Just use water and a cloth, get the edge of a knife to scrape out chunks and crap. It's relatively easy. Also you should get guitar polish, or apparantly (based on fender guitars) car polish- Fenders are/were painted with car paint...

I'll show lep when I get home

ok....1st lesson in fast double picking....pick your favoite scale position in your favorite section of the guitar...bear in mind, that to do the same scale on lower registers, you need to work on keeping your fingers spread, wrist twisted to accomodate, and remove the ansilary movements...picture the playing of a piano....hands move flat and clean from side to side, but at a minimum....now, pick the first note in the scale twice, go to second note, play twice, etc etc, until you complete the scale....go slow at first, as to clearly "sound" the note.....scale going up. scale going down.....repeat.....repeat...and once you start to get comfortable with it, gradually increase the speed, keeping the clarity of the notes....do not increase the speed if you start muddying the notes.....do this in all scales, in all modes.....practice practice practice....

dont think i missed anything....feel free to question/ comment..

ive been shredding a long time, and it works well....

i have a few students, and they are doing quite fine....

Doc Brass...

EDIT>>>> i was just thinking....i could prolly send you small lesson clips if you need them...wav files....

EDIT>>>> a very, very important point i forgot to mention..never ever forget to include the pinky finger in your exercises...once neglected, its a bitch to reinstate...this does not include the fact that some may be missing this particular digit, in which case will definately change your whole format of application...

.../me pictures jeff with bottle in one hand, guitar in the other, flopping and twitching like a fish on the deck, yelling "i hate the guitar....i hate the guitar....f**king Brasso is an asshole!!!!"

dude....dont drink it.../runs

Doc Brass...

ah ha, i always thought that i recognised your avatar Doc.

i remember reading the news not too recently, about a little town in Latvia i think it was. one of the small baltic states that used to be part of the ussr. back then, some of the local 'laid back' types had been covertly meeting every week to listen to music. [spoken through a reverb pedal]and indulge themselves in other illillegal activites that, L L luckily luckily evaded the attentions of the law)[/spoken through reverb pedal]

when the country gained its independance, the locals tore down all the statues of stalin etc. so the local council decided that, as the town square looked a bit bare now, they thought they should ask the locals what should replace them.