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Learning to Play Guitar
Lummer:
--- Quote from: Valrus on 12 Feb 2008, 10:57 ---If you don't have a guitar yet, get something else. Everyone plays the fucking guitar and it's not cool anymore. Get a keyboard or a cello or a bouzouki or for the love of God anything else.
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Yeah, because you're only doing it to be cool..
Patrick:
No lie, I taught myself to play guitar by listening to the album Rage Against The Machine by, well, Rage Against The Machine. I was not doing the incredible effects-riddled solos that our friend Mr. Morello was doing (that motherfucker), but seriously, let's have a rundown of all the reasons it's the best goddamn album you can start out on:
1. For beginning guitarists, it is challenging, but it is not impossible to do a damn good job of spot-on playing every main riff to every song.
2. It's an excellent album altogether.
3. Just fucking listen to the riff during the verses of "Bombtrack".
4. A hell of a lot more fun than playing boring-ass scales all the time just because it's Rage Against The Machine, and the riffage is hellof cool-sounding and a lot more basic in structure, and therefore better for beginners.
5. Rage pretty much just uses pentatonic scales. Tom Morello's own words: "I pretty much just play the same dots on different strings."
6. JUST LOOK AT THE FUCKING COVER, DUDE, IT'S GOT A PICTURE OF A GUY LIGHTING HIMSELF THE FUCK ON FIRE HOLY SHIT THAT IS AWESOME
- P.S. dalconnsuch, I want whatever it is that you're smoking if it's telling you there's $200 Fender Strats available somewhere. That sounds like one incredible hallucinogen and I want it in bulk.
- P.P.S. On second thought, no, fuck that, I don't want to wind up disappointed when I come down off of my trip.
- P.P.P.S. That album along with private lessons from a well-reputed guitar teacher will seriously be all you need to start yourself off.
De_El:
--- Quote from: Valrus on 12 Feb 2008, 10:57 ---If you don't have a guitar yet, get something else. Everyone plays the fucking guitar and it's not cool anymore. Get a keyboard or a cello or a bouzouki or for the love of God anything else.
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Keeeeytaaaaaaar!
For my part, I think it's important as a beginner not to be afraid to fuck around, and occasionally sound totally awful. If it sounds awful, you figure out what you did wrong, just put in more practice so you sound awful less often. I don't know what your living situation is, but when I was first learning to play guitar I lived in kind of a small house and my parents were around all the time, and being embarrassed at the thought of messing about, experimenting with the instrument, or sounding bad seriously retarded my development as a musician. So be shameless.
Also: ultimate-guitar.com has shitloads of tabs, lessons, recommendations and equipment reviews. Yay? I think so.
sean:
--- Quote from: Valrus on 12 Feb 2008, 10:57 --- Get a keyboard or a cello or a bouzouki or for the love of God anything else.
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Do eet. Cellos are sex in the form of musical instruments.
They are hella expensive though. Only reason why I haven't gotten one myself.
Actually on topic: Get lessons for the first few months, at least. That way, you can be shown proper technique and build up finger strength. After that, you can stop and dick around and build your own style and shit like that.
dalconnsuch:
--- Quote from: KimJongSick on 12 Feb 2008, 12:12 ---No lie, I taught myself to play guitar by listening to the album Rage Against The Machine by, well, Rage Against The Machine. I was not doing the incredible effects-riddled solos that our friend Mr. Morello was doing (that motherfucker), but seriously, let's have a rundown of all the reasons it's the best goddamn album you can start out on:
1. For beginning guitarists, it is challenging, but it is not impossible to do a damn good job of spot-on playing every main riff to every song.
2. It's an excellent album altogether.
3. Just fucking listen to the riff during the verses of "Bombtrack".
4. A hell of a lot more fun than playing boring-ass scales all the time just because it's Rage Against The Machine, and the riffage is hellof cool-sounding and a lot more basic in structure, and therefore better for beginners.
5. Rage pretty much just uses pentatonic scales. Tom Morello's own words: "I pretty much just play the same dots on different strings."
6. JUST LOOK AT THE FUCKING COVER, DUDE, IT'S GOT A PICTURE OF A GUY LIGHTING HIMSELF THE FUCK ON FIRE HOLY SHIT THAT IS AWESOME
- P.S. dalconnsuch, I want whatever it is that you're smoking if it's telling you there's $200 Fender Strats available somewhere. That sounds like one incredible hallucinogen and I want it in bulk.
- P.P.S. On second thought, no, fuck that, I don't want to wind up disappointed when I come down off of my trip.
- P.P.P.S. That album along with private lessons from a well-reputed guitar teacher will seriously be all you need to start yourself off.
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you like talking too much
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