Thorin Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I realised I would never be good on guitar when I heard Steve Vai's - For the love of god. Still possibly my favourite piece of music ever. Listen from 3 minutes onwards, OMG. And I've seen him play it live... flawlessly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
affney Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 ive been playing for years now im not excelent but i can play try playing stuff by oasis its only three, four chords in a song dead easy thats what i started out on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyW Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 I realised I would never be good on guitar when I heard Steve Vai's - For the love of god. Still possibly my favourite piece of music ever. Listen from 3 minutes onwards, OMG. And I've seen him play it live... flawlessly! Never heard that, downloading it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyW Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 ive been playing for years now im not excelent but i can play try playing stuff by oasis its only three, four chords in a song dead easy thats what i started out on Tried a couple of their tracks, i really must try harder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I play a little but I'm terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terribleturner Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I dabbel with my guitar from time to time but can never really find enough time to just sit down and have a strum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyW Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 I dabbel with my guitar from time to time but can never really find enough time to just sit down and have a strum I'm sat here now attempting to play the intro to the steve vai song posted by Thorin, much to the disgust of the ball and chain who is cleaning the house and i'm supposed to be helping her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I'm sat here now attempting to play the intro to the steve vai song posted by Thorin, much to the disgust of the ball and chain who is cleaning the house and i'm supposed to be helping her The intro's easy. Can't remember it now though. I used to be able to play all of "I would love to" from the same album.... well all except for one 30 second or so part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyW Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 The intro's easy. Can't remember it now though. I used to be able to play all of "I would love to" from the same album.... well all except for one 30 second or so part. Yeah the intro is fairly easy, even for someone as crapola as me, sounds great though! Trying to find "i would love to" now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattanna Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I am an accomplished guitarist of 16 years standing, play Richie, Sambora, Stevie Ray, Gary Moore, rock and blues.Have just been playing for a guy called Andrew James who is hoping to be signed soon, played with session players including a guy who had played with Bryan Adams, Bass player was head of Brighton Institute and has played with Phil Hilborne, Gary Moore, Nicko McBrain etc etc.We recorded a demo at Rhythm studios with Paul Johnson who is the drummer, the weeks previous to us going in he did pre production for Tony Iommi and Glen Hughes new album.Band is not functioning now as guy is going his own way and just using keys.It was not really my scene more a session thing.No matter how good you are there is always someone better, i have perfect pitch and can learn songs by ear pretty much staright away, but you will never learn vai or Malmsteen solos like that, always try for you own style, i play bluesy and fast i.e phantom of the opera right through to zz top, clapton, pink floyd.I currently use a Jackson soloist professional via a boss gt8 and also have an Ibanez, have just sold a Heritage, Jackson pro, Ovation and Malmsteen signature Fender as i did not like them as much as my original Jackson which is now 10 years old. Glad to see there are some other guitarists on here. Tab is a good way to learn but beware a lot of tabs are wrong or done differently to how the song is actually played!The ear is best but takes some practice.By the way on those Steve Vai songs there are upto 16 guitar parts layeredwhich he plays all of(seperately of course in the studio) so it is difficult to get them bang on, intro is easy though, i can keep up with the solo but difficult to know exactly what he is doing, he was taught by Frank Zappa say no more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I as i did not like them as much as my original Jackson which is now 10 years old. Superstrats are my fav, I have 3 charvel/jackson late 80's Jap ones, all excellent, the model 6 has emg's and that baby sings. Some of these days (now I am rid of the awful PRS custom 24) I'll get Jackson USA to do me a custom superstrat. So you have good taste in guitars! the sign of a free thinker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 he was taught by Frank Zappa say no more He was mainly taught by Joe Satriani actually (who also taught Kirk Hammett, Alex Skolnick, among others). He worked with zappa after he impressed him by being able to transcribe zappa songs by ear. I'm a big Vai and Satch fan sorry to correct you That's a big impressive list of names you mention! You have any tracks on the internets that you've played? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt k Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I play a mean banjo... erm what about ry cooder, Richie Sambora, Van Halen Or Prince? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Been playing about 10 years now too, moved on from the piano (beatles stuff etc). Prefer reading tab, lost interest over the last year but starting to get back into it now. Got a nice black Les Paul Custom, really want a Line 6 Variax 700 though I didn't know you could play the piano... you'll have to teach me now! Gaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I'm much better at learning the music by memory, I'm not too great at reading the music. I can play the clarinet and the piano. This thread is great, lets put a band together! Both my brothers have quite a few connections in the music biz. Lets get the christmas number one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyW Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 I'm much better at learning the music by memory, I'm not too great at reading the music. I can play the clarinet and the piano. This thread is great, lets put a band together! Both my brothers have quite a few connections in the music biz. Lets get the christmas number one! Nice idea. I can play the saxophone, we need a singer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Nice idea. I can play the saxophone, we need a singer I can sing. Alternatively my bro is a choir boy so a bit of a Alled Jones feel maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I started playing guitar and bass about 14 years ago, and ended up concentrating on bass. I spent quite a lot of time touring in my last band gigging all over uk and ireland, which was fun. I think that before you try too hard to follow tab or whatever, it's best to just play around and jam to songs that you are listening to on your stereo (as long as you know how to tune your guitar the same as whatever it is you are listening to) This way you get to know your way around your guitar and develop your technique. Here's me rocking out in my hey-day, and a pic of my mates les paul copy that i painted for him.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyW Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 What made you choose bass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 My mates band were looking for a bassist, so just went for it. Guitarists were ten a penny in Norwich, but hardly any bassists! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattanna Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 He was mainly taught by Joe Satriani actually (who also taught Kirk Hammett, Alex Skolnick, among others). He worked with zappa after he impressed him by being able to transcribe zappa songs by ear. I'm a big Vai and Satch fan sorry to correct you That's a big impressive list of names you mention! You have any tracks on the internets that you've played? Vai was originally with Zappas band though, Satriani is not that old, and i know Satriani's work well the man is awesome, if we got on to best guitarist thread we would be here forever, the greatest guitarists is the one who is probably the least known the best i have met are Adrian Smith, Jerry Donahue, John Jorgenson, Darren Hurst, Geoff Whitehorn, and Phil Hilborne oh and John McVey .Donahue plays with the Hellecasters as does Jorgenson(also Elton Johns guitarist for many years) i have had a good pint witn Donahue and Phil Hilborne and for me Hilborne is surpassed by none including Vai, Malmsteen, Lynch, Moore(all three), Bream,Sykes,Page,Demartini,Howe,Gilmour,Smith,Murray,Gers,Reinhardt,Vaughan,Rhodes,Iommi,May,Sambora,Lukather,Humphries,Hodgson,Lee,Van Halen,Jabbs, Schenker,Collen,Hendrix,Gallagher(both), Frampton,Wylde,Holmes,Hammett,Tipton,Downing,Norum,Marcello,Clapton,etc etc the list never ends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattanna Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 If you go to http://www.andrewjamesmusic.co.uk you can hear some of the stuff, i have never played on anything else, the names you hear me mention knew me and heard me play and asked me to do the stuff(i knew them from the pub they all lived locally. it was a great thing to do but not all i thought it would be, band politics come to mind and i see why bands split with "musical differences" We also supported the Wire Daisies who are now doing ok and have been on radio 2 plus done as tour supporting starsailor, not my scene though as i am a rock and metal player only did it because i could!!lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazboy Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 I've been playing since I was 6, then gave up playing "full time" when I was 21, mainly because it takes me considerable effort to play (I was good enough to qualify for GIT, but couldn't afford to go) and then this kid at school decided at 14 to learn to play, and he was a natural and within three years of first picking a guitar up could leave me standing, he was simply a machine, his rate of improvement was staggering, and to cut the whinging short, he knocked the absolute living bollocks out of my confidance & motivation when I saw his band play live- I can't remember which song it was, but it was a Satch tune that I'd been working away at for ages (months) and still hadn't mastered it, then his girlfriend told me he'd only heard it a fortnight before the gig. I just thought "what's the fucking point" went home and put all five guitars in the loft, where they stayed for 2 years, then I took two of them with me when I moved out (Jackson Dinky & a Washburn Mercury) for three years I'd tinker with them but nothing serious. I moved again 20 months ago and have barely played since. The kid from school is now a session musician. I found this a while ago, which inspired me to get the Jackson out and tinker: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6249987080774983547&q=Cowboys+from+hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattanna Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Yes it's easy to lose faith in it all, having a natural gift is something but having feel is something else, robotics is not what it is all about, it is also difficult to keep playing when you have lots of other responsibilities, just got to play what you are good at and enjoy it.Derek Marshall who is the bass player i played with, and he is one of the best session bassists period goes all over the world, but he is rarely credited as session players aren't, he is i suppose a musical prostitute can just turn up and play anything, i could not believe he was playing with us, but he said it was good to get out and play what he wanted as oppossed to being told just to play this.It is good to just get up and jam without knowing what is coming next and i can do that, just can't make a living out of it, always someone better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 I'm a massive Les Paul fan....have a 1969 Black Beauty with original 'Dirty Finger ' pickups.....had it for a long time.... Had about ten years off...just started to play again....began back in 1978 when i took over from John Sykes in a band called Streetfighter..... had a band/project in 92 called True Brits which had 3 original Maiden members in it..... now with the opportunity to release on the internet its time to have another go!! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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