Wow! Finaly the site is open:) I've been waiting for this quite a while!
Can't wait to take a closer look at the machine gun tecnique!

Ronni is great.

skål.

Yes,It`s him..he suddenly stopped producing TNT tabs,maybe it took all his time doing this..I think it takes hours and hours to make Ronni`s guitar-tabs.

A tip from the house:
(Jon Johannessen/guitarist)

Ronni uses a pointed plectrum, 1.34mm. His pointed finger is closely against his thumb (unlike the style of guitarists like Paul Gilbert). Using more energy up than down. Use your drum machine to get everything in time.

Great thread in the forum, keep on rocking!!




LeD

vikingr wrote:

Yes,It`s him..he suddenly stopped producing TNT tabs,maybe it took all his time doing this..I think it takes hours and hours to make Ronni`s guitar-tabs.

He says on his website:
You can download any of my tabs for free; however, please send me some comments. It takes DAYS (literally) to make one tab, and I'd love to hear what you think. Also, if you find mistakes (I'm sure there are tons!), please let me know. Thanks and enjoy!

So days more than hours. I've looked at them, and they are great and from what I can gather pretty accurate.

PeSt

hallais,everybody-remember that wah-wah never goes out of style.
Try to put it almost to the top and have a firm pressure on the strings with your bridge hand-then try some hammer-ons with your index and pinky finger in a rolling fashion with one or two frets of space: maybe not machine gun,but sounds like Ronni..

Yutaka was the only link to TNT in the early web-days.

I miss him....... where the hell are you ??!!!!

...and Shredder... man, you're fast.

LeD wrote:

A tip from the house: (Jon Johannessen/guitarist) Ronni uses a pointed plectrum, 1.34mm. His pointed finger is closely against his thumb (unlike the style of guitarists like Paul Gilbert). Using more energy up than down. Use your drum machine to get everything in time. Great thread in the forum, keep on rocking!! LeD

It's the purple tortoise Dunlop Tortex H3 jazz pick. It's the thickest of the Dunlop jazz picks, and it has the pointed tip (there's a purple one with a rounded tip: you DON'T want that one!). I don't know about the index finger/thumb gripping style or the "more energy up than down" deal, but picking from the wrist is very important, I've learned. I used to pick from the joints of the fingers (so my thumb and index finger moved a lot), but I've learned to pick from the wrist (and just a little from the elbow), which makes a HUGE difference. I went through the pains of breaking old habits, and now I pick from the wrist—like the wrist is a fulcrum point—and that has certainly helped. You can see ronni use this approach on video. On YouTube, notice how he can go from the rhythm playing to the machine-gun fills without a drastic change in how he holds the pick for either technique (although, sometimes there are shifts in the grip during the course of solos, but mainly for adjusting the angle that the tip of the pick hits the strings at). You can see this in the "My Religion" live on Norwegian tv clip, where he switches between riffs, rhythms, and fills. It's a rare LIVE performance, since Norwegian tv seems to love having their bands perform to the studio tracks, which looks nuts to the musician viewer.

It helps to have the right tone as well. :^D (Not so much flanging, i.e. oscillation from the flanger.) His tone is surprisingly clean, clear, and uncluttered; very glassy, except for wah-drenched passages. Less is more. That's about all I can say, as far as tone goes, but I'd love to discuss licks and riffs, as I mentioned.

Cheers.

I totally agree.

When I do the machine gun technique I tense/lock up my hand position. It causes my muscle to tense up down the underside of my forearm. I then use my wrist in an almost vibrating method to do the picking.

It helps you get the warp speed!!!