I am finally taking guitar lessons!

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U

he showed me palm muting and power chords....

You'll be able to play all the metal stuff once ya get those two things down.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Big Fat Sammy
You'll be able to play all the metal stuff once ya get those two things down.

I'm just going to leave Hangar 18 alone for a few years!

I'm working on Symphony of Destruction and Wake up Dead.

[Matt White]

You never stop learning...............

It's the beauty of the guitar..................

[Matt White]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
I'm just going to leave Hangar 18 alone for a few years!

I'm working on Symphony of Destruction and Wake up Dead.

Make sure to check out the next GUITAR WORLD...

[ThrillsNSpills]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
I'm just going to leave Hangar 18 alone for a few years!

Hey man, I say go for Hangar 18, just take a couple notes at a time and work it up slowly. Isolate the picking parts that are most difficult and practice it as a picking exercise.
You'll grow into it it you're patient and persistent.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Matt White
Make sure to check out the next GUITAR WORLD...

Kickass! I must have it!

[Coyote]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
I'm just going to leave Hangar 18 alone for a few years!

I'm working on Symphony of Destruction and Wake up Dead.

That's the way to go. Practise songs, not just technique.
And don't leave anything alone. Assault the fuckers!! :D

Originally posted by Matt White
You never stop learning...............

It's the beauty of the guitar..................

True... No matter how scary the material you're learning.

Like what I'm learning at the moment:
5 different shapes of C# minor 7 flat 5 (C#m7b5) and G maj7 scales, played against an A7 chord.

(The technical term for this escapes my vocabulary at the moment...)

A bitch to practise, at first especially, but if that's what it takes to improve my shots at getting into a conservatory some 6 months from now, I'll do it to death.

[DrMaddVibe]

Originally posted by Matt White
Make sure to check out the next GUITAR WORLD...

I highly recommend a subscription to this or its brother...

http://www.guitarworld.com/toc/bass.html

Worth the dough and keeps you plenty interested.

[vheddyrmv8]

Cool, you need a LOT of free time in order to learn guitar well at a really fast pace just keep it up, I've been playing for 4 years and still suck.

[DRRN]

when i first started playing my dad taught me three cords
on an old j45 d g a and i practices those three standered chords till my finger tipps ached not that the action was high
but that he was teaching me classical form ...
inwhere i rolled my wrist around and under till i was right up in my tipps of the fingers and i had the neck high like dave mathews
and the guitar was across my left knee
looking anything but country, rock, bluegrass
or normal
and i still play that way today!
when sittingafter learning my three standard chords
i begain standing and playing them alone
trying to make up words that would fit the chord structure
then years later i took classical lessons from my dad agian
this time learning the scales on a 54 strat i fiddled around with them running them forward and backwards till i figured out riffs such as down on mainstreet the audience is listening
the last date then i had store bought lessons from a music madjor
blues then went home that day and wrote my first original lyrics
and blues tune with rhythum lead and intro i was 21 by then though
he also taught me the blues scale

but i had a stroke at 22 i can still play with my right hand using
a bass walk with my thumb while playing the remaining 5stings like a harpe


but no shit practice form practice standing practice those elvis standard chords on a flattop and never stop playing
i never stop writing lyrics and their better now that im working with a handicap by the way




pick a chord like a call it 1 like your thumb thensay a b c d e f g a
and chords 1 4 and 5 go together
like a d e b f g etc etc for standard progression o yea good luck!.....

[DRRN]

if you got a chunk of cash a flying v is the right idea there about $18000$
now less than a strat but still its a vintage instrement that probly barks ive never played one but its an investment and maybe is the item that will save rockn roll an explorer is good and i absaluteley
love the invaders gibson has like aviral and joe perry play

[DRRN]

my first one was a melody maker jr no sound and it took years to really take an interest till i bought a new ibenez flattop silk finish during the grunge plunge

[DRRN]

unplugged s t p rocked

[DRRN]

nirvana too

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Holy fucking shit dude, 5 posts in a row?