Brag about your guitar skills!

Started playing at 15, had a few bands and roadied for others, went to Musician's Institute at 18, made a go of it with original material for another ten years or so.   Playing guitar is a hard road for someone wanting to be a pro, it's incredibly physically demanding to play well, and often painful.   When I started it was a popular instrument but much more now, it seems there's one in every home.

I´ve played for nearly 25 years now, but I still suck at basic theory. Mainly I´ve just always played what I wanted to and still do.

I can come up with a riff I personally would consider as a decent one. Hell, I can come up with quite a number of riffs, but I will not tell you my recipe  . Unfortunately, my technical facility is very limited as of the time of this writing. A riff can pop up in my head but my skills are too limited to execute it ... so I just let my laptop do the job - speed up a recorded loop  ... which is a bit sad  .

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 13 2012 at 04:28

Bragging? Oh hell, why not.
No guitar though.

I can slay dragons and trolls, lawyers and bureaucrats with a forgery Chinese Jackson neck-through bought for $85 on eBay. Bam!

I too played in jazz band for many years, though guitar only my senior year of high school. That was one of the periods I was taking actual formal lessons and I learned alot of chord shapes and was able to fake my way through a bit.

This year will be 20 years (OMG!) that I first picked a guitar.

I played electric bass, I love my synthesizers and various textures, but I almost never played an electric guitar.

I have two guitars folk acoustic, and classical.

I couldn't play solo to save my life. But I'm good at chords and strumming.

I love guitar. I took me years to realise it's my primary instrument.

My goal, guitar-wise, is to grab a guitar and a write a decent song. Like Greg Lake, Ian Anderson or Neil Young did. Nothing less, nothing more.

Fox On The Rocks wrote: ^ That would be great if we did! I'll see if we can get the video crew down to the Triathlon the day of. I'll for sure post it on the forum if we do - I know you guys would enjoy it. I'm also playing guitar in our school's Jazz band at the start of the event. We're doing Birdland, Stompin At the Savoy, Eli's Comin and some other Jazz standards.

I played guitar in our high school's jazz band my senior year.  We also did "Birdland," which remains one of my favorite jazz tunes.  Other notable numbers we performed were "Satin Doll" (also a favorite), "Smooth" by Santana (I got the guitar solo- fun stuff), and one of my absolute jazz favorites, Buddy Rich's "Chanel One Suite."

Fox On The Rocks wrote: I'm playing a couple of tunes with my friends at my school's triathlon on May 22nd. I'm on guitar and the rest of the band will consist of Electric Piano, Tenor Sax, Bass and Drums. We're playing these tunes: - Sylvia by Focus - Freddie Freeloader - Miles Davis - YYZ by Rush - Billie's Bounce by Charlie Parker We are also doing an original that my friend composed. Shall be fun!

Negoba wrote: Just learned a chord melody version of Coltrane's "Naima." My jazz skills are pretty basic but I found a nice arrangement and the song is very slow. It's all about expression. It's also, IMO, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. I'm doing my sister-in-law's wedding next month and need some nice instrumental pieces, so here we are.