Brag about your guitar skills!
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Topic: Brag about your guitar skills!
Posted By: smartpatrol
Subject: Brag about your guitar skills!
Date 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! ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
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Posted By: spknoevl
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 07:41
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I've been playing 40 years. ------------- http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date 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.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:16
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I'm ok. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:34
| I can hit the right notes and many wrong ones too. |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 08:41
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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. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 09:02
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I can almost play as good as The Shaggs. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 11:25
ME TOO! ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow"> The greatest record label of all time! |
Evolver wrote:Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 12:19
| I mostly am too lazy to play anything but lazy free-jazz anymore |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 12:21
I can shagg better than I play. (I hope) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:15
I wish I spent as many hours shagging as I do playing guitar.
Or maybe not, I'd be friggin exhausted.
And sore.
------------- 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. |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:56
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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. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 15:49
Funny. My bandmates and I play well enough that everyone that tries out for bass gets told they aren't good enough.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 16:31
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Sometimes I play and sometimes it sounds good. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date 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. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:00
| 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 :/ |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 18:51
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. ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date 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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Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date 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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Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 21:04
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. ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 23:07
 Challenge accepted  ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 10:23
Ok, first step is to up and leave your entire life and everyone you love and move across the world. :-P
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 13:23
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^ I've lived in 4 countries by the time I was 16. Not a problem :) ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:00
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^ Dont even joke about this. I been looking for a bass player for 4 years. I'll call my local United States government offical and they will make Israel give up the holy land and you guys will all have to move to the US... JUST so i can get a bass player. (Because my government is on my side and every politician in America loves prog- its a fact) |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:13
Happy Independence Day btw.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:16
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^ Guess it must've been a new law because I was not aware of any prog fans when I was in the States. And wow, 4 years? That must be tough. Go on without one, to be honest. Do you really feel you music to be less effective without one? You can fill up the void with something else! Like bassoon. Bassoon f**king rules. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:22
lol thanks. To be honest I hate this day. Bunch of annoying music and drunk people and fireworks and trash and other bloody sh*t. Considering Memorial Day (probably the most depressing day of the year) is a day before (with intention), I find it weird that people go this apesh*t. But yes. Thank you, you too (sorta???). Here's for the next 64 years! ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:23
Plus the smell of burning meat. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:26
I'm fine with that  ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:28
Sunny days..barbecues....Gold Star...cheap vodka...I kinda miss it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:35
Love the sun here, after 3 years of godawful NY suburbia winter. It makes everything so much better. Ahhhhhhhhhh god I really hate alcohol, but the cheap vodka really taste like ocean volcano mud. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:41
Bassoon does rule... but as you probably know I have already written parts for bass, and we just play live to tracks or without bass live... it loses a LOT of its effectiveness. I need a bass player more than anything but I'm also going to be adding a keyboard player and a random instrument player so I think bassoon could eventually be worked in there. Haha
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:41
| And wouldn't it be great if they just got rid of taxes on alcohol for certain holidays? Like you could just get wasted for cheap on Independence day or Christmas Eve? |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 26 2012 at 16:55
| Get a tuba player instead. |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 08:52
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This is a vid of me playing in 1987. I still play in the same way, but have progressed over the years into a more melodic jazz/fusion guitar player. I also play folk and classical. At this jam session I drank a pint of "Jack Daniels" because I was very hyper-active..so there are mistakes. This is just a stupied jam in E and nothing else. Other people seem to donate this crap to youtube and I have nothing to do with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQflRSdCHo8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQflRSdCHo8
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 09:37
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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.
------------- 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. |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 09:52
Very cool. A beautiful piece.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 15:43
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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!   -------------
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 16:49
Hey! that's a very good list! Sylvia ...I always loved and the other 3 choices are grand. That's interesting! I'd love to hear it. I wish you would film the event and post it. That would be great..
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 20:39
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^ 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.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 20:52
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." ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 23:23
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POWER CHORDS YEAH
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 11 2012 at 00:55
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 11 2012 at 10:35
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Been playing since 1990 Self taught i have a six string Epiphone Gibson I have a Yakuza 12 string plus a thrash electric with buzz box Samick.... and my daughter is learning to play and I bought her a classic medium acoustic Teach students now and we play at assemblies - lotsa fun learning bass now.... slowly
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: May 11 2012 at 11:15
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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.
After a few binges on jazz theory in the last few years I've realized how completely clueless I was back then, and how only marginally less clueless about jazz I am now.
At the same time, after reading alot of BS about scales and whatnot, that people make harmony and melody way too complicated. There are 12 chromatic notes. They have relationships, but there are many many different ways to name those relationships. In the end, these are just tools. The ear has to be the primary mover. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 11 2012 at 16:38
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I wish that I was a good technical player. Unfortunately I am mostly self trained and the only instruction I have gotten is from family members who are mostly self taught country and blues players or from the internet. When I moved to South Dakota two years ago I forgot to bring picks and only brought my acoustic guitar. As a result I have developed an unique if not technicaly sound fingerpicking/tapping techique. Acouple weeks ago I finally got picks again after going two years without... turns out I can no longer alternate pick worth a damn much less sweep pick... Im debating whether I sould relearn picking or if i sould just continue to callous up and abandon picking forever! ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 11 2012 at 23:19
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I can slay dragons and trolls, lawyers and bureaucrats with a forgery Chinese Jackson neck-through bought for $85 on eBay. Bam!
