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Date Posted: 07:54:23 01/07/03 Tue
Author: Jason Morris
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 193.128.12.42
Subject: Re: Marcus Paus...
In reply to: metha 's message, "Re: Marcus Paus..." on 14:14:49 01/05/03 Sun

>What's the tale of him and Helmerich?Haven't heard..


This is "copy and pasted" from a a previous post here from Kitka:-

This is from the petrucci.com forums and was posted by JonBjork):

" When I was a student at G.I.T in 95-96 Marcus was a student there for a few months.

He acted like an asshole and kept bragging about his world record until one day in an open counseling session with T.J Helmerich (who also was Marcus private instructor) got fed up with his bad attitude.

Marcus said something like "Iīm like Shawn Lane on speed" which REALLY ticked T.J off since he has played with Shawn and considered him a friend.

The thing is that Marcus always carried around his ADAMP-2 preamp to all the open counselings he went too, instead of using the regular distortion that was provided in the selection of Marshalls, Mesa Boogies and Peaveys that all the other students AND teachers used for teaching/jamming.

So to make a long story short T.J simply unplugged Marcus preamp and plugged him into one of the Marshalls and asked him to play his "shawn lane on speed super licks", the sound that came out was to put it mildly...a stuttering mess.

After that T.J asked him to play even 16th notes at around 100-120 bpm (donīt recall the exact bpm, but it was fairly slow) which he also had very big problems with, which shouldnīt be a problem for a supposed world record holder in picking.

Marcus uttered a priceless comment after the failed "tests": "Iīm playing so fast that the tubes in the amp canīt pick up all the notes" this became the standard phrase around the school after that...everytime anyone would play something wrong that brilliant excuse was used...even T.J used it once in a clinic a couple of weeks after this incident

Now the reason T.J did this to Marcus wasnīt to be mean to him, just to make him realise that heīs been fooling himself all along and needed to make a fresh start on the guitar.

When Marcus played slowly he actually had a decent vibrato and pretty good phrasing, but that "world record" of his screwed up his head and ego abit.

I know some of you are thinking "well...how come he is in the Guinness book of records then?"

Marcus claimed that the Guinness guys had checked the soundfile with a computer that counted how many notes there were.
T.Jīs theory was that the computer can hardly tell the difference between a cleanly picked note or various overtones, noises etc...that will pop up regardless if you hit the intended note cleanly or not.

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