Post by: KiyoshiAkita on May 12, 2004, 01:33:41 am
I play all sorts of styles of music, but mainly light acoustic rock with a touch of the blues.......I love the 7th chords.....
Just out of curiosity, I'd like to know what kind of music any of you who happen to play guitar play
Post by: GothicFox on May 12, 2004, 06:01:48 am
I've got a Yamaha F-310 acoustic and a Sonic G3 electric.
On my acoustic I tend to play a lot of soft-rock, emo, heaps of old-school rock (The Eagles, Led Zepplin, The Animals), and a bit of blues.
On my electric...a lot of rock, punk, metal and the like. Right now I'm learning songs by Filter, AFI, A Perfect Circle, Muse, The Darkness, Cannibal Corpse and Def Leopard.
Post by: Rushjunkie2112 on May 12, 2004, 10:29:29 am
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on May 12, 2004, 11:19:40 am
Post by: SlyJackal on May 15, 2004, 06:10:46 pm
What style I play, Bluesy Glam rock with a hint of Grunge.
Post by: Tevnon on May 16, 2004, 02:13:19 pm
It's a little travel guitar, but I love the look and sound of it.
I wouldn't up-grade to a different guitar for the life of me unless I just had to.
Anyway, I play a lot of Celtic tunes, some general folk tunes, lots of ballad type stuff, T.V. and video game tunes, ect.
I've also played lots of Christian and Gospel type stuff. Living here in the South you almost have to. I never really cared for the musical style of most gospel or contemporary Christian or whatnot, but being in a predominantly Christian comunity...lets just say MOST opportunities to play around here involve some degree of gospel music of one form or another.
Anyway, I'm somewhat out of practice at the moment. I live with my uncle, and he's a guitar "expert". In other words I can't really practice without getting his criticism. Basically he's into 60's and 70's rock, and he apparently thinks everyone should play in that style. It's really hard to practice when you've got that fealing like someone's peering over your shoulder watching you, just waiting to find something to criticize you over. It's worse than back-seat drivers!
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on May 16, 2004, 02:44:52 pm
Post by: Rushjunkie2112 on May 16, 2004, 11:55:48 pm
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on May 17, 2004, 01:23:38 am
I just dug up my Ukulele today... still in tune, still fun to play... I bought it awhile ago for only $11 on ebay...
Post by: snarfle on June 01, 2004, 07:17:39 am
Can mess around with acoustic but prefers not. LOL.
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on June 06, 2004, 02:11:19 am
Post by: Kodah Mandiaz on June 11, 2004, 09:58:30 am
My band - Mabus - Recently played at our towns Community Center along with a Cristian Punk band, Adicus. We both switched back and forth durring the concert and tickets were $10 each. The room were were in can easily horld 5 to 6 hundread people comfortably but we had a very nice turn out of 832 people. 30% of the profits went to the center, 25% to us, and the rest to the local Candian Legion.
Anyways, there's my musician story for now
Post by: Kattywampus on June 11, 2004, 03:14:02 pm
| Quote (Kodah Mandiaz @ June 11 2004, 9:58 am) |
7th chords are the bomb!
I can't play the guitar, but I like to pretend. My claws are way long, so I can't play Violin anymore.
You guys are lucky to be able to play portable instruments. I play stuff like...piano, drums, and vibraphone. >.<
Hey, and welcome to the board, fellow musical fur, Kodah!
Post by: Kodah Mandiaz on June 11, 2004, 04:37:42 pm
I'm wondering, for the people who play the guitar what do you play in? Most of our songs are in Drop-D.
Oh and thanks for the welcome ^.^;
Post by: GothicFox on June 11, 2004, 07:21:42 pm
Wanna play stuff in Drop C but my tuner's too fiddley...
