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« Reply #30 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:40:17 » |
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Cheers, I'm working on A, D and G at the moment. I'll keep plugging away, practice makes perfect and all that.
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« Reply #31 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:41:08 » |
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Any tips for self teaching?
Your best bet is to plug yourself into one of those matrix teaching programs. Sorted. |
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« Reply #32 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 14:14:10 » |
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Redgewell is an occasional guitar teacher...
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« Reply #33 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 14:49:18 » |
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you'd never want to play it though Sam.
You still playing the guitar? 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. good. you can have my bands singer's one! its shite..... |
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« Reply #34 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 14:53:31 » |
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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!
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« Reply #35 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 16:47:32 » |
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Redgewell is an occasional guitar teacher... 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 |
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« Reply #36 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 17:20:27 » |
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But as ralphy said 15 grand for a guitar
argos sell them for 60 quid bit of a saving there..
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« Reply #37 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 17:31:18 » |
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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 |
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« Reply #38 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 19:37:54 » |
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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!!!
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« Reply #39 on: Friday, May 18, 2007, 19:51:31 » |
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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?? |
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« Reply #40 on: Saturday, May 19, 2007, 09:40:57 » |
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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.
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« Reply #41 on: Saturday, May 19, 2007, 20:22:09 » |
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But as ralphy said 15 grand for a guitar
argos sell them for 60 quid bit of a saving there.. 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 |
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« Reply #42 on: Saturday, May 19, 2007, 21:07:57 » |
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« Reply #43 on: Saturday, May 19, 2007, 23:04:54 » |
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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.
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« Reply #44 on: Saturday, May 19, 2007, 23:06:48 » |
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Is that you're wank rag under the bed Sam?
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