BAH

I'm missing my guitar lesson for like the 4th week in a row, because of stupid basketball, i've dropped my pick in my guitar about 50 times today, and I can't figure out how to play a very simple song do to the evil conspiring tabbers who can't agree on what chords and such are in a song.
Oh yes, and does any1 know where I can get some quality strumming patterns because all the ones i come up with sound like sh*t.
Down with the republicans! :mad:

See, you are blaming everyone else about the song, when really, why don't you figure it out, i mean all the 'evil conspirators', i'm sure ONE at least of them is right, or partially right, and if its so simple, you could figure it out yourself.

I wouldn't go as far as say down with republicans, but George W. Bush, imo, isn't doing that great of a job as president. I checked somewhere online in a search window, i found out that he's taken more vacation days away from the white house than any president in the history of the American Democracy...which, considering the current reccession (sp?) we are in, makes it even worse.

As Ed Black (i think thats his name) said

"George Bush had a tough 2002. Fighting Terror. Making the American Investor feel safe about investing money. Fighting Corperate Crime. After completing ZERO of these goals, he will be taking a break at his Texas Ranch"

- Daily Show

iiholly, are you having a bad day? I had a bad day one time. Kept breaking strings and everything. I was cool after an hour or so though.

[Edited by Josh Redstone on 08-19-2002 at 06:49 PM]

well sorrryyyyy..........


I didn't mean to piss anybody off, just to tell him that maybe instead of letting the conspirators fight, to figure it out himself...

HERself. :mad:

just go with it for a bit...doesn't hurt no-one...except your guitar teacher when you come in and pick them off even faster when you're still a beginner

i did that, but it's easy - just concentrate on feeling the note - if you hear a song play along - find the same note(s) - you will get it and it will make everything else so much easier - the first thing you do is always find the right key the instant the song starts playing...it's all just sweeping pattens that you have to know (or you can try to "feel" how many frets up or down a certain next note will be, I do this a bit)...

fast guitar solos on recordings always sound a little daunting, I don't know how to say it but i've found my greatest progress when doing nothing at all...just suddenly trying something and going with it...if you continue in that way, you will find a lot of tricks from simply playing around...for top speed it always saps the creativity factor, and desperately so with lightning fast runs, but it helps to do a run with the fastest picking you can do at all, and then come back down and start to play some other stuff once you are reacquainted with the mellow mode...it's like blasting around on the highway, and then coming into a playground zone, it should be a lot easier, and will allow ample room for spontinaeity

Its good to see women guitarists. There arent enough of them.

Originally posted by iiholly
...and does any1 know where I can get some quality strumming patterns because all the ones i come up with sound like sh*t.

Guitar players spend a lot of time training their fretting hand, but strumming tends get overlooked in favour of picking. 'Too bad really, a well-rounded player needs to know how to keep good rhythm. For this stuff, wrap your fretting hand fingers around the neck lightly, to mute the strings. Strumming practice is about percussive rhythm, not pitch. Now, bash away while listening to a song you like. Try to follow the snare drum and/or the high-hat. Don't lock yourself into that 1-2-3-4 grind. Get loose and limber. Have fun with it. This is like one-handed 'air-drumming'. Upbeat songs work well for this, because they present all kinds of oportunity to improvise. The fun-factor helps, too. "Out My Back Door" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and "Magic Bus" by The Who, did it for me. I'm not familiar enough with the current crop of bands to know what to recommend for you, but usually anything with acoustic guitar in it is a good bet.

Originally posted by iiholly
...Down with the republicans! :mad:

hhmmmm...if you want to see how liberals can trash a country, take a look at what the Liberal Party of Canada has done to us under Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien! :eek: :mad: :mad:

woah, thats a shocker. I think we only have 10 women guitar players on guitartricks, if that.

[/B][/QUOTE]hhmmmm...if you want to see how liberals can trash a country, take a look at what the Liberal Party of Canada has done to us under Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien! :eek: :mad: :mad: [/B][/QUOTE]

I agree about the Jean Chretien thing. So many people vote liberal and then say, "Oh, I dont really care who's in office, bla bla." They just vote liberal cause they're already in office. And thats bad enough, how many people dont vote at all?!
I wish I could do more about it but I'm only 15.

I do that for softball neways the evil squeezy things that make your hands smell like ****.