Post by: Drake Blackpaw on June 12, 2004, 09:32:39 pm
Our music can be describe as hard edged alternative rock. I grew up on hard rock and heavy metal, so that certainly influences my playing. However, I have had training in classical and jazz guitar as well. I took two semesters of classical guitar lessons when I was in college.
I've have three electric guitars. One is a collectors item now, it is a 1985 (first year of production) Paul Reed Smith. I also have a Steinberger (yes a headless) guitar and a Heritage (think Les Paul). I play the Heritage the most at the moment.
Post by: Rikimaru on June 17, 2004, 05:06:27 pm
Post by: SlyJackal on June 17, 2004, 07:52:18 pm
| Quote (Rikimaru @ June 17 2004, 5:06 pm) |
| I play an all black Epiphone SG and it is amazing. I play whatever songs i like and i like to mess around writing my own stuff too. and for the songs i play, a lot are in standard, some in drop-d, some in drop-c, some in Eflat and some in Csharp. then theres placebo songs that are really wierd and i cant remember. i think the songs i play go thru every tuning possible lol. |
"I know, you like this song, but not the singer, i know you like the sin, but the not sinner"
OMg , I love placebo! I iused to know how to play "been smoking too long" but its been awhile.
Post by: Kodah Mandiaz on June 18, 2004, 08:50:56 am
Post by: Ulario on June 19, 2004, 01:05:10 pm
Some of my characters are in a furry rock band. Three of them play the guitar quite well.
Post by: Gidgie Grave on July 02, 2004, 02:00:41 am
Post by: Furanon on July 12, 2004, 01:59:05 am
As for amps and effects, I still have my old Fender Frontman amp. Once I get some more money, I might pick up an acoustic amp, or something like that, but new guitar comes first. I have a Zoom stomp box for effects. Its not bad, but I could do better.
Righto, onto musical taste. I mostly play things that I find interesting, different, or technically challanging. Right now, I'm into Dream Theater, Pantera, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and some other alternative things like Radiohead and Muse. I've also been composing my own music for some time, and I enjoy using different tunings and modal progressions to develop a song. The only thing that I HATE about writing music is the need to notate it on manuscript, otherwise it disappears and I can't remember it.
I also learned piano for 3 years, and can play bass and drums.
BTW, thats an awesome guitar you got there, Gidgie!
Post by: Schizo_Wolf on July 12, 2004, 01:45:18 pm
Post by: Shadowhawk on July 20, 2004, 07:01:08 pm
I have an old no-name acoustic guitar that sounds great, and an Epiphone Les Paul electric that I love... wrote and recorded demos for a couple songs, no biggie. I am self-taught, but I tried to take a class to learn for real and bombed, as I can't seem to shake playing by ear... Tried my hand at mandolin too, was a little better at that.
I hate the "here's a guitar, play something!" nonsense too, but it has also been fun to play with someone else as accompaniment at parties...
I play anything really, if I can figure out the chords and tuning.
I'm working on trying to learn Reason, Finale and Cakewalk Home Studio now to see if I can make my lousy songs sound halfway decent
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on July 23, 2004, 02:13:51 am
| Quote |
| I'm wondering, for the people who play the guitar what do you play in? Most of our songs are in Drop-D. |
I prefer 1/2 step down, but I do play some of my songs in standard and even almost 1/2 step higher....just dropping the E string to a D is not something I am too fond of.....I love using a capo also....
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Post by: on September 26, 2004, 01:21:54 am
Post by: RebelKat on September 26, 2004, 03:06:04 am
| Quote (romper @ Sep. 12 2004, 12:19 pm) |
| Im insanely good at air guitar.... thats about it. |
Romper, you kill me!!
Playing now for 20someodd years.
currently playing:
Epiphone Slasher electric
Epiphone SJ-18 SCE acoustic/electric
Fender P-bass (beat to hell)
Through either my :
early '60's Gibson Explorer ga-15rtv
or
Randall ph-80 head and 2x10 cab.
(currently building 2 4x10 cabs)
Play all types of music.
