Who plays guitar?
 

I was just wondering who here plays guitar (bass or 6 string) and what sort of bands and music you like
For me:

I play bass (have been for near 3 year now) and I think I'm pretty much as good as you can get (until I learn to play real fast like the bass solo for Maxwell Murder by Rancid)

I've been playing guitar for about 6 months now and I think I've caught on quite quick. Already playing ska (which is a tough technique apparently when it's not just upstrokes) and I'm getting the hang of solos and I'm already figuring songs out (currently working on April's theme from the new toon if anyone's interested)

I tend to play punk/ska/rock stuff and the bands I like include: Offspring, MxPx, Jimmy Eat World, Muse, Reel Big Fish, Rocket From The Crypt, Lit, Vandals, Less Than Jake, Suburban Legends, Green Day

Anyone else?

Well, I starting taking guitar class in High School last semester. I finished with a 74 but that's just because I failed the written exam.

I'm not that good yet, as I still haven't gotten fingerpicking down, but I'll just have to practice some more.

Since I've already put down that I'm taking Guitar class again next year, I think I might be pretty decent. We get to learn Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix. :D

Some of the bands I like would be:

AC/DC
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
The Eagles
Green Day
Jimi Hendrix
Kiss
Led Zeppelin
Lit
The Offspring
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Trapt
Treble Charger
Zebrahead

There's still a LOT more.

I wish I could play guitar.

I have all these songs I made up inside my head that's just dying to come out. :)

That's cool. You see I've just taught myself so I'm not classically trained but finger-picking won't be hard considering how long I've played bass. Only thing I gotta get the hang of is metal style pull-on,pull-off solo type stuff but that'll take a long time

I've learnt bits to Purple Haze (intro and verse I think) but because I can't do the solos and stuff I quickly forget it

I tabbed up 'She Comes' by Lit if you want that. I don't think anyone else has it. Oh and there's loads more bands I haven't added too, Hendrix's being one...

Sure, that'd be great. I've only recently tried learning tabs. Well, I actually tried a few months ago, but I haven't been trying lately. The song that I was trying to learn was The Simpsons theme song. :D

i use to when i was in the 7th grade, i desided to stop when i got into the 9th grade.

I tried, but gave up because my hands are too big.

I have bigger than normal hands, ever thought of playing bass? You'd have an advantage there :D

My brother plays guitar. I just like to "flip out" on it like some kind of 80s guitarist. I can also play Zelda on the guitar, but that's it. Being left-handed has its disadvantages.

guitardave is left handed, and as you can guess, he plays guitar pretty well.

I play guitar. I can play a little bass, but only if it's one of those times where my band is recording and our bassist can't show up. I'll just fill in for him and record his parts. As for influences, my top 3 are Deftones, Finch and Mudvayne.

Bands I like:
Deftones
Finch
Spineshank
Mudvayne
Story of the Year
System of a Down
Orgy
Green Day
NOFX
From Autumn to Ashes
Funeral For a Friend
The Cruxshadows
Korn
Black Sabbath
Sepultura
The Used
Sublime
Nirvana
Our Lady Peace
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Fear Factory
Staind
Cold
Linkin Park
Apartment 26
Soulfly
Chimaira
Hatebreed
Beastie Boys
Incubus (only the stuff from before they were on the radio)
Mindless Self indulgence
Rage Against the Machine

I also have my own band, though I'm kind of in the middle of rebuilding it. We have a site if you want to check it out: www.negzero.net

Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) were all left handed.

Mr. Cobain was left handed, and he was one of the most influential guitar players/musicians of the last 10 years ;).


I've been playing for what... 4 years olmost now. Still can't 'shred', but then again, I don't want to :P . I think I'm a decent player... at least in the style I play (eyes the gain switch on the amp).

Well, it looks like there's no simpathy for poor old Ai Takahashi.

I think what Ai means is that his right-handed brother has a guitar but since he's left-handed he can't do much on it

Unless of course he's Hendrix who played a right-handed guitar upside down...but then Hendrix was a legend. I wouldn't put Kurt Cobain down as anything special and he had a left-handed guitar anyway

Simplicity is an art.

i play guitar. ive been playing it for probably 5-6 years. i finger pick and pick with a pick. i play mostly blues finger picking. i can play classical stuff like fur elise. the guitar player i realy owe everything i know to is probably eric clapton. i can play like every single song on the unplugged album by him. i can play slide guitar also. only thing that holds me back is my pinky is messed up. i messed it up when i was backyard wrestling. it wont bend right. so i mostly play with only 3 fingers, but can almost do anything you can wih a pinky. i do alot of bends while i play . i know how to solo pretty decent, especially to blues songs. i do power chord sometimes, but hardly ever. songs i realy like to play are these

signe - eric clapton

tears in heaven - clapton

old love solo - eric clapton

jazz chords and riffs - any blues/jazz player

hey hey - clapton

walking blues - rpbert johnson

rollin and tumblin - muddy waters/clapton

before you accuse me - clapton

cliffs of dover (learning it) - eric johnson

to tell the truth i mostly only solo. playing certain congs ant realy my bag anymore. i like playing around with licks..trying to figure out what sounds good.

I got for a present from dad a blue ESP H-100 last year...but I don't know diddly about how to play and I haven't taken much effort to learn anything foundational. I just like to turn it on and crunch some lame riffs on the bass string and such. It's fun. :D

I do hope in the future to get better at it...I know like maybe two or three simple things from songs. The opening of "Southtown" was pretty simple to get with a tab and I figured out with a tab how to partway do a simple Ministry riff (sounds awful tho). I'm not even sure I'm in tune, ah well. I just do for fun like I said.

Oh yeah, I kinda figured out part of a Fooly Cooly song just by experimenting...that one is fun to play. :D

I played the violin for YEARS and everyong tells me that after playing a stringed orchestra instrument its almost impossible to learn to play the guitar. so I haven't really tried to much. but I really want to learn. its just going to be hard to unlearn everything i learned when I played in the orchestra.

dont unlearn anything..just add what youve learned to what you are about to learn. add it together girl. then you may have something most people dont :wink: :wink:

the problem is I am so used to the way a violin works and plays. and i know the strings are different from that on a guitar.

but who knows.. I would like to teach myself but I'm notsure I can. and I don't know who to get lessons from.

learn to read tab. get a cd you realy like. get a tablature book for that cd and practice till you get it to sound right...thats what i did anyways :wink:

read tab?

I can read music. but i dont know what tab is

Yeah, I'm left-handed. My brother is right-handed. Doing anything right-handed is hard for me, except for opening doors and holding things. I was always the outcast of sports and high school gym, too. :lol:

Tabs are much simpler than reading music (for me)

Plus tab books usually have the notation stuff too

I'm lucky because I can read Music and Tablature. :D

TAB:
e |-------------
B |-------------
G |-------------
D |3------------
A |3------------
E |1------------

to play that you'd play fret 1 on E (top string), fret 3 on A, and fret 3 on D. Welcome to power chords too :lol: .

^ - bend the string so it sounds like the note right after it (ex. 2^3. you'd bend what ever string on the second fret so it sounds like you're playing the 3rd)

\- slide DOWN the neck (leave your finger on the string while you move your hand to the fret right after it. ex. 4\9, play the string on the 4th fret, and slide down to the 9th).
/ - slide UP the neck (same as above, but you slide up the neck, ex 9/4)



check mxtabs.net ... really good site. thousands (if not millions) of tabs. most of them are accurate, but you'd be better off getting an actual tab book.

There's also

http://musiceffect.net
http://tabcrawler.com

Ive got 2 guitars But i cant play to good
I stick to Drums and writing Lyrics as far as music goes

I got two 6 string guitars, (one acoustic, one electric) and a base.
I can play alot of Muse, RHCP, Greenday, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix songs.

:o You rule!

;).

I've wanted to learn some Hendrix... but I'm pretty sure I'd go to hell or something for playing God's music. >_>.

I know :), Plug in Baby has possibly THE best riff ever. And how the hell do you quote text?

A lot of Muse songs have awesome riffs. I'm still loving In Your World or Stockholm Syndrome (I can play them) but my overall favourite has to be Citizen Erased

And to quote me in the last bit remove: [quote="Dinny"]

Yeah theyre all good songs. Hysteria is great as is their version of Feeling Good. Bliss and New Born are quite good too.

I tried removing it but it still wont work :-?

Oh and remove this: I can play alot of Muse[/quote]

:embarass:

EDIT: maybe it needs to flow as one line...otherwise I'm beat...

I play too! :D

I've been playing for ten years now and I think I'm finally getting somewhere. I used to practice app. 2-3 hrs. a day when I was in highschool, but now I just do a little metronome session every day and then practice songs that I like or jam with friends. :)

I'm very much into transcribing songs into notes, so that's what I do for fun. I sit down, listen to a record and write notes.

And I like mostly everything I hear. At the moment my favorites are:

- Madonna
- Bjork
- Michael Jackson
- Armin Van Buuren
- Cynic
- Kate Ryan
- Deftones
- Death
- Shirley Bassey
- Mew


I also love playing video game themes/ movie themes and I've made quite a few tabs also. (For Diablo's village theme, Target Earth's title theme, etc.) :)

Nah, I still cant quote lol. Have you ever seen Muse play at a gig? They are one of the best live acts ever.

heres one of my favorite licks


---------5--------5--8b1/2--5-------------------------------------7-
------5----8b10----------------5----------------------------------7-
-7b9-------------------------------7b1/2r7r5-----5----------------7-
-----------------------------------------------7---- 7-------------6-
-----------------------------------------------------------5-6-7--7-
---------------------------------------------------------------------

and now you learned a nice blues lick.

I've been playing for about two and a half years, U2 and The Edge started it all for me, my favorite band ever!
That's where my avatar and name came from, Brian May once called Edge The Hedge, so I did that little cartoon.
I've wrote lots of songs but unfortunately, I'm not confident enough to get up on stage, I should be concentrating on my art anyway.

Other bands I'm into:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Fun Lovin Criminals
Joe Satriani(not a band as such, but one of the best guitarists in the world)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Simple Minds(yep I'm a bit of an 80's head)
Level 42
The Mars Volta
Janes Addiction