Guitarists Please Read...

[_(^DRACULA^)_]

many ways to get good before you get better , teach yourself to play by hearing , listen more than you play , and then jam with your friends , just jam around , you'll learn things from them and they will learn from you ... get books and read about songs and what not , and every now and then get someone to give you lessons ... but the best advice is to PRactice and do more practice whenever you can , no matter what ...
i started playing guitar like over 10 years ago , but it was only the last 6 years that i gotten more serious , to the point where now i'm happy to be the youngest in a pro band , but no one can say anything about my playing cause i worked really hard on my playing tech , asked alot , if i didn't know something i say i don't know , "even if it means everyone laoughing at me lol and it happened alot" but i learned to play PROPER rythem playing , and am a lead guitarist , still learning , and always will be ..
the thing is you take your time , and just slow things down , then speen them up as you go ..
i now write riffs that i have never thought i could even play 8 years ago .. your creative side will come when you are very comfortable , and when you start knowing your way around your instrument ..
a good guitar that's well set up , a good sound combined by a greaet will to listen and learn will take you far ...
i still look up to alot of the great guitarests around me and i think that one day i will be as good and maybe better "but it takes years you see" ...
the main thing is that you have the will , the appetite to do it and you are serious about your music ... start with things like power metal and even old metallica classics ... work on your picking style , your muting and semi muting , your open chords and your fully muted notes , have be clear , and you should be able to hear it very well , lower your Gain on your amp to 5 , it will make you play better and cleare "I use 6 even on stage , and you can not get any clearer belive me lol you just have to play tighter and clearer then cause every note you get out of place will then stand out , but the sound is amazing" ...
don't know if this helps , but it is partly how i did/do things ... and i'm going to get lessons from a Jazz guitarist that i really admire ... so yeah ..
good luck my friend , and yes , Opeth is great in the sence where they are pro at what they do and they do it well , i would love to play along to them one day .... great guys and great musos

 

[Mammoth]

many ways to get good before you get better , teach yourself to play by hearing , listen more than you play , and then jam with your friends , just jam around , you'll learn things from them and they will learn from you ... get books and read about songs and what not , and every now and then get someone to give you lessons ... but the best advice is to PRactice and do more practice whenever you can , no matter what ...
i started playing guitar like over 10 years ago , but it was only the last 6 years that i gotten more serious , to the point where now i'm happy to be the youngest in a pro band , but no one can say anything about my playing cause i worked really hard on my playing tech , asked alot , if i didn't know something i say i don't know , "even if it means everyone laoughing at me lol and it happened alot" but i learned to play PROPER rythem playing , and am a lead guitarist , still learning , and always will be ..
the thing is you take your time , and just slow things down , then speen them up as you go ..
i now write riffs that i have never thought i could even play 8 years ago .. your creative side will come when you are very comfortable , and when you start knowing your way around your instrument ..
a good guitar that's well set up , a good sound combined by a greaet will to listen and learn will take you far ...
i still look up to alot of the great guitarests around me and i think that one day i will be as good and maybe better "but it takes years you see" ...
the main thing is that you have the will , the appetite to do it and you are serious about your music ... start with things like power metal and even old metallica classics ... work on your picking style , your muting and semi muting , your open chords and your fully muted notes , have be clear , and you should be able to hear it very well , lower your Gain on your amp to 5 , it will make you play better and cleare "I use 6 even on stage , and you can not get any clearer belive me lol you just have to play tighter and clearer then cause every note you get out of place will then stand out , but the sound is amazing" ...
don't know if this helps , but it is partly how i did/do things ... and i'm going to get lessons from a Jazz guitarist that i really admire ... so yeah ..
good luck my friend , and yes , Opeth is great in the sence where they are pro at what they do and they do it well , i would love to play along to them one day .... great guys and great musos

That is truely open hearted, wow! Best of luck to you and your band. Why not link it? Got some mp3:s? Love to hear it! All the way from down under??? phhhhhheeewww Long way of from Sweden!!!

 

[_(^DRACULA^)_]

Yep , indeed it is lol ...
it is why we're looking into moving over to europ at some point in time .... take alot of planning though ...

what i said is really what i have gone through partly myself , and i am never ashamed of how slowly i climed that step ladder lol ..
i keep telling people that what really keept me in the band is that i asked "HOW" alot ... i learned as i went , and the dedication we all have towards the greater good of the band ,learning is an endless process , but don't let anything stand in your way , and no matter what people tell you , you just keep in mind that in 5-10 years they'll eat there words lol

i am living my dream in many ways . and i'm only 23 , the other guys are in there 30s , but i'm playing just as good . any in the past 3 years where i was away from them "that time i practiced way more and gotten shit loads better on my own" , they couldn't find another guitarist that could fill in the spot the right way , to play right and have the right attitude , but when i came back playing way better and got a more focused outlook and attitude , they didn't hesitate by saying you're in .. and it made me very happy ...
the idea is , follow your dreams , do not let anything or anyone make you feel shit , and when they start making you worry , you just ignore them and block them from your life ...
for one thing i don't have too long to live as i found out .. but who cares ,.. i'm living my dream like i said .. and i will go on till the last frop of blood ,sweat and tear ....

but by all means , find a couple of friend and jam with them , gosh i used to do that at school , it was a great time and experince belive me .. we really weren't that close to start a band , but we had fun once a week lol ....

regarding mp3 , look in my signiture , lol it's the link to the band's website .... we have some there but more info .. and just added new pic of us into the news forum you'll crack up lol ....

thrash on

 

[Mammoth]

for one thing i don't have too long to live as i found out .. but who cares ,.. i'm living my dream like i said .. and i will go on till the last frop of blood ,sweat and tear ....
thrash on

Not to long to live? Dying? Well we all are some physically others are allready dead not just knowing it. But seriously?

