Guitar

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[Flagg]

I play guitar and frustratingly my fingers always automatically go to D which is my least favourite note.

Other than that, alternating between E, Am, and Dm in a mariachi kind of way until my fingers almost fall off is quite a common one for me too.

Classic guitar Riffs? Well "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a classic and quite enjoyable riff to play despite being hopelessly outdated already.

Hmm.

 

[Ambrosious]

The classic Riff for me is G-C-D in any combo. Fast, slow, medium, switch em up. My favorite is E min.

Eddie Van Halen is the best guitarist, on the rock side.

Country or bluegrass it has to got to be a tie between Roy Clark and Steve Wariner.(sp)

 

[Miss Demeanor]

I haven't played my guitar in a long while, but the riff I remeber most is Stairway to Heaven.

My favorite guitar player is Clapton

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I'm a fucking guitar fanatic! I play......

On the toilet every morning - in my hands when ever idle - I've got an old '63 Silvertone tuned up to a m9th (Mando-like) and small Peavy amp at work - I've got a bass and Strat along with an older analog 4-track in Virginia - I've got an acoustic, a big Jazz/Swing box, a double cutaway semi-hollow body and a Tele, along with a digital 8-track studio in NYC. Ambro will have my CD soon - all original whacky stuff - entitled, "Sparky's Spew - Straight From the Fart - version 1.0."

I am not schooled - I'm totally self-taught.....but....

I am addicted - and have been since I took it up in the Marine Corp at age 19 nearly 30 years ago now - damn I'm fucking getting old!

But I don't play old fashioned shit - my thoughts on great guitar players are as wide and sophisticated and my cumulative guitar education might suggest.

I have lost count at 3000plus CD's and just bought and am listening to right now - Jeff Beck's latest. Great fuckin' shit too!.

Many of my viewpoints, favorite guitarists and other's view points are here on this thread (posted below), started by Purple Haze (a real, playing, at one-time and still around the house - guitarist)

I'm a couch playin' nut - never played in a band really - never had the time - started too late and was off havin' kids and makin' a living very early in life. So, all my music is hobbied around family priorities.

Still - I play a fuckin' lot and am not bad at all. Many pros think my creative playing is awsome.

Here's Purp's thread.....

http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=15032

FYI - I've worked with and do currently work with musicians - I hire people here - all my techs are musicians. So, we were discussing teaching the other day - and you mentioned Stairway to Heaven. You know that - that particular tune is banded from being played in most music/guitar stores. It's the song nearly everyone learns first - and it drives music store salesmen up the fucking wall.

Here's my approach to guitar teaching.....

1) Most teachers teach for parents - after all it's the parents who pick up the tab for the lessons. This is bad. Add to this the seemingly inescapable image that most parents have of "their child's public recital" ala Shirley Fucking Templethe. It's the fruit of their efforts and money spent - they will ivariably put the poor kid on the spot to perform - for the inlaws at Thanksgiving etc.. This is bad too. All that old thinking shit needs to go - many more kids would play all kinds of instruments if that shit went away. Because of parents and money - most guitar teachers teach songs - like Stairway to Heaven - thus "offering proof" that the child is learning something. This is bunk. What should be taught is "general creative fun with music and guitar." This is not so for the most part. Most music teachers fail. Most are lazy. Most worry more about taking the parents money than the musical health and well-bing of the child doing the learning. They, most teachers - do not teach this and loose students by the droves, as they get older, bolder and tired of learning shit the can't relate to. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

2) I ask a potential student.... What's the most important bodily appendage a person needs in order to play guitar? Almost everybody will say either their left hand or their right hand. Wrong! Some smart, forward thinking folks will say, "the mind." Better, but Wrong! They always get stumped. Then I ask them if they're right handed or left? They tell me - I then say, "the most important part of the human body when playing guitar is - your right or left foot." They look at me bewildered - then I tap my foot in rhythm. They get it - finally. You see - all you need is a sense of rhythm - that's all - and you can fucking beat on a guitar with your fist - and make music. Fact is - once rhythm is established, one can write original songs damn near right away. With hardly any finger dexterity at all. If you can "make up songs," create them - then you're having fun - and this will fuel further learning and of course dexterity.

