Inspiring Guitarist - PLEASE Respond :)

Well, I've been playing for 9 months now, and I wanted to check up on my progress with some awesome guitarists here....

Well, basically the 1st 2 months, I began playing Hendrix's stuff (thought poorly). I learned most of the basic techniques (pull offs/hammerons/legato/alternate picking/whammy abuse) Then I went through tons of cream stuff.... Then went on to metallica... I started playing stuff like "Jump in the Fire", and "The Four Horsemen" about the 6th-8th month..... Then I learned a bunch of pentatonic scales and started shredding on those (pretty easy lol)

Right around them, I learned pinch harmonics, and I recently learned sweep picking.... and I'm not yet comfortable with right handed tapping.

I'm starting to explore more on musical theory. Please tell me what you were doing during the 1st year of playing, and what you went onto do, and what you're doing now!!!!

Love guitars!!!! Just ANYTHING to fill my head with awesome thoughts of guitars!!! :D :D

Jimi Hendrix is a HUGGEE influence for me picking up the guitar. My other influences are: Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Randy Rhodes, BB King, Angus Young, Eddie Van Halen, Paul Gilbert, Marty Friedman, Dave Mustaine, Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammett, Yngwie Malmsteen, Slash, Buckethead, Steve Vai, Richie Blackmore, Zakk Wylde, Michael Angelo

Originally Posted by: Alpha KeuhardWell, I've been playing for 9 months now, and I wanted to check up on my progress with some awesome guitarists here....

Well, basically the 1st 2 months, I began playing Hendrix's stuff (thought poorly). I learned most of the basic techniques (pull offs/hammerons/legato/alternate picking/whammy abuse) Then I went through tons of cream stuff.... Then went on to metallica... I started playing stuff like "Jump in the Fire", and "The Four Horsemen" about the 6th-8th month..... Then I learned a bunch of pentatonic scales and started shredding on those (pretty easy lol)

Right around them, I learned pinch harmonics, and I recently learned sweep picking.... and I'm not yet comfortable with right handed tapping.

I'm starting to explore more on musical theory. Please tell me what you were doing during the 1st year of playing, and what you went onto do, and what you're doing now!!!!

Love guitars!!!! Just ANYTHING to fill my head with awesome thoughts of guitars!!! :D :D

I was in Viet Nam and learned how to play a Bob Dylan song.. I think it was um.

I was playing Jewel and other hippie crap my guitar teacher taught me. :cool:

u seemed to have progressed real fast.

in my first year i learnt tonnes of random songs then i got my guitar teacher to choose solos he thought were good, eg satriani roben ford pink floyd. try learnin the seven note scales as aposed to the pentatonic cos u cant really do theory without them. i then started to get into theory. i could right hand tap pretty well in my first year but i couldnt sweep pick at any reasonable speed in my first year. i would suggest get the theory sorted cos once you know most of it it will unlock tonnes of stuff.

anyway good luck

hmmmmmmm...

in my first year i wasn't doing as much as you, thats for sure. i remember i was into acdc and hendrix, and by the end of it i went into the satriani phase, which i'm still in now after 3 years, but i just got some becker stuff down, like serrana and 5th caprice, so i think i've just got the stuff your starting on down a bit after three. but yeh um, my influences are four:
joe satriani when it comes to melodies

john mcclaughlin when it comes to creativity

jason becker when it comes to fun,,,

and steve morse overall coz i idolize him.

All I knew was a D chord, so you're doing better than me.
Mostly I just tuned to open G, sat the guitar on my lap and did barre chords with my thumb. By the third year I could play 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Not Your Stepping Stone' by the Monkees.
:rolleyes:

My first 9 months consisted of me not really playing more than an our or so a week... learning chords mostly... I didn't get really seriously into guitar until after I transferred colleges, subsequently retiring from baseball... which gave me tons of free time... that was around my 3rd year of playing... At that time I could play most Metallica songs straight through and a lot of Hendrix and other popular guitar songs... Now I've been playing for 4 years... only about 1 of which seriously... and I can do pretty much anything you expect a good guitar player to do... though my real passion lies in the building/design of guitars... I've been playing a lot of blues lately... a lot of slide guitar... stuff like that.

Tip: make sure you work on learning whole songs... not just bits and pieces... It will make it easier for you to write your own stuff later on when you understand how everything fits together... plus... no one likes to hear 15 second clips of songs...

i rented a book called hendrix guitar method. by then i didnt know who the guy was but by the time i finished that book he left a permanent mark inside me.

