This may be the worst "music" you'll ever hear.

[Karmadog777]

Re: This may be the worst "music" you'll ever hear.

kinda like eatin Peyote in the desert, listening to a Primus cassette with half dead batteries

I DIG IT!

 

[El Dunco]

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Hmm...

*in cookie monster vocals* I am a beautiful butterfly who spreads my wings when I want to, can you take that?! Can you take that?! RAAAAAWR!!!

Hehe. The blues thing was pretty cool btw. If you just keep playing/practicing at a consistent rate, you'll be a bad-ass motherf*cker by the time you're 18 (but don't stop there).

 

[Ninja Monkey]

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Thanks, I started playing when I was 9, I was learning to play drums when I got into a disagreement with one of my friends at church about which was harder, guitar or drums? I said guitar, he said drums, eventually he dared me to learn to play so I did, consistently practicing and playing for 2 years. I signed up for football and really got into it, obsessed really, I didn't play my guitar for 2 years. 2 months ago, I picked up my old plywood beater and played a little, I had become very rusty. I have finally got back into the swing of things.

 

[super rad stuff]

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dude just practice to a metronome and in no time you'll be way rad/badass/kickin' wing!

 

[Mark Cearlock]

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Dude, you could probably teach me some stuff!

 

[Ninja Monkey]

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Dude, you could probably teach me some stuff!

What? My knowledge is quite limited, I know major chords, some minor and dominant 7ths, The major scale, 5 minor pentatonic positions, bending, artificial and natural harmonics, Palm muting, power chords(my favorite), the basic principles of tapping, basic music theory(I can play Smoke on the Water on the keyboard!), slapping, popping, Travis style finger picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, 4 barre positions, drop d/c metalcore type riffage, vibrato, and that's about it, nothing to fancy.

 

[super rad stuff]

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^you may not realize it yet, but that's alot of technique to know, for anybody really. if you just work on your timing you'd be a great guitarist, and a versatile one at that

 

[rashayritto]

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yeah thats quite a fancy list there for anyone to say they "know". The key to being a good player is doing what you do VERY WELL. for example i dont know dick about music theory aside from writing guitar harmonies but when it comes to power chords + palm muting = syncopated awesomeness while singing... dare i say i am a beast. i can also write songs like a mofo, but my lead playing is deficient at best and i basically use one pentatonic scale shape for everything i do.

why? i put that stuff off so i could master the main meat of what comprises my style. so i guess what i'm getting at is this. SLOW down ninja monkey! master your brush stroke and then move on to the next step, instead of taking on a reproduction of the mona lisa that ends up resembling a old dying cat.

of course learning is different for everyone, but this is what worked for me and allowed me to become a real player much faster than if i was another high school hobbyist trying to do sweep picking in his basement without even knowing what 4/4 time freaking means. For me it is the line that separates those who noodle for years and eventually drop the hobby, or those who can make it a life long passion and actually take it places (gigs, jamming, etc)

you have lots of potential so keep up the good work. if my post was useless then disregard my self indulgence, everyone learns differently

 

[Rich_T]

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Nothing will improve your playing like playing with other people.

 

[guitfiddle]

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Nothing will improve your playing like playing with other people.

Amen...one night onstage will teach you more about how music really works than a month in the BR.

 

[Ninja Monkey]

Re: This may be the worst "music" you'll ever hear.

yeah thats quite a fancy list there for anyone to say they "know".

you have lots of potential so keep up the good work. if my post was useless then disregard my self indulgence, everyone learns differently

1. As far as "knowing" the technique farther than just the concept, most of that is pretty low on the mastery scale, and I'm humbled when I play guitar with about anybody, as far as really being being good at stuff I listed disregard, tapping, scales, music theory, and everything that isn't vibrato or chords, palm muting. I'm not as good as I pretend to be.

2. While I normally don't care about advice from some guy with a wasted pedo bear for an avatar, you are more guitar wise than I am, for sure. So I'll listen.