Guitar Thread

[wylie]

I am looking at buying a bass guitar and teaching myself how to play. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good inexpensive bass? Not too much money cause I still need to buy cans for the SV.

[keith]

buy a fender squier bass pack,Retaill at £299 over here but have everything you need.(i work in a guitar shop)

[wylie]

A local guitar shop is selling Cort guitars. Do you know anything about them?

[flipper]

Used to play Bass many years ago, had a Fender Precision :wub: back then, really loved it, don't know if they still make them or how much.......Keith?????

[TornadoTRE]

Check this out, thought it was funny when I saw it, but reading into it, looks like its for good causes!

Buy Your very own Air Guitar! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2568115857&category=621)

Andy

(w00t)

[TornadoTRE]

My god, here's another!

Air Guitar! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2568115857&category=621)

Andy

(w00t)

[TornadoTRE]

...AND ANOTHER!!! This ones a gem!

Air Guitar again! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2961493915&category=324)

Andy

(w00t)

[TornadoTRE]

There's even a website so you can learn to play properly!!!

Learn to Play Air Guitar! (http://www.mirrorimage.com/air/)

Andy

(w00t)

[jimbo77]

Originally posted by SV1000sBiker@Nov 2 2003, 02:03 AM<br /><br />...AND ANOTHER!!! This ones a gem!

Air Guitar again! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2961493915&category=324)

Andy

(w00t)
And with one of his other sales (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=324&item=2961491938), you can start your own band...

[Slyboy]

Calling all guitar players out there, no matter how good (or bad).

Having seen a few of your profiles I see that some of you are interested in or play the guitar, and so I thought I'd start a thread to try and bring some of us together and share some music.

As a background I have been playing guitar for 10 years, had classical and rock music lessons for 3 years, but in the last 4 years or so I havent had much time to play or practice. I'd say I was at the lower intermediate level, and cant actually read music notation, and hence have a very big library of guitar tablature. For those of you who do not know about this, it is guitar music written for dummies, so that anyone can read it and play it - it tells you what string and which fret to play precisely. The only thing it is not good at is the timing, but with practice that can be sorted, especially if you already know how the music should sound. I have a back catalogue of the Guitar Techniques magazine from '97 to about 2000, including many backing tracks.

The sort of music I like and play ranges from classical, rock, blues and heavy metal. The only guitar music I am not really into is jazz. That could be bacause of all the wierd chords and timings, but if anyone has any out there then I'd be happy to try.

The sort of stuff I have been playing recently are the following tracks:

Cavatina by John Williams (the theme tune to the Deer Hunter)
Dee by Randy Rhoads (Ozzy's deceased guitarist)
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
A Thing Called Love by The Darkness
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica

I have millions of tab books and files plus lots of backing tracks for them so if anyone has any requests just let me know and I'll post them.

I thought as my first music tab post I'd add here Dee by Randy Rhoads. Its a classical sounding track, and sounds very complicated but with a little practice you can sound like a guitar god!

David

[Slyboy]

Here is the guitar tablature in PDF format, along with an MP3 of how it should sound (and no, its not me playing it!).

For info the TAB is 1.5MB and the MP3 is about 0.3MB

Enjoy

[durtal]

I play electric guitar for more than 10 years. I took some lessons for 5 years and now I'm learning on my own from tabs and book methods (pettruci - rock discipline, troy stetina etc). I stared playing a heavy metal classics like Judas Priest (breaking the low) and Iron Maiden (the number of the beast).
After I played many Mettalica tracks (master of pappets, battery) and other heavy/death metal tracks (Slayer, Pantera, etc.)
I took some Blues/jazz lessons but what I liked was a progessive metal like Dream theater. In the meanwhile I got three metal bands and played many concerts but we were not enough good :)
Now I'm still playing differnet blues/rock/metal tracks but for my pleasure :)

http://www.sv1000.zyns.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=16161

[Slyboy]

Wow - Thomas. You sound much better than me! I have never played any live concerts, although played for my mates. If you like prog rock, then you must have listened to bands like Rush (if not, hang your head in shame!! :no: ). Attached are a few tabs from some of their classic tracks.

David

[Timothy]

Stop it...I've had 2 guitars and I've never learnt how to play. One is just gathering dust at the moment.

I'm jealous! :ranting:

[durtal]

It's not important to be better or not but the main point is to get much pleasure while playing ;)
Yes I listened to Rush, camel and other progressive bands but what I prefer is a new progrssive school like Dream Theater or Symphony X :)

[Slyboy]

Stop it...I've had 2 guitars and I've never learnt how to play. One is just gathering dust at the moment.

I'm jealous! :ranting:

Tim,

What tracks/bands do you like? I'll dig out some tab so that you can have a go and try and learn some of them.

[Timothy]

Tim,

What tracks/bands do you like? I'll dig out some tab so that you can have a go and try and learn some of them.

Anything Paul Weller to be honest and stuff along those lines, The Who, OCS. Very MODernistic type of man.

I REALLY can't play a thing though. I don't seem to have the time and would love to have proper lessons.

[Slyboy]

Anything Paul Weller to be honest and stuff along those lines, The Who, OCS. Very MODernistic type of man.

I REALLY can't play a thing though. I don't seem to have the time and would love to have proper lessons.

I have somewhere 10 best WHO song riffs plus MP3 of them which I'll dig out for you, plus a couple of OCS tracks I'll see if I can find.

From memory the WHO riffs are really good and pretty simple.

David

[Timothy]

Thanks fella!

You know you are going to have to bring the guitar to the next SV national meet now don't you? :lol:

[Slyboy]

OK - here's a ZIP file containing many, many text files with guitar tablature and bass guitar tablature, for hundreds of bands, including Beatles, Led Zep, G'n'R etc. Contains over 3800 tabbed tracks. Make sure when you unzip you tell it to keep the original folder structure and it will put them in subdirectories, catagorised by the band name. These were collected from the OLGA guitar tab archive many years ago.

