[fromTheSprawl]

Google'd "Dreamincode Guitar" and come up with song lyrics. Any guitar players here? I've been playing guitar for 2 years and I fell I'm not even novice yet. I feel that I have to learn more stuff(music theory, for starters). Do you people of DIC play the guitar? Or at least planning to do so? I still remember the first time I bought a guitar. I finally commited to buying one so that when I criticize a band of my friend I can say that I know how to play when they backlash with "who are you to say so? You can't even play."

Anyway this is an anything guitar zone.

[Gavisann]

No.

I like listening to music, not producing it.

[fromTheSprawl]

Um yeah, I was once as you are Gavisann, but I want to be able to share the music I like by playing it to others and I find that playing guitar often does the trick because it's more personal

Really, not even once it crossed your mind? Perhaps you like electronic music? (Please no retorts about mp3 being electronic)

[Creecher]

I have a guitar, and I pluck at it every now and then, but wind instruments (my chanter, for instance) are my true friends.

[fromTheSprawl]

Chanter? Whats it? I would like to try wind instruments but I learn on my own and I don't think there's a resource for wind instruments that is comprehensive enough to my liking. What do you play with it?

Chanter?

[Creecher]

http://en.wikipedia....agpipes#Chanter

The flute like part of a set of Bagpipes. I'll be getting Bagpipes when I can afford the 800$ set I want.

[fromTheSprawl]

I want to play bagpipes too! The sound they make is really good. But with $800 I can finally afford to buy a PS3, a decent phone(mines OS is neither Android or IOS), and a pc. Um, so what do you play with wind instruments? Kenny G?

[Creecher]

When I get my set I'll be joining a group in my community that plays at military funerals and special occasions.

Right now I can play the basics like Amazing Grace and America's national anthem, but I'm working on learning this:

This post has been edited by Creecher: 08 September 2011 - 08:32 PM

[Lemur]

Training as a classical guitarist. Danged difficult, sure a lot harder than rock.

[totgeburt]

i've tried to learn guitar, piano and drums but never went through with any

[Gavisann]

fromTheSprawl, on 08 September 2011 - 09:57 PM, said:

Um yeah, I was once as you are Gavisann, but I want to be able to share the music I like by playing it to others and I find that playing guitar often does the trick because it's more personal

Really, not even once it crossed your mind? Perhaps you like electronic music? (Please no retorts about mp3 being electronic)

It has, I tried the keyboard when I was much younger, but I didn't really like it.

Playing the guitar is a nice hobby and requires talent.

Send from my SPH-D700 (Samsung Epic 4G)

[Aphex19]

Yeah, I play guitar. I've been playing for about 7 years now, I think. I play all sorts of music, but I like rock and metal for the most part. For effects I use Guitar Rig so I have really taken to experimenting with different sounds and techniques, which is great fun.

As for my abilities, I think that I have the dexterity to play what I want and how I want, and my knowledge of chords/scales (etc) is good, but I'm certainly not a "shredder" or anything like that. In fact, I am really trying to become a faster player, but I'm starting to think that even though technique has a big part to play in playing speed, some people are just naturally able to play more quickly and accurately. My fingers just aren't cut out for 200BPM, damn my genetic lineage.

This post has been edited by Aphex19: 08 September 2011 - 10:15 PM

[fromTheSprawl]

Playing guitar requires talent? How so? So if I can't play guitar like the shredders then I might as well not play? Or do you mean to really play guitar I need talent?

Well for me I don't want to be a shredder, in fact one of the reasons I wanted to play guitar is to be able to sing along with songs I like. So chords are more of my thing than riffs. But sometimes a song has really good riffs and is chord centered too at the same time that I have to learn the riffs.

Which I think I want to push for something like the skill level where I can play any chord and be a decent player when it comes to the riff department.

Creecher wow you're playing for people! That is most noble. I want to be able to do that someday. I want to learn wind instruments but the songs I'd like to play are more of the jazzy type and some are used in other unclassifiable songs.

Aphex19 do you play in a band perhaps? I've never tried playing with effects. Heck, I've never even played with an electric guitar before.

totgeburt why so? Me too, I once thought of ditching trying to learn guitar for good but I persevered now I can play some of the songs I like. I haven't tried piano though. With drums, does drummania count?

Believe it or not, I've been playing guitar for 2 years now and I don't know how to use a pick. Is this normal?

Lemur I've never tried my hand at classical music because I don't have a strong music base to build on, care to give some suggestions? Um, Canon Rock is not my thing though. Even Ode To Joy will do. Hey, I'll start with that one.

[Lemur]

Check out these ones

Leyenda Asturias
Villa-Lobos's Estudio 1
La Catedral
Ojos Brujos
Un Dia de Noviembre

A rather basic list of classics. Make SURE to look into Andres Segovia, Ana Vidovic, and John Williams.

[jon.kiparsky]

I've played guitar for a longish time, and I've spent some time teaching. (how long? Well, my first guitar is hanging on the wall in front of me, a 1988 Epiphone... bought it new...)

In my experience as a teacher, the people who play the guitar well, or any instrument for that matter, are the ones who can't not do it. The ones with talent and no drive go really fast and get bored and quit. The ones who can't not do it - they might take longer to get to the point where the other guy quit, but they keep going, so they win.
And, honestly, I'd rather hear someone who cares about what they're doing any day.

@fromTheSprawl - I have a nice simple arrangement of "Greensleeves" kicking around, it's two voices with a simple bass part and it stays in first position. I can try to dig it out for you. There's also a Bach piece from the Anna Magdalena book that you've probably heard, which works pretty well on guitar. I don't have that one written out, but I can dig up the details. PM me if interested.

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Make SURE to look into Andres Segovia, Ana Vidovic, and John Williams.

Francisco Tarrega made a fair few nice pieces for guitar. There's a book-and-CD edition of his stuff on my shelf somewhere, the playing on the CD is worth hearing on its own, the guitarist is (checks iTunes) Paul Henry.

And speaking of stuff that fromTheSprawl won't be learning on his first go-round at the classical material, listen to some of Leo Brouwer's compositions. Damn, that guy can write. Not the sort of thing you just pick up and read from the tab, though.