For the guitar players out there...

So how many of you actually play guitar and what style of guitar do you play like Rock, Blues, Jazz, and Stuff? What kind of guitar do you have?

I'm learning how to play guitar and I'm trying to learn Stevie Ray Vaughan style of guitar and I want to play the Blues...

I have a Squire Strat from the Strat Pack from Guitar Center...

I play an electric Peavy Patriot, which I want to sell end get an acoustic. I play country, with a little rock mixed in. Shooter Jennings and Big and Rich stuff.

I'm not that good, as I just picked it up after a few years of neglecting the guitar.

Anyone wants to make an offer on the Patriot, PM me.

I play a hot rodded Fat Strat (electric) and a solid top cutaway Takamine (acoustic). I play a LOT of rock and blues, and am starting to get more into jazz/funk.

I play a Johnson Jazz Bass... the action is quick and smooth on it...

I want a Conklin 9 string... I play a lot of funk.

I play a Shecter C1+ and a Fender Precision Bass, been playing bass for a few months and just bought myself a guitar so I will learn it too :) No lessons yet, though I am considering them.

I have an american standard strat, alvarez acoustic, and takamine classical that is older than i am.

I play a variety of stuff, on the electric i like to play more bluesey stuff, clapton, allman brothers, etc.
On the acoustic I bring it around for the drunken nights playing songs that are fun to sing to, a bunch of southern rock like skynyrd or allman brothers or dylan, oar, stuff of that sort.
Then I play classical.... i love to sit around and jam out with some bach...nothing like it.

OI wouldnt mind a Bass at all... They seem like fun...

Ibanez makes good bass' for the $. I got mine new for under $300 and never regretted it. Active pickups are great for bass but on guitar, I think you have to love a fat humbucker sound to get them. If your into blues/ Jazz styles you will probably want a quality single coil pickup. I have a split-coil Seymore Duncan in my Jap-Strat and love it. I also have a rebuilt Epiphone SG copy, and a Takamine acoustic.
Been at it for 16years but only seriously for about 5. Used to play Hardcore punk but I've mellowed considerably. Lessons in Jazz and Classical Theory. Stopped playing altogether about 3 years ago.

If you seriously want to learn, Memorize your five scale patterns, learn your notes up and down the fretboard. Learn to build chords with 7ths then learn to arpegiate them. Once you learn all that, forget the technical shit and put your soul in it! Seen too many musicians waste away to complexity. You started playing because you have passion. Don't forget that!

I'm sure you don't need to hear it from me, but hell, I ain't busted out the soap box in awhile.

I saw a semi-hollow ibanez bass... I never plugged it in but it sounded like liquid sex..

ive got several guitars, but my pride and joy is my seagull acoustic. beautiful guitar. ive been playing for 8 years, and i still have no intention of ever buying another guitar. its perfect.

as for what i play. i enjoy the folkier side of things (bob dylan, jim croce, etc) when i play, which is odd because i listen to hardcore and punk mainly.

though i do pick up the fender strat and wail a little blues and rock when im feeling loud.

When I get really good, I'm going to buy my dream uitar, An American made Fender Strat... I love fenders, they are my favorite guitar... 3 single coil pickups and all the best wood and stuff america has to offer for that guitar...

I love the blues guitar style and it is just your soul playing it and I'm messing around and trying ot make up a blues song and have been playing some of the greatest blues legends stuff for awhile like SRV songs and others...

I can't wait til I get good and can really play... I will be an awesome guitarist in the future and I try to play at least every day for a couple of hours...

try and get in a band, it helps

also challange you self, don't just stick to the easy shit.....and make up your own songs.

get into the habbit of up and down strokes. its so much easyer to play faster.
do exercises that involve your pinky (and all others, duh) and play standing up (this sounds stupid but if u ever get in a band......u get the point) its way different than sitting down.
it might sound like a lot now but it'll be second nature in no time at all

I downpick everything. Doesn't matter how fast it is.

I try to strum the guitar and muffle the strings... I use my pinkie and try to make my own songs...

Me like Blues stuff...

I try to strum the guitar and muffle the strings... I use my pinkie and try to make my own songs...



hhahahahahahahah ahahahahah ahaha :lol2: :cwm27:

I don't know why I find that halarious, I just do. Sorry...:licka:

Why is it funny? I'm trying to learn the hardest guitar style out there...

I said the thing about the pinky is because someone said use your pinky...

i just got an Arbor As310 and i have 3 acoustic guitars i play stuff from punk to some blues and i just joined a band

Why is it funny? I'm trying to learn the hardest guitar style out there...

I said the thing about the pinky is because someone said use your pinky...

:wtf:

definitely not the hardest style out there.

BTW I play bass; I have an SWR head on an ampeg cabinent, a musicman stingray 5, and a schecter diamond series something or other 5 string. I also have a hamer guitar that I never play.

Washburn Maverick BT-4 - dark purple

Epiphone Les Paul Jr. - silver

Yamaha FG-110 acoustic

Peavey Blazer 158 Transtube amp

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/cookieman2764/aba90789.jpg Photo of all my equipment

I make my own albums with Husker Du style material. I write and record and mix all the songs and then just burn them onto a CD. Just for fun.

I have a semi hollow 72 tele thinline reproduction and I like to play old 80's metal and some new metal too on it. I also have a ESP EXP Ltd. It has ALL the upgrades on it, even full custom 3 tone paint scheme. I am converting all the electronics to a custom bc rich mockingbird since my bro knows everything bout guitars, he is helping me with the customization!