Beware - its about 8.9MB for those with slow connections.

:niceone:

[durtal]

I'm using a Guitar pro software to learn and play tabulatures. You can play in a real time and it allows you to play instantly few tracks (guitar, solo guitar, drums and bass). The guitar pro tabulatures you can find by thousands on internet :)

Here is the link :)

Guitar pro (http://www.guitar-pro.com/)

If you want to know more about guitar pro just PM me :)

[Slyboy]

Thanks fella!

You know you are going to have to bring the guitar to the next SV national meet now don't you? :lol:

Ha! You wouldnt say that if you could hear me play!!

Anyway, heres the A-Z of Great WHO riffs in PDF format, along with MP3 tutorial for playing them.

The PDF if 0.8MB and the MP3 is 3.5MB

[tjm73]

Awesome thread! I have a Jackson JJ4 Tattoo Scotty Ian electric guitar. I make sound, but nothiging recognizable. This thread makes me want to get it out and starting trying to play it again.

[Slyboy]

Awesome thread! I have a Jackson JJ4 Tattoo Scotty Ian electric guitar. I make sound, but nothiging recognizable. This thread makes me want to get it out and starting trying to play it again.

:yes: Thats the idea! Let me know what stuff you like and I will see what I can dig out.

Frenchman - I just checked and I already have version 3 of Guitar Pro, but unfortunately I dont have any decent GP3 tab files so havent used it. Have PM'd you about it.

David

EDIT - Just checked ou the METALTABS web site - how cool is that!!

[gesserit]

I'm 34 and I've been playing for about a year. I had always wanted to play, but never had the money as a teenager/young adult. Always prioritized BMX and mountain biking above guitars. Now that I finally have the money, I figured I'd give it a go. Have learned a couple AC/DC and Metallica tunes to start with. Now I'm really concentrating on Rush and VH. I'm fortunate in that I have a really good (and free) instructor and I have time to practice (at least until World or Warcraft came out :doh: ). Making some good progress on La Villa and House of Pain right now. I've been getting tab for Rush from

http://www.cygnusproductions.com/rtp/

Tab can be really frustrating and not just due to timing. There are so many ways to play a certain set of notes on a guitar neck. I've found that a lot of tab out there is very misleading. I spend hours practicing to some tab I've found on the net only to have my instructor correct it, making it tons easier to play.

I have Schecter C-1 Plus and Turser (Fender Strat knock-off) guitars. Other gear: Mesa Boogie 50/50 amp, Digitech 2101 rack mount effects and tube pre-amp, 2 Vox 2x12 cabs (run in stereo), and a Line6 POD for recording.

[Slyboy]

gesserit - nice web link. Going to download a few of those and learn them. I used to play loads of early Rush tracks, but am too rusty to remember most of 'em now. Like you say, practice is the main thing.

Sounds like you have a good setup. Mine is years old, and worth bugger all sounds alright to my tone deaf ears though!). I have a Columbus Gibson replica, through a small Peavy Blazer 158 practice amp. I also have a Giannini MPB classical guitar with fisherman electronic pickups which sounds beautiful.

I dont have an effect rack, and only a distortion and wah wah peddle, however I find I dont need much more.

[Slyboy]

For any of you real early Rush fans, I have the following live bootleg albums (high quality, not MP3), taken from the main mixing desk/soundboards at the concerts:

1978 - Live at the Tuscon Convention Centre
1976 - Paramount
1976 - Selland Arena
1979 - Stadhalle

If you are interested, PM me and I'll see what I can sort out :Punk:

David

[1MileCrash]

well i've played guitar for roughly ohhhh...7 years i guess. i've always been very interested in punk rock and metal although i'm not very good at metal since they move a lot faster than i can. i also like some classic rock stuff. mostly when i play it goes from playing tabs to simply freestyling with my friend who also plays guitar.

i started out owning a Lotus and a Peavy Rage 158 amp and i soon upgraded to an Ibanez RG 450 guitar and then a larger Crate amp. a while ago i sold the Lotus and the Peavy amp and then picked up another Ibanez RG-7 420 guitar with hardcase.

lately i've been learing songs from Korn, Green Day, Powerman 5000, and a few other random songs that i've heard on the radio or whatnot.

[gesserit]

gesserit - nice web link. Going to download a few of those and learn them. I used to play loads of early Rush tracks, but am too rusty to remember most of 'em now. Like you say, practice is the main thing.

Sounds like you have a good setup. Mine is years old, and worth bugger all sounds alright to my tone deaf ears though!). I have a Columbus Gibson replica, through a small Peavy Blazer 158 practice amp. I also have a Giannini MPB classical guitar with fisherman electronic pickups which sounds beautiful.

I dont have an effect rack, and only a distortion and wah wah peddle, however I find I dont need much more.

That's a pretty good tab site for Rush. I found that they have the most accurate tab (at least on the songs I'm learning).

My gear is pretty good, but I really lucked out on that. It's all basically just hand-me-downs from my instructor. I paid money for it, but at a significant discount. And, like you, I don't really use the affects at all. I do like some of the amp models on the POD though.

[Chainsaw Willie!]

Anybody built their own gear?
In addition to professional quality stuff by Gibson, Mesa, and Peavey, I have some stuff that I built up from their component atoms. Not just stuff like the Stratocastor I built up from off the shelf aftermarket, but I have one guitar that I built everything except the body of the neck. I did make the rosewood neck blank though. I have also built a few 1.5 watt tube amps too. I'll post some pics if anyone is interested. well even if they are not.

Playing wise, I have had a few long dry spells of not playing, chunks of 5 or 10 years. Played in some of Seattles worst Frat/Tavern bands of 1984. PopMetalPunk mess. Most recently blues tending towards a punky kind of blues. Lately have been messing with alternate tunings and intentionally trying to sound weird.

Somewhere I once saw a pic of mrgenius with a double cut Les Paul. Anybody heard from mr in a week or so?

[Slyboy]

Anybody built their own gear?

