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Playing guitar
- Thread starter Billy Dean
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A mafia "crew" boss. Heads up a group of soldiers.........
Does that make Big Dunc a capo these days under Don Carlo or is he yet to be a made man
They've put generations of rich lawyer's kids through college. Who said rock'n'roll is dead!
Blues Harp
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Carlo sings the Blues...Superb ....he's better looking than you.....and no capo in sight....This is the B shape. In the pic, it is 5 frets further up - the shape is constant, the name of the chord changes (as you know) as you move up the fretboard.
So, on this E chord, I'm barreing the 7th fret with my first finger, and using my ring finger to fret the 9th fret across the second, third and fourth strings. And yes, I can bend my ring finger so that the top string sounds.
As the shape remains the same, but moves down the fretboard, fret by fret, the chord changes as follows: E - Eflat - D - Dflat - C - B. For those learning, always remember: alphabetic progression as you move the same shape up or down..
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Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
Carlo sings the Blues...Superb ....he's better looking than you.....and no capo in sight....
I'm older than Carlo!
But I might have given him a run for his money when I was young!
1971 Eko Rio Bravo 12-string that I got for my 21st birthday. Still play that regularly at home.
Never used a capo in my life...
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
My first proper guitar was an Eko Ranger.......and a left handed one...sadly it never survived my mangling attempts to master "Angie"...switched to a blues harp and found my true metier...I'm older than Carlo!
But I might have given him a run for his money when I was young!
1971 Eko Rio Bravo 12-string that I got for my 21st birthday. Still play that regularly at home.
Never used a capo in my life...
@Billy Dean I am almost an entirely self trained guitarist. I have an ear for recreating covers even if they are not perfect. Eff it man, it sounds good and it's my interpretation of the song. Perfectly covering a song is lame in my opinion, because it doesn't inject your ear into it. A cover can be original.
Anyway, I am crazy late to this party and folks have given sound advice. Ultimately learn two basic chords and learn to move back and forth between them by feel. Do different strumming patterns in this process. Just make semi organized noise. It's muscle memory you are after. Keep layering on the basic chords one at a time until you're perfect with 3 and then 4 and so on.
Once you are there with the basics then start adding in the minors and 6ths and whatnot. Use some tablature to learn a few easy songs once you have the foundation.
It's hard work at the beginning, but it is fun to see/feel/hear the progress.
Kim Thayil from Soundgarden is totally self trained. He sounds so different from everyone because he just learned to play his own way.
Anyway, I am crazy late to this party and folks have given sound advice. Ultimately learn two basic chords and learn to move back and forth between them by feel. Do different strumming patterns in this process. Just make semi organized noise. It's muscle memory you are after. Keep layering on the basic chords one at a time until you're perfect with 3 and then 4 and so on.
Once you are there with the basics then start adding in the minors and 6ths and whatnot. Use some tablature to learn a few easy songs once you have the foundation.
It's hard work at the beginning, but it is fun to see/feel/hear the progress.
Kim Thayil from Soundgarden is totally self trained. He sounds so different from everyone because he just learned to play his own way.
BlueAmigo
Player Valuation: £5m
Used to play a little. The big problem I had was owning a dirt cheap Peavy where the strings were about six miles from the fretboard. Many years later, I picked up a basic Gretsch and what a revelation having something that played like butter instead of a cheese grater.
Justin Sandercoe does some really good tutorials from beginners up to expert, very simply explained. I'd recommend him for learning from scratch.
MarkK1988
Player Valuation: £8m
cheers pal, ive got an 18 month old and its something id like him to be able to do so need to get ahead of him first
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Any tips for changing quickly between chords? Just a case of muscle memory?
For me personally my wedding ring finger is my pivot and helps me to move from G to D and vise versa, and it's through repetition that youll find some chords are easier to get to
Em to Am, Am to C and so on. Some chords just generally fit with another chord and those chords tend to not be too difficult to get to/change to.
roydo
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Practice. Make your hand like a claw, and its all in the knuckles.
Try playing your last strum with the strings open to give yourself time to go into the next chord without stopping. Start at a slow tempo first, as you get quicker you'll hardly notice. Hope that makes sense.
So maybe this sort of thing has been covered, but at a glance didn't see this question in this thread. Looking to get a basic guitar for my two oldest to learn to play and welcome any advice on this. They're both trained as musicians (and i'm not), but they play cello and violin. So they'll need lessons but I think they'll pick it up pretty quickly, and they can play by ear and read some music as well. Anyway, I was thinking an Epiphone Les Paul or a Squier Telecaster would be a good starting point. If they like it and want a better guitar, they can get a job, but I was hoping to get them something useful for both to play. Any thoughts on these or other guitar setups I should look at for them?
Thanks, -SN
Thanks, -SN
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