you aint going to get any snatch at a house party taking your boom boxes in, a guitar and some strategic chic friendly songs and you'll be a rock god fighting them off.
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- Thread starter Billy Dean
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I've been playing a good bit more since I've been in the house so much. I'm not very good at all, but I'm enjoying it again more than I have in a long time. Its good for getting away from in front of a screen for a while and clearing the head.
Thinking of getting myself a new acoustic sometime soon. Haven't had a new one in about 7 or 8 years since I got my Takamine when I was at uni.
Thinking of getting myself a new acoustic sometime soon. Haven't had a new one in about 7 or 8 years since I got my Takamine when I was at uni.
Blue toffee
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I’ve got both mate and they are really nice guitars to play. Won’t set you back a fortune compared to Fender/Gibson, most people wouldn’t be able to tell the slightest difference. I personally wouldn’t bother with pedals either. There’s loads of very good reasonably priced amps that come with loads of effects inbuilt.
I would suggest learning modes to help with finger strengthening and dexterity and it also keeps you from only playing and relying on chords. Simplistically, modes are different ways to play a major scale from different starting (root) notes. So Ionian mode for the key of C would just be the C major scale. Dorian mode of C is the C major scale but played from D to D; phrygian mode of C is the C major scale played from E to E, etc. There are seven modes. Each mode has a different sound; for example, the Phrygian mode is widely regarded as the flamenco sound; the Dorian mode can make you sound like Carlos Santana. I had fun with these when I was learning and once you learn them, they can be fun to mess around with.
This is a good website to learn modes...for each mode, learn the two-octave fingering:
www.jazz-guitar-licks.com
This is a good website to learn modes...for each mode, learn the two-octave fingering:
Modes of the Major Scale | Guitar Diagrams and Theory
These guitar lessons provide guitar diagrams, scale charts and jazz guitar lines to understand and master the twelve Greek modes named Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian.
www.jazz-guitar-licks.com
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The best thing to do is get one of these:
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And one of these:
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And then one of these:
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And then set your guitar on fire
whats the going price for an 808 these days?
Last one I saw was well over £5000 and that was a while ago, but @JordanianEmbassy got me onto Behringer making much cheaper clones now that the patents have expired:
behringer Products - Andertons Music Co
That comes in at £250, they've got 606 and 303 clones as well, and I've got a feeling Roland do digital copies now as well but @JordanianEmbassy might be know more.
JordanianEmbassy
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Last one I saw was well over £5000 and that was a while ago, but @JordanianEmbassy got me onto Behringer making much cheaper clones now that the patents have expired:
behringer Products - Andertons Music Co
www.andertons.co.uk
That comes in at £250, they've got 606 and 303 clones as well, and I've got a feeling Roland do digital copies now as well but @JordanianEmbassy might be know more.
Don't know much about the recent Roland copies tbh. That Behringer kit is supposed to be pretty good though. One mate has just bought the Model D clone and another has the Poly D and loves it.
Got my 808 for £200 in 1997. That was about half what they were going for at the time, but got it off a mate. Needs a service tbh (a few switches missing and loads of the 16 sequencer step buttons are sketchy) but it works.
JordanianEmbassy
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Theres always the next chord you can't play.
Happens all the time - ooh I'll learn this next...... half way through hit a chord that's impossible.... DOH!!!!!!
Then that version of the impossible becomes possible and you hit the next impossible. And so it goes on......
Andy McGurk
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As someone who teaches guitar for a living I get these questions all the time from parents. Personally for ease of set up and sound, go with the epiphone. Some of the squires can have a weird twanging sound behind them so I think the epiphone is more versatile.
Theres always the next chord you can't play.
Happens all the time - ooh I'll learn this next...... half way through hit a chord that's impossible.... DOH!!!!!!
Then that version of the impossible becomes possible and you hit the next impossible. And so it goes on......
That was the F chord for me... flipping barre chords but yeah as you say, you get there and wonder what the issue was.
JordanianEmbassy
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yeah I've just hit the next hurdle. There are a couple of things I can play the melody of, but when I've seen other people jam it out on an acoustic they kinda strum chords the whole way through at the same time as picking out the melody, keeping a rhythm going on the 16th notes. An obvious example is Here Comes the Sun, which I've been attempting to play in that style tonight, and can't
practice and keep stretching yourself (literally - fingers reach is mega important) and your competence,yeah I've just hit the next hurdle. There are a couple of things I can play the melody of, but when I've seen other people jam it out on an acoustic they kinda strum chords the whole way through at the same time as picking out the melody, keeping a rhythm going on the 16th notes. An obvious example is Here Comes the Sun, which I've been attempting to play in that style tonight, and can't
I started a little bit ago, the C chord is killing me. The Cadd9 chord is ok but I don't get it
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