Yeah - I built my distortion pedal from scratch (albeit cheating and following an electronics circuit board book for guitar effects pedals). It sounds really good too. I built a wah wah pedal, but it probably cost double what it costs in the shops, and when I finished it it didnt bloody work!! :wallbash: :wallbash:

That was the last thing I built from components......

I dont think mrgenius has posted for a week or so. Hope everythings ok with him.

David

[ride_naked]

I have a cheap ass black Memphis that needs new strings (anybody have any suggestions on what I should get?) that I've had for about 8 yrs. I learned to play a lot of things but since I graduated highschool I've pretty much quit playing.

[Slyboy]

Frenchman,

Been playing with Guitar Pro for the last few hours and its really excellent, especially when learning solos and the like. I love the way you can slow it down and add markers so you can keep trying the tricky bits. Thanks very much for that - gonna go play some more! :supsmiley

David

[durtal]

Frenchman,

Been playing with Guitar Pro for the last few hours and its really excellent, especially when learning solos and the like. I love the way you can slow it down and add markers so you can keep trying the tricky bits. Thanks very much for that - gonna go play some more! :supsmiley

David

You're welcome David :)

That's what I use to play

Ibanez RG 450 black with sharks tooths (first Petrucci guitar ;) )
Peavey Bandit 112 combo
and ZOOM GFX - 8 Multieffect processor (with whawha ):)

[durtal]

I took this one on the workshop (Cowboys from Hell of Pantera). Right now I'm workng over the Diambag (R.I.P.) solo. Hope will play it soon ;)

P.S. you need Guitar pro software to read the tab ;)

[Slyboy]

Thats one cool track, with a very fast solo. If you can play that I'd be well impressed!

Puts my playing to shame.

The Guitar Pro program is really good, particularly for learning solos as you can really slow it down for practice, and theres free guitar pro tab for pretty much any artist on the web.

:headbang:

[gta396]

OK - here's a ZIP file containing many, many text files with guitar tablature and bass guitar tablature, for hundreds of bands, including Beatles, Led Zep, G'n'R etc. Contains over 3800 tabbed tracks. Make sure when you unzip you tell it to keep the original folder structure and it will put them in subdirectories, catagorised by the band name. These were collected from the OLGA guitar tab archive many years ago.

Beware - its about 8.9MB for those with slow connections.

:niceone:
I can't open any of the files ,says unknown program . what application should I be using to open them ?

[Slyboy]

I can't open any of the files ,says unknown program . what application should I be using to open them ?
These files are straight forward text files, so if you use notepad or other simple text editors (or even Word) then they should view fine.

[frayed]

Good to see a bunch of people here playing guitar. Other than having some friends show me the basic chords in the beginning, I've been a self learner for
15 yrs. now. I was off and on for a long time but never really commit to getting better. = total hack !!

I get side tracked with recording... buying older amps, boutique analog pedals, and other related gear. Playing drums for the last yr. has taken over the time I used to play guitar. I also play some bass and sing on our material (what little we get done) as well.

Maybe someone could post some music... :Punk:

[Chainsaw Willie!]

El-Kludge-O was originally an box full of current shunts and voltage dividers inside a vacuum chamber at work. It was replaced, gutted for parts, and the chassis dumped in the recycle bin. Then Fred Sandford (that would be me) walked by. That aluminum BUD box then served as a testbed for tube amp circuit design and component selection. Frankenstein has had many different dumb ideas see fruition here. The circuit is based on those "radio tube" series heater tube amps that are famous for killing people by electrocution due to the possibility of the chassis being live. I chose to use a isolation transformer and a 3 prong cord allowing the chassis to be at ground potential. The 35W4 rectifier has been replaced by a 3 cent 1N4005 diode and a DC circuit made for the heater string. The preamp tube is a 12AU6 pentode, and the power tube is a 50C5.

The Poverty Box is the son of El-Kludge-O. The idea was to build a low power tube amp in as small a package as possible. It actually works pretty well, and is pretty responsive to having the input hammered with a Tube Screamer used as a mostly clean boost. Output with the 50C5 is about 1.5 watts which is just about the right amount of power to fill a living room with a pleasantly loud buzz without causing the neighbors to call the police. It has been a good 20 years ago, but I have experieced my amp stack going suddenly dead, and turning around to see a police officer with my AC cord in his hand! :pcplod: :doh:

[frayed]

I meant to ask about your amp(s) and here are photos !! Pretty cool... something I wanted to learn but never followed through with. Do you frequent any of the forums or sites for DIY amp builders?

I wanted to learn to work on my own amps but the ones I have are pretty scary I suppose. The Ampeg V4 plate voltage is over 500v and my old Laney was reading 630v !! Not exactly the place for my novice fingers to be.

I'm not familiar with that power tube... but how does it break up? Did you use a more clean charactered preamp tube to help keep everything else under control? You can really crank something that low wattage for power tube and transformer saturation. I could see it getting mushy with a 12ax7.

my amps:
'64 Ampeg Jet (15 watts) cool little combo- good for harp !!
'69 Laney LBO (pre-supergroup as in Tony Iommi fame-lol) 60 watts
'72 Ampeg V4 (if you like the Stones you know this sound) 120 watts
'73 Ampeg VT-22 (2x12 combo version of the V4)
'93 Marshall 1959SLP "plexi" reissue 100 watts

[Chainsaw Willie!]

Do you frequent any of the forums or sites for DIY amp builders?
I'm not familiar with that power tube... but how does it break up? Did you use a more clean charactered preamp tube to help keep everything else under control?
I used to spend a fair amount of time on alt.guitar.amps but it got too ugly/unfriendly/political/Flamwar/troll. Do a Google Groups search on "chainsawwillie", go back a few years to view some of my spewage.

Using these tubes in guitar amps is fairly unconventional, and most people used to 6L6, EL34, 6V6 and EL84 wouldn't immedeatly recognize the 50C5 as a guitar amp tube.

