At 10/17/09 07:18 PM, PolishMatt wrote:
You can't do anything with them except pick up half-brained chicks who find chords impressive and emotional.

I know this is a joke, but seriously, watch your mouth.

At 10/14/09 11:34 PM, Spaghetti14 wrote: I don't sing either (I can hit notes but my voice isn't that great), and I still make the cash!

What sort of things do you play?

At 10/7/09 07:41 PM, Scrotaculous wrote: Why would you not bother with the distortion? You are gonna spend money on an amp and not care about all the features?

I don't intend on buying that particular amp, I was just commenting on what I used it for. It made me realise I need a bigger amp tho. I wouldn't get a Marshall anyways.

At 10/5/09 04:13 PM, PolishMatt wrote:

Sarcasm. I'm human.

You're Polish :P

So. The other day I tried a Marshall Valvestate at a rehearsal room. It had a pretty decent clean sound, and an okay chorus. Didn't bother with the distortion cause I get what I need from my pedal.
I think I need a bigger amp... also money.

At 9/17/09 04:32 PM, Sialys wrote: So I've decided that I'm going to build myself a guitar completely from scratch over the next couple years or so. I'd like it to be ready for my first decade of playing guitar. (:

I sincerely wish you good luck. As sincere as a post on an internet forum can be, at least :P

Perhaps you could start with something a bit simpler, though. Your project is very ambitious.

At 9/14/09 08:20 PM, PolishMatt wrote:
Thank you. Finally, someone who uses the brain that the all mighty Universe had granted them.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying power chords are good per se, but they can be used well.

At 9/14/09 05:42 AM, PolishMatt wrote:
I would say it's somewhere between being a rapist and a guido.

Guitar playing isn't about technique, its about music.

Besides, if you play power chords for years you'll probably get bored and start learning other things, even if you don't know what they're called. And if you don't get bored then you'll be the best power-chorder ever, which isn't necesarilly a bad thing :P.

The best advice any guitarist can give to another is shut up 'n play yer guitar.

Discuss.

Really, it's up to you to decide what guitar to get, all we can do is tell you which are the ones we think are better.

As I said, it's the dude who plays the solo at about 3:00. Notice how when he plays the higher notes, he plays them in his top strings (top as in nearer to his head)

At 9/6/09 02:41 AM, PolishMatt wrote:

Chords are fun for the first year but you will eventually get the point where you will be single picking notes and that shouldn't be holding you back no matter how you like the strings positioned from top to bottom.

what

Chords are not something you stop doing after your first year, they are in fact much more complex than picking single notes.

Also if I understand correctly, the way he's playing is the same as one of Roger Water's accompanying guitarists. (observe the solo at about three minutes in) It doesn't seem to be holding him back.

Rush has some fun basslines/solos, but usually their music is pretty awful. Try some Serú Girán songs, Pedro Aznar is a beast. check out this solo.

Recently I've been trying to expand my facility improvising in the lydian mode, since I mostly stick to dorian/minor/mixolydian shapes. The mere fact of having scale degrees in different places will make for some interesting melodies.

I need to get into the modes of the melodic minor scale, I haven't been playing a lot lately.

holy shit Les Paul died on Thursday. And I just found out.

A sad day indeed, Les Paul was a genius, without him, popular music wouldn't be what it is, and not only for the guitar he may or not have invented that carries his name.

Apparently Line 6 Toneports are pretty good.

The best thing I can say for Yngwie is that... well.. um, nope, nothing.
He was sort of a guilty pleasure for me for a while, though, but even then I realized he was pretty awful.

I have an Epi SG, and it serves me well. I like how it sounds, and how it plays. I think I have snapped one or two string since I bought it, almost three years ago, and never since I switched to 0.10 strings. I think Ibanez is a pretty good brand, their guitar have very fast necks and a good distorted tone, I wouldn't mind having an RG, but I hate the clean tone of every Ibanez I've played. As for Les Pauls, the fact that Robert Fripp, Jan Akkerman, Jimmy Page and Steve Hackett among maaany others have gotten such incredible souds of them I think means they can't be that terrible.

