Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject: guitaro aspies :D
do any other of you aspies like to shred the guitar? people think I am quite skilled. tell me about your guitar skills, or tell me how to view them. show me your creativeness on the GUITAR!!! thats me.
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I can't play guitar to save my life. I don't know why, I've tried to pick it up several times, but I just can't seem to make a good sound come out of them. _________________ A shot gun blast into the face of deceit
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eg4man very nice style! I have been playing for about a year but haven't quite developed enough skill to make a recording. I am focusing more on learning music theory and techniques. My teacher seems to think I am better off learning my own style before I learn to play other's. I totally agree. I am playing more for my own benefit than for others. _________________ My whole life has been an exercise in original thinking. While I was looking in vain for the answers in books, I found them within myself.
I should probably record myself playing something sometime, but I'm insecure about it. I started out playing violin just about every day from age 5, until I was 13 or 14, and I picked up the guitar around age 16. Never took formal lessons. Never quite got the hang of chords. But scales? Oh yes. Me like scales.
I rarely, rarely try playing with other folks because it never feels right - I always get uncomfortable or worried that I'm doing something wrong. But when I play by myself, I get so lost in it that it's almost like I can't hear, see, or feel anything else... it's weird. And I'm probably much worse than I feel I am on account of the fact that I never try playing any actual songs. I just doodle around. Been doodling around for a little over ten years now.
Last edited by kestrel on Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:28 am; edited 1 time in total
yeah, the confidence in front of people thing is hard, I did some talent shows back in high school, always was nervous, but they always LOVED it! I used to give myself a hard time (like im no good or i suck) i do every now and then give myself a hard time, but I went to a guitar show at the state fair grounds and tried out some guitar's and lots of people walked by stoped and stared at me and a couple guys at booth's selling guitars told me keep playin man, you are kicking butt on that guitar!
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:41 am Post subject:
I have a guitar, but I'mnot sure how to learn to play it. _________________ Cinnamon and sugary
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I think playing violin kind of ruined it for me - the class I was in did a bunch of concerts and public performances - not small ones, either... like thousands of people were there watching us (at least, that's how it felt to me). I was 12 years old and already had severe anxiety I'm scarred for life now.
I'll go to music stores and sit down and play for like five minute spurts until someone walks by and reminds me I'm not hiding snug in my room. But I remember I went to one shop to sell an old frankenstein strat I picked up and, while they were examining it, I sat down and started playing on this beautiful semi-hollow telecaster that cost more than my car... When I came back up to the desk to ask if they were done, the guy said... "Well, at first we were going to say no, but then you started playing.... You're not bad so we'll give you $45 for it." Dunno if he was just patronizing me or what, but I took it as a compliment.
very awesome kestrel, compliments are always an esteem raiser. was it an eddie van halen frankenstein strat?? do you still play I hope. anyway, I have a friend from work who plays guitar and cello, I think that is kinda neat.
I don't know what kind of strat it was, except to say it looked like it had been put through a meat-grinder... the body was still in good condition, but the pickguard was all shattered, the coils dangling by wires and stuff, and I think the neck was warped... as a strat, it'd probably be worth something to someone who knows how to rebuild guitars. I know if I had kept the thing around, it'd have become a new obsession to try to fix it up, and I already have enough obsessions and too little time to pursue them all.
I do still play. I have a nice black ovation acoustic/electric, and some other mixed electric and acoustic guitars that aren't mine but are, for one reason or another, at my house. Everyone who lives here is a music fanatic, I think, but I'm the only shy one about it. I'm not too shy with violin - I used to do folk accompaniments with some of the guys here who play that sort of thing (and my dad). I don't do it as much anymore, though.
