So You Play Guitar?, Well what do you play? |
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So You Play Guitar?, Well what do you play? |
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Nov 26 2014, 06:16 PM |
This is a very good point! Sometimes we get so obsessive with practice and we forget the main goal why we decided play guitar. The main goal of everything behind learning scales, chords, practicing exercises was and always should be playing music. This can have different meaning depending on each one. Some guitarists like playing and interpreting cover songs, adding their personalities and touch to pieces composed by other musicians, while other want to create their own pieces of music. Both things are very valuable, but both things also require practice. We need to practice playing songs if we want to play songs, and we need to practicing composing if we want to compose. (this is also applicable to other aspects like arranging or improvising).
That's why I think that it's good to focus our diary routines around what we exactly want to do. As Cosmin said, we don't need to learn 1000 scales if we want to play some blues, we don't need to learn lots of extended chords if we want to play pop rock. It always helps to have more knowledge, but becoming obsessive on accumulating information is not positive or effective, I think that it's closer to the opposite. About the recording thing, you should find the way to make it more natural. Record yourself more often, for longer periods of time and also have your equipment always ready to start recording in 1 minute. -------------------- My lessons
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Nov 26 2014, 07:17 PM |
Does that make him a lesser player than Pat Metheny? Everybody's a lesser player than Pat Metheny (kidding ... well, not really). But yeah, as stated, knowing how to use a few things in a musical way is far better than knowing a lot of stuff that you don't/can't use. -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/foolin-the-clouds https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/surfin-at-the-country-hop Soundcloud assorted ... https://soundcloud.com/klasaine3 New record ... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kenlasaine Solo Guitar ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...5iIdO2tpgtj25Ke Stuff I'm on ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...b-dhb-4B0KgRY-d |
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Nov 26 2014, 08:47 PM |
I'm just a corn-fused kinda guy Gabriel!
This post has been edited by Jim S.: Nov 27 2014, 01:21 AM |
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Nov 27 2014, 02:32 PM |
I'm just a corn-fused kinda guy Gabriel! What does it exactly mean? -------------------- My lessons
Do you need a Guitar Plan? Join Gab's Army Check my band:Cirse Check my soundcloud:Soundcloud Please subscribe to my:Youtube Channel |
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Nov 27 2014, 09:36 PM |
Ken didn't metheny loose his memory of how to play guitar then relearn guitar? I have his watercolors album and it's pretty good. No. Close. That was Pat Martino. Brain aneurism and after successful surgery he was sadly left w/o his ability to remember how to play guitar. So after folks reminded him that he did in fact not only play but influenced and inspired an entire generation of jazz guitarists he decided to have all the guys that could really play just like him re-teach him how to play ... like 'him'. I 'think' a lot of it started to come back as he re-learned. Back to the OP ... Because I'm constantly being handed a guitar by family and friends (mostly the friends of my wife - musicians never ask you to 'play' in social situations) I have about an hour's worth of solo pieces I can play to quiet them down. I think it's good to have at least two or three songs you can play (or play and sing) for those moments that inevitably come up. Like tonight as it's Thanksgiving here in the states. This post has been edited by klasaine: Nov 28 2014, 12:17 AM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/foolin-the-clouds https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/surfin-at-the-country-hop Soundcloud assorted ... https://soundcloud.com/klasaine3 New record ... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kenlasaine Solo Guitar ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...5iIdO2tpgtj25Ke Stuff I'm on ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...b-dhb-4B0KgRY-d |
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Nov 30 2014, 09:11 PM |
Hey Monica thanks for your encouraging words and for sharing your personal struggles. I'm happy your braking them too!
I finally broke down and devoted a corner of my auto shop to Music! Things are coming out of storage and I'm setting up a band space. Not sayin I'm starting a band but at least it's not my main goal currently. Hopefully this place will allow me to open up and write and sing. There is a plastic barrier I put to insulate me from the metal building. So far the drum set sounds pretty good too. Not boomy but full crisp. Funny thing is the high hats sound much quieter on here. Here's some pics [attachment=40014:image.jpg] Cosmin to answer your question this is not my forte and it is uncomfortable. However I know that my voice is good and the times I have sung before were very beneficial. 2 or 3 times I can recall my voice going into a nice mix with my guitar and I just lit up. I even wrote 1 song completely improv and the chords were not my typical chords. But I chose those ones and had to listen back to what I was playing. Luckily I got it on my phone. Here are some old clips from years back when I just joined a band and got forced to sing. It's an original I was working on but what was so cool was soloing over my own song. I remember this moment I was really nervous and excited! https://soundcloud.com/jim-seekford-music/killing-me-1 this is a very odd defamation of red house and probably why the band wanted to only play funk after. Lol https://soundcloud.com/jim-seekford-music/jimmys-red-house This post has been edited by Jim S.: Nov 30 2014, 11:22 PM |
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