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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: That guy on 02 Mar 2006, 19:16
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I recently aquired a guitar in a game of chance and I figured I should learn how to play it. I'm trying to learn some indie music but I'm not sure where to start. If anyone has some good suggestions about albums to learn from, I would be gracious. I know about the required listen section, but that has a lot of albums and I don't have enough money for all of them.
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Just learn the bassline from Nirvana's "Come As You Are" on guitar and you'll be set for life.
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I'm pretty sure Eruption is a good piece to start out on.
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I started out playing Modest Mouse tunes, from The Moon & Antarctica.
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I'm pretty sure Eruption is a good piece to start out on.
To start out on????? Are you nuts?
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Just learn the bassline from Nirvana's "Come As You Are" on guitar and you'll be set for life.
Thats the only thing I ever learnt on guitar. I was damn proud of myself.
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I wasn't proud of myself when I learned that. More like... angry at myself because at some point I was a stupid kid who thought Kurt was the best guitarist ever.
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Oh whatever, Come As You Are is like the Stairway to Heaven for budding guitarists born in the late 70s to mid 80s. There's nothing like hearing a 26 year old dude play it super-loud on a $3000 Les Paul through a Marshall stack while you're (for some reason) browsing the Guitar Center. To me, that's almost as big a cliche as, well, the Les Paul through a Marshall stack.
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First thing I learned to play on the guitar was Enter Sandman. It's not very difficult, so good for learners. (I am not talking about the solo, obviously, because I just don't think I'd ever be able to do pretty much anything relatively tricky on the guitar.)
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The first thing I learned was Modest Mouse' Dark Center of the Universe, and let me tell you, if you play that all day long really fast without having fingers that are used to it, it FUCKS with your hands like mad. Blisters!
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First song I ever learned? Cream's "White Room." Can't get any more badass. Fairly simple chord structure too.
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First song was Cat Steven's Wild World.
But I would recomend Red Hot Chilli Peppers songs to begin with, they are relatively easy and mostly good (if quite similar).
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I'm pretty sure Eruption is a good piece to start out on.
To start out on????? Are you nuts?
That was me being sarcastic.
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I only know three songs on guitar: What goes on by the Velvet Underground, The State I'm in by Belle and Sebastian and Jolene by Dolly Parton. I'd suggest that if you want indie type guitars you learn some Death Cab for Cutie, pretty simple guitars.
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First song I ever learned? Cream's "White Room." Can't get any more badass. Fairly simple chord structure too.
Awesome. That reminds me. Once I get my guitar from home, I'm gonna have to learn to play as much of Crossroads as I can, because that is one of the all-time most awesome songs, ever made, ever. How many songs have every member of the band doing a solo at the same time for more than a minute? Not a lot.
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I'm pretty sure Eruption is a good piece to start out on.
To start out on????? Are you nuts?
Wowzas.
Every guitarist, at sometime when they're starting, hasto learn how to play Smoke on the Water, and then go into a guitar shop, find the shiniest guitar and the biggest amp, and try to play it and fuck up. Of course, this has now been replaced with Seven Nation Army, apparently. FUCK YOU, JACK WHITE.
Yeah, White Room is fucking easy. First song I really learned.
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I'm pretty sure Eruption is a good piece to start out on.
To start out on????? Are you nuts?
Wowzas.
Every guitarist, at sometime when they're starting, hasto learn how to play Smoke on the Water, and then go into a guitar shop, find the shiniest guitar and the biggest amp, and try to play it and fuck up. Of course, this has now been replaced with Seven Nation Army, apparently. FUCK YOU, JACK WHITE.
Yeah, White Room is fucking easy. First song I really learned.
I have the tabs committed to memory. They're so easy because you only need to use one string.
Oh three five. Oh three six five. Oh three five, three oh.
Five, five eight five three one oh. Five, five eight five three one/three one oh.
