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Learning to play the guitar

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Due to the fact i have an increadibly short attention span, I have never bothered to learn a musical instrument. However now that i have a stupid amount of time on my hands I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me.

Ive kinda thought about learning to play a basic acoustic guitar (unless anyone can put me off). Just wondering if anyone can recommend me a cheap basic model to get me started?
Pad1 | 09 Jul '04, 16:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Don't get the absolute cheapest one cos it'll be shit and the ill-filed fret ends will cut your fingers to ribbons.

Don't get a big name like Fender or Epiphone either, you're paying for prestige, not necessarily quality. Yamaha are generally a good bet.
tommymack | 9 Jul '04, 16:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Get a drum kit. It's a real man's instrument.
Youdontknow | 9 Jul '04, 16:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

This man is biased...his drum-centric propaganda sickens me to my core!

I concede, however that the drums are a more manly instrument than a guitar. Especially an acoustic one.
tommymack | 9 Jul '04, 16:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Unless Johnny Cash is playing that acoustic guitar of course.
tommymack | 9 Jul '04, 16:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Unless Johnny Cash is playing that acoustic guitar of course.
tommymack | 9 Jul '04, 16:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

guitars are done!!!! get something else!!!
K_E_ | 9 Jul '04, 18:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

guitars are done!!!! get something else!!!
K_E_ | 9 Jul '04, 18:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

buy a sampler. you can have about 100000000000000 x more fun.
brian_international | 9 Jul '04, 18:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

I havn't looked into a sampler. But it would be pretty cool. How much and which one?
Pad1 | 10 Jul '04, 00:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

You can get them pretty cheap nowadays. I have always used Akai ones. I have an Akai S2000. Its quite old but mine has 32 meg of memory, so i never run out of space. You can then link it up to either a MIDI trigger keyboard or a computer/sequencer (i program everything on an Atari ST).

If you buy second hand, you can get a setup for relatively cheap, and once you get started, the possibilities are limitless compared to a guitar...

brian_international | 10 Jul '04, 10:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

If you learn to play the geeeetar don't learn any feckin scales. Intervals are more important: learn how relationships between notes sound.
carrot_ram | 10 Jul '04, 10:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

can you not just buy them for the PC?
Pad1 | 10 Jul '04, 11:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Ha ha! He's right, I am biased...
Youdontknow | 10 Jul '04, 11:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

samplers and analog synths and things are great fun, but only coz they need little to none musical talent to operate. mind you playing guitar kind of fits in that bracket too... if your into punk of course. they'll be none of that satriani bullshit round my place thank you very much, GET OUT!
nappy_coin | 10 Jul '04, 12:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

yeah you can use a sampler with anything with a midi in/out. Yeah you dont necessarily need musical ability to use them, but you need musical ability to construct a song out of them.

If you want to check out some good use of a sampler, check out some MP3's of my ex-band The Bureau De Change on www.dtrashrecords.com
brian_international | 10 Jul '04, 13:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Yes, all men regularly bang on things with sticks. It's a real CAVEmans instrument...Go get yourself a warlock guitar, I saw a cool one with a big fly spray-painted on it.
Child_of_Korn | 26 Jul '04, 11:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Yes, all men regularly bang on things with sticks. It's a real CAVEmans instrument...Go get yourself a warlock guitar, I saw a cool one with a big fly spray-painted on it.
Child_of_Korn | 26 Jul '04, 11:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

That's right. John Bonham, Keith Moon, Dave Grohl, Stuart Copeland, Buddy Rich, they're all cavemen, entirely devoid of all skill and talent and you could do their jobs just as well as they do.

You could buy a kit and practise for 50 years and still wouldn't be fit to clean their sticks you idiot.
Youdontknow | 26 Jul '04, 11:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

And Gene Krupa.
tommymack | 26 Jul '04, 16:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Kurt Cobain? Jim Root? Jimi Hendrix? Slash? All Women I take it...
Child_of_Korn | 26 Jul '04, 18:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Hello - female drummer chittering: hmmm... okay suppose drums are a bit of a blokey thing but hey - it don't bother me, and i recon i'd wipe the floor with most 'boys' *becomes too cocky for ones own good* - most 'boys' (not all though) just appear to move from one set of toys (i.e. trains and stuff) to another set of toys (i.e. guitar, amp, woo-waa or whatever pedel ting!) play whatever instrument you feel its in your heart to play! apart from harp - you'll look like a right girly doing that!
why not try your local music shop den place and just ask - unless their really horrible morons they'll probably be happy to help you.
beautiful-freak | 26 Jul '04, 18:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

You're all missing the point here... he wants to learn a musical instrument. And, as we all know, drums aren't musical. Officially.

N.
lanky | 27 Jul '04, 16:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

Whoever said electronic equipment needs no musical talent to operate should fook off and listen to Plaid or Black Dog;~)
carrot_ram | 27 Jul '04, 18:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Learning to play the guitar

agreed. Anyone seen the average setup for a band? Electronic pedals, digital compressors etc... fuckin' electronic twats :)

Get one of the Yamaha Pacificas to begin with, top little learny guitars/gigging guitars. Buy a decent amp too, I've just nabbled one of the 15 watt Vox Valvetronix amps, for 130 quid it's really rather wonderful and certainly more practice friendly than my valve amps...

DrFurry | 27 Jul '04, 19:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply