The Guitar Players thread!

[kainedamo]

Hey guys! Who else plays guitar?

Well, whether you are a beginner or a pro, this is the thread for you!

You can discuss all sorts about chords and what not. And people, like me, can ask for advice from the more experienced guitar players.

One thing I wanted, actually. Maybe one of you has spare time and likes hunting down tabs or creating your own tabs for fun.

I've been trying to find a tab or a Guitar Pro file for the song Vessel In Vein, by Smog. It's a beautiful song, I recommend it for everyone. I can't find a tab for it anywhere. If one of you could find it, or even just listen to the song and make your own tab for it, that would be awesome. If it helps, the song is also in the soundtrack of the film Dead Man's Shoes.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

We've already got several guitar player threads that are huge, venerable, and full of greatness.

As far as the Smog tablature, you should do what I had to do when I started out.

Actually sit with the recording and FIGURE it out. Great for the brain/ear.

 

[Mee]

I tried to play guitar once when I was 11. It hurt my fingers.

True story.

 

[kainedamo]

We've already got several guitar player threads that are huge, venerable, and full of greatness.

As far as the Smog tablature, you should do what I had to do when I started out.

Actually sit with the recording and FIGURE it out. Great for the brain/ear.

You did that when you first started out? I don't know, man. I'm still a beginner.

 

[Mr. Thing]

Actually sit with the recording and FIGURE it out. Great for the brain/ear.

Best way to do it, man.

By the way Wilhelm, was it you that said When The Levee Breaks was the best Led Zeppelin song?

 

[tzarinna]

I have two dusty acoustic guitars in my closet.
Taking violin lessons now.

 

[PyroChamber]

I really want to learn how to play guitar, which is easier to learn regular guitar or bass guitar?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Best way to do it, man.

By the way Wilhelm, was it you that said When The Levee Breaks was the best Led Zeppelin song?

It is my favorite Led Zeppelin song.

The first time my friend lent me LZ4, I listened to the whole thing in awe, then I sat on my bed with headphones, played WTLB...hit rewind...listened to it again...and again, and again...probably 30 times and it just kept getting more mind-blowing, magical, emotional and exciting each time.

That was over 20 years ago, and still often when I get drunk and rock out, I'll play it, and then rewind it, and then rewind it......It's not just a song to me.



Anyway, Kd.....as with anything, from lifting weights, to sculpting, to marathon running, to learning barre chords and developing strength in your pinky.......of course it's difficult/maddening at the begining....but you'll have a richer, more intense knowledge of music if try to earn it.

It's not really too hard.
A way to start...is, don't worry about the chords yet. Just fish around on the low E string, along with the song.
This will give you your bass note......if what your playing sounds dissonant and crappy with the song.....try going up, try going down.....you WILL eventually find the bass not that they're playing.

Then, once you have the bass note, you can do the same with other strings till you get a chord to lay over the bass note.

also, for the most part with modern bands, there are multiple guitar tracks simultaneously.

Learning to discern the rhythm guitar from the ambient stuff, and the lead, will make you a super music-Wiz.....and even foster an "outside-the-box" approach, such as when you can't differentiate parts, and attempt to do a few at once, etc.

 

[Mr. Thing]

It is my favorite Led Zeppelin song.

The first time my friend lent me LZ4, I listened to the whole thing in awe, then I sat on my bed with headphones, played WTLB...hit rewind...listened to it again...and again, and again...probably 30 times and it just kept getting more mind-blowing, magical, emotional and exciting each time.

That was over 20 years ago, and still often when I get drunk and rock out, I'll play it, and then rewind it, and then rewind it......It's not just a song to me.

Ah, right. I've got a song like that. A White Stripes song, of course. My favourite Led Zeppelin song would have to be Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, though.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

My White Stripes is "Expecting".

WHOA!

No messing around, just W.I.C.K.E.D. R.I.F.F.
and the production, you'd swear it was recorded in a warehouse in Birmingham in 1969.

 

[Mr. Thing]

My White Stripes is "Expecting".

WHOA!

No messing around, just W.I.C.K.E.D. R.I.F.F.
and the production, you'd swear it was recorded in a warehouse in Birmingham in 1969.

