!!Guitarist!!

[Alex™]

it didnt link to the actual guitars, those are nothing like the ones i wanted lol

these are...

Synyster Gates custom:http://cachepe.samedaymusic.com/medi...0d72d3d281.jpg

Zacky Vengeance Custom:http://www.drumcityguitarland.com/dr...c%20Guitar.jpg

[RAINFIRE]

Well, i am a guitarist myself, only been playin' a little over a year though. I have a red strat (with a double back pickup, and a standard amp from them... and the connector cord is a little dead) but i do not play on it very often. The one i am one the most is my 30 year-old epiphone (guitars sound better with age i have heard) but yeah, simple, but hey its something. Like i said i have only been playing a little over a year, and am in a true guitar "class" (not lessons, but a class) but my favorite song to play would most likely be "Here Without You" by 3 Doors Down. If you guys have any recognizable songs, that are easy to play but sound awesome, i am all ears, or any riffs for soloing, i am all ears.

Cheers!

[Thegide]

I taught myself, some of my friends took guitar lessons and said it didnt do anything for them. Teaching yourself just requires patience, time and passion!

Then I would suggest your friends did not seek out an instructor well matched to them. Teaching somebody how to play the guitar is NOT teaching them how to play a song.

Unless you've already received formal instruction and know how to use your practice time wisely, I see no reason to assume you are "just as good without it". You can spend years practicing for hours and get less out of it than a casual player who is practicing the right things for the right reasons.

If your goal was to become a master shredder, you would be wise to seek out a teacher competent and interested in showing you:

- general right and left hand technique
- rhythm & rhythm theory
- legato technique
- arpeggios & sweep picking
- modal scales, exotic scales, symmetrical scales, pentatonics, etc.
- improvisation
- harmonic theory (understanding chord construction, and how to build chord progressions)
- how to choose and use gear to achieve desired sounds...

[Hamsalad]

i like playing Sublime-Santeria ... Lynard Skynard-Simple Man....Green Day---When I come around (only when im playing w/ friends) Nirvana--In Bloom (is a really fun riff) Or like CKY--Sink into the under ground

[Edit]: ya thegide is absolutely right....my teacher has shown me legato.. i already knew about arpeggios and messed around w/ them and showed me a good sweep excersice...and what is a modal or exotic scale or symmetric i guess lol....

i also had mine just help me w/ improv...just been messing w/ the pentatonic and he showed me a couple different patterns w/ it..

he also showed me a diminished scale and a major scale.

[Leather-Monkey]

Did I mention teaching yourself is cheaper

[Thegide]

Hey, CKY fan. Cool. I actually met them in Toronto in 2002 I think it was, during their IDR tour. Deron is a great guy to talk to... I was trying to get my CD book signed by everyone and had to chase down Jess at a strip club, at which point he stabbed the pen through one of the booklets because he was so hammered. Oh, and he kept my pen too... haha.

The stuff I'm currently into playing:
- Dream Theater
- Opeth
- Dethklok (no kidding, Brandon Small is a very talented player)
- Symphony X
- Angra
- All That Remains

Previously:
- Steve Vai
- Joe Satriani
- Old-school Metallica
- GnR
- Tool

[Leather-Monkey]

I play a lot a GN'R songs - SLASH = LEGEND! Anyway, I also play a lot of Led Zeppelin and Metallica

[Alex™]

OMG, i love playing flight of icarus(maiden obvs.) easy to play, apart from the solo, which i find challenging, but then i aint great lol, but i love playing it

[Thegide]

and what is a modal or exotic scale or symmetric i guess lol....

You'll get into this stuff soon enough I think. Without confusing you too much I'll try to break it down into simple terms.

You know the difference between major and minor scales right? Well, these are part of a bigger picture. There are other types of major and minor scales with varying degrees of how "major" or "minor" they sound. Cumulatively, we call all of these scales the "diatonic scale" and they are all related**. Modal theory is essentially everything concerning all of the "degrees" of the diatonic scale.

**I will not explain this further just know that the Aminor scale contains the exact same notes as Cmajor and is therefore theoretically the same scale

Exotic scales generally refer to scales of exotic origin (geographically). Things like the Hirajoshi (japanese), Arabic, Neapolitan, or Phrygian major are generally grouped here. I don't consider harmonic minor (or melodic minor or pentatonics) to be "exotic" since their origins are in traditional harmonic theory.

