MusichopperThe Official Blog of Pro Guitarist Allen ROBOT Van Wert

I have written another massive section to the text portion of the instructional. This portion doesn’t actually deal with guitar playing at all. It deals with learning in general. I will have it separated from the other text so the reader can find it easily when needed. I am planning on recording 20 more exercise videos today. I am liking the flow from exercise to exercise. I also think you will like the extra information included in every video. Instead of having one exercise played at different speeds from different camera angles.
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Hello, I have gotten a lot done on the instructional. I have to say that it is going to be really special. There are some amazing elements of learning in this thing. I am so excited about it that I fear I might spoil the secrets of what it contains in this message somehow. All I can say is that it has some very new concepts for guitarists, ones that work. I have built a comprehensive system that everyone will succeed at. I said I had some groundbreaking information in it once before. I am now 100% sure that the few special people who get this instructional will be in complete agreement with that statement. I figured out why guitarists plateau. I figured out why some people don’t learn or advance. I figured out why other systems don’t work. I have also figured out a new way to ensure the fastest mental and physical growth any human can attain. I then took that system and completely redesigned the order of learning to make sure it fits growth of your learning speed. (Basically, with this system you learn how to learn. You start over like you never played before and re-program everything properly. Your learning speed will grow and grow with each section so you can learn anything and everything faster and forever.)
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I know this has basically nothing to do with guitar but I happen to enjoy playing video games, and even making them when the mood hits me. I have been waiting to try PS3 home. For those who don’t know, it is a free mini-world, pseudo-environment, where people go to pretend they are playing second live I suppose…? It is SO BAD that I honestly cant understand why they spent 2 years on this or whatever…? I honestly think I could have topped this in under 1 year. All you do is walk around and have advertisements thrown in your face from all over nonstop. A big thumbs down from me. I did think it was funny to walk around in there looking like a fat crazy garbageman and yelling weird things to people.

I am sorry the site has been updated so infrequently. I am going to get back into the swing of things soon and try to blog about more than just guitar as well. Or if people would rather videos and such instead let me know. Thank you all for being so helpful and kind.

ROBOT

The new Metallica album is due out soon! I have my worries about it and miss 90s metal. I know most people are into the earlier albums from Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax but my favorites were “The black album”, “Countdown to extinction” and “The sound of white noise” respectively. I was never into the straight out thrash metal with thin guitar tone and lack of melody. I admire the power of those three albums. They had strong composition, melody, harmony, and lyrics. After that point things all seemed to go downhill. Metallica came out of a five year tour with haircuts and a new sound that was quite disappointing. Megadeth had another set of good albums but then released “Risk” a little too close to pop and lost one of my favorite musicians “Marty Friedman”. Then they sort of fell off the map. Anthrax had a decent album that (if I remember correctly) was performed by their drummer “Charlie” on all instruments. It was still that same good melodic metal but at that point they were off the map as well.
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