wow… zZounds: Ibanez SR1305SB Premium - Get it by Dec 23rd o.O
Pic is from Sweetwater:
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SR Premium 
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i’ve always been kinda shocked at the price vs quality from those high end ibanez.
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It’s Comcastic!
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They are truly great instruments for a midrange price.
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Ibanez Premium SR: Made from so many pieces of wood it’s impossible to nail down the tonewood 
“First up comes an ash/flamed maple/bubinga body with an eye-grabbing flamed maple/bubinga top that serves up a balanced, resonant tone. The body is bolted to an ultra-playable 5-piece panga panga/purpleheart neck with a birdseye maple fingerboard.”
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Ibanez Soundgear is a solid line
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Love thy Ibanez.
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Is Myung’s silver like that? Now I need to go look.
edit: first pics I found were silverish but looked more like Starry Sky
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Bon-go bon-go bongo bee-bong-bong go.
But anyway, 6-strings are easy to learn, imo. A little more effort to mute (but at the same time, not really, for me at least; but my thumb is always moving with my hand across the strings).
It’s just a few more notes on the top end in a given position compared to a 5 or 4. Not super useful for the money area, imo, but fun if you get into melodic playing. The wider neck is a non-issue for this unless you really just feel the need to play the upper notes on a super fat .125+ string 
But that’s just my take on it. It’s not all that hard to play on the 6th/low B string down near the headstock, imo.
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Up until this release i think the myung only came in black.
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Yeah i forgot he played bongos even before his sig model came out. I’m not the biggest fan, he’s immensely talented but his playing doesn’t really move me.
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Apparently I like the Bongo more with 5+ strings.
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I would say I appreciate Dream Theater more than really get in to them, yeah. If I had found them when I was a little metalhead that would be different though.
But both Myung and Rudess are fantastic. Everyone in the band is, but those two stand out to me.
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Same for me. It’s not really the kind of music I listen to but just watching them play is amazing. Myung is a (technical) beast and John Petrucci and Mike Mangani/Portnoy are among the greatest imo.
Those drummers 
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That’s an epic fingerboard.
Surprisingly 6 strings is not harder to play. I found that the transition from 4 to 6 is much smoother than 4 to 5 strings. I do pay more attention to switching to 6 strings.
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That’s the only reason I listen to them as the bass lines are way outside my wheelhouse, lol.
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Love that split wood fingerboard.
What a great idea
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