[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
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Eric Trapton![/quote]
LMFAO!!!
Oh man… took me by surprise! He’s BACK!
Of you guitar players in here that are self-taught, is there anything in particular you would recommend to someone who’s just learning? Got a little starter kit as a gift the other day, and although I’ve played around with the guitar for a few years, I can’t hold claim to being able to do much more than a couple of scales and a handful of random riffs. I’d like to spend some more time on this as a hobby, and I’d like it to be just a little more structured than finding tabs of songs I like and practicing the shit out of them. I know there’s tons of sites offering free lessons, I’m just wondering if anyone with the voice of experience can tell me what worked for them.
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Of you guitar players in here that are self-taught, is there anything in particular you would recommend to someone who’s just learning? Got a little starter kit as a gift the other day, and although I’ve played around with the guitar for a few years, I can’t hold claim to being able to do much more than a couple of scales and a handful of random riffs. I’d like to spend some more time on this as a hobby, and I’d like it to be just a little more structured than finding tabs of songs I like and practicing the shit out of them. I know there’s tons of sites offering free lessons, I’m just wondering if anyone with the voice of experience can tell me what worked for them.[/quote]
Im self taught as well. I think its important to at least have a very basic understanding of some theory and know a few of the more common scales and modes (such as dorian, pentatonic is a given) like the back of your hand. If you can figure out what key a song is in, and solo up and down the guitar neck with ease in a particular scale that you know very well, this will be huge for experimenting and learning your favorite songs.
Another thing is to just challenge yourself to learn new techniques and try to learn songs that seem like theyre probably a bit too hard for you. Its funny how many songs i have tried to learn that seemed way out of my league and then as i started really focusing on picking away at them it starts to all fall together. You’d be surprised how much you can learn just from challenging yourself to learn difficult songs. Programs like guitarpro are invaluable for this.
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Of you guitar players in here that are self-taught, is there anything in particular you would recommend to someone who’s just learning? Got a little starter kit as a gift the other day, and although I’ve played around with the guitar for a few years, I can’t hold claim to being able to do much more than a couple of scales and a handful of random riffs. I’d like to spend some more time on this as a hobby, and I’d like it to be just a little more structured than finding tabs of songs I like and practicing the shit out of them. I know there’s tons of sites offering free lessons, I’m just wondering if anyone with the voice of experience can tell me what worked for them.[/quote]
Train your ear. Learn to relative tune your guitar. Try to learn a melody you can hum on the guitar. Learn catchy jingles- play them in different positions on the fretboard. Learn how intervals sound 3rds, 5ths, 7ths, 4ths, minor 3rds.
Learn every note on the fret board. Make a speed drill of finding every X note on the fret board starting from low E to high E. For example, fret every F# on the fret board. Every C. Every E. etc.
Learn patterns. Learn the pattern for a major scale in one position. Once you know the pattern, you can move it up and down the fretboard. Do the same for Minor scales. Pentatonic scales. etc.
Learn to associate melodies with modes. For example, when you hear the Jetson’s Theme song or The Simpsons Theme song, you should instantly hear “Lydian Mode”. Learn that pattern.
I’ve always played by ear and my site reading skills are horrible to non-existent. Learn to read music. Berkeley series, Mel Bay, whatever.
Don’t forget your right hand technique is as important as your left. Practice alternate picking, sweep picking, and hybrid finger picking as well as pure finger picking.
Listen to ALL forms of music. Try to translate saxophone solos, trumpet, violin, etc. They’re usually written for that particular instrument so they prove challenging exercises for the layout of the fretboard.
Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice
*Perfect practice
the best thing i done for my technique?
spend hours shredding on scales till i got fast enough, solos were made easy that way?
the best thing i done for fun?
just picking a damn song i like, doesn’t matter the difficulty and try part by part till i get to descent speed.
I sure do miss my Fender Strato. But i will buy a new classical guitar to fill that void.
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Of you guitar players in here that are self-taught, is there anything in particular you would recommend to someone who’s just learning? Got a little starter kit as a gift the other day, and although I’ve played around with the guitar for a few years, I can’t hold claim to being able to do much more than a couple of scales and a handful of random riffs. I’d like to spend some more time on this as a hobby, and I’d like it to be just a little more structured than finding tabs of songs I like and practicing the shit out of them. I know there’s tons of sites offering free lessons, I’m just wondering if anyone with the voice of experience can tell me what worked for them.[/quote]
Comprehensive beginner lessons all the way through to intermediate, for free:
http://www.justinguitar.com/index.php
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Of you guitar players in here that are self-taught, is there anything in particular you would recommend to someone who’s just learning? Got a little starter kit as a gift the other day, and although I’ve played around with the guitar for a few years, I can’t hold claim to being able to do much more than a couple of scales and a handful of random riffs. I’d like to spend some more time on this as a hobby, and I’d like it to be just a little more structured than finding tabs of songs I like and practicing the shit out of them. I know there’s tons of sites offering free lessons, I’m just wondering if anyone with the voice of experience can tell me what worked for them.[/quote]
Comprehensive beginner lessons all the way through to intermediate, for free:
http://www.justinguitar.com/index.php
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Thats actually the same resource i used when i was first starting and i gotta say it was extremely helpful.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
This was my #1 for about a decade. It was originally a Westone Corsair (Jackson copy), but I cracked the neck doing a ‘spin’ (the strap came undone and the guitar went about 10 feet and landed on the headstock).