Now, can we just drop the subject, like, forever?

Hahaha, how did you know? We're playing Starless by King Crimson.

Also holy shit 400 pages.

At 8/5/09 03:16 PM, Nev wrote:
Cubase or Nuendo.
The latter is very expensive however, the former isn't so expensive buts its also details censored.

If you get my drift ;).

It is related to... morally questionable practices related to men with eyepatches.
If you get my drift

So, little gig coming up on Friday. We're only playing two songs, but it should be pretty fun.

The other day I finished learning Fracture. It's definitely the hardest tune I've ever played. it's over three straight minutes of semiquavers at about 135 BPM with a lot of string skipping, all with alternate picking, shifting between 4/4 and 10/8.

At 7/19/09 03:55 AM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: Played a great gig tonight, lots of people complemented my playing and such.

Congratulations, what songs did you play?

I also played something of a gig the other day, only I played piano, so...

I'm learning Fracture by King Crimson, and it's motherfuckignly tough to play it clean.

At 7/17/09 04:55 PM, ninja2142 wrote: Hey, I got a problem... I had a thread idea, I was writing this song okay, then I decided on a break on the work, and to make a thread, where I post my tabs for parts of the song at a time, and hear how other NG users(guitarists) play it back w/o my giving them any info on how I play it, but my problem is, as you may have noticed, every time you try to put a tab anywhere on NG, it comes out all fucked up, like your whole family did, OH DISS, no really, little help?

Take it somewhere else, your thread would probably get locked. If you must, though, you can upload a screen capture of the tab, if it's not too long or post it in another site and link to it.

At 7/14/09 12:50 PM, PsychoticPsycho wrote:
3) 1 year and 4 months (but REALLY good).

We need evidence, only l33t players allowed.

At 7/8/09 01:43 PM, zer0gravity1 wrote: Should i start learning more theory? I'm "really good" my friends say for only playing for about 8 months, and i really want to be able to write my own songs, not just mimic someone.

You don't need to know theory to write songs, it just helps. A lot. Basically the amount of talent you have is inversely proportional to the theory you need to know to write something awesome, if I may oversimplify.

20 bucks? you thief! :P

I suggest you teach him songs with chords rather than riffs, or maybe a mix of both (Back in black, for example) so he can learn how to switch chords quickly

At 6/30/09 04:08 AM, NetWar wrote: One thing I forget to add (sorry for double post):

There are no set rules. There are a lot of people out there saying there's a "right way" of playing the guitar, but that's utter bullshit. Example: "How to hold a pick properly". Tons of people claiming there is a correct way to hold one while actually you should just do what's most comfortable to you. This applies to everything in guitarland, play the way that suits you.

There's also the fact that playing with a bad technique can harm you in the long run, so your advice is not always the best. It would truly suck not being able to play after, say 30 years because you held the pick wrong all along :P

At 6/19/09 05:31 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote:
Right, I need to know about jazz voicings which my director told me does not include the root note, and he says I have to play them pretty high up on the neck.

First, you need to learn what frets are what notes all over the fretboard, then learn a bunch of chords with their different tensions (11ths, 13ths, 9ths, etc), then learn the way they're played on the guitar, and their inversions. Taking the root note out will be pretty easy after that.

Good luck!

I didn't really choose the instruments, I'm writing it for my music theory class at the conservatory, and those are the instruments they play.

At 6/15/09 05:35 PM, Lost-Thought wrote:
explain the process of writing things like this, do you have access to all those instruments somewhere, or do you just know what would sound good for those intruments?

I have guitars and a piano. I don't really have a process yet, since it's the first time I attempt something like this. So far I'm thinking of separating the strings and winds in groups and write those parts in a grand staff (treble and bass clef) so I can see what's going on more clearly, but yeah, I'm completely in the dark :P

At 6/12/09 07:06 PM, PolishMatt wrote:
Sorry to hear that. I will be more thoughtful next time.

Oh, don't worry, is coo.

Right now I'm writing a piece for electric and classical guitar, 2 violins, viola, double bass, clarinet, flute, sax, trumpet, timpani, snare, marimba and xylophone, wish me luck :P