The 50C5 is a super-cheap miniature 7-pin beam power pentode used in very cheap practice amps of the 1950's and 1960's. The biggest use of them are in compact cheap table radios, clock radios, and cheap toy record players of the era. These radios were designed to be very cheap, and one way of keeping costs down was to not have an input transformer! These radios ran directly off line voltage. The heaters of the tubes were strung in series so that the total voltage drop was ~115 volts. Typically vintage series-heater guitar amps are of little value as they were the cheapest amps at the time, and they can be potentially lethal due to the possibility of the chassis being at line potential. Do an ebay "Search title and description" on "50C5 guitar" and see what kind of little monsters these amps were.

The 12AU6 has a significanlty higher voltage gain than a 12AX7. I have this amp tuned pretty mild (clean), and have been using stomp boxes for overdrive. I have been intending to increase the plate voltage on the 12AU6 as it is more that capable of really overdriving the 50C5. Mabe even having two different resistors and a switch to be able to switch from clean to Box-full-of-bees in a single flick. It is also a 7 pin mini tube so they are somewhat uncommon in "proper" guitar amps.

Unlike the originals, I have added an isolation transformer input and 3 prong cord. Also I have eliminated the rectifier tube, and added a simple DC supply for the heaters. These two mods mean my amps dont shock people like the originals, and they don't hum like the originals. I have found though that in the Poverty Box the speaker magnet and the AC isolation transformer are close enough to interact, and the transformer vibrates causing the chassis to hum. Future designs will have the transformer further away from the speaker. I have also noodled with triode/pentode switching on the power tube. A fun idea, It works OK, but not a real big deal on a 1.5 watt amp.

The basic amp has only 15 or 20 components, and without the speaker and cabinet is very cheap to make. I think the most expensive part is the Iso-transformer at about $15, maybe the chassis if bought from BUD or Hammond $20?

To give an idea of how simple one of these amps can be, attached is a scematic of one of the original death-cap series-heater radio-tube amplifiers

[durtal]

It's a really interesting post. What kind of stuff you play on your amps ?

[andysv1k]

i play too!

although not very often, i dont get much time to practice, im also not very good!

ive got four axes at the moment,

A cheap strat copy
electroacoustic (hard as hell to play)
an Ibanez RG570EX
and finally the one i built myself, should be worth lots of money, its a complete one off, uses very good hardware and the wood alone cost £350 before i started hacking at it with all sorts of weaponary!

Andy.

[Chrispijn]

Hey guys,
Sorry to chime in late....

I also am playing the guitar (or at least endeavour to do so). For the last 17 years if I can recall correctly.
Being active on diverse forums on the topic itself, I first did'nt feel the need to discuss this on the SV forum. But it is interesting to find out that other people share the same passions in life.
Whether it's bikes or guitars isn't it all about toys ?

Check out the link to my band: www.paralyzers.be
We play Rock&roll and blues (and all the other members ride bikes too!)

My gear:

Guitars: (way too many around the house to keep the wife happy) :innocent:
Gretsch 6119,
GuildX500T,
Fender telecaster,
Fender stratocaster

Amps:
Fender Super reverb 2x
Fender Twin reverb
Fender Vibro champ

FX:
Boss analog delay
Ibanez Tube screamer TS808

Cheers
Chris

[The real Viking]

Hi, I've been playing the Bass (which is a sort of guitar...) for about 16 years (since high school) Mostly in rock and/or blues bands, but also a few jazz/funk bands. Unfortunately I haven't been active playing lately.. :disapint:

I own a Jazz Bass stringed w/ Dean Markly superlight and an old Carlsbro cobra amp.

[JeffSV]

Missed this one. I have'nt played in a couple years but still have all my stuff:
BC Rich Warlock NJ Series
Gibson Epiphone (Strat knock-off)
Crate GBX 2-12 Amp
Ibenez PT-3 DX Effects Multi Processor
Maybe one of these cold winter days i'll find time to set the old gear up

[Chainsaw Willie!]

It's a really interesting post. What kind of stuff you play on your amps ?Mostly blues to something with a natural crunch like AC/DC. The amp is pretty clean up to about 6, from then on up it doesn't get too much louder but it starts to break up more. At 10 it has a nice mild rocknroll sorta crunch. It needs a stomp box to get a metal type buzz. It does work nicely with pedals. It seems to "round off" the sharp transistor sound of pedals well. Bass response is only OK due to the 8 inch speaker and (I am such a cheap jerk) I use $5 120:6 VAC power transformer for the output transformer!

[Burke]

Hi guys. I've played for many years, was a music major in college, etc. Currently I own 7 Guitars. 6 are playable, the 7th is being use as a wall decoration. I've played all the LA clubs back in the day. The Whisky, The Roxy, Gazarri's, Spice, The County Club. I was one of the millions of wannabe's in the late 80's and early 90's. Hair down to my elbows. Torn up jeans. The whole nine yards. I also studied classical technique and some jazz in school but I wasn't disciplined enough at the time to perfect it. Currently I have in my arsenal, a Custom Fender strat, Yamaha Pacifica, '72 Tele reissue, Takamine 6 string acoustic / electric, Vantage electric, and a Takamine nylon (classical) which I reaklky should start playing again more often. My amp selection at this time is a Line 6 AX2 212. I had Marshalls, Boogies and Carvins in the past but I got rid of all the stacks and went with the combo instead. I'll try to scan a couple of pics and post them.

[durtal]

I just put on my workshop a Liquid Tension Experiment track called "Paradigm Shift". It's a nice speedy guitar of John Petrucci (Dream Theater).

For those who have GP4 you can check this out :)

[durtal]

Mostly blues to something with a natural crunch like AC/DC. The amp is pretty clean up to about 6, from then on up it doesn't get too much louder but it starts to break up more. At 10 it has a nice mild rocknroll sorta crunch. It needs a stomp box to get a metal type buzz. It does work nicely with pedals. It seems to "round off" the sharp transistor sound of pedals well. Bass response is only OK due to the 8 inch speaker and (I am such a cheap jerk) I use $5 120:6 VAC power transformer for the output transformer!