[QUOTE=aschleman]my real passion lies in the building/design of guitars... I've been playing a lot of blues lately... a lot of slide guitar... stuff like that.


thats really cool aschleman, i am interested in that as well, have you come up with any cool ideas for guitars??


ps how do u do quotes properly???

I'm still in my first year of playing guitar, and what helps me most in progressing my musical education is simply listening to different music. If you're searching for alternative sources of inspiration, you need to get outside your comfort zone. You said you were into late sixties/early seventies classic rock, like Cream, Zeppelin, Hendrix Experience etc. If you want to move beyond that, listen to something completely different! Get yourself some jazz, fusion, acid, post-seventies alternative and prog, country, electronica, baroque, metal, hip-hop, jam blues, Karnatic classical music - whatever, as long as it's different to your usual fare. Even a bit of commercial radio pop will do a lot for your appreciation of song structure and tasteful composition - Robbie Williams is great for this! Listen to a LOT of different music, pay attention to the musical ideas that show through, and these ideas will manifest themselves in your playing.

Originally Posted by: schmange'Smoke on the Water'

Isn't that a Deep purple song?

Originally Posted by: Fret spiderthats really cool aschleman, i am interested in that as well, have you come up with any cool ideas for guitars??[/QUOTE]

I have... lol... though I only started learning about wiring pickups about 3 months ago... though NO WHERE near confident enought to actually do ****... I'll most likely **** it up. Here is the "blue print" lol

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4768/0180gy.jpg

I was planning on carving the body myself in my woodshop, humbucking pickups, and a pre-made fretboard (I'll modify the tuning head, ofcourse)

[QUOTE=Fret spider]ps how do u do quotes properly???

There is 2 parts. The begginning: [QUOTE = Fret spider] and an end: [/ QUOTE] (without the spaces)

Originally Posted by: Alpha KeuhardIsn't that a Deep purple song?

yep... a classic Deep Purple song. Probably the one song they're most known for.

Your not a real guitarist unless u can play smoke on the water i dont care who u are lol ;)

at 9 months of playing...lol i will get exactly wat i was learning all in files etc...

metallica's master of puppets interlude solo
theory i was kinda deep in theory for how long i was playing my teacher kinda....emphisized it importance, which im only starting to see now "keep at thoery" thats exactly wat i was learning :D

P.S My first song was mary had a little lamb, how metal am I?

Originally Posted by: damaged
P.S My first song was mary had a little lamb, how metal am I?

Nursery songs can make for crushing metal! Listen to "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly!

Check out Jason Becker, an amazing guitarist who is a BIG influence for a lot of the world's top players. There are a couple of lessons and downloadable mp3's on his website www.jasonbecker.com
This guy opened my eyes a lot and I really started improving when I spent time listening to his music and studying how he put pieces together.

Another piece, probably way above your current level but a great goal to practice towards is "No Boundaries" by Michael Angelo. It covers just about every technique you can imagine in a rock/blues/neo-classical influenced framework. You can download the whole track on www.angelo.com and if you like it, you can get the instructional dvd which breaks the whole song down section by section with in-depth explanations of each technique used. Bizarre lookin guy and most of his other stuff is unlistenable, but it's a great track. If you can nail that one then you're technique will be world class.

After I returned from the front ,with my bob dylan song. I was set to go but it was several years before I began to learn guitar. After my first year I was able to play "I can't quit Her" some allman brothers, stairway to heaven (just the chords. I was beginning to use a form of the pentonic scale but did'nt know it. It was a little more difficult to learn back then. we didn't have the tools that are available today. Songs were passed around - painfully learned by ear - It was hard to find a good teacher too. one day this 15 year old young man came over with his original gibson firebird and startted playing hendrix and very well at that. some people have a gift; in time i belive that we can all become good players on some level. It boils down to how much we are willing to sacrafice to get there. To me the proof comes when we can play our guitar with no more than bass & drums, cut the leads , play the rythum, and feel good about what we are playing. :) RTO

First couple of months was chords then scales and then songs and now scales mixed with songs and chords.

Originally Posted by: Fret spider

thats really cool aschleman, i am interested in that as well, have you come up with any cool ideas for guitars??


ps how do u do quotes properly???

I've mostly been doing modifications and customizations so far. I haven't tackled building a guitar from scratch just yet. But I have built a handful of Warmoth guitars for other people. I'm not really into radically designed guitars... mostly keeping the guitar simple as a functional instrument. I like to build guitars that will give the player the most tonal options and functionality as possible... so I do a lot of wiring and switch mods...