Hello Everyone. Just thought I'd say hello and a few lines about myself. I've always wanted to play guitar, but never really got serious about it. So now I'm just about 40 and I've decided to put some hard work into it whenever I can. I'm an old metal head at heart, but enjoy all kinds of music, rock, blues, classical, neoclassical and the list goes on. I work away from home, so when I'm back home on a month's leave, I've decided to put 2 or 3 hours a day into learning what I can. To me important is to learn it right and not how fast I can play it at first. Any advice is most welcome, cause it's kind of hard to know where to start and to self assess myself as far as my playing abilities are concerned.
The gear I use:
Gibson Flying V
ESP LTD
Epiphone LP
Washburn Acoustic
Cube 80 XL Amp
Pandora synthesizer
As far as my musical goals are concerned: I'd love to understand how music theory works and its building blocks and be able to comfortably apply it into my playing. I've learned a few songs and scales from tab, but don't have the understanding of how it was built and why it sounds the way it does, as if everything is in the right place, "if that makes sense".
I've always loved music and it has been a huge part of my life, ever since I have been about 11 years old. I enjoy listening to artist such as:
Judas Priest, Iron Maidon, Accept, Megadeth, Metallica, Stone Sour, G&R, Helloween, Merciful Fate, AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Amorphis, Jeff Loomis, Neurosis and many more. I really love the style of Neoclassical Metal and I do have a goal of being able to play canon rock smoothly some day.