Hi from spain
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:24 pm
Not exactly Spanish mind, I come from London but we moved over here around 5 years back. I've been trying to play guitar off and on for years, but tried to really work at it about 8 or 9 years back.
I don't know about anyone else but the best and the worst thing that I think can happen is when you get a few chords and it sounds like a tune, it's great but it also means you can hit a comfort zone.
Boy when I was younger I got stuck in far too many three/four chord Dylan songs, the playing maybe wasn't great, there wasn't anything much more than those chords, but everytime you found something difficult there was a comfort in knocking out Blowing in the Wind and Mr Tambourine Man
So some years back I bought a big book of Beatles songs and worked my way through them, at least the ones I liked and also the ones that offered a few more challenges. I also worked my way through a lot of other stuff, Stones, Neil Young, Tim Hardin, Leonard Conen and I guess possibly my favourite band The Eagles
Of course it was all rhythym and I know although I can play a reasonable tune (as well as screwing up quite badly at times)it's all basic, it needs embellishment
Here of course is the catch 22, you listen to a record and want to play the tune, but then you realise that there's sometimes two or three guitars and a bass happening and unless you can play like Richard Thompson, who can actually make one guitar sound like three you need to start figuring out how to blend it to so that a tune actually sounds like it reflects the song your playing
I looked at quite a few guitar learning courses and books, even tried a couple, but I'm very glad I found this site, because looking at the stuff Neil does is exactly what I want, so much stuff that can embellish a tune, some simple, some looks simple until you try and copy it,some as hard as it looks until you keep working at it, but also some technical theory that comes across simply rather than overcomplicated, logics of chords linked to scales, structure of the songs, etc., it's excellent
It also has some real favourites of mine like Wild Horses, Angie, Ventura Highway and Who'll stop The Rain, so that'll keep me busy for a while
I have a few guitars but my favourite is my Martin D28 which really has opened out these last couple of years and it's the one I invariably pick up, matter of fact I shall be doing just that in a few minutes as I'm going to have another crack at Angie...... lets hope she doesn't slap my face:dry:
anyway nice talking to you
I don't know about anyone else but the best and the worst thing that I think can happen is when you get a few chords and it sounds like a tune, it's great but it also means you can hit a comfort zone.
Boy when I was younger I got stuck in far too many three/four chord Dylan songs, the playing maybe wasn't great, there wasn't anything much more than those chords, but everytime you found something difficult there was a comfort in knocking out Blowing in the Wind and Mr Tambourine Man
So some years back I bought a big book of Beatles songs and worked my way through them, at least the ones I liked and also the ones that offered a few more challenges. I also worked my way through a lot of other stuff, Stones, Neil Young, Tim Hardin, Leonard Conen and I guess possibly my favourite band The Eagles
Of course it was all rhythym and I know although I can play a reasonable tune (as well as screwing up quite badly at times)it's all basic, it needs embellishment
Here of course is the catch 22, you listen to a record and want to play the tune, but then you realise that there's sometimes two or three guitars and a bass happening and unless you can play like Richard Thompson, who can actually make one guitar sound like three you need to start figuring out how to blend it to so that a tune actually sounds like it reflects the song your playing
I looked at quite a few guitar learning courses and books, even tried a couple, but I'm very glad I found this site, because looking at the stuff Neil does is exactly what I want, so much stuff that can embellish a tune, some simple, some looks simple until you try and copy it,some as hard as it looks until you keep working at it, but also some technical theory that comes across simply rather than overcomplicated, logics of chords linked to scales, structure of the songs, etc., it's excellent
It also has some real favourites of mine like Wild Horses, Angie, Ventura Highway and Who'll stop The Rain, so that'll keep me busy for a while
I have a few guitars but my favourite is my Martin D28 which really has opened out these last couple of years and it's the one I invariably pick up, matter of fact I shall be doing just that in a few minutes as I'm going to have another crack at Angie...... lets hope she doesn't slap my face:dry:
anyway nice talking to you