Regarding symmetric scales.. Actually I had a typo. I meant to say synthetic scales (which can be symmetrical or non-symmetrical). Synthetic scales are hard to describe but let's just say they are patterened moreso than they are musical. Diminished scales, whole tone, and octatonic scales fall in this category.

[qrtda235566]

Meh, I have a crap guitar. Need a new one...bad. I have a fake Strat. And it's RED too. So I feel like like I'm in the same group as the 10 year old girls who play Hannah Montana. I'll get around to posting a video of me playing on Youtube eventually but I don't have a camera so It'll be all audio and people will think I'm faking....BUT I'M NOOOOT!




I'm working on playing Sanitarium, it's easy enough. The songs I can play now are the Trooper, One, Sweet Child of Mine, The Unforgiven, and a couple other songs that I just kind of decided I wanted to play one day but never committed to.



I think my guitar is a Bullet Strat or something like that. Something cheap that was one hundred dollars....


Ahh, here's my guitar. My whammy bar also broke.

Here's the effects pedal I use.

[Hamsalad]

thanks thegide i think i follow w/ your scale talk. i know what you mean about the patterns like diminished.. I also learned one pantera riff and i asked my instructor what kind of scale it was and he said it was more so a pattern than a scale. he didn't give me that name for it or anything though....i think he said you could name it but it would have some crazy long technical name because you would break it apart peice by peice.

also ya i like cky a lot. i know sink into the underground and another one ...man i cant believe i forgot the name they played it in jack *** a lot.... it goes duh duh duh dahhh----- duh duh duh da duh duh da.....da da--- da da da--- da..da da da --daaaa.....lol don't know if that will be much help..

but ya i know the main riff for sweet child i know slash plays half a step but i cant even get it to sound right on i think maybe its the distortion he uses and the tone ? not sure

[Edit]: Awesome thats pretty funn the whole hanna montana thing

[RAINFIRE]

Awesomemans... I have the same thing but it is the next quality grade up. It has a dual back pickup. Also when you are jamming with friends you learn a whole lot more in 15 minutes than you would in an hour by yourself.

Cheers!

[Thegide]

also ya i like cky a lot. i know sink into the underground and another one ...man i cant believe i forgot the name they played it in jack *** a lot.... it goes duh duh duh dahhh----- duh duh duh da duh duh da.....da da--- da da da--- da..da da da --daaaa.....lol don't know if that will be much help..

96 quite bitter beings is the name of that song. Yes, it's quite fun also. Surprised I understood?

but ya i know the main riff for sweet child i know slash plays half a step but i cant even get it to sound right on i think maybe its the distortion he uses and the tone ? not sure

Slash's tone is distinguished and is a product of the guitar, the amp, the effects, but most importantly, the artist himself. Tune your guitar down 1/2 step as you pointed out, and use the neck pickup, not the bridge. Then focus on the quality of your playing - don't let the notes bleed over each other. That riff is a pretty good beginner's string skipping exercise.

[Hamsalad]

96 quite bitter beings is the name of that song. Yes, it's quite fun also. Surprised I understood?



Slash's tone is distinguished and is a product of the guitar, the amp, the effects, but most importantly, the artist himself. Tune your guitar down 1/2 step as you pointed out, and use the neck pickup, not the bridge. Then focus on the quality of your playing - don't let the notes bleed over each other. That riff is a pretty good beginner's string skipping exercise.

i see.....good tips thanks. Ya that was a great string skipping excersice when i first learned it i remember i thought it was so hard and felt awesome when i could play it (even though it wasnt flawless).

but i think i was using my bridge pick up before....but i think thats the next thing i need to focus on is making sure i dont let the notes bleed, and i would accomplish that by hitting the note and slightly lifting my finger off the string right away?

i think currently i've been letting the notes bleed. I know when my insturctor was teaching me some sweep techniques he told me i cant let the notes bleed its kind of tricky to get the motion and lift your fret hand at the same time but comes with practice im sure

[edit]: also i'm impressed you got that...i figured i would add in the lines for holding the notes lol; glad it was distinguishable for you at least! and as soon as i read that i remembered instantly

[Whalio Cappuccino]

I like jamming with friends to a few songs like...

The White Stripes ( Don't know why, it's just hella fun with friends. )

Oh and I also love playing AudioSlave songs ( I think Tom Morello is awesome... )

A few other songs but I mostly only play for my church, I'm not really into playing for other things, I just play for my church, but it's fun, we change gospel songs to rock, it's pretty funny.