What type do you play, slugger?
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What type do you play, slugger?
Do you guys have any techniques that help you memorize the chords easier? I've been trying for a while but I cannot seem to remember the chords when I need them and end up practicing them all over again.
No. Im good at brute force memorization. That's how I memorized ~300 kanji and untold numbers of Japanese vocabulary words in a year and 3 months. Maybe draw pictures of them and look at em in class or something?
The easiest way to learn chords is to learn songs which use them. On guitar, I've learnt a total of about 8 chords (I don't play guitar), and thats from 3 or so really easy songs.
Usually, when I muck around on a guitar (which is hardly ever), I tune the low E string down to a D, so you just have to bar for a power chord, then go fucking nuts!
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Originally Posted by diffusionx
Currently, a run down cheap copy (though still fairly decent) of a Musicman Stingray (check out musicman guitars. they're great). The original stingray design was by the same guy who designed the P-bass. Although my bass is pretty cheap ass (I paid about 500 US for it), it sounds better than alot of basses that cost twice as much. I actually turned down a P-bass for it, which most people think is fucking nuts. 2 years of neglect have put it on its last legs though.
I'm gonna get a bank loan around mid february to get one of my dream basses. A 70's rickenbacker 4003.
http://www.rickenbacker.com/images/4003.jpg
YOU SHOULD FUCKING HEAR THIS BITCH ROAR. I get giddy thinking about it.
aww man...
I wish i could post a picture of my guitar, diff's enuthisiam is making me pick it up now and then. Its one of those sweet $1000 electric fenders he wanted. But its white, so i dunno if it would look as badass as he would like.
.. I might actually be able to try guitar again. I've had no feeling in my hand for three years, which made guitar kind of a bitch to pick up and learn. I had given up pretty quick, not being able to feel the strings and all. Now, since the feeling's back (for now anyway) I'll have to find my guitar. Not that it's anything impressive, but eh, I'm just learning.
Thanks for the info, it's helping me too. :)
My friend told me to buy this book, and I got it in the mail today. It answers a LOT of really basic questions I had about the instrument. Check it out if you're beginning, I got it used for like $10 from Amazon and its in perfect condition. It has a lot of info, beautiful photographs, and will provide me with bathroom reading material for weeks to come!
edit: I also signed up for guitar lessons here, Ill see how they are, if they suck, oh well, it was only $30.
Fender had a limited line of sparkle strats a couple years back, they weren't cheap but they also weren't at custom prices. I think they came equipped with Texas specials (designed to emulate the sound of the legendary '58 strat that SRV popularized in his day)Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
When you finger a chord, use the page (which I get the feeling is where your chords from) to get your fingers in the right place initially, and then look at your hand, create your own system for memorization. In music, nothing you're ever taught is as important as what you teach yourself. You may need the facts, and you may need books or teachers or the internet to get to them, but ultimately how you break it down into your own personal vocabulary is what really makes a guitarist great. As for how I did it first I used the dots to remember, as I got further along (after about a year) I started to learn the thoery behind building chords and such, but that was because I wanted to play jazz. Nothing beats playing them over and over again for memorization.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raz0r
I don't understand all the hate for white guitars. Some of the coolest looking guitars I've ever seen have been white with gold hardware.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destin
not a fan of white guitars. they remind me of the 80's too much.
and shakey is right about developing your own learning methods. For instance, I learned scales kinda backwards. I first taught myself the relationships between different intervals by constant mucking around and experimenting with an array of different instruments, and eventually regressed to "oh i see, this is a minor scale". While it took longer to learn what a certain scale was, I was more comfortable playing in it than anyone else I knew who learned the right way.