New Year's Resolutions

[trebledamage]

Does anyone have a music related New Year's resolution???

[pstring]

No ten hour Steve Vai guitar workouts for me!

[SofaKingStupid]

squeeze more practice time into a day, what else? oh yeah, save my damn money for a gibson SG.

[Lordathestrings]

Finish up the WeeBeastie 5 Watt power amp. I've stuck a few things together, so I know it works, but I still have to add some means of adjusting the plate voltage, incorporate a DI port, and package the whole thing so I can get it out of my lab, and into use.

Devote more time to actual practice. As has been pointed out by wiser souls than I, a couple of hours of 'noodling' is not the same thing at all!

This is the year I get into home recording. I now have my father's hand-me-down SB Live :rolleyes: and a pile of PowerTracks Pro Audio and Band In A Box software from PG Music. It looks like good stuff, but I'll admit to feeling overwhelmed initially.

There's other stuff too, but I can only do one job fast; or two jobs half-fast. Three or more??

[Raskolnikov]

Sunn 1200s head and maybe a second 2x15 cab
Take that Jaco Pastoruis CD I just got to heart.
Finally get .012's on my Tele as well as my Strat.
Get into college, or atleast someplace I can play all the time.
I'm thinking about getting a Dean PRS knock off, they look pretty decent for $400. Actually playing one through an amp will hopefully confirm my suspicions.


Happy new year everybody!

[lalimacefolle]

Show the world I'm really the weirdest guitarist around...

[blankdrawn]

-learn to play the guitar
-hopefully piss off everyone in our town being the only punk band
-skateboard in school purposely
-streak through the senior's graduation (i know im supposed to wait until its MY graduation but im too impatient :) )

[educatedfilm]

Right... I never really do new years "resolutions"... but this is what I wanna do this year:

Get lessons in making guitar...
Actaully make a guitar...
Make a guitar with decent art work (see a pattern emrging)...
Learn as much as possible about electronics...
Make an amp
Maybe enroll in art foundation course (now 4 moths into the actaul course)...
Music theory... understand as much as possible...
RECORD RECORD RECORD!
Write WHOLE songs... not just little doodles or minute long pieces...
Train voice... I can sing in a sense that I hit notes.. but the old voice needs some training... as well as do something about my lungs...so the next one is obvious
GEt fit (again, like the old days)!
Learn to play keyboard and harmonica...

This may seem a little over ambitous.. but I've got nothing to do for the next nine months (hopefully after that uni)... So loooaaads of time for me to do stuff I wouldn't have had time for if I'd went to uni last autum...

[Incidents Happen]

excuse me did you say 9 (NINE!) months!?!? lotta time on ur hands...what are ya pregnant? ;) lol

[educatedfilm]

heheh...no, which is a shame.... lol... I'm resisting some exams mid janaury... and after that all I've gotta do is do what I want till it's uin time (asuming that I get in this time)...

[Christoph]

Here we go (it looks like we're all sticking to guitar related stuff, so I'll do the same) -


actually start practicing again.
finish some songs and write some new ones.
learn some new classical stuff.
finish learning keyboard (I kinda got bored with it and stopped)

[James8831]

If i have any they will be


. Bodge/customise guitars more damn neatly.
. Learn to solder damn properly!!
. Learn more of the theory.
. Play the damn things more often damnit!
. Learn not to solder my fingers to the guitar or the guitar to the damn carpet.
. Join a band.
. Stop making resolutions.
. Damn stop swearing so damn often. :>

[Branislav]

first, happy new year to all members of this 4um.

I'd wish:
-Fender Strat USA Deluxe
-Marshall 100 WATT amp
-to "get close" with one very special girl :)
-1000 $

Hope I don't ask much from new year :D

[Lordathestrings]

As Charles Dickens is reputed to have said...

"May you work like you don't need the money;
May you love like you've never been hurt before;
And may you dance like no-one is watching!"

:D :D :D :D :D

[Branislav]

nice, but hard to achieve.
you could add:

My you play like you don't have a guitar :)

[SoS]

This year I'm planning to......

¤ Get my Apprentiship in Carpentery
¤ Move on to little side projects like building my own Guitars
¤ Take some English lessons :D
¤ Spend more time practicing and learning all my scales
¤ Listen to a wider range of music
¤ Buy myself a nice semi Acoustic.....cant wait
¤ Invest in a few pedals eg(phase Shifter, etc)