karate kid 1 Posted August 4, 2005 Posted August 4, 2005 hi all i wondered if there are any other guitarists on this sit please let me no if you are and what you can play it would be really intresting to find out FEAR is only a four letter wordRORY
ShotokanKid Posted August 4, 2005 Posted August 4, 2005 Me! I play pretty much whatever I can get my hands on. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity.""We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
battousai16 Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 i just started playing guitar a week ago today. i'm working on the f major chord, but i just can't get the first and second strings to make any noise. it's extremely frustrating. grahg! i can play percussion, too. "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
ovine king Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 I am a guitarist wannabe and not practicing as much as I should be.At the moment, my fingers are still recovering from practicing chords. Anyone else got little lines of bruises on their finger tips? I never even knew you could bruise like that..... earth is the asylum of the universe where the inmates have taken over.don't ask stupid questions and you won't get stupid answers.
ShotokanKid Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 i just started playing guitar a week ago today. i'm working on the f major chord, but i just can't get the first and second strings to make any noise. it's extremely frustrating. grahg! i can play percussion, too.Push down hard on the strings. It takes a few weeks or more to get the muscles developed, but once you get it, I promise you, it will be easy and you will have to try hard to do it wrong. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity.""We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
battousai16 Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 "At the moment, my fingers are still recovering from practicing chords. Anyone else got little lines of bruises on their finger tips? I never even knew you could bruise like that....."yeah, that sounds familiar... "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
ShotokanKid Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 That will happen. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity.""We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
monkeygirl Posted August 6, 2005 Posted August 6, 2005 battousai: are you playing nylon strings or steel? Nylon are much softer on the fingertips for beginners who haven't developed the callouses yet, and are good for training your fingers to make the shapes of the chords. From there, you can move to steel strings, which will make your fingers stronger. Unfortunately, that means having two guitars, which can be a pricey prospect.As for myself, I play a steel string acoustic that I've had for two years. Before that I was playing a little dinky nylon child's beginner guitar for four years. So I've been playing for six years, but I only had lessons for two of those, so I"m not that great. Mostly I write my own stuff because I'm also a lyricist and I like to sing, and it's sort of like therapy They're ballads, I don't really know how to describe the genre per se. It's sort of fok/alternative/emo...just kind of out there. However, I also dabble in a bit of classical (which is a nightmare on steel strings), some etudes and such. My biggest challenge is being a small person, complete with tiny hands. I worked at a summer camp last year and had plenty of subjects for comparison, and indeed I have the hands of an 8-year-old. So bar chords and anything that spans more than three frets (lengthwise) is not a happy situation for me. But I'm working on it. 1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003No matter the tune...if you can rock it, rock it hard.
ShotokanKid Posted August 6, 2005 Posted August 6, 2005 Monkeygirl is right.I started with a 3/4 size nylon.I then got a Fender elec,then another classical (full size)and then my Gibson steel string. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity.""We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
battousai16 Posted August 7, 2005 Posted August 7, 2005 um... i uh... er.... i can't actually tell if my strings are steel or nylon . they're whatever came on the guitar, which i assume is nylon. i don't know what i'm gonna' do if when i have to change strings... i hope i'll have learned how by then, i don't really have the funds to buy a new guitar every 8 weeks... or every time i break one... grahg. monkeygirl, i seem to have the opposite problem as you, as my hands are to big and tend to get in the way and block off strings innappropriately, which is the other problem i'm having with the f chord. i have to believe that happens to everyone though, because for the love of god i can't make it stop... "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
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