Do you ever play around with acoustic, or mostly just electric? And cello is awesome... I've always wanted to try one but never get the chance. They don't sound as whiney as the violin.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:14 am Post subject:
Sounds a bit choppy, but good enough for a quick youtube demo. Personally I'm not really a fan of strats, but you actually get good tone out of it. When I played a Strat, my favorite tone was by using the bridge and middle pickup and then turning the tone control down, then using an EQ pedal to bring the high mids back up. Essentially what happens when you do this, both pickups are working as a humbucker pickup due to the fact that the neck pickup on a strat is wired in reverse polarity from the bridge and neck pickups. --This is basically how Hendrix got a lot of his sounds.
kestrel wrote:
I don't know what kind of strat it was, except to say it looked like it had been put through a meat-grinder... the body was still in good condition, but the pickguard was all shattered, the coils dangling by wires and stuff, and I think the neck was warped... as a strat, it'd probably be worth something to someone who knows how to rebuild guitars. I know if I had kept the thing around, it'd have become a new obsession to try to fix it up, and I already have enough obsessions and too little time to pursue them all.
There's alway's [url=http://edenhaus.com/]this[[/url should you have the urge to save cash and buy the componentry piecemeal and assemble manually. -- You'll get a guitar that's at least as good as anything Fender makes in the US, for quite a bit less than a US Standard Strat/Tele. _________________ "When there's no 'there' to get to, we're so there!"
I'm not really a big fan of strats either fogman, I mainly have this guitar for Cosplaying at anime conventions cause it was cheap ($120) and made of light weight basswood. thats why if you noticed, it has stickers on it, their logos for a J-pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki, I dress up as her guitarist cause I'm inspired by him on guitar.
my favorite brand of guitar is Paul Reed Smith
I currently own 3 guitars, this white strat AKA Squier Bullet, a Paul Reed Smith 1991 EG4, and a BC Rich Mockingbird ST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject:
eg4man wrote:
I'm not really a big fan of strats either fogman, I mainly have this guitar for Cosplaying at anime conventions cause it was cheap ($120) and made of light weight basswood. thats why if you noticed, it has stickers on it, their logos for a J-pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki, I dress up as her guitarist cause I'm inspired by him on guitar.
my favorite brand of guitar is Paul Reed Smith
I currently own 3 guitars, this white strat AKA Squier Bullet, a Paul Reed Smith 1991 EG4, and a BC Rich Mockingbird ST
Sorry, not a fan of PRS's either, and I remember when a local music store started carrying them in late 1985. They were certainly pretty guitars though, but they really didn't quite capture the Les Paul and strat sounds that the salesman said that they would.
Personally I like a big chunk of mahogany with Humbuckers, and in the past some of the guitars I've owned were these:
'58 LP Junior (Headstock broken and replaced w/ LP Custom headstock)
70's Hagstrom Swede (much like an LP Custom)
Reissue '59 LP TV Jr.
'82 LP Custom (Boat anchor model in Silverburst)
Yamaha SBG 500 (Japanese 'LP Killer' w/ much higher build quality than Gibson currently makes, and made in the Norlin era)
Guild X-79
Gibson SG Special (Weird early 70's model w/ HB's and Ebony FB. Body was from 60's SG Jr, or 60's SG Style Melody Maker)
'84 Fender Esprit (Japanese model similar to Ibanez Artist, and made in the same factory)
LP Special 'Worn Finish' model. _________________ "When there's no 'there' to get to, we're so there!"
show me your creativeness on the GUITAR!!! 
But when I play by myself, I get so lost in it that it's almost like I can't hear, see, or feel anything else... it's weird. And I'm probably much worse than I feel I am on account of the fact that I never try playing any actual songs. I just doodle around. Been doodling around for a little over ten years now.
I'm scarred for life now.
But I remember I went to one shop to sell an old frankenstein strat I picked up and, while they were examining it, I sat down and started playing on this beautiful semi-hollow telecaster that cost more than my car... When I came back up to the desk to ask if they were done, the guy said... "Well, at first we were going to say no, but then you started playing.... You're not bad so we'll give you $45 for it." Dunno if he was just patronizing me or what, but I took it as a compliment. 
