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[cadaveca]

Does rockstar offer a "Les Paul" edition yet, or did MJ tie down the market with his postmortem game? Maybe Paper Jams can pick this up!

Check out "RockSmith" from Ubisoft. Les Paul controllers were stuck to Guitar Hero, not RockBand.

 

[Frizz]

Welllllll, most of you guitar players are show-offs (hell, many start in order to be able to show off) as evidenced by your comment and Dave's pics.

Of course they are show offs how else can they perform or play their music in-front of people? . Anyone able to play a decent song on guitar deserves a kudos as it is not an easy instrument to play lol.


I like this combination it looks very stylish.

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[Robert-The-Rambler]

Not to derail this thread

But check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE7waNi5dc0&feature=feedlik

The first time I saw it I was blown away.

I spotted the guitar thing earlier and realized I suck even compared to a Kindergartener.

 

[cadaveca]

I like this combination it looks very stylish.

That's just the daily...the colour combo is this one(don't mind the look on my son's face...I had just told him to leave it alone!):

Playing guitar isn't really THAT hard. Again, I feel it's about perspective. You just need the right map for you to navigate the fretboard. I don't think I'm that good of a player, to be honest, although I have had a couple of the members here comment that they thought I was...been a long time since I stood on a stage.

I mean, I own Les Pauls, in a big way, because Les Paul was the pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar. Even in the weeks up till the day he died, he was warming his hands up so he could play. I ain't got nothing on that dude.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah Dave that really wasn't directed at you as much but it wouldn't have been fair to just call out FE.

Besides, I'm just a little jealous.

Though at least none of you tried to claim you originally started guitar purely out of a love and passion for music. You know, as opposed to scoring cooler friends and hotter girls.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

it wouldn't have been fair to just call out FE.

haters gonna hate. no further comment

 

[AlienIsGOD]

makes me want to go get my old Gibson SG lefty edition out again.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Haha whatever dude. I don't hate guitar or guitar players. Just get a smirk out of people who think they're extra awesomesauce cause they play. If that's not you, great. But...

 

[theJesus]

Though at least none of you tried to claim you originally started guitar purely out of a love and passion for music. You know, as opposed to scoring cooler friends and hotter girls.

I actually did get a guitar just for the sake of playing music on it, but I gave up on it. I prefer keys.

 

[cheesy999]

I actually did get a guitar just for the sake of playing music on it, but I gave up on it. I prefer keys.

you bought a keytar?

 

[Mr McC]

I dunno. This is more entertaining

Philistine.

makes me want to go get my old Gibson SG lefty edition out again.

SG, you say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlW9s_QGyJc

 

[Robert-The-Rambler]

Keytar you say?

you bought a keytar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxkiYJ5udqc&feature=related

That's Holly Knight on Keytar. What a babe and a songwriter!!! She wrote Rag Doll, Love is a Battlefield etc...

 

[scaminatrix]

Playing guitar isn't really THAT hard. Again, I feel it's about perspective. You just need the right map for you to navigate the fretboard.

I think it's one of those things that you either can or you can't. I've tried playing the guiter soooo many times, like juggling I just can't get it. I think I lack that part of the brain that lets me use both hands like that But I can still type like a baws so I'm happy I've always believed "anyone can learn anything" but I'm not so sure anymore...

 

[Mr McC]

I think it's one of those things that you either can or you can't. I've tried playing the guiter soooo many times, like juggling I just can't get it. I think I lack that part of the brain that lets me use both hands like that But I can still type like a baws so I'm happy I've always believed "anyone can learn anything" but I'm not so sure anymore...

I disagree with Dave on that point: the guitar is perhaps the hardest instrument to master.

 

[cadaveca]

Meh. You know, I used to have the same problem. I wanted to play guitar...stand on the stage, get the girls...but ym fingers wouldn't listen.


But that was 20 years ago.