I have only a Peavey combo + Ibanez RG450. I like SRV vary much but playing it on my stuff it sounds like a shit. I consider to buy another amp and a fender strato' for blues ;)

[Slyboy]

Sounds good. I have been learning the Thin Lizzy track Dancing in the Moonlight including the excellent solo. Attached is a copy of it in guitar pro format if anyone wants to try it.

Unfortunately I havent really been playing the elctric for a long time, so I'd trying to build up my solo speed, but its taking a while. This solo is at about my limit at the moment.

My setup on the electric at the mo is really small as I have it in my living room. I use my Cheapo Gibon rep Columbus Rep electric guitar through a battery driven tiny Marshall MS-2C amplifier which is really weak until you turn it onto overdrive and volume up to full and you get some good distortion!! Lucky for my wife I also have headphones!!

David

[Timothy]

Sounds good. I have been learning the Thin Lizzy track Dancing in the Moonlight
DavidDavid, you telling me that Toploader copied that?

[Skidz]

I have a Yamaha FG-412 Acoustic,

Can't play for toffee though unless its a G,A,E,D,C :lol:

[durtal]

Sounds good. I have been learning the Thin Lizzy track Dancing in the Moonlight including the excellent solo. Attached is a copy of it in guitar pro format if anyone wants to try it.

Unfortunately I havent really been playing the elctric for a long time, so I'd trying to build up my solo speed, but its taking a while. This solo is at about my limit at the moment.

My setup on the electric at the mo is really small as I have it in my living room. I use my Cheapo Gibon rep Columbus Rep electric guitar through a battery driven tiny Marshall MS-2C amplifier which is really weak until you turn it onto overdrive and volume up to full and you get some good distortion!! Lucky for my wife I also have headphones!!

David

Nice track. Never heard it before but I think it's not so easy as it looks like. Good luck with that :)

[Slyboy]

David, you telling me that Toploader copied that?
Not quite. This is a completely different track. I must admit that when I heard Toploader did a track called that I wondered, however is completely different. Both are pretty much classics.

Here is the Thin Lizzy one so you know how it should sound.

David

[durtal]

Not quite. This is a completely different track. I must admit that when I heard Toploader did a track called that I wondered, however is completely different. Both are pretty much classics.

Here is the Thin Lizzy one so you know how it should sound.

David

Sounds much btter than GP4 file :)

[Slyboy]

Guys,

Found an excellent way of recording your guitar over the Guitar Pro backing tracks (if anyone hasnt got this program then drop me a PM and I'll see what I can do).

First off download a shareware program called N-Track Studio. Found here :Ntrack Studio (http://www.ntrack.com/) .

Download the track you want to play in Guitar Pro. Then export it as a midi file. Open N-Track and import the midi file. You can then press record and record as many takes and solos into the N-track program and also turn off the guitar parts of the backing track until you have the complete track. Even I sound ok using this method. Mind you - took me about 200 takes to get the solo down :lol:

Wicked!!

[Slyboy]

No laughing, but heres my solo in MP3 using the above method. The mix is out and the solo is too loud, but havent managed to work out how to sort it yet!! Sounds fine when playing in N-Track on the computer.

David

[Timothy]

No laughing, but heres my solo in MP3 using the above method. The mix is out and the solo is too loud, but havent managed to work out how to sort it yet!! Sounds fine when playing in N-Track on the computer.

DavidMaybe it's me but I couldn't hear anything David....

[Slyboy]

:D Maybe thats a good thing.....

Tried downloading it from here and it sounded ok. Anyone else hear anything?

[durtal]

Guys,

Found an excellent way of recording your guitar over the Guitar Pro backing tracks (if anyone hasnt got this program then drop me a PM and I'll see what I can do).

First off download a shareware program called N-Track Studio. Found here :Ntrack Studio (http://www.ntrack.com/) .

Download the track you want to play in Guitar Pro. Then export it as a midi file. Open N-Track and import the midi file. You can then press record and record as many takes and solos into the N-track program and also turn off the guitar parts of the backing track until you have the complete track. Even I sound ok using this method. Mind you - took me about 200 takes to get the solo down :lol:

Wicked!!

Thanks for the tip. I'll try it as soon as possible :)

[durtal]

No laughing, but heres my solo in MP3 using the above method. The mix is out and the solo is too loud, but havent managed to work out how to sort it yet!! Sounds fine when playing in N-Track on the computer.

David


I can't hear well the backgrounds guitars but your solo is very good :niceone:

[Slyboy]

Cheers. I cant seem to get the output balance right, but once I crack that expect to see my fantastic playing at the no.1 spot in the charts!!

[spider]

:D Maybe thats a good thing.....

Tried downloading it from here and it sounded ok. Anyone else hear anything?
Nope.
Tried to open it and it came up as "corrupted", whatever that means.
:wallbash:

[andysv1k]

what are GP4 files??

Frenchman, got that album of LTE they are really good musicians!

so what is that paradigm shift file then? its only 10Kb

Andy.

[durtal]

what are GP4 files??

Frenchman, got that album of LTE they are really good musicians!

so what is that paradigm shift file then? its only 10Kb

Andy.

GP4 it's a special software for tabulatures. Pm me if interested ;)

[andysv1k]

David that Ntrack software looks pretty good, will have a proper play with that sometime, do you have the full version?

I have the full version of soundforge, great for editing but no good for actually recording stuf from guitar.

where can you get backing tracks to record to then?

can you download midi drum files or complete backing tracks?

Andy.

