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Who plays the guitar here, and how good are you ?

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Many years ago i was beginning to get good at chord changes and getting them ringing out true and clear on an acoustic guitar. My right hand let me down, i dont have the necessary rythym or wrist flexibilty for anything but the most basic rythyms.

I could play Pink Floyd The Wall - Is There Anybody Out There pretty well. It sounds quite impressive but is really very very simple. I picked it up by chance and by ear which i was incredibly proud of myself for doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-JoqFVC5E (guitar piece comes in @ 1:17)

I went on to have a gardening accident and chopped the tip off my left hand forefinger which kind of ended my guitar player dreams. Its too painfull and sensitive to press down on the strings now. I would never have been much more than a hamfisted blunderer but it was good to try and start to get somewhere.

I might have been able to get quite good at the finger picking style, but guitar solos like the one from The Eagles Hotel California are incredibly skilfull and hard to play. I could do the slow bit of the solo, all the other parts were way overy my skill level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrhpmTPAUTM
 
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I play. Been playing on and off for around 15 years, though I'm still not as good as I aspire to be. The difficult part is fitting in regular practice sessions around a full time job and everything else that comes with regular family life. I play a bit of everything but my true love is screaming widdly-diddly metal solos.
 
Me. Badly. Partly on purpose, partly through lack of practice.

I like good soulful, expressive guitar players. I hate technically-gifted but soulless heavy metal widdlers.

Basically, if you think Joe Satriani is a better guitarist than Neil Yong, then we're not on the same wavelength.
 
i dont like heavy metal widdlers in general. However Metallica got it right on their Black Album, and tracks like "one" IMO. And ZZtops' Eliminator, some heavy metal widdling is good.

Metallica - One (Full Lyrics) awesome guitar widdling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNJ00iAZ7I

havent listened to this for years. Loving it.

Nothing else matters - pretty epic guitar widdling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzsDHtzx6tI

not heard this in years either. The lyrics mean so much more to me now than they did 20 years ago.
 
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There's got to be a balance in my opinion. Virtuosity and feeling need not be mutually exclusive. This is a given when discussing pretty much any other musical instrument/style, yet with guitarists it seems you have to choose one extreme or the other.

So yes, Satriani over Young every time, but it's still not the kind of stuff I regularly listen to. My all time favorite has to be John Petrucci, now there's a guitarist!

Can we still be friends Sam? ;)
 
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Tried for a long time, I have always been a huge fan of that Mississippi Delta sound like Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, Sonhouse, Robert Johnson, Robert Pete Williams etc......

I managed to get rhythm locked down & little bits of basic lead but my heart aint in playing that style, to be able to play decent slide is one of the most hard things to master.
My guitar heros are blind willie Johnson & Tony Furtado, the skill & time needed to be able to play to his level is far beyond me (and alot of other people too)

Tony Furtado - "The Ghost of Blind Willie Johnson"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uX74jx-Tsw
 
The secret to stuff like that is using an "open" tuning. This lets you form chords with a single finger bar and then add embellishments with the slide. Still mightily impressive though!
 
Keep going MDB, if someone with savage dyspraxia & also left handed on a right handed guitar, NOT playing it the Hendrix way I am sure you can do it :)
 
Been playing since I was a whippersnapper. My peak was probably mastering "Come on part II" by Jimi and Come on in my kitchen by the aforementioned Robert Johnson.
 
Think this is about the third or fourth time we've had this thread but heyho. Once more with feeling :D

I used to play and presumably still could (only even shitter than before). Had classical guitar lessons for about a year in my mid-teens and used to have a coupla acoustics and a leccy gee-tar to strum upon 'til I sold 'em for scag in me mid-twenties. Only ever really played rhythm guitar - never did get the hang of solos. Can muster a bit o' finger-pickin' but kinda lost the knack a bit when I got a leccy guitar and used plectrums instead of fingers. P, I, M, A, P, I, M, A, P, M, A, P, I, A, P, M, I, A - name that tune in one ;)

Sammy G said:
I hate technically-gifted but soulless heavy metal widdlers.
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QFMFT.
 
As much as I dislike the heavy metal widdlers when you hear a good one like Doug Aldrich for example (or John Sykes back in the Thin Lizzy days) you do think "i wish I could fucking do that".

Don't tell me you, yes you, wouldn't want to pick up a guitar and do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-eswgTZBgs
 
^ while it's obviously technically impressive, it's clinical and just does not move me in any way...

i used to play in college. dabble a little now. i've never been very good. favourite thing to play is stones cover using keith richards' classic 5-string open g.

had to sell my beloved american tele a few years ago and now i have an epiphone les paul. it's a great guitar for the price:

lp201.jpg


alasdair
 
One night I got really drunk. A few days later a ukulele turned up in the post (apparently I'd bought it from ebay). I made a token effort to learn to play it. I didn't get anywhere very fast so I gave it to a guy a at work. Does this count?
 
alasdairm said:
^ while it's obviously technically impressive, it's clinical and just does not move me in any way...
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But any playing is technical to some degree - otherwise you'd just have somebody hit the strings with a pair of gloves on. I think technical playing got a bad name in the 80s - things have changed now. There's players who are technically brilliant and tasteful.
 
Ismene said:
But any playing is technical to some degree - otherwise you'd just have somebody hit the strings with a pair of gloves on. I think technical playing got a bad name in the 80s - things have changed now. There's players who are technically brilliant and tasteful.
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At last!
 
Ismene said:
But any playing is technical to some degree
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Of course. The problem with fretwanking is that that is all it is though - technique sans soul. Is simply showing off how quickly you can move your fingers. There is no musicality in it. It says nothing. It is pointless for anything other than impressing the easily impressed :p;)<3
 
I went on to have a gardening accident and chopped the tip off my left hand forefinger which kind of ended my guitar player dreams. Its too painfull and sensitive to press down on the strings now. I would never have been much more than a hamfisted blunderer but it was good to try and start to get somewhere.
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why dont you learn slide guitar instead. slide guitar sounds amazingly cool and you just need one finger for that and you can do fingerstyle picking with your right hand if you want.
 
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