How good you were/are...

[FretSlug]

Hmm.. I have this little problem.. I like to compete in everything and with every one.. I KNOW! IT'S STUUUUPIIID!!
But that's my nature.. :)

Soo.. This is my question.. What did you play when you were/are 16?

I myself play Paganini (24 caprice) Jason Becker and Symphony X.. Yeh..

Have fun trying to remember ye oldies! :P

[Lordathestrings]

"Inside Looking Out" by Grand Funk Railroad (pre-Locomotion, when they were a great band).

Good luck finding it, newbie. :D LOL

[lalimacefolle]

I guess I was trying to play guns and roses songs...

[friskynibbles]

with myself, mostly.
-Daniel (who started guitar at 17)

[Incidents Happen]

im barely 14, but i play grateful dead mostly. but i have this thing for breaking songs out into really long pieces, so whenever i feel like breakin into a solo inbetween verses i have to pause the tape because they play a few seconds later, and you get the point...

[James8831]

with my moped when i was 16 >

On the gtr -Smoke On The Water/ Whole Lotta Love, LOL!! oh, they were so hard:) - especially on a spanish guitar.......

[munqy]

Well i was 16 5 months ago ...
Well then i wasn't doing IB (the most hardest High school diploma course in the world http://www.ibo.org ) - any way i was playing alot of hendrix , muddy waters , SRV ... in the begining of 2001
... then i moved onto yngwi, Children of Bodom , savatage , in flames, randy rhoads **** and stuff... .... dude face it u hava alot of time on ure handz - and ure good ...( though i don't dig pagani way to classical- thats like head bangin to bach and mozart )
we oldies have a long way to go to get 2 ure level.. ; )
\m/

[Benoit]

I was into Metallica at that time.

I hope you got some sound clips to back up that "I play Paganini and Symphony X at 16" thing :)

Cause if you do I'd like to hear some, I Love Paganini stuff and Symphony X is really good.

Post some tricks of paganini, I know they were looking for some classical guitar tricks.

I got the fourth caprice (or somthing like that) for violin in tabs

[FretSlug]

Benoit, check the paganini thing I posted.. It's of very bad sound quality and the distortion sucks big time but there's something.

[lalimacefolle]

http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/trick.php?trick_id=3477

Second theme for the 24 caprice, first part... String skip, legato, gap sweeping, tapping, I almost feel like I'm Allan HOLDSWORTH

[FretSlug]

Nice.. I have done that with no tapping like this.


E ----8-12-8-------------4-7-4------------
B --10--------10--------5-------5-----------
G ----------------9-----------------4----------
D ------------------10-----------------6---------
A ---------------------12-----------------7--------
E ----------------------------------------

E ---8-12-8------------------
B -10---------10---------------
G ----------------9-------9-----
D ------------------10----------
A ---------------------12--------
E --------------------------12-

Did you listen my string skipping? I would love to have some feedback..

[lalimacefolle]

the tapping section was to match the articulation of the violin, but it is possible (and recommended for the technically challenged :D ti play it only using sweeping)

[James]

I don't know FretSlug, it was fast no denying that. But to be honest it sounded kinda sloppy. Do you practice with a metronome?

[James8831]

Originally posted by Lordathestrings
"Inside Looking Out" by Grand Funk Railroad (pre-Locomotion, when they were a great band).

Good luck finding it, newbie. :D LOL

I've got a vague recollection of GFR (no not Guns and FXXXin Roses) from when I was 17, but, that year is vague with a capital W (for "Wasted").

Ok, we were about 10 yrs behind the popular scene, but wgaf.


http://www.guitarboard.com/view.php?id=2721&type=bass is about all i can find.

If'n' I remember right they are what a ROCK Band should sound like (and CCR and the Stones) and what Boston could only aspire to be, but who am i to speculate...Dude, you got those memories flowing like water.

What was their big song , my memory is like a swiss thing with holes in :D

[Bardsley]

Man, when I was 16 I had eight regular session gigs playing all the parts of Bach's Goldberg variations at once on the guitar and I could play every piece by everyone you've ever heard of - especially those you haven't heard of so I sound cooler for speaking in a reverential way about a band that you don't know. Oh, I started playing about 3 months before my 16th birthday. I think I was learning chords still and trying to play along to my favourite U2 albums.

[Incidents Happen]

heh, U2. whats ur fav song.