[spider]

Just wanted to say, I played in public for the first time in ten years last
night. Just for one number, at a new amp launch for a company I work for.
Bloody brilliant, what a buzz! Couldn't sleep for hours after.
If you haven't done it, do it as soon as possible. If you haven't done it for
a while (like me) get out there and do it now.
Gonna form a band (again) !
:rockon:

[durtal]

Just wanted to say, I played in public for the first time in ten years last
night. Just for one number, at a new amp launch for a company I work for.
Bloody brilliant, what a buzz! Couldn't sleep for hours after.
If you haven't done it, do it as soon as possible. If you haven't done it for
a while (like me) get out there and do it now.
Gonna form a band (again) !
:rockon:

I had two bands in a past. I did a lot of local concerts but the first one was the one I remember the best :supsmiley

[spider]

Hello again plank-spankers!
Anybody here had any experience of the Line 6 Guitar Port?
Thinking about buying one, so any feedback (ha ha!) would be useful.
Cheers
Russ. :rockon:

[Slyboy]

Hi Russ,

Never heard of that. Give us a link and I'll try and find out more.

David

[durtal]

Hello again plank-spankers!
Anybody here had any experience of the Line 6 Guitar Port?
Thinking about buying one, so any feedback (ha ha!) would be useful.
Cheers
Russ. :rockon:

I heard only that it was really nice thing for jaming but never tired it myself. Send us some feedback if you get one for ya ! :)

[spider]

I heard only that it was really nice thing for jaming but never tired it myself. Send us some feedback if you get one for ya ! :)

Read a review in Guitarist Magazine and it looks like just the sort of thing I'm after.
When I get it, I'll record some stuff and post it here!!!
You lucky people! :msn-wink:
Cheers guys
Russ.

[spider]

Hi Russ,

Never heard of that. Give us a link and I'll try and find out more.

David

Sorry mate, missed you there!
Try www.line6.co.uk
I think.
Russ.

[ZenBoy]

I'll chime in....

I've played off and on for about 24 years, though right now I'm "off". I just got bored, I think.

I will say, though, that every time I quit playing for a while and I start up again, I wish I'd never quit. The first thing I always lose is my right-left hand coordination, so I end up burning a lot of time re-establishing that before I can really move forward.

Most of what I played was classical, and I was lucky enough to take lessons from David Crittenden (runs in the circles of Christopher Parkening, who studied under Segovia) and Leo Kottke when I was younger.

I had a couple of opportunities to play full-time in bands, but decided to go to school instead. Of course I wonder from time to time what might've happened if I'd quit school and done music full-time, but I'm sure I made the right decision by sticking with my education instead.

Lately I've been listening to more progressive rock/metal (i.e. Fates Warning), and have gotten hooked on Rush all over again, so I've been pondering taking up the drums. My neighbor across the street teaches drums ... maybe I should hit him up for some lessons?

Over the years I've played Yamaha classical acoustics, as well as an Aria Pro Warrior (from back when George Lynch was playing them) and an Alvarez Dana. I still have the Yamaha acoustics, the Aria Warrior, and a Martin 12-string.

Nice to see so many other musicians on the board!

Zen

[spider]

Read a review in Guitarist Magazine and it looks like just the sort of thing I'm after.
When I get it, I'll record some stuff and post it here!!!
You lucky people! :msn-wink:
Cheers guys
Russ.

Right!
I've recorded a glob of stuff and I want to post it here, but I don't know how to.
All I know is:
It's about a minute long.
I converted it to a winamp media file.
It's 8.5 meg!!
What do I do now?
Any help apreciated.
Russ.

[Pete59]

Anyone fancy a Harpiscord duet ?

[spider]

Anyone fancy a Harpiscord duet ?

Your place or mine?

[Pete59]

Your place or mine?
You'll need some mega bunjee bands for that then :confused:

[spider]

You'll need some mega bunjee bands for that then :confused:

Nah! We'll use yours.

[Slyboy]

Right!
I've recorded a glob of stuff and I want to post it here, but I don't know how to.
All I know is:
It's about a minute long.
I converted it to a winamp media file.
It's 8.5 meg!!
What do I do now?
Any help apreciated.
Russ.
Try converting it to an MP3 file format then zip it up and upload it here.

Look forward to hearing it. Its got to be better than my effort sounding like a strangled cat!!

[spider]

Try converting it to an MP3 file format then zip it up and upload it here.

Look forward to hearing it. Its got to be better than my effort sounding like a strangled cat!!

I'm really going to expose my ignorance here:
I've seen loads of stuff here that's been compressed/zipped but I have absolutely no idea how to do it!
BTW David if my cat sounded like that when I strangled it - I'd do it more often!
Cheers.
Russ. :rockon:

[spider]

Hope this works.(Puts on body armour and prepares for the worst).
:(

[Sue Zuki]

I've got a black Fender acoustic. I'm pretty crap - a boyfriend taught me when i was 14 and I haven't progressed much since then.

I can entertain myself for hours though with any 3 chord song (and there are millions of them :yes: )

(And just for Pete Rose I'll try and dig out a picture of me playing it :msn-wink: )

[Sue Zuki]

One last pic for Pete :hug:

[Timothy]

OM (F'ing) G!!!! :wub:

[spider]

OM (F'ing) G!!!! :wub:

Looks more like A7 to me. :msn-wink:

[Slyboy]

Hope this works.(Puts on body armour and prepares for the worst).
:(

Spider - that sounds great. Love the artificial/pinched harmonics you are getting at the end.

I've only just sorted my classical guitar as it broke about 3 months ago (one of the winding pegs) so hopefully will get up to speed with a few tracks and record them for you.

David

p.s. Sue :wub: :wub: zuki

[spider]

Spider - that sounds great. Love the artificial/pinched harmonics you are getting at the end.

I've only just sorted my classical guitar as it broke about 3 months ago (one of the winding pegs) so hopefully will get up to speed with a few tracks and record them for you.

David

p.s. Sue :wub: :wub: zuki

Thanks David, I just chucked it all together as a quick demo of what this Guitarport thingy can do - it's a great little toy and for about £150 it's
cheap too!
Look forward to the classical workout - how are you going to record/transfer
it onto the PC?

Russ.
:)

[Slyboy]

OK - Here it is. Its not strictly a classical piece, although its my favourite classical type guitar track ever! Its Randy Rhoads (of Ozzy Ozbourne fame) with a track called Dee.

