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Pretty please?

I want this! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gibson-Les-Paul-Gold-Top-1952_W0QQitemZ140116721801QQihZ004QQcategoryZ33040QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

 :nod:  :king:

Bid on this instead

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Maybe you should do this dragons den stylee and tell us why we should invest in you and what we get form it?

you'd never want to play it though Sam.

You still playing the guitar?

a guitar man eh sam? I'm considering selling my 52' Vintage re-issue Telecaster ('06 model)... interested? Not quite an original as the goldtop but it'll be slightly cheaper than £15,000

I'd mount it in a perspex case on the wall and just sit and stare at it for hours on end.

Yes I'm still playing, only got the accoustic still. Hoping to get an electric fairly soon, looking to get an Epiphone Les Paul.

telecasters are the nuts.

i would gladly watch any band where the guitarist plays a telecaster.

They are pretty damn good. I just don't play mine anymore and my other one has been played so much, i've worn the frets out and certain notes don't sound :(

I've still play acoustic far more. It's easier to just pick it up and have a lark on that than getting my amp out and plugging in the wires. That said, I haven't done anything constructive in the last few months. I must work through the David Mead book I got a lot more

That was on ebay last week, with a starting price of £60. It didn't sell. So, they've put the starting price upto £80. :nuts:

£15k for a fucking guitar!!!!!!

an original and will only up in value... fact

plus, thats just the starting bid

Still.

£15 GRAND for a Guitar  :shock:

You'd have to be stupidly rich or just stupid or both.

Not really.

People pay that for art and art goes up in value. Rich yes, but not stupid if you knew what you were buying

yep, but each to their own. I'd just buy a '07 model for about a grand personally.

I'll tell you what is stupid. Spending £15k on an Eric Clapton 'Blackie' replica.

I spose those will go up in value, but people actually play the things  :nuts:

That is stupid. To buy a custom shop version similiar to Claptons guitar would only be around 3k for the very top spec, so you're paying 12k!! just to have a signature which is imprinted anyway and because there's a limited number. People are mugs though and do pay this kinda money...

U can have my Strat for way less than that, i will even throw in a Beatles chord book!

i have a lovely light (in weight) black epi sg and emg pick ups, i had to play a les paul on wednesday at band practice and it was horrible. fact

Acoustics (well electro-acoustics) all the way for me
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Washburn EA20mb 12 string
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Takamine ESG45 SC

I have a Kimbara electro-acoustic and use my dad's Honer ST57 at the moment.
Hoping to buy a new electric or perhaps semi-acoustic as soon as my exams are over!

More of a pianist though myself so have a Casio stage piano aswell as the good old upright

I bought an electric guitar about 3 years ago, every now and then I pick it up plug it in and just make noise, but I've not taught myself anything really.

Any tips for self teaching?

Im trying to learn from "guitar playing for dummies" (or whatever it's called). I'm finding it hard to find the time to put the practice in. As a result I can only play about 2 cords from memory (with less than a second between cord changes) and on top of old smokey :(

 I guess there is no substitute for lessons from someone who can play mind.

Is that a glo-warm double convector radiator circa 2000 ? what do you reckon one of those babies is worth ?

I've taught myself, I bought one of those "guitar playing for dummies" books as well.

Just sat and strummed until I could play all the songs in the book, then just started playing music I like.

I bought a chord book as well which is really good for reference when learning new songs.

I can quite comfortably playing anything now using Major chords, barre chords are my next challenge. I want to master them on the accoustic first because it's harder to get the right sound.

I have the chord book too. Not ready for it yet by a long chalk!  I'm learning on accoustic.

As a matter of interest how long did it take to master the majors?

Maybe I'm just shit at it then.

I could play A, D and G properly in about a month. That's being able to play those chords in a song with no 'gaps' when changing chords.

Once I did that I kind of had the ryhthm of changing chords and just started adding in new chords as and when I needed them. After A, D and G is learnt most of the other Majors; C, E and finally F. I've had a crack at B but TBH not a lot of songs use it and it's better off played as a barre chord.

After that you can variate and use 7ths and minors which are very easy and simple.

It doesn't take long to learn the simple chords...ie the majors and common minors

After I learnt that (from a guitar playing for beginners book) I kind of just started playing things off the interweb and learning new chords along the way. Never specifically set out to learn bare chords but you come across them so often you can't help it!

Cheers, I'm working on A, D and G at the moment. I'll keep plugging away, practice makes perfect and all that.

Your best bet is to plug yourself into one of those matrix teaching programs. Sorted.

Redgewell is an occasional guitar teacher...

good. you can have my bands singer's one! its shite.....

Chords A, D and G are easy really. the basic ones anyway. even i can play them. if i knew what all the chords actually were i could play guitar if i put in a bit of practice i reckon. Bass is where it is at! i want a rickenbacker to replace go with my fender jazz now!

tis true. I don't really make a living off it but it's easy money and an escape from 9-5. I'm currently messing around with Hendrix's 'Little Wing', and writing instrumental head fucks

But as ralphy said 15 grand for a guitar




argos sell them for 60 quid bit of a saving there..

Argos!? That's like buying a 2nd hand toothbrush. Something I advise against

Guitars from Argos are shite. FACT

Especially if they cost £60!!!

What with being a tax-dodging yet poor student I'm gonna look to spend £300-£350 on my new one. hardly going to be top of the range but for what I need it for it will do nicely!!!

electric or acoustic??

For that amount of money if electric, then Fender all the way in my experience. Strats or Teles... they're reliable and damn good to play. I have a mexican built fender telecaster that i played til the frets wore out. It cost £399 RRP at the time. I still think it was better (when playable) than my US Telecaster which cost me over a grand. Most other electrics at that price range are a little hit and miss. Especially Epiphones. Repeated tuning problems with the G string, and just generally a bit poor imo... so I would avoid.

When it comes to acoustics, then its down to personal preference as you can get a nice 'sounding'acoustic for under a £100 yet will be a bastard to play. As a general rule, you get what you pay for, but overt from using mail order services. Always play a guitar before you buy it and go with how it feels and sounds as apposed to how it looks. Sorry for the overly long rant.

do you play guitar Cav? if not then you probably wouldn't understand that there's a fair bit of quality between Argos guitars and Gibson Les Paul ones

Here's my baby  :D
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Washburn Dime D10S

Get David Mead's "Chords And Scales for guitarists". It sounds like a fairly standard book of just chords and scales, but it's more - he makes simple a way of remembering the fretboard and links everything to the 'CAGED' concept, which once you understand it, makes understanding chords and playing a lot easier.

I've not really had the time to go through it properly from start to finish yet, but the bits I've read are great and have helped me understand barre chords in particular.

I need to actually learn a few more songs though, as I'm all too keen to practice bits and bobs without putting it together. Still, I got my barre chords down fairly good now.

Is that you're wank rag under the bed Sam?