3) I, for beginners, since their phlangic dexterity is limited - teach "two-fingered guitar." The guitar is an A-fucking-mazing instrument and there are nearly limitless possibilities for two fingered chording and voicing. Index and middle, that's all - the two strongest fingers - you can play/make-up a whole lotta fun shit with'em.

Try it.

Anyway - fun and creativity - that is the key to a life long, non-frustrating relationship with music and the guitar.

Uber Spark has spoken.

Check out PH's thread.

 

[Xander]

Usually goes down to an A or Am. And just fooling around with A/C/cm/D kinda thing.

My greatest influences, adn who I think is some of the best in the world is.

Nuno Bettencourt
Gary Moore
Eric Clapton

Just to mention a few

 

[Guest]

Thanks Sparky

 

[Jade]

Indy... I miss our email correspondence.. .

I play

I own a classical
but my style is acoustically based

I am mostly a songwriter

so when I pick it up I tend to play my own stuff

I don't have a favorite guitarist... that is an impossible question.

I am trying to learn how to pick better since most of my stuff up to this point has been strumming.

There, I think I responded sufficiently?

 

[ranajja]

I don't play, just kinda play around, and mostly self-taught. Haven't picked up a guitar in ages, but my favorite thing to play was always "Calypso" by John Denver--

Favorite guitarists? Hmmmm--Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia (sp?), Dan Fogelberg--

 

[Darowyn]

The riff I automatically play depends on exactly what I hear when I hit the first note. If it's dirty and distorted I'll play Cream's "White Room".Slightly distorted and its Jimi's "Little Wing". If it's clean & jazzy I'll play Dave Brubeck's "Take Five". On an acoustic it could be "Siabeg and Siamor" by O'Carolan. On my Steel I usually play Blues or "Summertime" from Porgy & Bess. Mostly though I play whatever I was writing most recently.
Great guitarists should include Bert Jansch as well as the great heroes like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton.
I'm not much impressed by the techmasters like Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, though I still enjoy Mark Knopfler a lot.
(By the way there was some amazing troll inspired scandal about Jimmy Page on the Songwriters newsgroup not long ago)

 

[Purple Haze]

My Favorite Guitar Songs,

"Little Guitars" Van Halen
"Achilles Last Stand" Led Zeppelin
"Amos Moses" Jerry Reed
"Deep River Blues" Doc Watson
"Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry
"Sultans Of Swing" Dire Straits
"And Your Bird Can Sing" The Beatles
"VooDoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
"Pinball Wizard" The Who
"White Room" Cream
"Hibernation (live)" Ted Nugent
"Love Her All I Can" Kiss

Anything by:

Chet Atkins
B.B. King
Al DiMeola
Steve Vai
Robert Johnson

Didn't everybody do "Smoke On The Water" first?

 

[Thomas Paine]

Nobody mentioned Richard Thompson or Adrian Legg or, from the all-dead band, Duane Allman and Michael Bloomfield.

BTW, Bill Monroe plays mandolin.

 

[Topps]

Hmm, would be difficult to say, but as usual I start in a G, and the C.

It's though to say who's your favorite guitar-player. They all got something that I think is great, but if I should mention some they would probably be,

John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
Steve Vai
Hendrix
Nuno Bettencourt
Kasper Eistrup (Kashmir)
Robert Johnsson
The Edge
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

And there is a lot more. It's not about who your favourits are, but what you like from each player. Mix it, so that you creat your own style. That's what I do.

Licks I like to play.......

Ain't talkin' bout love (Van Halen)
Purple Haze (Hendrix)
Sweet child of mine (GnR)

I learned playin the guitar myself, and I'm not the best, but I have an idea about how a number should be like.

Thats what I think.