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Nibor

Nibor

Bewildered
Location
Accrington
I have three

A Levinson Blade Texas Classic upgraded with Kinsman pickups
An ol Segull dreadnought acoustic
A Vintage V300 acoustic
 
Stephen Piper

Stephen Piper

Veteran
Location
Romney Marsh, Kent
1977 Les Paul, unsure of model but 2 x p 90 pickups and flat top made it affordable when I was 20.
Suzuki 12 string hummingbird copy.
Epiphone SG.
Epiphone version of a Gibson J 200 acoustic.
Epiphone Thunderbird bass.
Fender Jazz bass
A couple of nylon strung classicals.
Cheap laptop steel thing.
Stagg mandolin.
Framus arch top.
And last but not least a lovely new Martin OM GT1.
All that and I ended up a drummer!
 
GuyBoden

GuyBoden

Guru
Location
Warrington
Grant Fondo said:
Good luck...would love to know best way to play really well.. i suppose an hour or so a week won't cut it?
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Most of the good guitar players I've spoken with have practised for 8+ hours a day for many months/years at some point in their life. This amount of practice added to natural ability (genetics) is what makes some players very good IMHO. Classical players at a good music college practice intensely for 4-5 hours a day, every day, some students even more.

But, being able to play a few tunes on the guitar using basic open string chords could be achieved with very little practice.
 
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sight-pin

Veteran
Smokin Joe said:
I'm finding the hardest part to be getting the fingers of my left hand to do what I want them to. Practice, practice, practice till muscle memory takes over, I suppose?
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That's about it yep......practice and lots of it, it'll soon fall into place.
One of the first songs i learnt when i was 15/16 and mastered some chords was 'House Of The Rising Sun' Just strumming the plec down and up with each chord is basically it, you'll soon suss it.
Edit; Found the chords etc to it here http://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-animals/the-house-of-the-rising-sun
 
raleighnut

raleighnut

Legendary Member
Location
One of the 'Elite'
sight-pin said:
That's about it yep......practice and lots of it, it'll soon fall into place.
One of the first songs i learnt when i was 15/16 and mastered some chords was 'House Of The Rising Sun' Just strumming the plec down and up with each chord is basically it, you'll soon suss it.
Edit; Found the chords etc to it here http://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-animals/the-house-of-the-rising-sun
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You and John both eh :becool:

View: https://youtu.be/AK7m4hlLPv4

It sounds better with the band (and Richard of course)

View: https://youtu.be/3BwOyVIlupg
 
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andabby

andabby

Veteran
Location
Angus
I have a Yamaha F310 I bought 2nd had a couple of years back, can struggle through a few songs, use Andyguitar and JustinGuitar online for lessons.
 
Stephen Piper

Stephen Piper

Veteran
Location
Romney Marsh, Kent
Keith Richards tunes to an open G and plays very few chord shapes, it didn't exactly hinder his career as a guitarist. Joni Mitchell used very few chord shapes but several ways of tuning which makes things a bit complicated. It's not all about widdling, I've nothing against acquiring technical ability (I have a few chops), but it's that rare thing creativity and imagination that really count.
 
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