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Aug 3 2006, 10:29 PM
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k just a little advice i would way rather be good at 4 thing that just be amzing at 1 thing and suck at the others so practice everything it will help
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Aug 6 2006, 03:53 AM
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sammy, just drop the idea of learning bends, vibrato, trills, and whatever else you said about solo guitar. that will come MUCH, MUCH LATER. learn the acoustic open chords and learn them well.
if u want to start playing solo stuff then this is how good you should be: someone should be able to put a blindfold around your head and u should still be able to change chords and play to the backing you should be able to create different styles of music based just on your strumming. (major or "happy" sounding tunes" blues, metal, latin, and finger pick) you should know the notes on the scale and some theory, (this can be put off till later tho, its not a neccesity) i think someone in a begginer stage advancing to an intermediate stage should what know key there playing in, and what chords sound good in that key. then for SOLO GUITAR ... ill tell you when youve got everything ^ there. it just blows me away that someone can think that they should be practicing pull off excercises when they have touched a guitar for less than a week. i just learned how to pull of properly in the last two months thanks to kris's site here. heres my story i started "playing" guitar when i was 11. i had about a year or more of "practicing" which really was learning the dynamics of the guitar. what strings to play what fingers with, amount of pressure on a string, finger strength, stuff like that. plus the teacher i had probably couldnt have tought me much longer because all she knew were the open chord forms. so then i stoped for 2 years. BIG MISTAKE when i was 14 i picked it up again. i got a real teacher. his name was Steve. Steve went over the acoustic chords, and the dynamics for about six months. then, THEN!, he tought me scales. thats a year and a half of "playing" the guitar. i say ive been playing for about a year and a half. i have actually really played music on the guitar for about a six or 7 months. that guy that tought me scales taought me from January 2005- October-2005. he had to quit because of his band was taking up two much of his time and he was a father. Steve could play really crazy blues stuff on an acoustic guitar. put it this way, he could get as advanced as "curious coincodence" on a Martin. he was real good. He told me that if i wanted to be like that, i had to master the pentatonic, and major scale. he weeded out some bad habbits, holding the pick at an angle, picking with my arm and not my wrist, and my "fretting" fretboard. then i got another teacher, Brian. thats 1 years, 7 months of owning a guitar, not playing, owning. So from November 05- May 06, Brian goes over the pentatonic , major , mixalodeyn, and minor scales. he also taught me some bar chords. But then, Brian got married and said he couldt teach me until this september. i was stuck. luckily i was on google one day searching for "crazy guitar solos" and freelicks poped up. there was kristofer doing layla, sweet child of mine, valley of eternity, bohemium rhapsody, and other awsome stuff. so i did the freelicks thing then got the dvds and signed up for masterclass. so 3 months later, only 3 MONTHS of using kristofers material, i feel like im light years away from when i first started having lessons with steve. now i hear stuff like stairway to heaven and freebird and go, "yeah, jimmy page is a minor pentatonic and goin thru different boxes, and speedpick up and down the fisrt form" "allen collins (i think thats skynyrd's guitarist) is playing hammers and pulles in g minor pent. moved way up high on the neck. i can do that, easy" so if u add the years up that ive owned a guitar, i have had one and learned for 2 and a half, mabye three. i have had productive lessons for a year and a half and have actually played music for about 6 months. basically what im saying here is get comfortable with the guitar. forget about memorizing solos if thats what you want to do. take a solo, find a couple licks you like, slow it down to your speed, copy them and improvise. that comes way later tho after youve been actually playing real music for 2 or 3 months. when i say play music, i mean jamn with good guitarists, improvising solo for at least a minuite on some backing chords, or just with a band. ive only journeyed with the guitar for 3 years. Colin Murphy, Rob Girard, lespaulkevin and sanders, are some of the other younger guys in this site. they probably have more info for newbie than i do. if any questions or comments email me at [email protected] hope it all helps /josh ps, im gonna get a video of me and my friend jamn so you can see what you will look like in 2 or 3 years, hopefully sooner. peace |
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Aug 6 2006, 05:56 PM |
sammyke
Alright man . Come to my home ,Illl teach you some . Where you from ? Im FRom limburg , opglabbeek GENK |
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