Post by: AussieRoo on September 27, 2004, 01:04:05 am
I want the ESP Xtone Paramount PS-2V with chrome hardware and see-thru red finish, maybe with a custom logo and inlays, and if I have the money, better-than-stock pickups. I don't know much about guitars, supplies, accessories, etc. I can't read notation, only tablature. I just learned basic fingerpicking by playing "Tesla - Love Song" Eddie Van Halen introduced me to tapping (not him in person, just his music.) I will take lessons soon, hopefully, just to get a grip on the reality of the guitar universe. AKA skills, methods, scales, chords, techniques, aural training.
I love to listen to any music from the 80's and below. Led Zeppelin, Dokken, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Queen, Guns N' Roses, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Steppenwolf, Vixen, Danger Danger, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Police, Men At Work, Pat Benatar, Blondy, blah blah blah, I could go on. The only bands I like nowadays are Crush 40, Subway to Sally, and Super Furry Animals. Rock on.
Post by: on September 28, 2004, 12:50:07 am
I have a Washburn Dimebag 333, it's awesome, got a great deal on it. And I love the Floyd rose bridge, can do some crazy stuff with it.
I play a lot of Beatles, some Floyd, a bit of Jefferson Airplane, and some Hendrix. I spend a lot of time messing around, making my own stuff. Sort of psychadelic type stuff, and general rock. (The good stuff) Eventually I'll get some of it recorded, but I'm focused on a bunch of other stuff right now.
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on September 28, 2004, 02:33:37 am
So you play psychadelic stuff...heavy...I play all kinds of stuff...mostly acoustic tho..like ukulele and mandolin and acoustic guitar...Do you play rythem or lead?....
Post by: on September 28, 2004, 01:24:00 pm
Acoustic is cool, I'm learning some beatles acoustic songs at the moment (Here comes the sun, across the universe..). I think it's cool that you play the mandolin. I've always loved those!
Post by: Drake Blackpaw on September 28, 2004, 01:47:25 pm
| Quote (KiyoshiAkita @ Sep. 28 2004, 2:33 am) |
| Triad, you listen to some good music....I too am trying to record....I'm gonna buy a 4-track cassette recorder, nothing real special, but it's cheap.... So you play psychadelic stuff...heavy...I play all kinds of stuff...mostly acoustic tho..like ukulele and mandolin and acoustic guitar...Do you play rythem or lead?.... |
Before you get a 4 track recorder, you may want to look at the audio recorders for the computer. They provide a lot more versatility than a 4 track recorder in working with the material you record.
Price range of computer solutions start at free for something like Krystal Audio Engine, to semi inexpensive for Tracktion and then in the several hundred dollars and up for the big name audio sequencers.
I just purchased Tracktion myself and I'm finding it very easy to use. A plus with the computer route and an application like Tracktion is that there are many free drum machines and software synthesizers that work with the program so you can have a whole 'virtual band' playing with you.
If your interested in a bit of what can be done doing recording on the computer you can check out the music on my Furtopia site: Drake's Den: Music. The music created by my band was done in a recording studio that used a computer to record everything and the latest solo piece on there, Melancholy Train is all done recording my guitar playing into FL Studio. I haven't posted anything done using Tracktion yet, but the next song in my site will likely be created using Tracktion as the main application.
Good luck with recording with whatever you use. And remember, to most importantly have fun doing it.
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on October 01, 2004, 04:32:54 am
| Quote |
| Before you get a 4 track recorder, you may want to look at the audio recorders for the computer. They provide a lot more versatility than a 4 track recorder in working with the material you record. |
I've tried a couple of computer programs and they seem so much more complicated for me than a simple cassete recorder....besides, my mic and cd burner are broken and I'm not looking to do anything real proffessional...I just can't find anybody else to play my music or instruments, so that leaves it all to me to play everything....a one-man-band, if you will.....but thanx for the tips
good help is always appreciated.....
