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Location: Waurika OK | Actually, I really don't recommend the thumb method. Like other playing techniques, it is far better to struggle until you learn to do it right. But I have done it wrong for so long it is hard to change. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Okay...I'll take back that wish. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by samova:
What are Bar chords? Are those chords you play while your in a bar? can you play them anywhere else?are they allowed. I'm bad at them right now, so they probably would sound better to people that have been in the bar for a while. :D
Same deal at your home bar. They would sound pretty good if your 3 sheets in the wind. :D |
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Location: Knoxville, TN | I took classical lessons for several years and managed to forget most of what I learned. It did not stop me from acquiring ten guitars, they don't test for ability at the cash register. |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | First i learned music when i was 8 years old. I understood music at 14 years old. Which made me realise that all that matters is how you make your intstrument sound. Different ways of playing equal different sounds. Size of figer has nothing to do with anything.
To me, once you ve learned music, you can understand it by learning to play your axe the Richie Havens way. Then, you'll need some botox injections on a weekly basis.
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Location: south east Michigan | My current "excersize" is to travis pick "Desperado" just a fast as I can. I'm shooting for "Flight of the BumbleBee" speed. Not that I'll ever play it that way, it's just good for the finger muscles.
BTW...thanks for the response to this poll. I found if very interesting. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Glad you found interesting...
all I found... is that I'm, at best, a hardly medicore player. |
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Location: closely held secret | "medicore" - is that somewhere between "softcore" and "hardcore"? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Jeff,
Even someone who is regarded as a "damn good" player out in the big wide world can look very average in this crowd.
Broaden your perspective just a tad and you'll find people who wish they could play like you.
That's my Ward Cleaver speech for the day. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Thanks Dad.
Bite Me, Waskel. Dyslexics UNTIE!! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | !!EITNU scixelsvD .leksaW ,eM etiB |
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Location: closely held secret | Jeff, I met some people at the Tour who talk here about how they play, they're nothing like pros, they just pick for fun, they're not that good, blah, blah, blah.
Then I got to see them sit down at the motel and play. They're all a bunch of liars. |
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Location: GA USA | I sort of fit into 1, 2 and 3... so I put 1. But I love playing some lead from time to time, not that I'm much good at it.
Here's a question - when you pick up a guitar at a store, what chord do you play first? Mine's almost always a cowboy D. |
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Location: Maryland, USA | Here's a question - when you pick up a guitar at a store, what chord do you play first? When using an acoustic, I always gotta play an Aminor. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | For me it is D minor while fingerpicking.
Something about a D minor tells you whether the guitar has got "IT" or not. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | for me it's Am and or D
(SterphenT the Lowden LOVES Dminor and most everything D) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well Jeff, since you are heading out on another incredible expedition, maybe you should send it to me and I will continue the break-in process for you.
I promise to give it a dose of D and Dm everyday! :cool: |
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Location: GA USA | Of course you all know of the dislexic agnostic insomniac who stayed awake all night wondering if there really is a dog. |
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Location: NJ | "Here's a question - when you pick up a guitar at a store, what chord do you play first?"
ELP "From The Beginning"
- usually by the time I get to the 5th or 6th guitar, the guy next to me will tell me to shut the f%#k up . . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | 2-1-0-0-2-2
That augmented G chord.
Kinda of a bass-y yet bright ring to it. |
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Location: NJ | uh . . Brad??
I think y'mean:
3-2-0-0-3-3
Basic HairMetal/PowerBallad "G" chord . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by cliff:
ELP "From The Beginning" On the Tour I could always tell where Cliff was when I heard the intro. |
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Location: closely held secret | A G aug would be
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Location: south east Michigan | Yeah Cliff...your right.
I should stop trying to do my job and post on the OFC at the same time.
Maybe I'll just quit my job.
And I guess I meant an "augmented" G in the spritual sense...not the literal.
Geeez...tough crowd today. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
uh . . Brad??
I think y'mean:
3-2-0-0-3-3 Thank you! I'm not insane.... |
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