[FretSlug]

I know it sounded quite sloppy, especially the string skip system... But if you listen to the violin variations and Becker's 24 caprice on the acoustic guitar you notice, that the parts don't go with the exact tempo all the time, but I know, it was not so good..

Thanks for the comments!

[Lordathestrings]

Grand Funk Railroad was Mark Farner (guitar, electric piano, and vocals), Mel Shacter (bass and vocals), and Don Brewer (drums and vocals). Mark used to play a Gretsh Rock Jet (Les Paul type) and swing it around his head while he was playing the solo for "Inside Lookin' Out" with only his left hand. Their big hit from the early era was "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" from the "Closer To Home" album.

"Mean Mistreater", "Limousine Driver", "TNUC", "Hooked On Love" and "Mark Says Alright" were great songs from this period. Probably their best stuff was on the "Survival" album, with "I Can Feel Him In The Morning" and the version of "Gimme Shelter" that the Stones only wish they could have done.

Ahh... memories....... :)

[James8831]

Lordathestrings, I know i've heard "Closer To Home" ,but, it all gets tangled up with my dim recollections of ELP and Mountain songs. See

http://guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3501 for a vague explanation.

GFR cds will go with Steely Dan on my "to get" list.

Cheers.

[crazyguy]

When I was 16, I was trying to learn the 'Crossroads duel tune' (unaware of the actual speed, I just found tabs that sounded good). I used to be into speed and stuff, but today when I listen to Paganini, what strikes me the most are the slow parts. Also, I prefer Vivaldi.

[magicninja]

I was playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Nothing Else Matters" among others.

[river]

gosh when i was a kid i was playin bout like i
am now , badly lol. course i didnt know it then
cuz my ego and zeal overpowered by ear. :P

[Mad_Slasher8605]

well im only 14, but i play some grateful dead, i try to play free bird (well, i dont suck at it anymore) wish you where here i can play, and some rolling stones and bob dylan.

[FenderBender]

Right now I turned 14 about 1 month ago and I can play a lot of stuff. Right now I am into Satriani and Vai. I also really like SRV, Hendrix, any type of blues improv, and classical. I can do all the techniques except string skipping very well. I also need to work on sweeping a little. I am working on the Crossroads duel and I have about half of it down. So in 2 years time, I hope I can play a ton of cool stuff. Check some of the tricks I posted out. I will provide sound files as soon as I can get the right stuff on this computer. Search for Marcus and I think you'll find them.

[Edited by FenderBender on 04-06-2002 at 01:23 AM]

[Steve Lindsay]

I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 16 and Jimmy Page didn't write it until he was 21 so I must be better than him right?

[Cavefish X]

Ha! When I was 16, it was 1986 I wanted to be George Lynch!
DOKKEN!! I'm not ashamed to say it!! It took me a like 2 weeks to get the solo of "In my dreams" down. My band at the time - HARD STEEL (geeeeez) took first place in the school talent show with that song!

[Slasha]

When I am sixteen (in 2 years) i'll probably be able to do most stuff possible on the guitar. Right now im 14, and can do most Paganini, Bach, Racer X etc. (although not as fast as id like to be able to do!! lol). Sweeping and shredding are some cool things i like to do a lot, oh yeah and i really like legato type stuff.

:cool: Slasha

[FenderBender]

Cool Slasha. Good luck with the most things possible though. LoL. I bet you will kick ass but all things possible... I don't know about that.

[FenderBender]

Hey Slasha nm, I shouldn't be commenting because I don't know what you can play. NM me lol :-) I am too competitive when it comes to guitar. Slasha email me @ fenderguitarist2002@yahoo.com and tell me where you find accurate tabs for Racer X and Paganini and what kinda shredding you like to do. Cool! And go to http://www.digevent.com/events/consumer/music/guitar_mania. This site is awesome. Later everyone

[James8831]

Originally posted by Steve Lindsay
I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 16 and Jimmy Page didn't write it until he was 21 so I must be better than him right?

sounds like "Bad News" to me,matey :)

[Steve Lindsay]

I have now reached the grand old age of 3 1/2 and can tap with all thirteen fingers and am currently working on being the world's first toe tapping guitarist.

[FretSlug]

Really?! Wow.. Lol.

I can see the advertisements:

"The TOETAPPER is here again, come to see the amazing show." Or something.. Hopefully not though.. :)