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its fun. My flatemate is going through those things called chords with me. My fingers are a bit too chunky for the strings so i'm contorting my hand/wrist in all sorts of weird ways. Any tips, mo-fo's? |
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D A E sounds nice. |
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if you're going to be serious about it, make sure you position your hands properly from the start and don't get into bad habits.. left hand position isn't as strictly important nowadays; unless you're playing classical guitar, the thumb can move about quite freely and it's all good.. the right hand's position and movement should be kept in check. it's essential, especially when learning shite like alternate picking and nice fingerpicking styles.. all of the above is taking your right-handedness for granted. have fun .. |
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my advice is directly contrary to redrum's. do whatever is most comfortable. if you take enough time to just play and play and dedicate yourself, you'll eventually have as much technique as you want and you'll have your own style as well. i hate how guitar teachers like to force their students into rigid programs, stripping them of any originality. play the thing however you want - you can only benefit from being a distinct guitarist. |
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At the beginning of learning the guitar, any position of the hands should be equally comfortable/uncomfortable. After a few years of playing with the first position your hands jumped to, when you want to master techniques such as alternate picking and fast or complicated fingerpicking, it'll prove extremely tormenting and near impossible to do just that, and it'll prove equally as tormenting to try to revert your hand positions to the "correct" positions. These positions are by no means "correct" any more -- especially, as I said, regarding the left hand -- but when a guitarist's hands automatically assume them, he is enabling himself.. If you start out with a gammy right hand position like I did, you're automatically disabling yourself and setting yourself at a disadvantage. |
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what's with the new avatar by the way, alex? |
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Practise alot. Just do basic fingering techniques to get to know the fret. Helps you float around a bit later. Also toughens up the finger tips. Best bet. Lower the strings. ALWAYS LOWER THE STRINGS. *throws acoustic across room* |
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the most important thing is smashing style. |
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The best way to practice guitar parts is to play them slowly over and over again, and then raise the tempo gradually, and then you'll be all like "Wow I can play this!". |
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i saw kurdt last night at mcdonalds |
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good facial expressions are an essential part of every guitarist |
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I took a piss on his grave while shouting "Hair metal is still alive, but you aren't!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
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lol that'll show him!!!! |
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Eff Yeah!! *attempts to break plastic bottle in street* |
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LAWL :D |
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Agreed, do whatever you want. I play exclusively without a pick and learned that way, Robbie Krieger style. Not recommended, but who cares, that's what feels good, it feels hot. On the other hand, I think lessons are good, depending on the teacher. I had an awesome teacher with similar tastes... he didn't try to teach me stuff I wasn't interested in learning, didn't bother trying to get me to eliminate my quirks, but he sure as heck made it easier to learn stuff I found difficult. And it's cool jamming with someone that's good enough to play whatever he wants whenever he wants. |
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it takes years to become (as) good (as me) |
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guitar pro tabs are nice too.... |
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thanks fellers. This is the first new shit i'm learning in ages. Its great being a beginner at something again and i recomend you all take up something new! Just watched jimi hedrix @ Monteray laqst night. shhhhhitttttttttttttttttttttt. |
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fuck jimi, it's all about this drunken corkman |
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rory don't beat jimi |
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he might not in terms of appearance and coolness, but christ, technically he's much, much better in my opinion. rory live is fucking incredible. flawless. jimi live is pretty great too, but very fucking sloppy. i think that's one of the aspects of his style, but still.. it leads me to believe that rory's certainly better technically. and now i think that this man rules them all |
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jimi live is pretty great too, but very fucking sloppy. i think that's one of the aspects of his style, but still.. it leads me to believe that rory's certainly better technically. that's why you'll never understand rock music. |
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So I prefer technically perfect and brilliant musicianship to sloppiness. So what. I like to be astounded by what I hear, not unimpressed. What I wrote is totally true - unless technical brilliance can be exemplified in sloppy guitar playing? That doesn't make sense and is a contradiction in terms. I don't care for style, I care for good music and technical brilliance. For the record, I don't think sloppy guitar playing is very impressive stylistically, either. |
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no, you're right. but your viewpoint is totally opposed to what makes rock music great in the first place. it doesn't fucking matter how good you are, the point is that it has untamed, wild energy that can't be put into terms. it's all about the accidents and the totally fucked up guitar smashing destruction. that's what makes it incredible. not classical training bullshit. |
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untamed, wild energy - wonderful accidents and the totally fucked up guitar smashing destruction - juvenile it's all really quite subjective: i get that untamed, wild energy from other musics, whereas with stuff you're referring to with the blanket term "rock" (i'm guessing stuff i'd have referred to on this board as 'boring'), i don't get that energy. i can see where you'd get the energy from, but that's not what i get energy from in music. i get it from complexity and technicality. that's my stimulus. your stimulus is loud, distorted guitars, vocals full of growling and screaming (lots of energy, yes), repeated melodic riffs contrasting with other repeated melodic riffs in different times. that's grand, i just find it a bit boring and at best.. juvenile. |
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sigh. |
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it's all really quite subjective |
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The problem with rock today is that its far too intelligent. As much as I love Radiohead, its far too well thought-out and not enough raw passion. The Who is a different story. Also, nothing in rock is inventive or ground-breaking any more. Its become the status quo (lol). Even you're gran could like it now when it used to be as dangerous as that hardcore garage rubbish. Go The Who! |
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Also, learning a basic blues riff sounds impressive and isn't too hard. Its also easy to improvise around. |
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yea, but.., a guitar teacher could do it the right way (prolly not though), why invent the wheel yourself? |
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apparently there's something "great" about a square wheel. |
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haha, ok but.., rock and roll spirit doesnt mean you should lock yourself in a most uncomfortable playing position which could happen if you dont let someone watch you play |
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it didn't happen to me. i never had a guitar lesson in my life. i play a little funny, but i have no trouble learning new techniques. i don't see what the problem is. |
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well maybe not everybody is so smart (considering their body at least) as you |
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it is frustrating to learn an instrument on your own, it's good that you have a friend to help you. i never played guitar but i've gone through lots of other instruments and every time i took something new up it was really helpful to have lessons to get the basics down. once you get the basics down it starts to become fun and you don't necessarily need someone else there pushing you to. |
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actually i think this is why i am having such an awful time trying to mix records, i just can't get the hang of it in the beginning and i can't take any damn lessons hahah. |
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