starting to play guitar seriously

[arjue]

I use the heaviest string gauge I can. I beat the shit out of them. Last year, I broke my A string and G string (omfglol), but aside from that they tend to stay put.

[Shakey]

I can put cigarettes out on the fingertips of my left hand.

I now have something to work for.

So what strings do everyone use? I've been all over the place, right now I'm using D'Addario Half-Round 13s for jazz and some DR 10s or something on my Strat... which desperately need to be changed, and for acoustic I have medium light Elixers just so I barely ever have to change them.

[Diff-chan]

My guitar came with Elixirs and Im gonna keep using them... I have a spare box.

[arjue]

Jesus, its been so long since I've changed them I can't even remember (I neglect my current bass).

I'm not really fussed by strings that much. New bass strings sound too clangy when you get them to begin with, so I like to dirty them up a bit.

[Josh]

I use D'Addario... because they are by far the most durable strings in the world.

I used to use GHS Guitar Boomers, until I realized how much they suck.

[Razor Ramon]

Elixirs rock.

[Shakey]

How's everybody doing with the guitar?

I've been practicing a ton lately, memorizing tunes, trying to transcribe more, and just booming as far as my progress. In the BCC Jazz Band we're playing a song at 310 bpm. I don't use an amp for that chart so I have to play hard as hell and I've been tearing holes in my picking hand, I'm also getting a whole new set of calluses on my fretting hand.

[Josh]

I've been playing like shit recently. But no one seems to notice.

[Diff-chan]

Im still progressing but right now Im mainly just doing mind-numbing repetition over and over of scales and chord progressions and stuff just to try to get the muscle memory working. Ive also spent time practicing with a metronome and Im really bad with it.

Talk to me in 2 or 3 weeks and hopefully I will have gotten better. Im practicing like 1-2 hours a day, which is slightly less than I wanted but its still 15-18 hours a week, which isn't too shabby.

I picked up the White Stripes song book I bought in December today and I started learning I Just Dont Know What To Do With Myself. A lot of these songs would actually be pretty good for me to learn, because they are moderately easy but have some rough spots that I would do well to learn and they sound good (Ball and Biscuit has a cool solo) and I like singing them.

[Adrian]

I've just started myself, i'm quite burnt out on games and Japan so it seemed like a good idea to take up something i've wanted to do for years. I have an acoustic and it's very nice These are the songs I want to eventually be able to play, these are my targets, motivation and inspiration;

1. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
2. Pink Floyd - Dogs
3. Air - Mike Mills

Two of my housemates play the guitar (one has a drumkit in his room) so i'm in good hands. I'm quite excited about this, I can't stop looking up resources online and just generally getting a feel for my guitar.