do girls play guitar

Originally Posted by: AkiraLoads of people play guitar, but only a few of them play the guitar well.

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Originally Posted by: pricklepussdont underestimate the allure of the bass....
i admit i play mostly lead these days, but i still play bass for a mate when he needs a full band. at a recent gig me and the drummer were warming up/sound checking with some funky grooves and got about 15 young ladies on the dance floor.... the guitar soundcheck promptly scared them off.

any way, a bit more on topic... i know 3 women who play guitar, none of them are amazing shredders or anything but they can solo well enough. but then all of them play at least 2 other instruments really well and have really strong singing voices (oh and they are all hot)

Bass is more difficult then guitar.

Girls definitely play. I have 5 very different axes myself and love all of them. :D

Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheartAnyone want to play bass?Come on!Its fun!.... ..come on!

Yep,everyone goes for guitar.

I couldn't decide between guitar or bass... I asked a friend and he said guitar so that's what I went out and bought... I imagine how much different my life would be if he had said bass.....

Originally Posted by: KareBearGirls definitely play. I have 5 very different axes myself and love all of them. :D

[font=trebuchet ms]Yayuuss!

Keep playin' - keep postin'. :D

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my guitar teacher plays guitar and bass, so do i... and drums, but im best at drums, 2nd best and guitar, 3rd bass... i only know simple stuff like flinstones, and lat's get rtetarted by black eyed peas...
guitar i can play just about anything
drums i can play anything

Originally Posted by: AmericanDream
guitar i can play just about anything
drums i can play anything

me too... :D

lol juss makin this thread longer

AmericanDream,If you can I would like to hear you post something similar to Pete Sandovals 'drum check' off of Morbid Angels 'heretic' album...

I'll give $10...seriously.

[font=trebuchet ms]Not even close! We've had political discussions that went for well over 30 pages.[/font]

Yeah... who knows stuff... :rolleyes:

like all the girls at my schoo got a geetar but i only know one who actually can play. its just a way of looking cool i guess. isnt that the reason everyone wanted to start? i mean wen i was like 7 i wanned to play geetar cuz i saw some cool looking guy on da tv playing and im like...i wanna doo that!

Originally Posted by: rockonn91isnt that the reason everyone wanted to start?

No, I started playing by a completely random decision. Seriously.

Wow, what a heated thread this one is. I guess I'll add my thoughts to it just because I am female and play the guitar. There is no sense in having a major discussion about women without any involved in it. I don't claim to be the spokesperson for why women do or do not take the guitar seriously. All I can say is that I do and have for many years. I have noticed that there are not as many women that play and I honestly don't know why that is but Perhaps it is because there is some type of mindset out there that discourages women from picking up a guitar. I personally have encountered this in my own life and upbringing. I started playing guitar when I was about 9 and prior to that had two older brothers who were both bought guitars and lessons. Each one of them played "smoke on the water" for a couple weeks and quit. I had to absolutely beg my parents to allow me that opprotunity and was told no for a long time because I was a "girl" and they don't do things like that. I wore my parents down and was allowed lessons but it had to be "classical" as if that somehow made playing guitar more "lady-like"....I am now 36 and still playing... It's a shame how now after all these years and carpel tunnel later that I am just getting the courage to break out of the mold I was placed in to play what I love.... Now I'm not saying that I will ever jump off an amp and slide across a stage on my knees but this girl is going to Jam...

Originally Posted by: Lori_B.... Now I'm not saying that I will ever jump off an amp and slide across a stage on my knees but this girl is going to Jam...

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:D :D :D

Lori, don't be put off by the large number of testosterone intoxicated 12 year old boys here on the forum.

There are also some here who graduated from adolescence some time ago and still find time to knock out the odd power chord ! I have been playing for 20+ years and the more I learn the more I realize there is to know !

Keep at it and I sure that you will get there !

Originally Posted by: Lori_B... I wore my parents down and was allowed lessons but it had to be "classical" as if that somehow made playing guitar more "lady-like"....I am now 36 and still playing... It's a shame how now after all these years and carpel tunnel later that I am just getting the courage to break out of the mold I was placed in to play what I love....

[font=trebuchet ms]May you draw inspiration from our own Liona Boyd, who hired both Eric Clapton and David Gilmour as sidemen for one of her projects, called "Personnae".

BTW: My friends got pissed at me for borrowing their guitars all the time, so I got a paper route, and bought one for myself. I found the hang-tag from it last night while I was sorting through some old boxes. The date on the back of the tag - 9 October 1968.[/font]

Dude, that was 2 years before I was born !

That makes me feel a whole lot better !

Originally Posted by: Dr_simonDude, that was 2 years before I was born !

That makes me feel a whole lot better !

[font=trebuchet ms]Yeah, well, I guess that disqualifies me as a 12-year-old. And these days, if I'm intoxicated, testosterone is merely a bystander! Though I am having a lot of trouble convincing myself that it's time to sell off my pair of Garnet 412 cabs. I like owning gear that makes my shirt flap in the breeze![/font]
:D

Well it is probably better for the environment that a dozen half cooked sprouts !!