Expecting kicks all kinds of ass.

But mine's is Jimmy The Exploder. Awesome.

I mean, he recorded his vocals through a guitar amp! Just so raw.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Yeah, my friend thought it might be about Jimmy Page 'cause it sounds exactly like an amazing song by the Yardbirds when Jimmy was with them, and of course, Jack White's ultra-Plantesque singing always puts you in an LZ-frame.

 

[Mr. Thing]

Yeah, my friend thought it might be about Jimmy Page 'cause it sounds exactly like an amazing song by the Yardbirds when Jimmy was with them, and of course, Jack White's ultra-Plantesque singing always puts you in an LZ-frame.

Yeah, well he said Led Zeppelin was his ultimate influence. I read when he met Jimmy, he was bricking it. I mean, you can almost see his giddy-schoolgirl-ness in this picture...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Ka-bOiNg!

I've never seen that pic.
Rock GODS!
It's like a Superman/Spider-Man team up.
And switched guitars!
Wicked.

*saves*

 

[kainedamo]

It is my favorite Led Zeppelin song.

The first time my friend lent me LZ4, I listened to the whole thing in awe, then I sat on my bed with headphones, played WTLB...hit rewind...listened to it again...and again, and again...probably 30 times and it just kept getting more mind-blowing, magical, emotional and exciting each time.

That was over 20 years ago, and still often when I get drunk and rock out, I'll play it, and then rewind it, and then rewind it......It's not just a song to me.



Anyway, Kd.....as with anything, from lifting weights, to sculpting, to marathon running, to learning barre chords and developing strength in your pinky.......of course it's difficult/maddening at the begining....but you'll have a richer, more intense knowledge of music if try to earn it.

It's not really too hard.
A way to start...is, don't worry about the chords yet. Just fish around on the low E string, along with the song.
This will give you your bass note......if what your playing sounds dissonant and crappy with the song.....try going up, try going down.....you WILL eventually find the bass not that they're playing.

Then, once you have the bass note, you can do the same with other strings till you get a chord to lay over the bass note.

also, for the most part with modern bands, there are multiple guitar tracks simultaneously.

Learning to discern the rhythm guitar from the ambient stuff, and the lead, will make you a super music-Wiz.....and even foster an "outside-the-box" approach, such as when you can't differentiate parts, and attempt to do a few at once, etc.

Well that makes alot of sense. I shall try that. Thankyou.

 

[Motown Marvel]

jack used to have a double neck guitar that he used at shows, way back in the day...but people kept yelling out for him to play zeppelin...it started to annoy him, so he gave the guitar to his brother eddie.

also, im just getting started on learning guitar.

 

[unstoppable]

I can play two songs that's it

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

EVH IS GOD!!!

 

[The Last Meatbag]

I got a Fender Starcaster Acoustic guitar for Christmas, and I got a guitar playing for Dummies book too....so far all I've learned is..

Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie..


So yeah, I'm waiting to get some lessons..

 

[Dwarf lord]

I really want to learn how to play guitar, which is easier to learn regular guitar or bass guitar?

Bass is deffinantly easier to learn. They usually have the simpler parts and you only have to worry about four strings rather than six.

 

[unstoppable]

Bass is deffinantly easier to learn. They usually have the simpler parts and you only have to worry about four strings rather than six.

unless you get a six stringI myself am saving up for a five string

 

[kainedamo]

I can play a bit of Elliot Smith's Needle In The Hay. Sort of.

So... has anyone found or figured out Vessel In Vein by Smog yet? I tried learning it myself like Welhelm said, but it will take forever to learn myself.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

[Yoda]That, is why you fail.[/Yoda]

 

[Dodger]

Question, any of you guys play guitar hero and find it way easy? I know a video game cannot make you a great guitar player and its just a video game but I always wondered that.

 

[jimmy]

I've never played guitar hero; I want to, though.

I couldn't read guitar tabs the first two years I played guitar!
So, I had to learn things by ear. It wasn't easy, but I developed a good ear early on in the guitar playing game.

Guitar and bass are equally hard. It depends what you're going to play.