Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I've been talking about buying an electric guitar for YEARS and today I finally made that dream come true.
I did NOT buy a nice expensive rig, I bought a cheap ass Squier, so I won't lose a lot if I don't go far with it. I also bought an iRig setup, which comes with a special plug which works with a really keen app that you run on your iPad... google it. I know several friends who play, and one of them also teaches and I may hire him for a few lessons.... but in the meantime do you know of any good YouTube videos to get me up and running? Right now I'm EXCEPTIONALLY good at making it go "thrummmm.... thrummmmm...." Seriously, all you secret superstar musicians on here, pretending to be regular people, help a space pirate out. ... Last edited by drewprops : 2011-10-26 at 21:56. |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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My first guitar was a squire. Great guitar to learn on. Best advice I could give is learn scales, a few chord progressions, and practice a ton to get your muscle memory down.
Die young and save yourself.... @yontsey |
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Get a good chromatic tuner.
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta
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If you get good enough, will you save up your doubloons for something like this??
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I want one that looks like boobs. Do they make them like that?
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Try to learn songs you love !! You need to keep a blance between only doing chords/progression and songs. It will keep your interest at the top. I remember the feeling of being able to nail my favorites tunes... Awesome !
I learned all by myslelf. Once you get how tabs works (which is dead simple), the only thing missing is practice. Gotta say that when I started there was no youtube so I guess it's even easier now to just look someone do a cover and replicate that (with tabs to help). What are you going to play ? Me it's megadeth all around lately. Best guitar riffs ever !! They're really fun to play but how challenging. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Good advice here, especially Yontsey's first post.
Learn actual songs, stuff you like. It's built-in satisfaction/goal-setting, IMO. And it builds on itself...your ear gets better, you learn to recognize certain progressions and changes (and anticipate them, or "hear" them before they happen in much of rock/pop/country genres). To me it's the best tool...learn from the greats. Eventually you'll have your own spin/approach to things, and that's cool too. Guitarists who can actually play songs that people know and like are way more fun and cool to be around (and in-demand) than Vai and Malmsteen-type noodlers/shredders. That stuff is cool, I guess, but nobody wants to hear any more of that shit after about 45 seconds. You can't sit and play it around a campfire or a party and have anyone give a rip. You can, however, play a Petty, Morrison or Costello song and pretty much count on a vixen expressing interest before the night is over. Been on a huge Nick Lowe kick lately, learning a ton of new songs from scratch, most of which I've never heard before until these past 2-3 weeks. After all this time, still great songs, chords, progressions, solos, etc. to learn and add to the goodie bag. |
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Try out Rocksmith. It's a video game that comes with a 1/4" to USB cable. The "game" teaches you to play. As it senses you becoming better with the current note load, it increases the notes. At some point, you will know how to play the whole song!
I haven't tried it personally yet, but it will be in my house by Xmas (either for me or for my son). |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Does it work with the iPad? I'll go look it up.
Also!!!! Very important question!!!!!! ----- should I buy a pick? ------ because they didn't give me one. ... |
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Yes. I think Mark Knopfler is the only one that doesn't use a pick for electric guitar.
Picking is way easier; fingering allows for more expressiveness (IMHO). |
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Depends on what type of music you play. If you're playing with some distortion, pick is a necessity. With a clean sound you can make it work with fingers. I would say that the pick is easier to start with... Ì guess. It's really two distinctive method. I would call myslelf an intermediate guitarist but I'm a total noob when it comes to play with my hand... mostly on my semi-acoustic Ovation.
So I use a pick, all the time. Speaking of picks, you'll need to choose one There's ton of them. I play with a 1mm. You can bend it but it's really rigid. I used softer picks, mostly to play on my acoustic guitar when I only strums chords. But when it comes to double picking, you need something hard cause it won't work. Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I use both. Sometimes all pick, sometimes all fingers. And then "hybrid", with a pick and my other remaining fingers (bird, ring and pinky). That's usually how I play, and have for about 20 years.
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Oh totally, yeah. I think that's something that people kinda just start doing once they reach a certain level of proficiency... like fretting the low string with their thumb for certain chords even though it's "bad" technique.
When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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My Dad bought me a book of photos & diagrams for 144 chords... now I can start practicing claw positions. I think that I should figure out which chords are "common" rock chords.
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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Some great advice here so far.
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
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drewprops, here's a little video for inspiration in your quest to slash.
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Keep in mind when you're trying to learn a song that it might not be in standard tuning. Especially for the heavier stuff, if you find yourself playing lots of flat or sharp chords, there's a fair chance that they're not in standard tuning. A lot of rock bands tune everything a 1/2-step flat. "Drop-D", where the low E string is tuned down a step to D, is the most common alternate tuning in which the basic chord shapes don't work anymore. When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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Hey Drewprops!
Have you learned those cords yet? Maybe you will find them in your storage space above your bed! |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Haha!
I think that I know who delphi is! ;D ... |
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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What songs are you trying to learn ?
The first song I really practice was Enter Sandman by Metallica. Way to start learning ! But it wasn't that difficult and the feeling of achievement was unbelievable. Rocking with some distortion makes you cool Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I haven't had a lick of time to start doing anything yet, but the first band that sprang to mind is The Who, from the album Tommy. There's some pretty straightforward stuff in there, I think.
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Fishhead Family Reunited
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Slightly Off Center
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I'd also spend some time back where those guys learned their stuff - blues and R&B. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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At the rate things are going it's going to be Thanksgiving before I can pick this thing up again!! O.o
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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So... where you at now ?
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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sitting cross-legged in the bed?
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Formerly “MumboJumbo”
Join Date: Dec 2009
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I thought the first two Drewprops: Rock Stars were really good. After that it seemed like they were just milking the franchise for money. I mean serious, Drewprops: Rock Star - ABBA?
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