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Posted by: sargal Mar 4 2009, 02:39 PM

Hi GMC,

yesterday, I signed up here after watching the canon video lesson by Trond.

I'm from Switzerland, playing guitar for about 6 months now. I'm what some people might call a "gear freak" (=I can't play but at least the stuff I can't play with looks good). Reason is I like fine craftsmanship and engineering, so I wander the music store admiring all the nice things they have. Also, I can't blame the equipment for my mistakes that way.

Music style isn't set in stone yet. I listen to (almost) all kinds of music, so I don't want to limit myself to one genre.
While I'm no expert on music genres, what I like is roughly:
- Metal ("old school metal" mostly, but also some more modern stuff. Don't like shouting/grunting)
- Rock
- Pop
- Country
- Bluegrass

Just for completeness, I also like some electronic music you can't play with guitars, like house, trance, industrial.

Now to get started, I'm browsing the beginner lessons, learning the "Jumping around - beginner" at the moment.
If someone knows a good song to learn around this level (marked 2), please let me know. The problem with tabs from various sources is that I always reach a point I can't play (too slow or can't fret correctly), so I'd appreciate a song I can play to the end. Electric or acoustic guitar is both fine.

So long
sargal

Posted by: Emir Hot Mar 4 2009, 02:47 PM

Welcome to GMC and have fun here

Posted by: berko Mar 4 2009, 02:55 PM

Welcome Sargal! I think you'll find many gear-admirers here on GMC

I also love industrial music and a little bit of trance! Great to have you around, ask if you need anything

Posted by: Muris Varajic Mar 4 2009, 04:06 PM

Welcome.

Posted by: Sensible Jones Mar 4 2009, 04:14 PM

Welcome Sargal!!!
My current Project is some Trance/Ambient based stuff with some Blues style Guitar over the top!!! I've played live with DJ's before now and would say that you certainly CAN play that way with a Guitar!!!!!

Posted by: Velvet Roger Mar 4 2009, 04:28 PM

Welcome to GMC!

Posted by: MickeM Mar 4 2009, 04:29 PM

only by having the right gear you've come a long way
Welcome!

I'm also from Sweden!!! (internal joke only understood by swedes, barely or not at all, who upon several occacions have presented themselves as coming from Sweden but just mintes later get mistaken for coming from Switzerland...)

Posted by: sargal Mar 4 2009, 06:13 PM

Haha, one hotel registered me as coming from Swaziland...not directly next door from here.

I suspect all the Sw... countries are next to each other in the list and a simple misclick puts you across Europe or even the world. I'm not from Sweden but I understand you completely.

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Mar 4 2009, 06:44 PM

welcome to the sute

Posted by: Trond Vold Mar 4 2009, 07:09 PM

Welcome to GMC!

Posted by: superize Mar 4 2009, 07:16 PM

Welcome to the site

Posted by: skennington Mar 4 2009, 08:06 PM

Welcome Sargal

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 4 2009, 09:51 PM

Welcome to GMC mate!

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Mar 5 2009, 11:32 AM

Welcome to GMC Sargal

Posted by: David Wallimann Mar 5 2009, 01:24 PM

Great to meet you Sargal!

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Mar 6 2009, 02:34 AM

Welcome to the site Sargal!

Be free to ask any questions and we'll answer them as quickly as we can