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First song I ever learned? Cream's "White Room." Can't get any more badass. Fairly simple chord structure too.
Awesome. That reminds me. Once I get my guitar from home, I'm gonna have to learn to play as much of Crossroads as I can, because that is one of the all-time most awesome songs, ever made, ever. How many songs have every member of the band doing a solo at the same time for more than a minute? Not a lot.
Oh man, that song is GODLY. I don't think I have EVER played a more fun guitar solo. Ginger Baker's drum part is surprisingly easy too, but I don't think I'll EVER figure out what that fucker Jack Bruce is doing on that bass. :B But man, if you think THAT'S nuts, you should hear their live version of "Spoonful" off of disc 2 of the Gold set. 17 minutes long or so, and the solo section is just absolutely shattering. There's Clapton doing his epic drone-based solos, and Jack Bruce whips out some crazy bass riffs that SHOULDN'T fit that chord progression, but somehow they just do.[/creamworship]
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I'm pretty sure Eruption is a good piece to start out on.
To start out on????? Are you nuts?
That was me being sarcastic.
The internet is not a good sarcasm transporting contraption.
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Generally it's a good indication if it makes you do a double take out of absurdity. But in many a cases, it's a bitch.
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"Under The Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a GREAT song to learn, I taught myself by ear when I was first starting out on the guit. Hell, I learned everything I know just from playing by ear. It's a WONDERFUL skill to develop, it's badass for jam sessions and crap like that.
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Picking things up by ear is somethin I'd really like to improve; I can do it alright, but I still have a tad bit of trouble.
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My first was "Come as You Are" too!
It sucks though AIII?
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"Come As You Are" is pretty simple, you've just gotta drop the E and A strings down a step. :B
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Or play it on the D and G strings.
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LOLocaust, you said G string.
But yeah there's "Tears in Heaven" by Clapton, it's surprisingly easy. Any and all early Beatles works too.
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I prefer to finger a minor in the g string.
What?
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I can't believe no one said Good Riddance yet. hell, learn C, G, D and Em and you can play every token 1-per-album pop-punk "sad" song ever written.
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...Heh. I've been playing guitar nigh two years now, and I've fucking never learned anything remotely close to a classic rock song (no, not even Smoke on the Water).
I think the first full song I learned to play all the way through was A.F.I - Morningstar. It's pretty slow, and it's good for working on your (muted) downpicking. It also just sounds absolutely lovely.
Learn to play some Tool. A lot of it isn't that hard, if I remember correctly, and Adam's guitarwork sounds consistently awesome.
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I recently aquired a guitar in a game of chance and I figured I should learn how to play it. I'm trying to learn some indie music but I'm not sure where to start. If anyone has some good suggestions about albums to learn from, I would be gracious. I know about the required listen section, but that has a lot of albums and I don't have enough money for all of them.
What the fuck, man? Make your avatar smaller.
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I can't believe no one said Good Riddance yet. hell, learn C, G, D and Em and you can play every token 1-per-album pop-punk "sad" song ever written.
Dude. Even better. You can play "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea." You're set for life.
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Psh, forget all those, "Over the Hills and Far Away" by Zeppelin.
And how the hell can somebody go 2 years without playing any classic rock whatsoever? Shit man. Classic rock is almost nothing BUT guitar.
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The first song I learned was Mayhem - Deathcrush. Then 'Anarchy in the UK', then, as far as I remember, Burzum - War.
Try learning 'Love Will Tear us Apart'. It's exceedingly simple, and it sounds great.
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Any and all System of a Down. Easier than trying to get laid in Columbus, Georgia.
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System of a Down is only good guitar music if you mean easy to learn, which I'm hoping you do.
Please, tell me that's what you meant.
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FUCKING BUSH X!!!!! YEAH!!!! GLYCERIN!!!!!~
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System of a Down is only good guitar music if you mean easy to learn, which I'm hoping you do.
