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- pascii0
me, bass
- benfal990
electric here
- Baskerville0
I haven't posted since christmas but I thought I'd make a comeback on a guitar thread.
I play electric: Ibanez/Ibanez/Fender Strat
need new strings. D'addario are my faves, can anyone recommend better?
- ********0
Electric? Acoustic? Either you play or you don't.
I play. I've got a bass, electric, acoustic, mandolin and few old broken things that still make noise.
- ********0
D'addario are my faves, can anyone recommend better?
Baskerville
(Mar 7 05, 06:48)Earnie Ball.
It doesn't matter all that much, unless you've got an accoustic and then you've got much more choice.
- Baskerville0
I used to think that either you play or you don't but after learning fingerstlye on an accoustic (michael hedges, pierre bensusan etc) you realise that it's a completely different discipline technique wise to playing electric (ie you have to work about 10 times as hard!)
I'd say that overall it's fair to say that you either play music or not. I play piano, bass, electric, acoustic and just about every musical style under the sun.
but I put electric because it's what I'm best at, I can express myself most freely on it.
PS no other strings have mulicoloured ball ends like d'addario, a great device to instantly know the string guage
- ********0
I gave up technique in favour of fun. It comes to a point where you know lots, but still can't "play".
If it's got strings - I'll figure it out. Like the mandolin. I love that thing.
- thenuge0
les pauls are my favorite
- opiate0
right here
- Baskerville0
'I gave up technique in favour of fun. It comes to a point where you know lots, but still can't "play".'
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That's true, although the problem comes when your head thinks in more complexity than your hands can manage, then you have to either brush up your technique or compromise your musical ideas.
Very, very few people are truly musically free, ie they can play whatever they think whenever but it is an amazing thing!
- smellvetica0
i've got a banjo. honestly.
- gsd0
baskerville - try martins, they're pretty decent strings
- Jaline0
me
I play a mean version of Smelly Cat.
- vespa0
SHUT UP smellvetica do you really? i love people who can play the banjo. do you have any tattoos? and can you do an iowan accent?
- ********0
i want a banjo.
- THX_11381
lifeinbinary:
your first guitar will depend on a lot of things, but you really only need something with 6 strings that stays in tune.
First decide if you want electric or acoustic.
If you took a class, you'd probably have to go with an acoustic, so start there.
I hear Washburn’s are good entry level acoustics. I bought a $300 acoustic / electric Ovation and the intonation (ability to stay in tune wherever you are on the neck) went to crap within a year.
Going electric has as many choices as there are opinions, but there seem to be two camps....Gibson and Fender.
Gibson (SG/Les Paul) is generally a harder / brighter sound which lends itself to hard rock (ACDC, Guns and Roses, etc.), while the Fenders (Strat / Telecaster / JazzMaster) tend to be featured in more diverse styles of music from the Beatles to Weezer, surf and Jazz, the cure and red-hot-chili-peppers.
If you have the money, high-end acoustics tend to be:
Martin \ Taylor \ Gibson
and (at that price) it's all about falling in love with the particular sound of "that" guitar.
if you want to go ultra beginner, consider a nylon string guitar. the strings are easier on the hands and the neck is fat. It's like reading a book in big-type.
- ********0
i play the violin
it's more like a guitar than a cello :P
- versa0
+1
- Scottizzle0
12 years playing every day.
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