Recorded using N-Track Studio through my headphone mic, amplified via a small fisher pickup and a tiny 2amp Marshal portable amp. (in other words a bit mickey mouse!) Enjoy.

David

p.s. This is after a few glasses of very nice red wine so hopefully I havent killed it too badly.... :supsmiley

[Normsthename]

I don't know how you guys can read Tablature, it all looks Double-Dutch to me :)
I learnt the easy way, and use the dots on the 5 lines method! (Music)
Funny I have'nt seen this thread before, and I was toying with the idea of getting a new guitar yesterday!
Trouble with me, is that I jumped between loads of different instruments, and never concentrated on just one.....

This thread has now got me interested in the guitar again.....more expense........Dam! :D

:beer:

Andy

[Normsthename]

The sort of stuff I have been playing recently are the following tracks:

Cavatina by John Williams (the theme tune to the Deer Hunter)
Hey Slyboy
Any chance of you uploading the above, I have always fancied having a bash at playing that tune :)

:beer:

Andy

[spider]

OK - Here it is. Its not strictly a classical piece, although its my favourite classical type guitar track ever! Its Randy Rhoads (of Ozzy Ozbourne fame) with a track called Dee.

Recorded using N-Track Studio through my headphone mic, amplified via a small fisher pickup and a tiny 2amp Marshal portable amp. (in other words a bit mickey mouse!) Enjoy.

David

p.s. This is after a few glasses of very nice red wine so hopefully I havent killed it too badly.... :supsmiley

David, that was awesome! (especially after a few glasses of wine).
I've attempted the tune myself (being a huge Randy Rhoads fan) on numerous occasions and never got anywhere near that good.

Russ. :rockon:

[Slyboy]

Hey Slyboy
Any chance of you uploading the above, I have always fancied having a bash at playing that tune :)

:beer:

Andy

Andy - Here we go - 4 tabbed pages. This track looks harder than it really is. Remember its just lots of bar chords further down the neck (albeit with some funny stretches).

I'd recommend learning it on an electric first as the frets are shorter, hence the stretches easier. Then go onto an acoustic/classical for the real effect.

David

[Slyboy]

Oh - and here is how that track should sound (not by me I have to add!)

David

[Slyboy]

David, that was awesome! (especially after a few glasses of wine).
I've attempted the tune myself (being a huge Randy Rhoads fan) on numerous occasions and never got anywhere near that good.

Russ. :rockon:

Cheers m8. I have been playing the tune for a few years now - its about the only one thats burned into my memory, so when I pick up the guitar for a while after a layoff, thats the one I remember!

[Normsthename]

Cheers Slyboy!
I am off now to dust off the guitar....

P.S
Glad the pages also have the dots on them! :)

:beer:

Andy

[Chainsaw Willie!]

Here is some pics of a guitar I home-brewed when I was 19. Other than the hardware, the only premade part was the neck blank. I got it off a junker Memphis and peeled the original fretboard off. The body was made from two slabs of mahogony. It was my idea of a cross between an SG an a Stratocaster. The body is countoured and is very comfortable both standing and sitting down. The neck pocket goes pretty far into the body and I made a long tapering heel for the neck joint. In 1983 this was a different idea. It really allows easy acces to the higher frets, better acces than I have seen on any guitar I have played.

I even made the fretboard. But in a sense I cheated on that. I went to Warmoth guitar, near Puyallup, and told them about how I wanted to make guitars too. They brought me back to see the works. At that time it was really more like a 4 car garage behind the owners house. They let me take a rosewood fretboard blank, clamp it down in the machine, and pull the lever. The fretboard swung down and a guard over a belt sander opened. I pulled back and forth and the radius of the fretboard was sanded in. Then I pushed the lever, the fretboard rotated up, the sander guard closed and a different one above opened. This one had a shaft with 24 little circular saw blades on it. It cut all the fret slots in one swipe. On an other rig the fret pearl fret marker dots were centered and counterbored. All I had to do was place it in the rig, and glue in the dots later. I glued the fretboard to the neck and where it overlaps onto the main body, pounded in the fret wire, and then had The Guitar Works to the crowning.

It has had 3 different bridges. Originally a Gibson Tune-O-Matic from my old Explorer. The Explorer had been modded for a Kahler. Anybody remember Kahlers? Years later I routed it out for a Strat style trem that some machinist had milled out of a block of brass! It was a monster! Huge! Then around 1998 I filled the cavity with a block of mahogony and installed one of those big heavy Bad-*ss briges from the '70s that were popular replacements for OEM Gibson stuff.

The bridge pickup is the original neck pick up from my Explorer. The neck and middle pickups are actually a bridge pickup from an early '80s Ibanez Destroyer. I split them off the backing plate, and added larger magnets to each. It actually works very well. The neck does a pretty decent SRV sorta chimey ring, and with the 5-way switch I get a humbucker with the middle.

The reverse angle of the neck pu makes for a very even sound across the strings. Usually with the neck pu on other guitars it is hard to keep the bass strings from sounding flabby and farty, while maintaining the unwound-string ring that is so nice with neck pickups. The angle makes it work. I have only seen this done on some funky old Mosrites from the '60s, and have even seen some modern guitars with the angle the other way, like a strat bridge pu. To me, it seems that would accentuate the flabby-fart tone.

The neck now has a little twist to it, but still plays very well with medium-low action. It is actually a pretty decent sounding, lightweight, bluesy guitar. Especially considering it was made by the Budweiser-hung-over boy-who-would-be-Chainsaw-Willie!

[lawrence]

click & enjoy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1491516901670441597

[tjm73]

click & enjoy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1491516901670441597

That's pretty cool. He's good.

[Chainsaw Willie!]

Excellent guitar,
nice curtains too!

[Yoshi]

wow was'nt sure what this was going to be but that was pretty cool :Punk:

[eguy208]

I thought is was going to be the guy that can play super mario brothers on his guitar.

