if im just playing songs i see off tabs, am i really learning guitar? how do u learn to create ur own stuff?
I don’t see any reason why learning other people’s songs shouldn’t be considered learning.
As for creating stuff, it’s not really something you can learn per se, but there are things you can learn that can aid your ability to compose and improvise–chords, scales, and so on.
One very basic thing that will get you through a lot of situations is the pentatonic scale. You can move it all around the neck and play it in any key you like, and it will give you a set of notes that work for what you need at the moment. You can use it to build melodies, licks in solos, or whatever.
i had never heard of them until Dino left Fear Factory and Christian(FF’s bassist) took over his role as guitarist. then Byron took over the vacant bassist position. i was like ‘wtf is SYL?’ then first song i listen to, Devin’s screaming “GET DOWN THERE… AND SUCK… MY BUDDY’S… COCK!” i was sold :lol:
yeah, he’s bipolar in real life. that’s why he decided to put SYL on hiatus (too much stress). and i’d be freaked out if he didn’t stink, haha. just think about his wife. she’s gotta wake up to thisevery morning :lol:
people that tab stuff in standard tuning when is obviously not infuriate me. like damn, people! tune the guitar to the lowest note you hear in the song- *THEN *tab it. :mad: i do have a powertab of Deep Peace, but everything *except *the solo is doesn’t sound right (which i don’t see how that’s even possible:looney:).
Because Internet tabbers get hung up on trying to make everything work in one tuning without resigning themselves to the fact that, sometimes, it’s just not possible. I’ve seen them do the same thing with songs that switch between time signatures, or songs that begin parts on offbeats and shit like that. Many of the inaccurate tabs I’ve seen aren’t because the tabber is hearing the song incorrectly, but because he’s trying to turn it into something that it isn’t in order to play it more easily.
One of the most comical things I’ve seen was a Power Tab for a song played mostly in 12/8. The tabber used 4/4 and did almost the entire thing in triplets.
The solo for “Deep Peace” is in a different tuning from the rest of the song, so anybody who plays it live should probably get good at switching guitars midstream.
yeah, i remember back in high school when my guitar buddies would download an incorrect tab and then play *it *perfectly and still wonder why it didn’t sound right.
:lol: terrible, but if they are noobs to time signatures then i can see it. the worst tab i ever read was in a magazine. it was for [media=youtube]C0Xl0ZEKJzo"[/media]. they made a drastic tuning change (i think tune UP a few half steps), then tabbed the intro guitar riff (right before ‘wooooo-hoooo’) on strings 6 and 5 really low on the neck. i wish i still had that magazine to showcase the fail.
that’s interesting. i never heard it any other way live other than [media=youtube]Jy7PDnbY6d8"[/media], so when i was looking at the power tab. it seemed like it would be playable without switching. meh, so many variables :looney:
do the free versions of guitar pro take the same amount of space?
Playing guitar at first is hard. It is nothing like Guitar Hero (thats what inspired me to play guitar in the first place.) or Frets on Fire, its ALOT more sophisticated. You need to tune it, trim your fingernails, and get your fingers callused, using a acoustic guitar is recommended for your fingers to get callused. If you use a eletric and then a acoustic guitar, you’ll rip your fingertips to bits.
Playing Guitar Hero is easy, it takes me only a hour at most to master a song. It can take me months to master a song on real guitar.
BTW i have a small Line 6 amp, and a Gibson Epiphone. Is that a good combination? Because when i try to play, it sounds like shit most of the time.
:amazed::amazed:SAY IT ISN’T SO!!!:amazed::amazed:
It depends on a huge variety of factors, but ultimately, you have to make your equipment work for you. Either use what you have to develop your sound, or ditch it and get new equipment that has what you’re looking for.
I don’t think there’s any incorrect combination of equipment, but there are some time-honored combinations–for example, a Les Paul through a Marshall, or a Strat through a Bassman.
i d/l the tabs for nothing else matters…what should i be playing? lead guitar or rhythm?
also on the rhythm guitar part how do they hit the one part where its all six strings… it says like hold g and b and to strum all at the same time…how do i do that?
So does anyone have any experience with the old MIJ Les Paul copies like Orville, Tokai, Greco, etc or newer ones like an Epi Elitist?
I don’t mind going all out for a Gibson, but if those copies are as amazing as people love to hype them up to be, I’d prefer to save myself some money. Plus I’ve yet to find a chambered LP I actually like the feel of.
Ah, the Lawsuit era. :lol: Can’t tell you too much about the guitars from that era, but I can make a rec for Agile Guitars if you want a cheaper modern Les Paul style guitar with very high specs. I REALLY want their cream Tele and a Harm 1 (love those Rickenbacker style guitar shapes).
Holy shit. Was looking up one of the high-spec Agile AL customs that sell around $700, but they’re all out of stock, it looks like. Found this, though…didn’t know they did chambered. Agiles are built in the same factory as Epis.
Fire to the flame: [media=youtube]uDaxIQNkirk&feature=related[/media]
Hello everyone! I play on the guitar (actually, I have two, an Epiphone SG-400 66’ Cherry electric guitar and an Oscar Schmidt acoustic guitar). I’ve been taking lessons for over two years, and continue to do so. I can read music sheets and I plan on taking piano lessons very soon. I’m a huge oldies fan (50’s-80’s) and a metal head (Slayer!). Right now, I’m researching on music sheets of Todd Rundgren (they appear to be out of print). I know that it’s available in a piano software, but I’m looking for the book with music sheets. If anyone has any ideas as to where I can buy his work, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
P.S. This is the book I’m taking about:
Got a Les Paul Studio and Line 6 Spider Valve 40Watt for a little over 2 grand recently. The guitar sounds like heaven and plays like butter and I can do 30 trillion things on the amp, I can pretty much get any sound out of it and it didn’t even cost me a grand.
Definitely and awesome purchase IMO. I know people say Gibson’s are overrated and LP Studio’s don’t compare, but this is a fucking amazing setup for the price I paid and it certainly blows my old rig out of the water.
any one from here order from digimart.net? There was a discussion about the website on the esp forums but no one really knows about that store besides it’s very difficult to find an english speaking costumer service rep. They have quite a few guitars that I want, especially the eclipse brilliant mixed media and anchang’s signature model.
Can anyone tell me what /# means in tablature?
I know that a 3/5 would be a slide up, where you slide from 3 to 5. But what would a /5 mean? If there is no number in front of the /, what am I sliding from?
And also, I want to become a video game guitar master! I want to be able to play popular and good sogns from all kinds of video games. Street fighter, Final Fantasy, Suikoden, anything like that. What’s a good site that has tabs for video games?
no starting number means start from wherever.
I just bought a Stanley Jordan and a Paco de Lucia album. I have the sudden urge to go buy a classical guitar and an Ibanez with really low action so I can play their music. Stanley Jordan’s cover of Eleanor Rigby is simply amazing and for those of you that endured August Rush, it’s a similar style. It’s more jazz than it is funk/rock though. He’s hammering the seventh and ninth chords with his left as he taps the rest with his right.
Vid- [media=youtube]S-l-IukRxxs&feature=related[/media]
Correct me if I’m wrong, but do the songs on August Rush and the stuff Justin King plays are in open tunings, right? Theoretically, that seems to me the easiest way to do some sort of tapping like that.
Also, Chris Broderick joining Megadeth has to be one of the greatest things that band has seen since Marty Friedman. Probably one of the most talented Metal and classical guitar players ever. He is next to Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker, and Marty Friedman as my favorite guitarist.
Bet you $5 he’s in the band as Mustaine’s monkey boy, nothing more. Ever since the dissolution of the Rust in Peace lineup, the guys who have joined Megadeth have basically amounted to session/touring musicians.
I had high hopes when I heard that Chris Poland and Vinnie Collaiuta were going to play on The System Has Failed, but they were pretty much in there to do what they were told and collect their paychecks.
I have the same feeling, so it would be pointless to take the bet. Still, a Megadeth featuring Chris Broderick is a Megadeth worth giving my money to.