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smartpatrol 
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 Topic: Brag about your guitar skills!
Posted: April 23 2012 at 00:09 |
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I have had 6 weeks of guitar skills and have witten 3 songs that are actualy good!
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spknoevl
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 07:41 |
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I've been playing 40 years.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:05 |
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I have my moments. A couple of days ago, I'd been listening to Secret Oyster all day long, and that night at band practice I played the best guitar solos I think I've ever done. I don't consider myself a good soloist - more of a singing rhythm guitarist -- but at times I'm called upon to play a solo, and I do the best I can.
Edited by HolyMoly - April 23 2012 at 08:06
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irrelevant
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:16 |
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I'm ok.
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Vompatti
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:34 |
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I can hit the right notes and many wrong ones too.
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Negoba
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:41 |
The great thing about music is that we can celebrate each other and everyone benefits from the talents of others.
I'm about average for a local gigging guitarist. I'm stupid eclectic so I can almost always do some things others can't but the real players always smoke me. I'm not a great improviser but there have been some moments where the light was shining down...
I'll drop my favorite guitar story that has carried me for 25+ years about the late Randy Rhoads. As you may know, his mom ran a music shop and he was one of the main guitar teachers there. When he went out on tour, he would always stop by a local guitar or music store and ask for a lesson. Half of the time, he'd end up giving the lesson. But he was willing to learn from anyone. I have carried that to this day in many aspects of my life.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Evolver
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 09:02 |
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I can almost play as good as The Shaggs.
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 11:25 |
 Evolver wrote:
I can almost play as good as The Shaggs. |
ME TOO!
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 12:19 |
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I mostly am too lazy to play anything but lazy free-jazz anymore
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 12:21 |
Evolver wrote:
I can almost play as good as The Shaggs. |
I can shagg better than I play. (I hope)
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Negoba
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:15 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Evolver wrote:
I can almost play as good as The Shaggs. |
I can shagg better than I play. (I hope) |
I wish I spent as many hours shagging as I do playing guitar.
Or maybe not, I'd be friggin exhausted.
And sore.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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frippism
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:56 |
I play bass so good that guitarists tremble. Therefore I have no guitarist in my band anymore :D.
Bass for life.
I'm the greatest by the way.
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There be dragons
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Smurph
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 15:49 |
frippism wrote:
I play bass so good that guitarists tremble. Therefore I have no guitarist in my band anymore :D.
Bass for life.
I'm the greatest by the way. |
Funny. My bandmates and I play well enough that everyone that tries out for bass gets told they aren't good enough.
Edited by Smurph - April 25 2012 at 15:50
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stonebeard
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 16:31 |
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Sometimes I play and sometimes it sounds good.
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Epignosis
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 16:52 |
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I've been at it half my life now. That's fourteen years.
I was admittedly a much better guitarist four years ago because I practiced and actively learned challenging pieces. After I lost my job, I forgot how to play many things because I was too busy trying to get money any way I could and keep a roof over our heads.
But I have, as of this past Saturday, started practicing again. And I mean truly practicing: Any time I would pick up a guitar in recent years with every intention to practice, I would wind up writing music.
You can hear my playing by clicking the link in my signature. I'm particularly proud of "Bold Eternal Day." That fast riff during the middle section is one I wrote a long time ago when I was- you guessed it- attempting to practice.
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Passionist
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:00 |
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I used to be a pretty ok jazz-guitarist with some finger-skills too. I remember composing a lot of songs with cheesy lyrics, though I've forgotten them all. I've still got some of the basic skill left in me, something that will return in a few weeks time, but I must say, since I got a girlfriend, I haven't been playing or composing at all. For some reason :/
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 18:51 |
Epignosis wrote:
I've been at it half my life now. That's fourteen years.
I was admittedly a much better guitarist four years ago because I practiced and actively learned challenging pieces. After I lost my job, I forgot how to play many things because I was too busy trying to get money any way I could and keep a roof over our heads.
But I have, as of this past Saturday, started practicing again. And I mean truly practicing: Any time I would pick up a guitar in recent years with every intention to practice, I would wind up writing music.
You can hear my playing by clicking the link in my signature. I'm particularly proud of "Bold Eternal Day." That fast riff during the middle section is one I wrote a long time ago when I was- you guessed it- attempting to practice.
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I have the same problem as you do. I sit down to practice and spend half my time randomly improvising and making up new songs, and then realize that an hour has gone by and I've only got through my warm-up exercises.
I love that riff on Bold Eternal Day; I figured it out by ear, but I'm pretty sure I play it in the wrong key (and yes, Rob, my review of your album is coming soon; I get out of school in a few weeks, so then I'll have time to put in a good amount of effort into it)
EDIT: It seems as if I have forgotten to answer the original question. I like to think I'm better than I am, but in reality I'm a good guitar player whose real strength lies in composition.
Edited by Ambient Hurricanes - April 25 2012 at 18:55
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I love dogs, I've always loved dogs
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 19:49 |
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I've been playing for about 4 years now. I'm working on improvising over jazz standards and reviewing my positional playing. I really wish I could get band together, but they're barely any musicians in my school willing to. My friend is a fantastic drummer, but he's more into bands like August Burns Red, Escape The Fate, etc. I'm really not fan of that music, nor would I want to play it, but some of the drummers in those bands are great players.
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 20:43 |
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I'm not technically good at all (can't even play with a pick for my life) but I can solo just like Marc Ribot and I very rarely hit wrong notes.
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: April 25 2012 at 21:04 |
Smurph wrote:
frippism wrote:
I play bass so good that guitarists tremble. Therefore I have no guitarist in my band anymore :D.
Bass for life.
I'm the greatest by the way. |
Funny. My bandmates and I play well enough that everyone that tries out for bass gets told they aren't good enough. |
My drummer and I recently split off from our original band in order to form our own, and we just got a new bass player a couple of weeks ago. The first song we played was "Crosscut Saw," an old blues standard which my drummer and I had been playing for a long time. I took about 2 minutes to show the bass part to the new bassist, promptly jumped into the song - and when it was over, I realized that he, with no practice at all, had played it better than I had.
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I love dogs, I've always loved dogs
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