 

[_(^DRACULA^)_]

yep ....
i don't wanna make it sound huge and whatnot , i only thought i should mention it cause alot of people give up too early in there life and just thought i make a point to how it shouldn't , i didn't let it effect me ..
long story but i do have an illness ... no biggy ... lol

but yeah .... nothing like playing a gig , having a great sound , a great time , great crowd , great music and a bloody good time lol ... you know lol

 

[Mammoth]

yep ....
i don't wanna make it sound huge and whatnot , i only thought i should mention it cause alot of people give up too early in there life and just thought i make a point to how it shouldn't , i didn't let it effect me ..
long story but i do have an illness ... no biggy ... lol

but yeah .... nothing like playing a gig , having a great sound , a great time , great crowd , great music and a bloody good time lol ... you know lol

I have personally been granted with the gift of "waking up from the dead". I have a good well paying job flying human cattle to postal porn, a great women, a supportive never doubting family but a latent dead soul. Turning thirty in Sep. Gave myself the promise to learn how to do the one thing that I felt I missed from my youth, to have learned to really play solo/rythm guitar(use to play ALOT back in school but never learnt the theory/ropes). It has been a life saver to bump the wall.
Besides getting a swollen hand and head, I feel that I have set a goal that many of the guitar young players might miss out on when you are thirty and that is the bliss of re-discovery. Getting a goal again is just amazing. I will PM you later for guitar tips mr. Blood sucker. I am gonna check out your new pics now... About those mp3:s?

 

[Kate Bush Rules!]

Guitar lessons are essential. I am the only member of my band who has ever taken them and the other guys don't even use picks to play (electrics!), which severely limits their techniques. One f them is left-handed and plays his guitar upside down. He didn't change the strings like Jimi Hendrix, so he just fingers every chord, everything, upside-down. It's crazy. Also, you probably won't be so good at keeping in time without a teacher.

 

[_(^DRACULA^)_]

actually you can , i learned to use my hearing ,
but it is about practice ... i mean it doesn't take a rocket scince to make you realize you are out of time or you are not playing right you know lol ...

but a teatcher once in a while is great to help you boost your abilities ... i'm just lucky that most of those around me are actually Pros and in known bands , so i just pick there brains when i can lol , but i watch alot and hear something and i try playing it back ... sometimes i come up with different ways to play something and it will sound simmilor to what it origonaly should be played , but people still think it's the same "not those who actually know how to do the real deal lol" ... and man you gotta use a pic lol and you gotta learn how to use it right lol
i change strings for every rehearsals "weekly" sometimes i can do 2 and get away with it , but for gigs i change them for each one , always , "unless playing 2 nights in a raw then i usualy use it again if it's still in good sound" ..

guitar upside down that's crazy stuff you're right lol

 

[The Master]

I'd strongly recommend getting an instructor as well. I started out with one and it helped me an insane ammount.

 

[Sinistas]

Guitar lessons are essential. I am the only member of my band who has ever taken them and the other guys don't even use picks to play (electrics!), which severely limits their techniques. One f them is left-handed and plays his guitar upside down. He didn't change the strings like Jimi Hendrix, so he just fingers every chord, everything, upside-down. It's crazy. Also, you probably won't be so good at keeping in time without a teacher.

one of my good friends plays like that...fortunately he got back to playing v's, so he doesn't look quite as strange. he's a damn good guitarist though...

 

[Staffan]

is it possible to play benighted with your thumb only?

 

[Stormwatch]

Guitar lessons are essential. I am the only member of my band who has ever taken them and the other guys don't even use picks to play (electrics!), which severely limits their techniques. One f them is left-handed and plays his guitar upside down. He didn't change the strings like Jimi Hendrix, so he just fingers every chord, everything, upside-down. It's crazy. Also, you probably won't be so good at keeping in time without a teacher.

Mark Knopler doesn't use a pick - and he kicks ass!

 

[Id]

Guitar lessons are essential. I am the only member of my band who has ever taken them and the other guys don't even use picks to play (electrics!), which severely limits their techniques. One f them is left-handed and plays his guitar upside down. He didn't change the strings like Jimi Hendrix, so he just fingers every chord, everything, upside-down. It's crazy. Also, you probably won't be so good at keeping in time without a teacher.

Upside down? Damn, that's just weird, I'm left-handed too, and I that never even came to my mind, I just play right-handed.