Schecter Hellraiser C1 Floyd Rose - BlacK Cherry: Incredibly Versatile. Surprisingly, the Sound can range from Really authentic sounding blues and funk to Insane Blazing Metal... Love it. Only thing I hate is changing tuning cause of the Floating Bridge. Both Pick Ups can go from Humbucker to Single Coil... Lots of variety of sounds. Awesome clean too.
My Spare:
Ibanez GIO - BlacK: Generic guitar, mostly Rock guitar. Nothing compared to Hellraiser!
My Acoustic: Lucero Classical Guitar - Low End Nylon Stringed Guitar. I like to jam a lot on this ONE since I just have to pick up and play... I need a steel stringed ONE though.
My Effects Board:
Pod x3 Live - Awesome effects and customization as well as preset organization.
My Amp:
Line 6 Spider III 15 watt - The amp works. Nothing special really, its good for beginners I guess. I usually just use my Sennheiser headphones though since I can't disturb the peace so much.
I'm a self taught guitarist, been playing for about 3 years now.
Only full Song I bothered learning was Sweet Child O' Mine including the solo, Which I learned a year ago. I know other riffs from songs here and there but I usually just jam around on my classical or sometimes pull out my electrics and record riffs here and there for fun.
Haha, thanks mate! And you know one of the few songs that I have always had trouble learning! I shall try to learn it again as I have not tried so in almost a year! ^^
On May 25 2011 09:53 emythrel wrote: It blew your mind? Then this will finish you off completely.... all modern rock, country and jazz guitar styles can be traced back to the blues grass of the early 1900's..... blues grass can trace its roots back to directly tribal African music. Seriously, dudes were busting out vocal solo's in africa in the 1600's that wouldn't sound of out place if played on guitar over a modern rock song.....
Ya, I knew the roots of music, but I mean the approach and modal changes and the way that chord progressions were written didn't seem similar until I started doing it myself.
In music there is nothing truly new, you just don't often see it until you learn it yourself. 7 white keys, 5 black keys and only 7 you can use in any one key...... eventually you run out of permutations ;p
I was writing a song a few weeks ago and my dad said "When did you learn that Bach piece?" I was like "wtf?" then he put on this bach CD and there was my song, done a thousand times better centuries ago lol. Obviously it wasn't exactly the same, but the basic motif and progression was identical.... I hadn't heard the piece before as far as I know, it was a pretty cool experience lol
p.s for any learners out there, I am currently recording some vids for my guitar students that will be going up on youtube as an online resource for them, I have started literally from explaining what the parts of a guitar are, how to take care of your guitar etc and am working up to basic fingering techniques etc.... when i've got enough done to upload a significant chunk of guitar basics I'll post it up in this thread. I will eventually be working up to doing vids like this one i made a few years ago
On May 25 2011 10:03 Legatus Lanius wrote: did you mean blues, or bluegrass?
bluegrass, blues grass.... same thing, depends where you are from. I was always told it was called blues grass. That later became Rhythm & Blues, then blues blah blah blah history of music was very boring at school lol
I've been playing around 17 years, and got a Fender Custom FMT Telecaster a year or so ago (the rare blue one) and I must say it is my favorite to play (I also own a PRS, Gibson, and 2 Ibanez). Some pics below (not mine, but same color/model)
Doubt you can find the blue anymore, but the red sunburst and wood finishes are fairly common, and I highly recommend this guitar (for lead playing mainly, not so great for rhythm guitarists) It has great non-buzzy low action and a very wide neck.
On May 25 2011 10:08 Powerpill wrote: I've been playing around 17 years, and got a Fender Custom FMT Telecaster a year or so ago (the rare blue one) and I must say it is my favorite to play (I also own a PRS, Gibson, and 2 Ibanez). Some pics below (not mine, but same color/model)
Doubt you can find the blue anymore, but the red sunburst and wood finishes are fairly common, and I highly recommend this guitar (for lead playing mainly, not so great for rhythm guitarists) It has great non-buzzy low action and a very wide neck.
Is that neck on that one like fat strat wide? I used to have a pro tone fat strat, it was almost like playing an acoustic... man i miss that guitar..... one of my friends fell on it while drunk and snapped the neck
On May 25 2011 10:10 Legatus Lanius wrote: i always thought rnb evolved out of blues, not bluegrass
R&B as is modern R&B? If you mean like Kanye West (or however he spells it) that Rhythm & Bass, not Rhythm and Blues. R&B is B.B King et al its essentially just a different form of blues.... might have got the order of progression wrong, I didn't listen too hard in history of music!
R&B as is modern R&B? If you mean like Kanye West (or however he spells it) that Rhythm & Bass, not Rhythm and Blues. R&B is B.B King et al its essentially just a different form of blues.
I know this isn't a music genre thread but this is important to me: Contemporary R&B is still rhythm and blues. The B still stands for blues. B.B. King is considered blues. Just standard blues. Classic R&B is like Ray Charles, James Brown, The Temptations, and most motown stuff.
Been having this for 4 years. It's the only decently cheap left-handed guitar I've found with superb quality. Lovin' it
Leftie guitars look weird, I've never seen one I liked.... i always liked what hendrix did... just strung a normal guitar upside down!
Good story about Hendrix and a left handed guitar, Eric Clapton had Fender make Jimmy hendrix a personalised left handed Strat, the night Jimmi died Clapton was in the same bar as him in London, with the guitar but never got a chance to give it to him.... the guitar sold later for a silly amount of money in an auction.
http://www.songsterr.com/ is a great resource, as it has playable tabs. Essential if you like to learn music with weird timings like Tool. I currently play this:
R&B as is modern R&B? If you mean like Kanye West (or however he spells it) that Rhythm & Bass, not Rhythm and Blues. R&B is B.B King et al its essentially just a different form of blues.
I know this isn't a music genre thread but this is important to me: Contemporary R&B is still rhythm and blues. The B still stands for blues. B.B. King is considered blues. Just standard blues. Classic R&B is like Ray Charles, James Brown, The Temptations, and most motown stuff.
Contemporary R&B is a travesty.... its nothing like proper R&B. And Ray charles and motown were soul, not R&B. Thats all I will say on the subject because i don't want to derail this cool thread, plus i think this is a UK genre definition thing..... here BB King is in the R&B section in record stores and Ray Charles is in the soul section ;p
Back on topic.... my acoustics aren't good enough to brag about lol, my dad has a Martin classical and I have a standard non brand semi and a guncase acoustic
Bullshit. A simple search for 'guitar' on TL search comes up with the following threads that are exactly the same as yours. You simply wanted a thread of your own.
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