could play something like this :)

[electriccigmusthave]

damn bro nice old school overdrive not many can still play with those

[sonicbondage]

Thanks man. I used a PODxt...tracked clean and dirty and blended the two. less dirt in the beginning and more in the heavier sections.

[jween45]

This is soooooooooooo excellent! What talent you have. Thanks for sharing

[sonicbondage]

Thanks a million!

[bucketmeal]

Nice and very good plus extreme emotions i fell. 5 *

BTW nice background

how did you work your background?

[sonicbondage]

Thanks Man!

I painted my wall green, and in the software you can pull it off to transparent...called chromakeying.

I did a shitty job of lighting the room so the shadow stayed in to my lower left.

The video behind my transparent is just music player visualizations...that's tricky to get as you have to send the video out of your PC (monitor settings) to a camcorder and bring it back in as a MPG. You can probably use a VCR as long as you have an analog video capture card.

[elclaw]

its a green screen or a blue screen, theyre pretty easy to work as long as you get a good one, but they can run up to like $600

[shakeshaftthomas]

whats the guitar brand>>

[sonicbondage]

The wood colored "Zenabi Custom" Guitar with Seymour Duncan Blackouts active pickups is a refinished Ibanez Prestige with a righty Ibanez neck hence the backwards spelled Zenabi...which is really funny because that is also a Country in Africa. lol

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I've since replaced the right-handed neck with a Lefty RG370DXL sharktooth inlay neck...so it's not really a Zenabi. I also put on Camouflage EMGs 81 + 85.

The Blue Ibanez is an RG470L with EMG 81 active pickups and fixed bridge.

[Draugoth]

Now that's some Paul Gilbert type shit there! Very nice!

[sonicbondage]

Thanks a million...that means a lot man!

[hogoamin]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa man ? it was awesome, hey i love songs like this but i really hard to find them ,

5 for that playing man !!!

[sonicbondage]

PetrucciFever has these contests once or twice a year and you definitely get your fill for instrumental shred. You should add him and that way you'll be in the loop for seeing all the videos that get submitted.

And if you play---join in!

[hogoamin]

thx man

[spartan2512]

thanks a lot men !! i hope this and i tell you again you 're super!

[spartan2512]

hi this is me again i wanted to tell to you that i'm a hudge fan of you really you are the best left handed guitarrist i had ever seen before i hope that someday i will be like you

[sonicbondage]

Thanks for the props. I hope you get to where you want to be on the guitar and in life.

[gerardwaysfriend]

wow O_O im amazeddd

its beautiful

[amidaryu009]

Once again you've blown me away with your awesomeness!

Definitely the best. :D

[sonicbondage]

Thanks!

[mattmasher]

tip when using chromakey, have a light more on the ceiling so a shadow doesnt cast

[sonicbondage]

Thanks matt!

My lamp was across the room and I should have moved it!

Lesson learned.

What a god-awful green color. lol

[mattmasher]

np : ) i work with my schools news broadcast station so i had to learn the effects of a "green screen"

[WilfridRUN]

The best i've seen for the contest!

[sonicbondage]

You're my new best friend. lol

Thanks for the compliment!

[EvoJackson]

I didn't think you were going to enter this time, glad you did! Very nice man, i see you went for the more shred approach! LOL

Also read your long winded comments..still think you were procrastinating. ;) Great job man!

[sonicbondage]

hehe!

Glad I didn't type that for nothing. lol

I tried to give it more shred the last half.

I never give it up right away. ;)

[Kamiosity]

I posted this in my profile to replace last contest.

[rockit1]

I hope you win ....!!! great stuff !!!

[sonicbondage]

Thanks and glad you are still doing good with your quit!

[mrbelvedere12]

Very nice!

[PattiSezDTRulz]

Once again, amazing work! You are my talented boy ;-) xo

[WhistlersBrother]

Awesome!! Very melodic. Liked it a lot!

[matias4000]

wow i like this

[arcofascent]

Very interesting stuff you've done here. Good luck!

[Kamiosity]

Wow my friend, that rocked! Love the high notes at the beginning, then a nice funky beat, then some shreddage, and dueling banjos....very unique! Hope you win!

[madezecke]

that's the exact thing i wanted to say.

[sonicbondage]

You know I never thought of that, but you're right the first harmony has that feel.

Thanks for the kind comments!

[Sempai68]

+ 5 !

[reening]

very nice

[ultrablade]

very nice aaron!

[firefighter5278]

My comment on your other clip can be paisted exactly as it is for this one!Another five stars for you dude

[sonicbondage]

Thanks. lol

[jlefvert]

Cool one:-)

[Nightmare2005]

Wow :S i hate when it happens..thats why ive got 2 external 500GB Hdd to store all my patchs and things since i use software amps if i loose my preset its like to throw away a year of work :|

[sonicbondage]

I've had many sleepless nights over the last 2 months when my problems started.

Trying to fix stuff daily and finally I had to throw in the towel and get a new drive. Now I have a 1TB internal, and an external 1TB backup.

I don't plan on losing anything either. Including my sanity! lol

[Nightmare2005]

yeah hdd price is becoming really low ive payed them a lot (last year -.-)...but i feel confortable with this capacity for now...Anyway ive discovered a new mixing software its like cubase but its only 3.5 MB its really Awesome..its called REAPER ive done a demo with it ill upload it somewhere when i got time

[sonicbondage]

I paid $230 last April for a 1TB.

I bought another for $120 this past month.

So prices are coming down on the big drives.

Reaper. Never heard of it!

Let me know when your stuff is online.

[Nightmare2005]

Awesome Aaron!!! why you always come in when the contest in nearly closed xD...check out my entry Btw :D cheers from Italy VinX

[sonicbondage]

LOL :)

I'd normally blame it on procrastination, but this time my PC died and I needed a new hard drive and to load all my junk back on the new one from scratch...luckily I had an external drive for my files so I didn't lose them. I got my new hard drive Jan 31st and here I am finally uploaded right before the deadline again! ;)