Learning to play guitar

[Jubber]

Go for it - you'll be doing this in your bedroom soon

NB Bar Chords

[xoggoth]

Time for a Hendrix vs Clapton fight!

[AlfredJPruffock]

I. I'm still pretty slow at changing between chords, although significantly faster than when I started - I still struggle with F and B though

Tony my tip is not to play these chords (ie the F and B)as Barre Chords as suggested earlier but play the B as a B7 (this position is easy to change from its relative majors E and A ) and the F as a Fmaj7 - but dont sound the open E.

Speaking of F'n'Bs - do be careful - least you meet -



THE BIG EFFIN BEE

He kept bees in the auld toon of Effin,
An Effin beekeeper was he;
And one day this Effin beekeeper,
Was stung by a big Effin bee.

Now this big Effin beekeeper's wee Effin wife
For the big Effin polis she ran;
For there's naethin can sort out a big Effin bee
Like a big Effin polisman can.

Noo the big Effin polisman he done his nut,
And he ran doon the main Effin street;
In his hand was a big Effin baton,
He had big Effin boots on his feet.

The polis got hud o' this big Effin bee,
And he twisted the Effin bee's wings;
But the big Effin bee got his ain back,
For the big Effin bee had twae stings.

Now they're baith in the Effin museum,
Where the Effin folk often come see
The remains o' the big Effin polis,
Stung tae death by the big
BIG EFFIN BEE

[AlfredJPruffock]

Time for a Hendrix vs Clapton fight!

They did jam together and from the BBC archives you can listen to their racous version of the Beatles Daytripper - there was also a certain Mr Pete Townsend -the loudest E major in the bizz -who had gathered with Clapton to check this threat to their supremacy.

[aussielong]

Anyone done that here? More specifically I mean anyone learnt it at an age where you think you're too old to learn new things, i.e. low-to-mid 30s?

i'm doing exactly that right now. i'm mid 30s and learning guitar from scratch. i've been having lessons for a year.

after a days coding, dont bother trying to learn riffs. its too frustrating - strumming is good though. i take a CD in with songs i want to learn and he teaches me the songs - as a by product i learn chords and techniques.

the difficulty you will have is finding the practice time required to progress. when your 15 you would probably have put in hours and hours. now you probably won't pick it up between lessons.

learning on an electric is easier, i've found.

[Jubber]

learning on an electric is easier, i've found.

If you want to be a Rock God, get a good effects box (GT6 or something) plus headphones (I assume you are of an age when blasting out the neighbours is a no no) and whatever you play will sound thrilling.

Acoustic is more difficult as you have to be more precise and takes more practice (in my experience). As has already been mentioned, get some basic chords under your belt C Am F G D E Em A and you're off.

[threaded]

Anyone done that here? More specifically I mean anyone learnt it at an age where you think you're too old to learn new things, i.e. low-to-mid 30s?

I learnt to play classically when I was young.

Scales is the thing. It can be boring, but you just need to practise those scales. Everything is scales and progression.

Example last night Black Night by Deep Purple came up on VH1 so I picked up an acoustic and played along, a bar out of time and in the wrong key. Which was fun. Quite fitting really as it's obviously an inebriated composition.

[oracleslave]

I learnt to play classically when I was young.

Scales is the thing. It can be boring, but you just need to practise those scales. Everything is scales and progression.

Example last night Black Night by Deep Purple came up on VH1 so I picked up an acoustic and played along, a bar out of time and in the wrong key. Which was fun. Quite fitting really as it's obviously an inebriated composition.

Vintage hyperbole from threaded. Frank Abagnale Jr?

[threaded]

Vintage hyperbole from threaded. Frank Abagnale Jr?

Oddly enough, I went on a course once where he was one of the tutors.

Which was nice.

[oracleslave]

Oddly enough, I went on a course once where he was one of the tutors.

Which was nice.

Seriously? What was the course?