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Posted By: aSimionescu
Date Posted: May 12 2012 at 04:37
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My playing skills can go up to eleven... ------------- Simionescu-Panait Andrei |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 12 2012 at 04:58
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Bragging? Oh hell, why not. No guitar though. ------------- |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 03:18
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I'm 45 now. I learnt the basic chords on spanish guitar when I was 12 or so.
At 17 I bought a crappy electric Telecaster replica and with some friends we formed a "band" and I started self-teaching. We played Smoke On The Water, some Bowie, ELP's Peter Gunn (I did the keyboard with guitar) and simple stuff like that.
At 19 I bought an electric Aria Pro-II which sounded much better and I started taking jazz-guitar and basic music theory and singing lessons but after 1 year I stopped because i was too lazy to practice enough and couldn't keep up with the pace of the course. Anyway that opened the door for knowing some jazz chords and understanding music a bit better and being able to read some simple scores although I never practiced with scores anymore so i have lost that ability.
After some years lost because of our compulsory military services we retook the friends band. From the guitar I transposed the chords to the keyboard and in this way I taught myself some basic kyb and all together we bought a Roland U-20 keyboard. Apart from my year of lessons none of us studied music but for years we practiced once or twice per week, always just for fun and never playing gigs, and we got better. I was the one picking up the songs by ear and would teach the guitar, bass and keyboard to the other guys, and then we would practice it like monkeys until it sounded decent.
For some years we were 4 + singer so we could have drums + bass + either 2 guitars or 1 guitar and keyboards. After some years the friend who played bass stopped coming so we were left as a trio + singer and had to chose to either play the song without one of the melodic instruments or to concentrate on our Rush repertoire.
I did backing vocals too but I have a terrible voice timbre
 At some point I bought a nice Carvin electric and my family gave me as present a Korean Fender acoustic which has never sounded well. Never buy an instrument for somebody else which he could not test (many years later my girlfriend would make the same mistake buying me a Yamaha keyboard which is crap for playing this kind of music but I never dared to tell her).
We played more or less regularly until I was 33 and at our peak we sounded decent but never at a level beyond amateurs playing just for fun. We played songs like:
Rush - Xanadu
Rush - The Trees
Rush - Closer to the Heart
Rush - Limelight
Rush - La Villa Strangiato (well, sort of attempt....)
Rush - Freewill
Rush - The Spirit of Radio
Yes - Hold On
Yes - Changes
Pink Floyd - Time (I usually played the bass on this one)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (I usually played the bass)
Asia - Without You (I played the keyboard)
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (I played the keyboard)
Marillion - Jigsaw
Camel - The Snow Goose (I played the keyboard)
Bowie - Space Oddity
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot (I played the keyboard)
Queen - Father to Son
Queen - White Queen
Queen - Now I'm Here
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Never wrote own music other than a couple of songs, I never had inspiration, I had musical ear to pick up other's music and then I can play it like a monkey.
At 33 I left Spain to Belgium for work so the friends band stopped. In Belgium I did not find any friends liking this music and in the meantime I met my current Belgian girlfriend and I have stayed here since, so for 12 years now I never played in band again.
For some time I programmed the other instruments of some of the songs in a sequencer and would play them through the keyboard midi sound module so I could play my part alone on top, in this way i kept playing for a while but alone it's not the same fun, and after a while I stopped and in the last 5 or 6 years I have not played at all anymore.
I have now the Fender acoustic, my old Aria CS-350 electric, the Carvin DC135 electric, a Yamaha GW50 effects pedalboard, a Peavey bass and the crappy Yamaha keyboard, everything getting dust in their boxes
I always tell to myself that someday I will start playing again... I wonder how much i will have forgotten, surely too much.
This is my rather sad story.
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 04:28
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  .Still working on sweep-picking. Planning also on nailing down the country banjo picking technique ... well, any country picking technique, as well as ways of improvising.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 05:17
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Played today in cool band for Mothers day service. Another guitarist too played but I played 12 string Yakuza, he was on 6 electric Yamaha, we had a good drummer, and keyboardist also and 3 singers. Sounded ace! -------------
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 06:39
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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. ------------- http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - Metal Music Archives https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: DaleHauskins
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 12:36
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This east Los Angeles lead/rhythm guitarist moved to west Norwood London England at 19 years old and after playing,rehearsing 3 weeks in a band in Bath,England;I met and hung out with Peter Gabriel.Mr.Gabriel was kind enough to recommend me to join a signed record label Vertigo Phonogram Swiss progressive rock band called Flame Dream. http://www.progressiveworld.net/html/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=1555" rel="nofollow - http://www.progressiveworld.net/html/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=1555 Wünsche
allne en schöne Muettertag + en schöne Sonntig!!
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 21:27
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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. |