Electric guitar...

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j par said:
The grasshopper is not even received his ax yet... LOL.. this carriage is way out front of the horse LOL.
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I guess strutting around like Angus Young will be awhile. lol
 
RustyRatRod said:
That's what I was gettin at with C, D and G. They are simple to learn and great exercises. Once you can change between all three chords quickly, you've accomplished something.
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a simple search of Doc Watson will validate this completely. He was a master at playing within the chord structure and pulling leads at the same time. His favorite key was C, which is also the same shape as F and G, and really the foundation chord that lends itself to the most diversity in lead playing.

my suggestion to beginners is simple, learn to play one song, front to back, singing and all. If you just learn the intros or signature licks of songs, you will be stuck in the world of noodling. I know a ton of good guitar players that can do the Crazy Train lick, but can’t play any of the rest of the song. When someone says….”hey, you play the guitar, play me a song”, you can play them a song, then hand the guitar back and say…..”now, play ME a song”!
 
j par said:
This is to entertain my brain, NOT the public...:thumbsup:..
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I'm over 60, still playing in the bars, still getting free beer for playing is said bar, still watching drunk girls dance and on a good night I still get flashed.

Meaning...reconsider this 'NOT the public' thing.
 
Picked up a steel string Alvarez Acoustic back in my mid 20s. Learned some cords, took some lessons.

Kind of came to the conclusion that the strings are too close together, and seams to take a lot of finger pressure to get a clean sounding chord. Probably improper technique on my part.

Never had much success with it, put lots of effort into it. Kind of thinking pulling on wrenches makes the fingers muscle bound and lose the needed deterity to play with ease. Like good guitar players I know they have skinny thin fingers and walk the frets with ease.

Everyone is different and some folks are wired for it. You can harminize your voice with the chord changes you are doing and it seems to help pull it all along.

I really think the players are enjoying it more than than the people that are listening to it.

Glad to see you take in a new challenge, fun to see what you can accomplish.

Was at a graduation a week ago, a lady came up to me and said, I remember when my first boyfriend and I used to come by and you guys were playing the guitars. I had forgot all about that, but yeah we did have some fun trying to figure it all out.

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Inherited a guitar.
Bought an amp and learned how to tune it. Its no beginner axe by any means. I tried. Decided my hands are too beat up to play. Still want to,but may want to find a reasonable drum kit instead.
 
RustyRatRod said:
MY advice is learn C, D and G first. There are many bajillion songs you can play with just those three chords. Doing it that way you suddenly see how really easy it is and it will pump up your confidence to learn more. All the major chords, A, B, C, D, E, F, G are easy to learn, but by learning C, D and G first, you can actually play something and that helps the achievement factor. I know you have me on ignore, but that's my advice.
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Like I said in my power wagon thread I took you off ignore so don't piss me off dummy! LOL..
 
j par said:
Like I said in my power wagon thread I took you off ignore so don't piss me off dummy! LOL..
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I don't know what I did to get there, but ok. cool.
 
j par said:
Bought a electric guitar...
Gets here Wednesday...
I need something to keep my brain busy..
Overnight sensation... NO...
Next Eddy Han Halen... NO...
From what I can research on the internet if I was to play it a half hour a day it would probably take 3 months just to be able to be at beginner level and then intermediate level would probably be somewhere in the one year to two years..
And to be pretty good with it probably looking at 4 years. And expert probably a lot longer than that...
And all of that is probably playing at least a half hour every single day...
Generally I'm a fast learner and I don't tend to have a lot of give up in me so I'm seeing where these two immovable forces will take me..
Anyways I'd like to give it a try which is more than I've done in the past...
I'm wondering if anybody else has went down this road and how far they got?...
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There is a technique taught recently that skips much of the theory and scales and gets you right into playing cords with some 'triangle system' or something like that. I watched a whole 30 minute youtube info-mercial on it and was close to buying it for like $26 bucks. Snake oil recipe? Dunno, but thrashing chords in a week sure sounds better than learning musical theory for the first semester of band. I wish I had the patience for an instrument, but I think I'd have more fun fixing them.
Crushed pipe on a French horn repaired using frozen water to expand out the pinched point. If it can crack a block, it can force a pipe to expand....Worked!
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Big Sam Fish fan.

Box slide to War Pigs, and all in between.

easy on the eyes, too.
 
