slydevil
May 18th, 2000, 08:18 AM
Stone,
I just wanted to think you for the wonderful amount of information you provide, it's really been a great help. I picked up the guitar at a young age and played with the experienced (older) folks of my family and picked up things like chords and a scale here and there never really learning names, just patterns and the sounds of those patterns. I've played in many bands, even in a top 40 band for my highschool, never really had a problem playing - learned abit more stuff in guitar I/II/III that was taught in school, but the teacher there really just provided you with a place to sit and jam with yourself =P
After highschool I went off to the military and spent 8 years there and neglected the guitar - it hurt me deeply, but there really wasn't much room for it being in the corps and deployed what seemed like constantly heh. Now I'm a free civilian again, enjoying life, the air, my wife... it's great, so she talked me into getting equipment again (I sold/pawned most of what I had before leaving for the corps). So I get me some new stuff, a nice lil amp, sweet sounding/playin guitar and was happy. I come home and start playing, well of course my fingers are raw, halfway through *trying* to play some SRV it got unbearable hehe. So i started looking on the net, seeing what tab was out there cause i knew it would take me awhile to just pickup stuff by ear again..
While looking around I seen the stuff at tabcrawler (links alot to guitartricks), guitar trickz, and wholenote forem.. i really dove into the theory stuff cause i knew that is what i was missing, i wanted to know more than just how to play someone elses music, and the (for me) inevitable play to it sounds right routine for my own stuff. I'm not knocking the other sites, and they do have some nice material to read, but you, you do what most don't - you explain the why for the most part.. when you say it's not good to tune by harmonics (5th and 7th frets) you explain it, hell i thought it was kick ***, i read all the history on how the tuning came to be as it is today, why normal tuning makes powerchords seem a little off because of the slightly flat 5th .. hey, it all makes perfect sense, thanks.
I never knew what in interval was, name wise, I'd see stuff on sights like 1,2,b3,4... and just shake my head wondering ***. You did a very great job making those numbers make sense. Now when I play, and practice scales and their modes i find myself tickled, a whole new world has opened up - took me a few weeks to get my fingers toughined up again. But it's going great, sometimes now when I'm playing the fingers just know where to go, it's really uplifting. I have a job so i only get to practice 6-7 hours when i get home during the week, but am getting 10 or more on the weekends now ( at first i couldn't, my fingers would turn to jello, though i had the drive to keep going, it was like playing with wet noodles hehe).
I still have one problem though, my damn pinky finger, if im playing with 2,3,4 combo of fingers it does just fine, hovering above the strings, but man if i try a 4,2,1 or a 4,3,1 or even a 4,3,2,1 ole pinky finger gotta point to the sky and when i roll down 1,2,3,4 - even if it's not pointing to the sky it gotta jump to the sky and try to 'slam' the string it's going to play.. i been really working on the pinky alone, and it feels like it's starting to listen to me better.. it's just that it burns out fast (forearm muscles really burn) , i reckon that's a sign that it's a weak lil pinky eh? Guess i just want you to tell me that it'll obey me eventually - i just need to practice right? =)
Thanks again for your theory in your lessons and making it all, make sense. You've opened up a new world for this old guitarist.
Sly
[please watch the language - SD]
[This message has been edited by StoneDragon (edited May 18, 2000).]
I just wanted to think you for the wonderful amount of information you provide, it's really been a great help. I picked up the guitar at a young age and played with the experienced (older) folks of my family and picked up things like chords and a scale here and there never really learning names, just patterns and the sounds of those patterns. I've played in many bands, even in a top 40 band for my highschool, never really had a problem playing - learned abit more stuff in guitar I/II/III that was taught in school, but the teacher there really just provided you with a place to sit and jam with yourself =P
After highschool I went off to the military and spent 8 years there and neglected the guitar - it hurt me deeply, but there really wasn't much room for it being in the corps and deployed what seemed like constantly heh. Now I'm a free civilian again, enjoying life, the air, my wife... it's great, so she talked me into getting equipment again (I sold/pawned most of what I had before leaving for the corps). So I get me some new stuff, a nice lil amp, sweet sounding/playin guitar and was happy. I come home and start playing, well of course my fingers are raw, halfway through *trying* to play some SRV it got unbearable hehe. So i started looking on the net, seeing what tab was out there cause i knew it would take me awhile to just pickup stuff by ear again..
While looking around I seen the stuff at tabcrawler (links alot to guitartricks), guitar trickz, and wholenote forem.. i really dove into the theory stuff cause i knew that is what i was missing, i wanted to know more than just how to play someone elses music, and the (for me) inevitable play to it sounds right routine for my own stuff. I'm not knocking the other sites, and they do have some nice material to read, but you, you do what most don't - you explain the why for the most part.. when you say it's not good to tune by harmonics (5th and 7th frets) you explain it, hell i thought it was kick ***, i read all the history on how the tuning came to be as it is today, why normal tuning makes powerchords seem a little off because of the slightly flat 5th .. hey, it all makes perfect sense, thanks.
I never knew what in interval was, name wise, I'd see stuff on sights like 1,2,b3,4... and just shake my head wondering ***. You did a very great job making those numbers make sense. Now when I play, and practice scales and their modes i find myself tickled, a whole new world has opened up - took me a few weeks to get my fingers toughined up again. But it's going great, sometimes now when I'm playing the fingers just know where to go, it's really uplifting. I have a job so i only get to practice 6-7 hours when i get home during the week, but am getting 10 or more on the weekends now ( at first i couldn't, my fingers would turn to jello, though i had the drive to keep going, it was like playing with wet noodles hehe).
I still have one problem though, my damn pinky finger, if im playing with 2,3,4 combo of fingers it does just fine, hovering above the strings, but man if i try a 4,2,1 or a 4,3,1 or even a 4,3,2,1 ole pinky finger gotta point to the sky and when i roll down 1,2,3,4 - even if it's not pointing to the sky it gotta jump to the sky and try to 'slam' the string it's going to play.. i been really working on the pinky alone, and it feels like it's starting to listen to me better.. it's just that it burns out fast (forearm muscles really burn) , i reckon that's a sign that it's a weak lil pinky eh? Guess i just want you to tell me that it'll obey me eventually - i just need to practice right? =)
Thanks again for your theory in your lessons and making it all, make sense. You've opened up a new world for this old guitarist.
Sly
[please watch the language - SD]
[This message has been edited by StoneDragon (edited May 18, 2000).]