-Chris PS...Also have a BC Rich NJ Beast w/ floyd rose tremelo FOR SALE! btw :)

The SRV style is one of the hardest styles to learn since you strum evry note and have to muffle 4 or more strings and stuff... Professional guitarists said his style is one of the hardest of all time, also he used his thumb which is quite difficult to use because if you don't have a long thumb then your SOL...

You should always be muting any string that you're not using at the time though. Agreed about the thumbs though, if you don't have big fingers it's very difficult to play some guitar music. Hendrix and Chuck Berry could stretch 13 frets along the neck with their hands. I used to think the 10 I can get was pretty good, but 13 is insane.

i have a schecter c1 elite, and a tacoma but i never looked up what it was... it was pretty much my first guitar and i just bought it...

i play pretty much anything thats fun... im good at fingerpicking, and i got the schecter about 1 1/2 months ago so im learning faster picking songs and some more metal kind of stuff

how can u stretch 13 frets? i can stretch 11 if i start on 13 and go to 24, but if i start at 1 i can only get to 5

You can tell from pretty much any video of Hendrix that he had huge hands with really long fingers. Plus the more you play the more your fingers can stretch.

i got a gibson les paul/sg custom with a fender amp

I can strecth my fingers alittle bit not like 13 frets or anything that amazing, I think i can get at least 7 or something sinnce I'm still growing and stuff... I use my thumb and i play with it to, when i play the D chord I mute the first two strings and strum the whole guitar...

I can strecth my fingers alittle bit not like 13 frets or anything that amazing, I think i can get at least 7 or something sinnce I'm still growing and stuff... I use my thumb and i play with it to, when i play the D chord I mute the first two strings and strum the whole guitar...

why do u keep talking about ur thumb? your supposed to use your thumb when u play the d chord anyways and you only need to mute the e string or just not play it at all

You should always be muting any string that you're not using at the time though. Agreed about the thumbs though, if you don't have big fingers it's very difficult to play some guitar music. Hendrix and Chuck Berry could stretch 13 frets along the neck with their hands. I used to think the 10 I can get was pretty good, but 13 is insane.


...Were their hands the size of basketballs or something? Joises, 13 frets, woah, I can't believe that, no way.

They could stretch, but not 13 frets, that's humanly impossible, unless the frets were the width of pencils.

I'm talking strectching the tip of your pinkie to the tip of your thumb along the fretboard. Seriously, watch a video of Hendriz playing and you won't doubt it anymore. It's not that hard to believe...Rachmaninov could stretch over 2 octaves on a piano with one hand

I'm talking strectching the tip of your pinkie to the tip of your thumb along the fretboard. Seriously, watch a video of Hendriz playing and you won't doubt it anymore. It's not that hard to believe...Rachmaninov could stretch over 2 octaves on a piano with one hand

In your defence I took measurements of my two gutiars (one is a 21 fret fender), and my 24 fret XCort, I'll put pics up as soon as I can and the verdict.

Here are the stats:

Fender:

1-13th fret = 31cm, verdict impossible.
13-??? verdict not determined, insufficient number of frets

XCort:

1-13th fret = 30cm verdict impossible
12-25th fret (25th fret non existant) approx 25cm. Verdict not likely, but probably not impossible.

I do have pics of the ruler next to the fret board.

I'm still calling :bs:

It is by far bs, besides just because you can stretch your hand across the fretboard doesnt make you a good guitarist. Jimi may have had big hands, and he may have been a decent guitarist, he was far from a god send end all savior to guitarists across the globe that all guitarists strive to become

why do u keep talking about ur thumb? your supposed to use your thumb when u play the d chord anyways and you only need to mute the e string or just not play it at all
Well really your not supose to play with our left th8mb, anu guitar book you look at will say not to use it...

well then y do you use it?

I use my thumb for some chords:

In Pinkfloyd's "wish you were here" is a variation of a D chord with the added F sharp on the E string* (trying not to strain my drunk brain with chord names...does that rhyme?) It would be uncomfortable to play with the regular 4 fingers of the D chord (Standard D chord).

* Here is the Variation:



e-2--------------
B-3------------
G-2-----------
D----------------
A-x-------------
E-2------------



Hendrix used his thumb a lot.

I disagree with Skyline, most guitar books won't tell you not to use it, they either encourage it where possible, or not cover it at all.

i use my thumb all the time too... u use it a lot in daughters - john mayer but skyline keeps saying its the hardest guitar style or something like that... wtf :screwy: .. its pretty standard to use ur thumb imo

The style I was talking about was the Stevie Ray Vaughan style, just the way he played is hard to copy, but if you think it isn't hard to play, I would want to see you copy it exactly like him, struming all the strings while only playing one string and doing it very fast...

The Hendrix style is close to the SRV style and if you hear both of them you can see the SRV's style is very close to the Hendrix style but hendrix's style is much easier than the SRV style... His sytle is far more complicated then hendrix and it is still one the hardest to copy because of how he played, and most famous guitaruist and magazines and stuff have said the sRV guitar style is one of the most complicated styles to learn in guitar HISTORY...

ill show u some amazing acoustic work unless uve already seen it

http://www.spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=821

http://media.putfile.com/Justin-King---Larrivee-Movie-Clip

please id like to see u even attempt to copy either song on acoustic