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any guitar players here?

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Thanks, that does help me a bit and I'll try it out. I think sometimes my music background with other instruments leads into me trying to do too much and get too advanced too fast with my guitar, to the point where I forget the basics and the little things. I still sometimes wonder if I'm not getting position/posture quite right, and its a struggle for me to not just speed-read through the book until I get to the advanced stuff at the back.

Part of my goal in learning guitar is really learning some serious music theory, because that is the one thing I have always sucked at. You would think a jazz-centric sax player would know his theory for improvising, but I play completely by ear.
 
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scarletmike;1916366; said:
Thanks, that does help me a bit and I'll try it out. I think sometimes my music background with other instruments leads into me trying to do too much and get too advanced too fast with my guitar, to the point where I forget the basics and the little things. I still sometimes wonder if I'm not getting position/posture quite right, and its a struggle for me to not just speed-read through the book until I get to the advanced stuff at the back.

Part of my goal in learning guitar is really learning some serious music theory, because that is the one thing I have always sucked at. You would think a jazz-centric sax player would know his theory for improvising, but I play completely by ear.
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Theory definitely helps certain things.. I've been studying the modes a little lately so I can get more variety in my playing. It's all starting to sound the same.

The little things are very important. I'm glad I learned the right way, because I have some friends who didn't and have some major issues trying to learn certain things. One of my friends basically doesn't use his pinky (he does for chords - but that's pretty much it). I'm amazed he's as good as he is.
 
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Since I'll have a little more money starting in a few weeks, I may consider a few weeks of lessons to really help me get going. I can play a lot of easy licks and intros, and can play two songs that are entirely chords halfway decently, but I don't feel like I've really learned too much since I learned stuff like the Sweet Child intro via tabs.

Its funny you mention the pinky issue. I have some pre-learned strength and agility in my fingers from my sax playing, but I think it actually hinders me more than it helps right now because they were "trained" to move in a very limited range of positions. So even though I have a slight tendency to try and use my pinky for stuff purely out of reaction, it really hasn't been too useful for me. Its interesting how pre-existing musical notions, habits, and concepts can hurt your development learning a new instrument.
 
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scarletmike;1916372; said:
Since I'll have a little more money starting in a few weeks, I may consider a few weeks of lessons to really help me get going. I can play a lot of easy licks and intros, and can play two songs that are entirely chords halfway decently, but I don't feel like I've really learned too much since I learned stuff like the Sweet Child intro via tabs.

Its funny you mention the pinky issue. I have some pre-learned strength and agility in my fingers from my sax playing, but I think it actually hinders me more than it helps right now because they were "trained" to move in a very limited range of positions. So even though I have a slight tendency to try and use my pinky for stuff purely out of reaction, it really hasn't been too useful for me. Its interesting how pre-existing musical notions, habits, and concepts can hurt your development learning a new instrument.
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Make sure you get a teacher who just doesn't teach other peoples' songs. Might sound obvious, but I'm still surprised how many people pay for someone else to teach them what can easily be found on the internet for free. :p
 
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Oh for sure with that! I was taking lessons with my sax for like 2 or 3 months before I moved to Indiana, and its amazing what that little bit of instruction propelled me to. Not sure where you usually get your gear, but I try to go through Sweetwater since I live in the Ft. Wayne area and can go there to play with stuff before I buy. :biggrin: Amazing place, amazing studios, and some amazing artists who work there that also do lessons. I've played on a few $2,000+ guitars and amps in the showroom just to see what they were like. Man, if I could get my hands on a gold-top Les Paul and a nice Marshall stack...
 
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I try to get everything from CA House Music in Zanesville.. used to work there and I'm still really good friends with my old boss's son (his son is actually the guy I mentioned jamming with).

Had to go to Lang Music to get my Mesa though. But everything else.. CA House. I'm pretty sure I've picked up some stuff at Guitar Center though. I have too much shit. :lol:
 
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/spam

Made another song. Not metal this time. Rock/post-rockish. My roommate said it sounded like something Muse would write, but I have no idea since I don't listen to them.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysWeRFQqFk"]YouTube - It's Raining Outside[/ame]
 
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kWMDQF2vA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kWMDQF2vA[/ame]

I had the privilege to non-soberly watch this guy back in the day around some seedy bars in Gainesville. Florida to me was always as much Mt. Dora, Maitland and Sebastian as Miami or West Palm. This guy, Gamble, was a true raconteur, and called himself (then) the "Florida Flatlands Balladeer."

The more he drank the better he spoke and the greater his vocabulary and distance from the truth. :lol: I had no idea anyone ever got him on video, at least on youtube, and I had not thought of him for some time, since I heard second hand how, sadly, he had drown trying to save some snow bird from getting his dumb ass caught in a rip-tide. A great guy.

Not knowing where to put this, I thought someone here might enjoy his finger picking.

He eventually sings and plays. :biggrin:
 
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BuckeyeMac;1922570; said:
Learned how to play Rufus Rainwrights "Hallelujah" last night.
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