Today, I can listen to a song on the radio, and then play it. Most guitarist can, because there literally is a very distinct "roadmap" of what notes are good to play, and which notes aren't...once you get the legend for the map. And the legend is different for every song...which is why many bands always sound very similar through all thier songs...they are using the same legend to navigate the fretboard.


I try to point people towards this book, "Fretboard Logic", as it gives a simple, easy to understand method. IF you are really interested in palying guitar, it's a worthy investment.


I also think that once this RockSmith game comes out, it will offer a way for many more people to get into playing...it's always best, IMHO, to learn playing the songs you like.

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makes me want to go get my old Gibson SG lefty edition out again.

DO IT!


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[theJesus]

you bought a keytar?

No . . .

I play keyboard/synth/whatever, but I decided to try guitar too.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah it seems to make sense that people who find they are naturally pretty good at the technique required to play a guitar well probably have their brains wired a certain way.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Haha whatever dude. I don't hate guitar or guitar players. Just get a smirk out of people who think they're extra awesomesauce cause they play. If that's not you, great. But...

I wouldnt say im the greatest player in the world. but over the years I have played live with quite a few local bands in my area and in front of over 1000 people in a local sports center as part of a school project. then i ended up playing guitar for my local youth group and soon ended up doing sunday services too for many years before finally leaving it due to difference in musical opinion. (I cared about my playing more then i cared about god lol)

I dont have fast fingers. I cant shred scales like malmsteen, vai, satriani or have the technical excellence of Paul Gilbert or jeff loomis or John Petrucci.

but one thing i do have is great tone, feeling and soul to my playing.

So to me, the whole idea of 'being the best' takes on an entirely different meaning when it comes to guitar.

as always I take my hat off to the big names (except satriani -- i really hate his playing)

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and yes -- i started playing guitar due to my love of music, but i was a piano player and drummer before that.

 

[cadaveca]

probably have their brains wired a certain way

I can't comment on that, at all. NO idea.


But i can say, trying to get my kids into it...Can't get my youngest son to leave the drums and guitars alone, in fact, he just this second asked me to put some music on so he can play. I've spent alot of time getting him interested, though.


My oldest...couldn't be bothered to even try.

The fact that Les Paul had a large hand in making the guitar as accessible as it is, really is a huge thing. The google "tribute", to me, was awesome.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I can't comment on that, at all. NO idea.


But i can say, trying to get my kids into it...Can't get my youngest son to leave the drums and guitars alone, in fact, he just this second asked me to put some music on so he can play. I've spent alot of time getting him interested, though.


My oldest...couldn't be bothered to even try.

I was once dating a chick whose dad was a guitarist. Brother was a drummer and mother was a singer, and she was a bass player.

I often went around theirs to jam as the second guitarist. as me and her dad got on a lot. but yeah. its nice if you could get your kids interested to the sort of level where you literally have an in house band.

makes good for family bonding too.

 

[Mr McC]

I started studying Spanish 20 years ago, just on the off chance that I would one day be seated in front of a flamenco maestro and have the opportunity to say "hear mate, what's that chord?". I've spent the last 20 years in Spain. Funny things, guitars

 

[cadaveca]

makes good for family bonding too

That it does. We play ALOT of Rockband and such together...there's jsut something about making something outta nothing, with other people, that is so damn rewarding. You don't need to stand up on a stage...but what gives music it's power is sharing it with others.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Hah, that's cool. I was actually gonna say that most of the people who got into it for reasons other than the usual probably had their parents start them at a young age or were otherwise immersed in guitar and music in general.

FE is an exception, that's cool too. It should be about a passion for music, first and foremost.

 

[Mr McC]

Hah, that's cool. I was actually gonna say that most of the people who got into it for reasons other than the usual probably had their parents start them at a young age or were otherwise immersed in guitar and music in general.

FE is an exception, that's cool too. It should be about a passion for music, first and foremost.

If that's at me, no you're right, I switched from violin at about 12.

Incidentally, Wrigley, where's the dog?

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Hah long gone. I should have sent you that jpg!