Guitar anyone (other instruments too)? (Discussion thread)

Uncle Long

I play french horn. It gets me no girls I am sorry to report.

...Yeah, I know.

Garlic Bread

I have a trombone that I really need to practice

CptKemzik

I'm a bassist, ive been playing/learning it for a year and eight months (and some such number of weeks) now, and I've made tremendous progress. Learning how to use theory, read sheet music, and play jazz does wonders for progress. I've played in a community music school jazz ensemble, and plan to play in my college's ensemble when spring starts.

I also play in a rock four-piece with an amazing guitarist/servicable singer, a sweet jazzy drummer, and an annoying rhythm guitarist who is obssesed with Led Zeppelin and if he ever contributes an idea to the band, it's something stupid that has to do with playing like Led Zeppelin that gets shot down. He's one of the reasons why I must be one of five people who understands that while Led Zep may have been a good 70's hard rock band they weren't exactly gods that stupid teenagers make them out to be.

Also I agree with GrinninBarrett on guitar being overrated, or at least rock guitar solos which have been done here and there and back again a gazillion times. I love most bass solos (or piano solos) though. If someone says "DUDEZ OMG CHECK OUT THIS GEETAHR SOLO!!!" I say "meh yeah i've been hearing it since music from the 60's. An electric bassist though or pianist solo? :^:

Aneurhythmia

Seriously, Pianists never take solos...

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

Homeless wrote: »

somebody hold me

I can mail you my shitty SG if you want.

CptKemzik

Title should be renamed: Guitar anyone (better instruments too)?

sarukun

I used to play tenor sax


I miss it really quite a lot.

Bob The Monkey

I dabble in guitar but music is such a broad subject you always end up annoying people by talking about it.

So all I am going to say is that I really want to learn to play drums and bass.

sarukun

Me too, Bob.

I can kind of sort of keep a basic beat on drums, but really it is just too much shit with too many parts of your body, and I need to practice for real if I want to be any good.


I want to play bass because the bass line is easily my favorite part of Jazz.

Bob The Monkey

I'm just not sure I sit well with jazz. I really appreciate jazz, and I would love nothing more than to be able to tastefully blow over some changes. I just don't like it enough to justify the years of practise it would require to do it to a good level.

Godfather

Bob The Monkey wrote: »

I'm just not sure I sit well with jazz. I really appreciate jazz, and I would love nothing more than to be able to tastefully blow over some changes. I just don't like it enough to justify the years of practise it would require to do it to a good level.

Jazz is more of an understanding than anything else. You don't have to be fantastic at it to play it well, just understand the basic key changes that usually occurs every few measures. If anything, the biggest reason why people aren't good at jazz is because they seem to shoot themselves down right before they start.

I can't tell you the number of times i've heard people say "oh, i'm no good, this is really gonna suck", and then they flub it up. Some surprisingly decent solos are from the ones that had no real idea what they were doing (save for the chord changes), and just tried to communicate with the instrument. When you think of it like that, it makes for a much more interesting solo.

Knob

playing guitar is for dipshits

Bob The Monkey

Godfather wrote: »

Jazz is more of an understanding than anything else. You don't have to be fantastic at it to play it well, just understand the basic key changes that usually occurs every few measures. If anything, the biggest reason why people aren't good at jazz is because they seem to shoot themselves down right before they start.

I can't tell you the number of times i've heard people say "oh, i'm no good, this is really gonna suck", and then they flub it up. Some surprisingly decent solos are from the ones that had no real idea what they were doing (save for the chord changes), and just tried to communicate with the instrument. When you think of it like that, it makes for a much more interesting solo.

Oh, I know all this. But every time I approach jazz I just get flooded by all the choices I have available to me, my phrasing goes to shit and my brain just rejects it faster than a Fox News report.

My phrasing's the number one thing I'd like to work on. Because you can be terrible at everything else, but if you can phrase well you'll sound great.

And I guess I can start working out some ideas over common jazz changes. But I don't want to be the kind of play who just plays around preconstructed licks.

sarukun

I'm not real fond of Jazz solos that are just absolute fuck tons of notes unless you are really jamming with dudes in some freestyle. Then it's okay. If you're doing that in the middle of a standard, it just really often times sounds like you have no idea what you are doing.

Bob The Monkey

is there anybody here who'll hate me if I say fusion is the worst type of music in the world

because if so

I didn't just say it

Knob

oh god jazz

Bob The Monkey

he's playing outside!

oh man he's still playing outside how can he keep that up

JESUS HOW WILL HE EVER RESOLVE THIS IT IS SO OUTSIDE

oh sweet he resolved what a master of human emotion

Kovak

i got an acoustic guitar a couple days ago.

