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Posted by: Minz80 Sep 20 2008, 05:13 AM

Hey everyone! My name is Meg and I'm 17. I've been playing the electric guitar for about 9 months now.
I joined GMC after 5-ish months of teaching myself and the lessons really helped me get a lot more creative
with creating music and also helped me explore new techniques!!!

Um let's see I like to play Rock n Roll (any Rock music, really!), and Blues, but I like playing almost any style (even metal) if it's got a nice feel.
To start off, I bought an Epiphone Les Paul Special II and a Line 6 15w spider amp---which is great start gear!! (totally recommended for starters)


As a female guitarist, I find it hard to find other girls with the same interest in being in a band. There IS one girl band that I know of in my area but they're an all out gothic-metal-band (not my type). And the guys that I know don't really respect me in a musician-kinda way, a couple of them talk about girls being on the bass guitar, etc - which I think is real retarded. So basically it's very hard getting into a band (the ones I know if are either not-serious or already full) and forming one as a beginner-intermediate isn't going to well! (I have a lil duo-band thing going-like the White Stripes-with a good friend of mine, she plays the drums-kinda..but she doesn't practice and is not dedicated to making some real music to be proud of. It's just too frustrating to keep going so I stopped trying to work on the band music.)

I wanna know if anyone else here has the same struggles I do in this band situation..especially if you're a female guitarist!


GMC rocks!

Peace~
Meg

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Sep 20 2008, 07:00 AM

Hi there! Cool to have here a female guitar player
I hope you learn a lot from GMC

Regarding the topic: I think that if you demonstrate that you can play as good as any guy they will respect you. Some narrowminded guys think that girls can't play and there are some good female players like Jeniffer Batten or Lori Lindstruth outthere.

Posted by: Ian Bushell Sep 20 2008, 07:16 AM

Welcome to GMC Meg:)
Enjoy the site, don't worry it won't be long before you're showing the guys what's what.

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Sep 20 2008, 08:52 AM

Welcome to GMC Meg

Posted by: superize Sep 20 2008, 09:24 AM

Welcome to GMC

Posted by: Canis Sep 20 2008, 09:45 AM

Welcome to GMC, Meg =)

Posted by: kyldeee Sep 20 2008, 09:48 AM

Welcome Meg Enjoy the site....

Posted by: Danilo Capezzuto Sep 20 2008, 09:58 AM

Welcome to GMC Meg! Nice to have you here!

Posted by: Nazgul Sep 20 2008, 10:03 AM

Welcome! You'll enjoy the site for sure!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 20 2008, 10:49 AM

Welcome aboard Meg, you came to the right place


regarding your topic, it is hard for people to get affirmation in the beginning of course, specially girls, but don't be frustrated about it, just push on, and be persistent. Practice, practice, play, play, sing, sing, and one day (when you least expect it, like all good things in life) opportunity will come up. Who knows maybe you become a talented solo artist, or a guitar player in a successful band, but one thing is for sure - you will never accomplish that unless you work hard. So don't worry, take your time, go step by step and keep rockin. If you have any questions feel free to ask them on forums and we will try to help as much as we can. Cheers.

Posted by: Matt23 Sep 20 2008, 11:02 AM

Welcome to GMC Meg

Posted by: Skalde Sep 20 2008, 11:22 AM

Welcome to GMC Meg

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Sep 20 2008, 12:10 PM

Hey welcome to GMC Meg !!

Regarding band situation , I can imagine being hard to find a female band (which is a very cool thing), so I would suggest looking for possible band members around you (using community web sites and similar) so you may end up making your own in the end...Other things they say about female guitar players is just stupid (especially thing about bass ) ...

see ya round Meg!

Posted by: Muris Varajic Sep 20 2008, 12:36 PM

It's great to have you Meg,
I wish you all luck in finding a bend
that would you nicely, and welcome to GMC.

Posted by: Emir Hot Sep 20 2008, 12:42 PM

Welcome Meg.

Posted by: sigma7 Sep 20 2008, 12:49 PM

hey Meg wuts up im also 17 but a dude haha and I also have a Line 6 Spider III and play just about the same stuff you do! Welcome to the site and dont make urself shy. and Im not gothic, just really wierd

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Sep 20 2008, 02:29 PM

Welcome Meg !

Its awesome to have you here.

Regarding your band issues I will encourage you to check out this 18 year old girl who is at Berklee now. She has her own band and kicks ass the way she plays guitar. Plays stuff that's just amazing. I saw her today at this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IMA5CLDOiI

Her name is Neili Brosh

She owns !

Welcome again

Posted by: Minz80 Sep 20 2008, 02:53 PM

Thanks for all the warm welcomes! I'm definitely going to continue practicing as much as I can!
I also look forward to entering in some collabs!
Nili Brosch does own!

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Sep 20 2008, 03:06 PM

Yes she does

I look forward hearing you in collabs. Will let you know when I get mine running - I am pretty new here as well

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Sep 20 2008, 03:54 PM

Hi Meg! Welcome to GMC! If you want you can check my band.. we have a female singer and we are very happy with it. http://www.myspace.com/cirsemusic

Gabriel.

Posted by: Vinod Saranga Sep 20 2008, 04:22 PM

Welcome to GMC Meg 

Posted by: Minz80 Sep 20 2008, 07:42 PM

Thanks, your band's music is great Gabriel! My goodness she has a great voice! The sad part is that I can't understand what you guys are saying (I can't speak your language ), but the music is so good that it doesn't matter!

Btw I love your lessons!

~Meg

Posted by: Nemanja Filipovic Sep 20 2008, 07:51 PM

Welcome to GMC.

Posted by: skennington Sep 20 2008, 08:59 PM

Welcome Meg, glad you joined this great site!

Posted by: Hisham Al-Sanea Sep 20 2008, 10:07 PM

welcome to the site

Posted by: sidewas lightning Sep 21 2008, 11:33 PM

Welcome to GMC!

I have to admit, it must be harder as a female guitarist, but if you get good enough there are no barriers.

Good Luck in general guitarplayingism!

Posted by: chmilew Sep 21 2008, 11:39 PM

Hi Meg !
Welcome to GMC, it's great to have you there

Keep Rockin'

Posted by: Dejan Farkas Sep 23 2008, 03:21 PM

Welcome Meg

Nice to have more female guitarists here