Please, tell me that's what you meant.
"Easier than trying to get laid in Columbus, Georgia" is roughly equate to saying "Easier than taking candy from a baby." ;)
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Durrr, I read that wrong. I thought you were saying playing System of a Down would get you laid, which would not surprise me, unfortunately.
The day Daron Whatshisname is considered a good guitar player is the day I lose all faith in mankind.
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Any and all System of a Down. Easier than trying to get laid in Columbus, Georgia.
Of course, you do have to drop tune to Drop C first.
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I'm not sure exactly what Drop C has to do with getting laid in Columbus, Georgia, but I'm in!
So sludgy.
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Durrr, I read that wrong. I thought you were saying playing System of a Down would get you laid, which would not surprise me, unfortunately.
The day Daron Whatshisname is considered a good guitar player is the day I lose all faith in mankind.
Eh, you've gotta give credit where it's due, he wrote some pretty good shit. You cannot argue with "Aerials."
Edit: Last name is Malakian. Yay for still having that issue of Guitar World!
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Great thread.
I just picked up learning to play bass until the electronics went out on it (don't feel bad for it... it is a Squire and I am not a big fan of Fender basses). This will make me go and get that Ibanez semi-hollow Bass that I got my eye on.
I bought an acoustic for my wife (now ex) about a year ago. She went ahead and took lessons. The first song she had to learn was, of course, Nirvana's "Come As You Are".
For the next song, she had to pick between Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight", some Beatles track and Metallica's "Fade To Black". Never hearing any of those songs before (AT ALL... NOT AT ALL... yes she lives in a cave), she goes and picks "Fade to Black". Her response, "Wonderful is a nice enough song and the Beatles track is kinda catchy but Fade to Black seem to sound the best to me." (Again, so far from a metal fan.) Her teacher said that people get frustrated and quit when they pick this song to learn.
Well, she learned it and plays it extremely well. She went on to learn "Hotel California" and "Wish You Were Here" among others. Along with her first acoustic, she has a great Gibson Les Paul knockoff (so good is the knockoff that the company was shutdown by Gibson the next day after she got the guitar).
She might be my ex but I am extremely proud of her. If she got over her shyness and antisocial behavior, she has the chops and the charisma to be a rock star.
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Squire basses are horrendous, although when you get up in the prices, Fender can have some REALLY nice basses.
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the first actual riff i ever learned on guitar was the one from "The Cat With 2 Heads" by The Aquabats. or at least a simplified version of it.
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Squire basses are horrendous, although when you get up in the prices, Fender can have some REALLY nice basses.
This is actually true, Squier guitars I love, but with a bass you kinda need a good one.
Basses that are copies of Fenders, like Encores, are even worse.
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Basses that are copies of Fenders, like Encores, are even worse.
Anything that attempts to copy a Fender is usually crap. The electronics on my Johnson Stratocaster copy burned out. The solder where the wire connects the pickups to the output jack *burned clean away*. Fuck Strat copies, man.
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This one time at a party, some dude was mackin this hot chick by playing a HORRIBLE rendition of "Wish you were here" (Floyd, not Incubus) and I tried to but in to impress the chick, and I was all "dude you're playing it wrong, let me show you" but the chick was all like "I dont think he cares" so I was all "pshhh" and took off to go smoke some madd weed!
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Do you tell random strangers that story on buses with a deranged look in your eye? Because you should.
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Do you tell random strangers that story on buses with a deranged look in your eye? Because you should.
I like your style. If it helps, be sure to let your fellow passengers know that you sleep with a ka-bar under your pillow and you have a pentagram-shaped scar in the middle of your belly.
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Do you tell random strangers that story on buses with a deranged look in your eye? Because you should.
I like your style. If it helps, be sure to let your fellow passengers know that you sleep with a ka-bar under your pillow and you have a pentagram-shaped scar in the middle of your belly.
Don't we all?
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Point taken.