The replacement neck is a Warmouth reverse headstock birdseye maple with a scalloped (13th fret up) rosewood fingerboard.
That’s an EMG 85 in the bridge.
I still have this guitar, disassembled in case.[/quote]
I just found/bought an original factory neck for this guitar. It hasn’t had the right neck for 20+ years. First one I’ve ever seen available without having to buy a whole guitar. I didn’t even bid, just “bought it now”.
So giddy…
So I went into guitar center last night. plinking away at a couple different models to kill time before having dinner with a buddy.
They had hung all the hollowbodies way up high. didn’t matter which brand, epi’s Gibson, Gretsch, Ibanez Artcore… they were all top row.
I asked a tech on the floor why they’re way up there, people breaking them? Stealing parts?
“Naw man… Keeps all the wannabe rockabilly fags from hanging out too long…”
Hmmpph, never knew they were a problem… hahaha
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
So I went into guitar center last night. plinking away at a couple different models to kill time before having dinner with a buddy.
They had hung all the hollowbodies way up high. didn’t matter which brand, epi’s Gibson, Gretsch, Ibanez Artcore… they were all top row.
I asked a tech on the floor why they’re way up there, people breaking them? Stealing parts?
“Naw man… Keeps all the wannabe rockabilly fags from hanging out too long…”
Hmmpph, never knew they were a problem… hahaha[/quote]
Rockabilly fags?? That tech apparently doesn’t know Mike Ness!
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
So I went into guitar center last night. plinking away at a couple different models to kill time before having dinner with a buddy.
They had hung all the hollowbodies way up high. didn’t matter which brand, epi’s Gibson, Gretsch, Ibanez Artcore… they were all top row.
I asked a tech on the floor why they’re way up there, people breaking them? Stealing parts?
“Naw man… Keeps all the wannabe rockabilly fags from hanging out too long…”
Hmmpph, never knew they were a problem… hahaha[/quote]
Apparently hanging them up that high works pretty well then.
Over “Christmas Break” I picked up a Carvin Belair 2x12 for almost nothing. Beautiful “vintage” tone.
Today I bought a Carvin Legacy 100w head. Drove 300 mile round trip for that, but the guy was about giving it away. 2nd owner with about 2 hrs playing time on it. Just a freaking incredible amp.
Also got a Boss SD-1 for 20 bucks on the way to get the Legacy. I’m going to mod that to get a little more boost out of it.
Gonna pick up a broken Peavey Bravo (tube) 1x12 and fix that up and probably re-sell it.
Edit: I’m a Carvin whore.
This thread needs some lovin’
Current collection, sorry my camera on my BB is such a piece of shit, takes away a lot of the detail
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
This thread needs some lovin’
Current collection, sorry my camera on my BB is such a piece of shit, takes away a lot of the detail[/quote]
Turn off your flash and use ambient light. BB flashes wash out everything.
Nice looking axes man.
Nice, im not even using my amps anymore. Running everything through my GT Pro effects processor directly into my computer through some nice M-Audio speakers.
But if i had some carvin gear, it’d be another story.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
This thread needs some lovin’
Current collection, sorry my camera on my BB is such a piece of shit, takes away a lot of the detail[/quote]
Turn off your flash and use ambient light. BB flashes wash out everything.
Nice looking axes man.[/quote]
Yeah thats actually an old picture, ive turned the flash off now but something seems to be wrong with the camera. I swear its getting worse
EX-400. Currently its in Eb as I’m using it with my Maiden-style band, Kingdom Gone.
Essentially, this replaced my old EX-250, which was my workhouse axe for years (from 2000 to 2005 or 2006). Baby was getting beat up from constant writing, recording, touring over the years and I didn’t want it to get any worse. Although the 400 is technically better than the 250, there IS definitely something magical about the 250. I still use it to write from time to time.
Regardless the 400 is fun as hell to play. I use it mostly for rehearsal and some writing and recording.