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Location: south east Michigan | After shopping and waiting for 10 months, the purchase has finally been made and the warranty card has been sent in. Now it's time for me to switch gears and get to the next step. It's time to stop being a chronic noodler. You know, the guy. He sounds like a K-tel greatest hits commercial. One line of this, one lick of that. Now when I play a song I want to go from start to finish with all the verses.
sidebar....With all my attention on buying an acoustic my Breadwinner has been neglected for months. Last night I practiced with it instead. I was reminded what a versital and playable guitar it is. After sitting out all that time only the g-string needed a slight adjustment. I don't know how widespread they are among OFC members, but if you haven't played one & you get the chance, do it.
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Playing a WHOLE song??? Boy, does that sound tiresome!!!! :) :) :) I noodle like you did. But I do it telling myself that I'm "working on my chops".
I'm in the process of divorcing myself from electric guitars(my Les Paul and I are separated, waiting for the final divorce decree), so the Breadwinner and myself is a pairing that ain't gonna happen!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Hey Roger, electric playing is a whole different form expression, dont be giving anything up!
You could still divorce the Givson and re-marry something a little easier to get along with.
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Learning a whole piece, as opposed to noodling, does require discipline. I recently learned the 12-string part for "Guardian Angels," from John McLaughlin's Electric Dreams. Difficult to flatpick, as it skips strings (my right hand still stumbles when I play it). I'm also learning "My Foolish Heart" from his Johnny McLaughlin: Electric Guitarist; tons of different chords in that. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Wayne, the divorce from the Epiphone(sorry, Gibson was WAY too much money) Les Paul is not because I don't like it, it is because I see no future for me playing an electric. I don't even know anyone else who plays bass, drums, etc. and there seems no point in pursuing that direction without a band in view.
Actually, I noodle far worse on the Les Paul, than I ever have on my acoustics.
My wife complained every time I began to turn the volume up and kick it into overdrive. I tried headphones, but got a headache every time. I decided that was telling me something.....
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Location: Yucaipa, California | In the '70s I played my Legitimate Les Paul Custom :p into my headphones but never got a headache.... I did get a case of continuous tinnitis :( ... constant high-pitched whistle that never goes away.... all that and I'm still looking for the 4th chord! :confused: |
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Location: NJ | if I stopped noodleing I would have nothing to play |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I'm a little hard of hearing, did someone say poodling on their Breadwinner. I wouldn't reccommend that, or even on a Les Paul. If you must poodle, do it on a banjo. Or a resophonic if you are really desperate as they can be flushed. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Like Duncan said....disipline. (Thank you sir..may I have another!)
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Don't poodle on a resophonic!! the smell is very hard to get out. Use a banjo, there you can always take the back off and who cares about a banjo anyway??? |
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Confessions of an Ex-noodler
