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deadrocker999
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04/22/2006 8:57 pm
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


******************** the first 2 months you wouldn't be able to play Hendrix stuff, I am like a little over a year and i can't play that stuff, unless you have have mind control of the dead mind of Hendrix.
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jiujitsu_jesus
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04/22/2006 11:35 pm
Originally Posted by: deadrocker999******************** the first 2 months you wouldn't be able to play Hendrix stuff, I am like a little over a year and i can't play that stuff, unless you have have mind control of the dead mind of Hendrix.


Hmm - I learned to play "Foxy Lady" in about my second month of playing, and I don't have a direct line to Jimi's mind (although that would be interesting! :D ). Granted, "Foxy Lady" is one of his easier songs, and it all depends on your tuition method, I s'pose...
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04/23/2006 6:34 am
Unplugged Layla by Eric Clapton. Thats all I can remember. Didnt get into shred after my 2nd year. Thats when the ignition lighted.
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Alpha Keuhard
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04/23/2006 8:44 pm
I'm not sure why people view Hendrix's work as "hard".... I was able to play Little Wing, with some decency within the 4th month... Now I can play it extremely well.

I mean, common now.... Stuff like Purple Haze, Foxey Lady, Voodoo Chile, and stuff are extremely easy. His rhythm guitar stuff like Midnight Lightning, Little Wing, Castles made of Sand, and All Along the Watchtower are somewhat more complex, and not heavily blues oriented...

Riffing under the pentatonic scale isn't something I consider "hard" by all means.
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04/25/2006 11:25 pm
Uhh... after my first day i can play For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Minus the waaaah-waaah-waah-beedle-beedily bit at the end.
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