Post by: Gril on October 09, 2004, 03:41:34 am
My electric is a Godin LGT, which I rarely play. The specs are as follows:
Body - maple
neck - one-piece mahogany
fingerboard - indian rosewood
pickups - 2 single coil, one humbucker (I think I'm interpreting that right--I don't really know what any of this crap means, I'm an acoustic player!
bridge - schaller trem 2000 (I had it locked because I never used it and the guitar kept going out of tune)
machines (what I call "tuners") - Schaller locking
controls - 5-way switch, volume, tone
I also use a Fender tube amp which sounds yummy--really smooth and bluesy. The Godin isn't really designed for the amp I have, it has more of a hard edge to it. A rock guitar. I guess that's why I don't play it. I like rock, but I don't know how to play it, I'm more of a blues/folk style guitar player. I shoulda gone with a Gretsch or a Reverend I guess.
Anyway, I'm *considering* selling my Godin. It's an awesome guitar, and I got a kick-butt deal when I got it for $400 on ebay (it's worth between 7 and 8 hundred).
But my pride and joy is my Taylor. Sweeeeet. If I get a pickup I could plug 'er into the fender tube amp, that would sound so freakin' awesome!!!!
Post by: KiyoshiAkita on October 09, 2004, 12:19:11 pm
Post by: Gril on October 09, 2004, 05:32:04 pm
The difference between mine and a dreadnaught is that the dread is big throughout the whole body. I'm not a big fan of the dreadnaught myself--the look, the feel--so the grand audi is a good compromise between something too big and something so small that there's not enough body or sustain.
Anyway, the grand audi still has a "big butt", but is narrow in the waist, so it sounds different from the dread, plus it's a little easier to hold/play for me.
My dad has a nice top of the line taylor that has a really small body (I think it might be a grand concert, but I'm not positive). When I play his it feels so tiny compared to mine, but I guess I'm just used to the one I play, hehe.
So anyway, they make various sizes/shapes.
One of the cool things I'm learning about acoustics (and guitars in general, really) is how important the wood is to how the guitar sounds. I always thought the shape/size was the most important thing, but I'm learning that most of the sound quality comes from the type of wood used, where it's used, etc. It's really fun.
Post by: Gril on October 09, 2004, 05:36:45 pm
Mine has a little "birthmark" on the top, near the fingerboard. It's a knot in the wood--looks really cool. I like how it makes it my guitar, 'cause it's the only one with that birthmark.
Post by: Minel Arnavoni on December 02, 2004, 11:28:25 pm
(Also Very loud! Even when a chord is played and immediately muted... it still rings across the walls!
. It has been fixed twice because it's soooo old. It's hand made by some wierd company. YAMUSAI also have a crappy Wal-Mart Electric guitar. Nice sound but it weighs hella lot more than my acoustic.
I play Classical, sorta mexican style (gipsy kings), rock, metal, light rock and thats about it.
However I cannot stand country!!!
Post by: Petruccist on December 18, 2004, 02:26:12 pm
i own three guitars and my trusty amp with pedal board. my guitars are a gibson les paul, an ibanez archtop, and a geetar i made my self.
it is a variation les paul made by my own hands and blood. i am new to the forum so please forgive my length...
Post by: Twilight on January 18, 2005, 08:45:16 pm
my friend just got a phase pedal and my other friend got a grunge pedal im jealous 
anyway as for my amp it is a crate. i dont know how old it is though. it seems pretty old though its got good on-board drive too but thats about it
Post by: FlameWulf on February 02, 2005, 04:38:42 am
The Ninja Gaiden theme, Temple of Fiends from Final Fantasy, Terra's Theme from Final Fantasy 3, and i'm in the middle of learning Bloody Tears from the Castlevania games.
I love to play with the overdrive on, but my amp isn't all that great, so it doesn't put out the sound from it too well