Bought it off my grandmother's husband.

it's a 1980's sigma, which is like the japanese version of martin or something i don't know

Knob

i like playing weird atonal noise in strange chinese scales for 40 minutes and then throwing a saxophone down a well

i am so jazz

sarukun

Knob wrote: »

i like playing weird atonal noise in strange chinese scales for 40 minutes and then throwing a saxophone down a well

i am so jazz

That


uh



That's not Jazz.


Well, like, not good Jazz, anyway.

Bob The Monkey

sarukun wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

i like playing weird atonal noise in strange chinese scales for 40 minutes and then throwing a saxophone down a well

i am so jazz

That


uh



That's not Jazz.


Well, like, not good Jazz, anyway.

we call that kind of music "belgian"

Bob The Monkey

So Sarukun are you a straight-ahead jazz kinda man?

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat and all of the awesome standards?

TxdoHawk

Knob wrote: »

playing guitar is for dipshits

Duuuuurrrrrrrrp *pulls whammy bar frantically*

Edit: Also, I finally bought my own amp. I got the little portable Vox that people like, with the retro coloring because I'm dumb and amused by stuff like that.

sarukun

Bob The Monkey wrote: »

So Sarukun are you a straight-ahead jazz kinda man?

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat and all of the awesome standards?

Yeah

Big band era was so fantastic


I like stuff older and newer than that

but most of the stuff I used to play was basically big band charts.


Back when pop music was fucking rad.

Aneurhythmia

Bob The Monkey wrote: »

is there anybody here who'll hate me if I say fusion is the worst type of music in the world

because if so

I didn't just say it

There's some pretty rockin' fusion out there.

There's also some really terrible elevator music fusion.

Uncle Long

I played my French Horn in a jazz band. I won a certificate at a competition for one of my solos.

I must have sounded completely ridiculous and won due to sheer novelty.

sarukun

I dunno

I'm a big believer that you can play Jazz with almost any instrument.

I mean, a French Horn is basically a trombone with buttons.


They have those, they are so stupid.

Bob The Monkey

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

Bob The Monkey wrote: »

is there anybody here who'll hate me if I say fusion is the worst type of music in the world

because if so

I didn't just say it

There's some pretty rockin' fusion out there.

There's also some really terrible elevator music fusion.

I just don't like a lot of the core features of fusion as a genre.

It's just a bit... non-musical.

Bob The Monkey

wait I'm saying things that will annoy people aren't I

I embrace all music equally

Godfather

TheLong wrote: »

I played my French Horn in a jazz band. I won a certificate at a competition for one of my solos.

I must have sounded completely ridiculous and won due to sheer novelty.

One time at this contest my friend won the best jazz soloist award when he didn't even play a solo.

I swear, sometimes it enough to just show up to one of these contests.

Bob The Monkey

I bumped into a guy who'd seen my band playing some gig.

He recognises me, comes over and says "Hey man, I really enjoyed your band!"

I was all "oh rad"

Then he said he really enjoyed my solo.

I had played no solo

Spackle

Chord changes. Jazz guys can do that so well.

I studder just doing CAGED stuff. I'm envious.

Is anyone a fan of Django Reinhardt's playing?

Bob The Monkey

Django is awesomesweet. If you like Reinhardt, check out The Gypsy Project by Bereli Lagrene. The guy takes it to another level.

Spackle

Excellent.

I wasn't interested till my gf showed me some of his work. Then Guitar Player had the article and I totally fell in love.

Recommended Django works?

Bob The Monkey

To be honest, just pick up whatever you can. It's hard to go wrong.

Spackle

Love to hear those words about a musician.

Minor7th

Godfather wrote: »

Anyone remember that one-hit-wonder song by Everlast called "What it's Like"?

I liked the simplistic guitar part for that, but i'm having trouble finding decent enough tabs online for it. Anyone know how to play this song and can help me out?

This should do the trick:

http://www.guitaretab.com/e/everlast/6210.html

Uncle Long

sarukun wrote: »

I dunno

I'm a big believer that you can play Jazz with almost any instrument.

I mean, a French Horn is basically a trombone with buttons.


They have those, they are so stupid.

Except with a much wider range and smoother tone (the last part is opinion)

Are you talking about the trombones with the rotor to make the quick slide changes faster, or those weird trumpet-bones?

sarukun

No, you are right, I think French Horns definitely have a smoother tone than a Trombone.


I'm talking about the dumb trumpet trombones.


God, those are retarded.

Uncle Long

Word.

Oh man, jazz Alto Horn.