Reply to: Learning to play guitar

[oracleslave]

Another one bites the dust?

not very pc but

[threaded]

It's a song that a family friend in the US wrote especially but he can't make it over to play it himself.

I got a recording of him singing and playing it on a 12 string and it sounds really good so I've got my work cut out for me!

I've a couple of 12 strings: an acoustic and a solid electric I built myself (neck an all): twin dimarzio X2N pickups, talk about sustain...

[Jog On]

what you going to play jog?

It's a song that a family friend in the US wrote especially but he can't make it over to play it himself.

I got a recording of him singing and playing it on a 12 string and it sounds really good so I've got my work cut out for me!

[oracleslave]

Funnily enough, not the guitar.

And nothing about goats either.

Cheque fraud?

[threaded]

Seriously? What was the course?

Funnily enough, not the guitar.

And nothing about goats either.

[oracleslave]

what you going to play jog?

The guitar

HTH

Edit. Welcome back btw

[DS23]

what you going to play jog?

[Jog On]

I'm playing at Mrs Jog's mother's memorial service next weekend.

last time I played in a church (for a wedding) the strangest thiing happened - the guitar was in tune for the rehearsal with the organist, but when the people all came in the temparature changed and detuned the guitar - was bizarre.

Only discovering what had happaned when I started to play I had to bend the strings to compensate

[oracleslave]

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

Which was nice.

Seriously? What was the course?

[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]

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]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.