Amazon said will deliver last Wednesday.. now says tomorrow... Ups tracking number says Tuesday.. :BangHead:..
Watching u-boob videos.. bought a bit of beginner literature... Visited the local music stores..
I'd like to get started...
 
j par said:
Amazon said will deliver last Wednesday.. now says tomorrow... Ups tracking number says Tuesday.. :BangHead:..
Watching u-boob videos.. bought a bit of beginner literature... Visited the local music stores..
I'd like to get started...
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Rock on brother, I hope you enjoy learning how to play!
 
j par said:
Amazon said will deliver last Wednesday.. now says tomorrow... Ups tracking number says Tuesday.. :BangHead:..
Watching u-boob videos.. bought a bit of beginner literature... Visited the local music stores..
I'd like to get started...
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Here are the 8 simple Chords to start with: A, C, D, E, G are a good place to start and get mastered, then move on and add in the other 3.

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A Copo is a clamp that clamps on to the guitar neck, you can move it down the neck to change the key of what it is you are playing. Helps to match the range of your voice if you so choose to sing along. Not that everyone is a good singer, but using the voice as a tool, harmonizing with the chords to help carry the chord progression along, and gives you something to follow too.

Capo is usually clamped on 2 frets down, but can go down farther as needed by the player. Keep playing the same chords, but it changes the key as you move it down.

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Started at 10 with a neighbor who was teaching his brother. He made me promise to practice everyday for at least 20 minutes, and if I didn't he would know and would stop my lessons. I believed him and know now he did me the greatest favor ever. Making music for yourself is a great gift.
 
If I would have known it was going to take this long and known I could have gotten one for near the same price at the local music shop...
 
There is a Nylon string acoustic guitar for sale on craigslist in your area if you want to get going on the guitar right away. Nylon String acoustic guitars are much easier to play than the steel string acoustics.

Something to get started with quick, use it and when your new one comes in resell on craiglist again. Strike when the inspiration is hot.

I have a steel string acoustic that I have had for years, and it hard to play for any extended period taking a lot of force to push the steel strings down and hard on the finger tips. Maybe I could pick up a Nylon String Acoustic here locally and give it a go again.


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Not really recommending a steel string for beginners, but here is a 100 dollar guitar in your area as an example:
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George Jets said:
There is a Nylon string acoustic guitar for sale on craigslist in your area if you want to get going on the guitar right away. Nylon String acoustic guitars are much easier to play than the steel string acoustics.

Something to get started with quick, use it and when your new one comes in resell on craiglist again. Strike when the inspiration is hot.

I have a steel string acoustic that I have had for years, and it hard to play for any extended period taking a lot of force to push the steel strings down and hard on the finger tips. Maybe I could pick up a Nylon String Acoustic here locally and give it a go again.


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Not really recommending a steel string for beginners, but here is a 100 dollar guitar in your area as an example:
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this goes back to my post….buy a quality guitar and it won’t be a battle to play. Yes, they cost more, but their ease of playability, and the fact that they hold their value, far outweighs the struggle you can have with a cheaper instrument. It turns a lot of potential players away having to struggle with the instrument while struggling with learning how to play as well!

here is a guitar a friend of mine is selling. He is asking $1500, 1/2 of the current value of the guitar, and it’s very rare to find one at all. Don’t like it? You could sell it again for what you paid in a heartbeat!

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George Jets said:
There is a Nylon string acoustic guitar for sale on craigslist in your area if you want to get going on the guitar right away. Nylon String acoustic guitars are much easier to play than the steel string acoustics.

Something to get started with quick, use it and when your new one comes in resell on craiglist again. Strike when the inspiration is hot.

I have a steel string acoustic that I have had for years, and it hard to play for any extended period taking a lot of force to push the steel strings down and hard on the finger tips. Maybe I could pick up a Nylon String Acoustic here locally and give it a go again.


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Not really recommending a steel string for beginners, but here is a 100 dollar guitar in your area as an example:
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Get your guitar setup properly... there is no reason to put up with a hard to play guitar. A $50.00 setup and some lighter gauge strings will do wonders.

Most of these new elcheapo guitars play very well right out of the box...

 
I've noticed there's been a trend lately toward heavier gauge strings.

I've heard pro players in interviews say they use 11's or 12's (yikes).

The G&L ASAT I picked up a few months ago had at least 11's on it and it took away a lot of the tone as well as hampered playability.

The other side of that coin is that it's WAY less likely to break a sting on stage, and I get that.

I put my go to D'Adario XL 9's on it and that brought it back to life.

Funny, if I'm going to break a string it's almost always the A string.

I've considered "heavy bottoms" but haven't tried them.
 
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