The Musician's Lounge

[noumenon]

Seems only right in the music section of the forum...

I've been playing guitar/bass/singing/songwriting since I was 13 years old. Over the years I've amassed quite the collection of guitars and musical equipment. This thread is for the musicians in the forum. Post your gear, what instruments you play and any questions regarding music...songwriting....or even post some lyrics or clips of you playing.

MY GEAR:

ELECTRIC:
1987 Clapton Fender Stratocaster
ESP EC-1000
Washburn DimeSlime
Black Les Paul Custom
Jackson DKMG
Ernie Ball Music Man/EVH model
Parker Custom Flatblack


ACOUSTIC:
Custom made Brazilian
Epiphone DR500R
Custom Skylark
87 Guild

BASS
Rickenbacker
Tom Araya ESP

AMPLIFICATION:
Marshall JCM800 stack
Randall RG200 combo
Crate GLX65 combo
Randall Krank Stack
(various pre-amps and all that junk as well)

To record a lot of my acoustic material I use a lot of vintage 40's and 50's tin wrapped mics. They sound great and give the vocals a great vintage raw unprocessed sound.

 

[El Joo Magnifico]

I play only guitar and Upright Bass.

For my bass - My teacher is a bitch, I hate her. I wanna punch her in the face. She sucks dick. Other than that, I love playing my bass.We are working on Schumann and Mozart in class. Its B.A.

Guitar - I have a Douglas Shadow Metallic Green. I am mostly just trying to learn intros to songs. My friend Evan, who is my teacher, gave me Back in Black and Paranoid to try out.

 

[noumenon]

For a beginner you should really be learning more single note stuff at first. It really helps with your dexterity.
Try the intro to Enter Sandman, One, Fade to Black. Metallica is great practice material for beginning guitarists...it's got all of the standard elements in there without an insane level of difficulty.

 

[Wordlife]

Guitars - Kramer Focus Candy Apple Red, Kramer Black Flying V, B.C. Rich Autographed

Acoustic - Old time brown fender, Black Fender Acoustic/Electric (mostly acoustic)

Bass - Schecter Green 5-String

Amps - Line 6 Spider II, Gerlitz Amplification G1 Revelator

 

[El Joo Magnifico]

For a beginner you should really be learning more single note stuff at first. It really helps with your dexterity.
Try the intro to Enter Sandman, One, Fade to Black. Metallica is great practice material for beginning guitarists...it's got all of the standard elements in there without an insane level of difficulty.

I can play the intro to Enter Sandman.

And I hate it.

 

[Wordlife]

^lol why?

 

[El Joo Magnifico]

Its just, Enter Sandman is so over played that it became so annoying. I can't stand it.

 

[noumenon]

Playing songs like Sandman does a lot more than you know if you're a novice player. It does a lot of you fingering, timing and all that. Once you get it down to where you can play it without even thinking you can switch up the tempo, add some harmonics...all that.
Going for more difficult songs when you first start playing won't do anything for you. You'll just be playing it wrong and struggling.

 

[Wordlife]

Yea I totally agree^^^

Don't expect yourself to pick up a guitar, and go to like ultimate-guitar.com and tab like all the cool songs you think you can play and expect to learn it in like 5 minutes.. shit doesn't work that way. Start off easy, learn harmonics and arpeggios, and chords too. Then work your way to bar chords... then maybe soloing. 12 Bar Blues is good to learn too.

THEN maybe, just maybe, you can work into the other shit you think you were gonna learn