Cool vid :niceone:

-Levino

[oldbaldsob]

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:


That made me feel like rockin' with Dokken! Where's my mullet when I need it?!:killingme

[lawrence]

the guy is class :headbang:

[lawrence]

heres another one

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-519918376021913734

[Bish]

click & enjoy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1491516901670441597



It's awfuly Bill & Ted duuuuuuude

Excelent!

[amidroc]

Now all he needs is a drummer, bassist, keyboard player and a lead singer and he can be just like X JAPAN (http://www.projectj.net/xjapan.htm) .

I like thier music. Kinda different. You can download one of thier earlier songs from that page just scroll down to the bottom.

regards,

[lawrence]

all he needs is a phone call from axl rose :yes:

[PEZ]

Killer! :headbang:

[spider]

Thought i'd post some pics of my guitars.
These 3 are my current favourites.
Sorry about the poor picture quality (cheap camera).
:headbang:

[Chainsaw Willie!]

This is the 1976 Gibson Explorer I bough in 1982. I was 19 and had that mod-monkey mindset that wouldn't leave good-enough alone. Stuff I did to it includes gold mini-Schaller machine heads, brass truss rod cover, Kahler string lock, brass nut, routed for third pickup, Dimarzio super-II, super-distortion, and X2N, Brass pickguard, Kahler/Gibson vibrato, volume pots have DPDT push/pull swithches for series/parallel, a triple pole swich for single coil mode, and some wierd Gibson strap buttons that are spike shaped and work as well as Strap-Locks.

It's kinda heavy, and it frightens small children, but it is just about the best sounding and most versitile guitar I have ever played. I noodle around with strats, LPDC copies, and my homebrew, but this is the old brick on a stick that I always come back to.

[spider]

Just got a copy of Joe Satriani's new album.
"Super Colossal"
Jesus F***ing Christ - if i had half this man's talent....
Have to say i am not (until today) a big JS fan.:Punk:

[Slyboy]

Now, I havent played for ages, and many of you may have seen this vid from YouTube, however this has just made me want to pick up my axe again and rock out. I love it when people do heavy versions of classical tracks and this is the very best I have heard by miles. (oh - its probably old hat and many of you may have seen it because it apparently made CNN and loads of other TV shows!)

Enjoy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zth3iAOCd8U&mode=related&search=

:supsmiley :supsmiley :supsmiley :supsmiley

[rider1260]

I have been playing for 30+ years, I can get out of my own way and I just play for fun.(w00t)
Heres the pics of my current guitars

[Slyboy]

Wow - very envious. Quite a collection you've got there. Theres me with a crappy old beaten up cheap Gibson rep which I got for £20 fifteen years ago! (oh - and a nice classical guitar).

[Itzamna]

I just traded my bass of 9 years in for a cheap acoustic guitar to start playing some blues on. Picking it up quite well.

I also play trumpet, tuba, and little bit of piano and harmonica. Harmonica I learned during my move out here to California. The last 1000 miles I was alone so had nothing better to do. Actually went to college for a year in Music in Jazz Studies.

[joelowden]

Well.. in amongst all you rockers .. I play a Lowden acoustic S10 .
I usually play Irish / Scottish Traditional stuff always in dadgad tuning.
occasionally lapse into Crowded House/REM kinda stuff.

My 15 yr old son however is a big metal/rock fan and plays lead guitar and sings :-
He has the following guitars :-
Jackson Randy Rhoads
Epiphone Black Beauty
Gibson Custom shop '59 re-issue( I know .. 'twas cheap from a mate).
This was him last december doing an old favourite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOt3tCSPc_Q

[Matt Chappell]

I am Bass player and have been playing in bands since I was a kid at school, I don't now because of the nature of the job and family.
I have a Charvel B1 and a Marshall 200w intergarted head with a 1x15 cab, complete with the scars of 1000's of gigs.
For a while that was my job...

[Timothy]

I have been playing for 30+ years, I can get out of my own way and I just play for fun.(w00t)
Heres the pics of my current guitarsWhat's the story behind CHRISTIE? Very Who/Jam Modesque...

[Slyboy]

This was him last december doing an old favourite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOt3tCSPc_Q

Joe - thats cool. I myself have learned that old Sabbath classic.

[Chainsaw Willie!]

Has anybody here bough, tried, seen, the Eppiphone Valve Junior?

I have have been intending to build up a Kalamazoo Model 1 clone ( 1 12AX7 and 1 EL84 ) for a few years now, but just haven't got around to feeling like paying for the transformers...

But dang I like this idea. 5 Watts, on/off switch, volume knob, and nothing else to suck the signal. $99 at Musicians Friend.

I can't homebrew the chassis, buy the transformers, and build a cabnet for $99. I am kinda picturing some Honduran 8-year-olds, layed off from the soccer ball plant, (and Nike ain't hiring) soldering up tube sockets.



On another goof, I pulled out the old 130 Watt Peavey to sell on craigslist and my son found it. He has been goofing with it, but hasn't yet noticed the volume knob goes past 2. I am afraid of a scene like from Back To The Future where the kid gets blown through a wall. or maybe getting charged with child neglect when the kid deafens himself for life!

[rider1260]

What's the story behind CHRISTIE? Very Who/Jam Modesque...
Its my last name My father is an retired artist I been trying to get him to paint something for years. He Like Spitfire airplanes so I got him to paint one of my guitars

[rider1260]

Heres more pic of my stuff as its getting cold guitars become my toys over the winter!

[Chainsaw Willie!]

Today she went away with another guy.

We had been together since 1984. She was always there, always ready to go, never said "no". She wasn't exotic or glamorous, but she never gave me a moment of grief and she always gave me what I needed.

Goodbye dear pal, hello two-hundred-and-fifty bucks.







Dang, had that thing half my life! Where did the '80s and '90s go? and what the heck happened to me?

[jgrrl]

I like my Casino!

http://www.jpax.net/images/guitars/geetar1.jpg

[simon.w]

Bloody show off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHXiwmx1FSw):bigclap: :bigclap: :bigclap: