Anyone else here play guitar?

I just ordered an electric Washburn starter pack thingy for $99. I used to have 4 electric guitars and pedals, amp and all, but they all got stolen.

Thankfully, my favorite one, my Washburn acoustic was in a different place. That happened a few years ago, I've wanted another electric since then. The reasons I got a starter guitar pack are: cheap! I don't play every day, probably more like once a week or so on average, so spending $500 on a guitar and getting a Marshall tube amp wouldn't be a shmat decision for me, especially since I couldn't afford it either.

I used to play guitar exclusively, but now I focus the majority of my time an energy on bass guitar. I've played for about eight years now.

I used to own two Fender's; a surf green precision bass and a red P/J combo. They were both spectacular basses, especially the latter, but I sold them so I could afford a Musicman Stingray, which I don't regret at all. I've since updated the electronics in the bass by putting in a Basslines MM replacement pickup, which is probably the closest you can get to a vintage Musicman sound (Musicman recently changed the wiring on their pickups... I prefer the older pickups to the new ones). But yeah, really good bass. I can't really afford another bass now, as I'm about to go through college, but once I do have the money, I'm between buying a high end Fender Precision Bass (preferably a vintage one), a Modulus, or if I can managed to track one down, Musicman used to make a bass with a Graphite/Carbon-Fiber neck back in the 80s. I'd love to own one.

My husband plays, and has an electric, a 12 string acoustic and a bass. Last year, my 12 year old started to show interest, so we bought her an acoustic for her birthday, and this year we bought her an electric guitar. She's gotten very good. She downloads music, and then teaches herself to play along. She loves "Freebird", so I (jokingly) suggested that she teach herself to play. She was up in her room, and damn if she wasn't doing it! She had to come downstairs and stick her hand in a glass of ice, she had played for a little too long.

Since I love music of all kinds, but never learned an instrument, I'm so glad that she's taking after her dad.

I play guitar and electric bass as well. But since my band broke up several years ago I really only play occasionally. I also make up my own tunes as I got tired of spending my energy on learning other peoples songs. The problem is I usually forget the cool riffs I make up because I don't practice them or record/write them down in any way.

I played guitar for a few years, while I was living with my crazy former roommate (she had a very nice acoustic). But now all my energy is focused on the bass. I'm hoping to save up money to buy a better one soon, right now I've just got a Squier. But hey, it gets the job done.

A bunch of bass players here. I didn't intend to play bass but was thrown into it because my band at the time lost it's bass player, so I learned where all the notes were and played a week later with some of the worst bass lines ever.

I think the bass is way more fun to play, but I don't enjoy playing without a drummer at least. So by myself I always tinker around on the guitar.

I forgot to mention I only play acoustic, I prefer the sound over electric. At least when actually playing it, not so much when listening to other music.

I have an acoustic that has been gathering dust in the corner of my room for about 5 years now.

Me being left handed and it being a right handed guitar,i can't be bothered to change them or play upside down..

Maybe one day..

Changing the strings would take maybe 10 minutes.

I need to find a good tab site. I remember awhile ago some sites were having trouble with lawsuits?

I play ... or used to, havent picked my guitar up for about a year. I sound great at 2 a.m. when I am alone.

I don't play my guitar much anymore.

Piano is my main musical outlet now.

Wow X, piano! sounds cool, I haven't even seen one physically

ultimate-guitar.com is pretty good. There's guitar and bass, and its usually pretty accurate.

I used to use bassmasta, simply because I loved the name.. but they're shut down.

I just checked the site I always referred to and it's temporarily down while they are fighting legal stuff as well. http://www.olga.net (OLGA = Online Guitar Archive).

I hope that site doesn't get shut down permanently.

The guitar has been my friend for 40 years. I taught myself through sheet music books; starting with the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Lovin' Spoonful. I never joined a group or performed in public for money. I've played at family parties and in the last 5 years with church groups.

Over the years I developed a hybrid finger-picking, strum arpeggio style. I play a lot of bass note progressions. Country, blues, folk type music; Neil Young, Dylan, Van Morrison, Simon and Garfunkel and lately Johnny Cash, the Flatlanders, John Hiatt, Delbert McClinton. I even do the harmonica around the neck routine with some basic blues riffs.

I play a Martin D-35. I've had it for 30 years. I have an Epiphone 12 string that I don't play and a Univox 6 string electric that I play once in awhile.

My biggest thrill with the guitar was playing and singing "Edelweiss" on stage in community theatre as Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music. The guitar is a stress-reducer; I can get lost in a song.

This used to happen to me before I started any bands. But, for the past three years or so, I've been in the habit of practicing for two hours a day. But, I'm not really interested in learning other peoples compositions anymore. There have been a few really cool licks here and there that really grab me, to the point in which I can't help but learn it (I recently learned to play Mogwai's "Tracy"... A really fun piece to play, and requires the use of a pick... So it's a lot different than the aggressive, slap styled funk I usually play.) I pretty much have a series of warm-ups I go through, before I just start to do one of two things; picking a key and just going off on a wild-tangent, sort of jamming by myself, or picking a riff, and just making up fills as I go along. But, that obviously tends to lead to creating riffs of my own, which I will begin to work into my daily practice. But, I'm now at the point where I have so many riffs that I'd like to use with my band, that we never really get to the bulk of them.

But they're obviously on the list... The way my band works, either Jake (my guitarist) or myself will come in with a riff, and we'll just start jamming to it, improvising it completely, and at the end we'll take the coolest segments of the jam, condense it all down to a song, and then Jake will write lyrics, come back the next time we practice, and figure out how/where to add them. Or, and this is the what usually happens, we'll just start jamming spontaneously off of nothing at all, and bam, we have a song.

So, basically, I have a pile of bass lines that'll probably never see the light of day.

I don't have a band, just play alone,I like to make up my own riffs and "songs". I can never think of a song to learn, so I'm just going to ask for suggestions.

Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" is probably my favorite thing to play.

I am still waiting on my guitar, should have come Monday or yesterday.

Still Waiting...called them and they refunded my shipping charges because they sent it the wrong way.

Nice Guitar,which way did they send it..

They sent it North, to Canada.

I'll send you North!

It finally arrived!

It's a beautiful guitar. Easy action too, I was surprised.

cool guitar man!

I play too but I don't own an electric one. every once in a week or so in the last few years I think of getting one but I live in an apartment and I wouldn't have where to play. I need a band!

I live in an apartment too, I just have to keep the volume on a 1 or 2 on my little 15 watt amp and it's fine.

I don't have any pics of my acoustic, but it's a beauty.

I myself don Rico recently got a FENDER STARCASTER (like a SQUIER except it is Chinese-made instead of Japanese-made), complete with a 10w amp, cords, straps and strings for under $200 USD...

Then I bought myself a BOSS OS-2 Overdrive / Distortion pedal and a DUNLOP "Cry Baby" wah-wah-- Same one that Jimi used to play...

I have been practicing 1-3 hours every day, learning chords and leads and keeping time, etc...

... But it is SO MUCH FUN to just turn EVERYTHING up to "11" and whang on the whammy-bar with the fuzz and the feed-back and the wah-wah and just make cool noise until my ears are bleeding...

... And I don't even smoke pot any more!!!

You have one of those Spinal Tap amps that goes up to 11? So that it's one louder than regular amps.

why did you stop?

Because I am no longer a hippie or slacker, I have stopped using ALL drugs, I have cut off all my hair--

(BY NO MEANS AM I DENIGRATING ANY OF THE ABOVE SUCH THINGS)

... And plus, it was counter-productive to my current goal of "growing up"...

And yet not only but also... I am STILL on PAROLE.

Dig?

So now I play my guitar instead.

Isn't it funny that all Marshall amps go to 11 after that movie? That's just crazy how that single scene/line influenced the most successful amplifier company into changing the design of all of its amps.

Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Tony Mosrite has the perfect name for this particular discussion. Here's why:




I've been enamored with the mandolin for a while. Jethro Burns, a legendary mandolin player, lived in Chicago for a long time, used to do shows with Steve Goodman, and my fascination began when I first saw Burns play sometime in the 1970's. I don't know how to play, but a buddy has a mandolin that a local guitar-maker built for him, and I've been obsessed with the idea of building one for myself. I'm not interested in building a guitar, but I'm completely over on the mandolin. I actually have a number of plans and collected some of the hardware, and one of these days I'll get into the shop to start this project...with absolutely no expectations for doing this other than completing the project to the best of my ability.

tony b.