haha have I practiced yet
I spent 90 minutes Saturday afternoon playing simple songs from my lesson book on strings 1 and 2, including "Jingle Bells" and "Ode To Joy" (which btw was annoying me because the version in the book was super simple and all in half and quarter notes and without the drop down a fourth at the end of the third line, so I started playing it "right" and using the third string as well).
Then, I started playing the C scale during the 2nd half of the Saints game and kept playing it and random songs until the end of SNL.
Then I started working on really incorporating string 3 yesterday for about an hour but my evening shenanigans really did a number on my fingertips and shoulder.
Need to pick a teacher this week.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
. because my new year's resolution is to learn to play the guitari need to get a guitar first.does anyone want to sell me a guitar for cheap?
― bene_gesserit, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
talk to jjj, it's kind of like he does that for a living
no wait, it's EXACTLY like he does that for a living
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
to be fair i took guitar lessons for about 6 months in high school, but my teacher was a jazz dude, and that's not the kind of guitar i want to learn to play now (plus i don't remember anything).
― bene_gesserit, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
Which shoulder hurts, Dan? I have to admit I'm a little confused.
― beachville, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
right shoulder
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps one of these arrangements will be more to your likinghttp://www.guitarnoise.com/topic/christmas-songs/
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
ha that is assuming I have a shortlist; as noted upthread, Boston is DROWNING in music teachers
oh and I moved the guitar into the corner of the living room; no fight!
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
How cheap is cheap bene?
― blurgh (jjjusten), Monday, 9 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Dan, I assume you acted prudently and looked on craigslist asked your opera buddies for recommendations
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
not yet I haven't, that is today's Facebook project
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Too bad Peter Frampton found his guitar, bene_gesserit, or maybe you could have bought that one.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
jjj, under a hundred
― bene_gesserit, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Don't tell Dick Destiny that.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rondomusic.com/
― beachville, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
I have not personally played a Rondo instrument and cannot go to bat for their quality.
― beachville, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Any progress? IMM wants to know.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
I've started playing the C scale up and down across all 6 strings. I've also solicited friends on Facebook for guitar teacher recommendations and have gotten a couple of good leads; one is a Berklee prof and the other is an NEC grad. Self-instruction wise, I'm up to doing "songs" on the third string but I don't want to go too much further than what I'm doing now without seeing a teacher.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Which Berklee prof? Freddie?
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
this dude: http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/eric-byers
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
To think I learned by playing along with records :(
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
How old were you when you started?
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I admit it was tricky having to get up every so often to wind up the gramophone
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't work for everyone though - I learned by playing along to records as well and I'm a lousy guitarist!
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
What makes you think I'm not!
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
question: does it make sense to bring examples of the types of things I'm most interested in doing with a guitar into an initial lesson or is that jumping the gun/potentially prejudicing the teacher's ability to show me the fundamentals?
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I don't see what harm it would do
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely do that.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost cos I've heard you play on an ILX comp and you're pretty good?
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Shucks, I'd forgotten about that
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
zomg I just realized that I had completely forgotten to try playing Siouxsie songs
"Night Shift" here I come FUCK THE MOTHERS KILL THE OTHERS
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Do you have any books with chords in them? As a permanent guitar NOOB myself, I recommend Chords and Progressions for Jazz and Popular Guitar, by Arne Berle for the chords and then one of Rikky Rooksby's guitar books for chords plus arrangements of songs.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
(I'm just assuming that ultimately single note stuff is going to end up being pretty easy for you)
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
hey y'all
I haven't contacted a teacher yet because I feel like I should get my wisdom teeth taken out first. I know that logic doesn't make much surface sense but in my head it TOTALLY makes sense.
I have gotten VERY tired of playing the C scale on strings 1-3 and have started walking up and down all 6 strings. I also kind of stumbled across E, E7, Emin, Emin7 and C and have jamming back and forth between them. I also found some chord that I am CERTAIN is the first chord to "Love Will Tear Us Apart" but I can't recreate it now. Also been playing the intro to "Crystallised" over and over.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
how are current Epiphones? their version of the Gibson ES-339 is only $400 online, which seems pretty affordable
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
aww djp i meant to ask you how this was going on saturday!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
ha I am still kind of struggling through on my own, although I have like 3 ppl I need to contact re: lessons
I can now play C, E and Emin chords! Also I am pretty sure the opening chord to "Love Will Tear Us Apart is just the third string/third fret but I haven't looked it up to confirm. I've also been teaching myself the opening to "Crystalized" and the main guitar riff to "Dull Life"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Been recommended this site, pretty comprehensive free video lessons, will check them out myself when I get a mo:
http://www.justinguitar.com/
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:05 (twelve years ago) link
Dan, you should definitely learn the E and A chord shapes - those are the most important shapes once you start playing barre chords). throw in D and you can play songs w/I-IV-V progressions!
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
E major(/minor) = 022100(/022000) E-B-E-G#-B-E (E-B-E-G-B-E)A major(/minor) = 002220(/002210) E-A-E-A-C#-E (E-A-E-A-C-E)D major(/minor) = x00232(/x00231) x-A-D-A-D-F# (x-A-D-A-D-F)
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
don't forget the fingering! (231/12 or 23, 123/231, 132/321). trivial or ymmv you might think but i played D as 231 for ages, which is definitely bad and wrong.
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
I play E minor the exact same as E major except without fingering the G string, so it's easy to switch between the two if necessary. My guitar teacher taught me to do it that way.
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
wait how do you play d minor as 321 and not 231, my fingers are not physically capable of doing this afaik
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
oops yr right, i knew i'd make a mistake. e minor like e major makes sense but i tend to use first two fingers anyway if i'm not playing e major or say playing esus4 as well, nothing wrong with using more than one fingering if it suits the occasion.
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
altho 234 for esus4 works too, always good to get the little finger in on the action.
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
Guitar is fun! My advice, if you're teaching yourself, is to familiarise yourself with the main open chord shapes and then start learning tunes from Ultimate Guitar chord tabs - you'll get used to switching between them pretty quickly.
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
Any sites that teach you country picking?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
There are a few good lessons on http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Category/Premier_Clinic.aspx
filter by issue: All Issuesfilter by category: Premier Clinicfilter by section: Country
There are some lessons on chicken picking and double stops and stuff.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome. Pedal-Steel Effect that's what I want!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Also I did end up buying a d'Angelico guitar from jjjusten
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link