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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 19:46:16 » |
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Still.
£15 GRAND for a Guitar :shock:
You'd have to be stupidly rich or just stupid or both. yep, but each to their own. I'd just buy a '07 model for about a grand personally. |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 19:47:25 » |
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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:
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Red81
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 19:54:02 » |
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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... |
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« Reply #18 on: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 21:07:17 » |
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U can have my Strat for way less than that, i will even throw in a Beatles chord book!
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« Reply #19 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 06:19:05 » |
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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
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« Reply #20 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 10:19:21 » |
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« Reply #21 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 11:31:33 » |
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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
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janaage
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« Reply #22 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 11:45:57 » |
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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?
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« Reply #23 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 11:50:54 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #24 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 11:55:03 » |
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Is that a glo-warm double convector radiator circa 2000 ? what do you reckon one of those babies is worth ? |
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #25 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 11:58:54 » |
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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. 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. |
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« Reply #26 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:03:23 » |
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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?
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janaage
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« Reply #27 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:14:03 » |
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Maybe I'm just shit at it then.
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:14:10 » |
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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.
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« Reply #29 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:18:28 » |
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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!
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