Subj : Re: My axes and rigs
To   : Joe Bruchis
From : Nelgin
Date : Tue Nov 21 2017 06:42:33

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 06:14:24 +0000, "Joe Bruchis"
<joe.bruchis@1:3828/12> wrote:


>For $100 you did well. It appears to be better quality than a Squire.

Anything must be better than a Squire, other than a First Act maybe.

>I've learned most songs, lately, from YouTube tutorials. There are some 
>excellent ones out there. The better ones take what appears to be very 
>difficult riffs and isolates the patterns so that they can be learned in small 
>portions until mastered. It takes effort and practice, but it can certainly be 
>acheived. I was looking at "Sultans of Swing" and I think the oddest thing 
>about it is using finger strums and finger picking on an electric guitar. 
>Knopfler has a unique style but he repeats his riffs across many songs, with 
>some minor changes in pattern and speed, so his collection of writings is not 
>really unique. I like to watch his music being played, and I like the sound of 
>it, but for some reason I don't have a desire to spend the time on learning it. 

He certainly does use a lot of similar phrases, chords...especially
Dm, a lot of songs are written in that key. The good thing is once you
get the technique down...Things like the accoustic clikcs, using the
back of the finger nail on the down strokes and stuff like that...it's
easy to transfer to other songs. That said, some of his riffs are
pretty fast and do take some dexterity. Even after a year or two I
still struggle with the final instrumental. 

>For right now, I'm stuck on some of the acoustic songs by George and Paul like, 
>"Here Comes the Sun", "Michelle", "Blackbird"."Norwegian Wood", "Till There Was 
>You", and others. These are good for playing when people come over to visit and 
>want to sit around and sing after dinner and/or a few drinks. The guitar 
>portions of the songs carry the melody and rhythm and don't require drums or 
>other intruments. I learned a long time ago, the average non-guitarist doesn't 
>care to hear you play a cool riff from a rock song unless you play it with a 
>band and vocalists. (-: 

That's true. A few decent ones I like to strum along to are Champaign
Supernova by Oasis, and Wonderwall I guess if I have a capo with me
and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd of course. One thing I should
mention is that I don't play with a pick, never have. Since my main
interest was Knopfler and Dire Straits songs, I never needed one. The
reason is, I can then pick up any guitar and play it without needing
anything extra. I once saw a video of Slash at some event or another
and they wanted him to play something and couldn't until they found
him a pick :)

>
> N> Talking of, try listening to Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd with
> N> the stereo panned to one side or the other so you can barely hear
> N> the 12 string guitar...interesting listening.
>
>I will have to listen to that. I'm not sure I've listened close enough to it to 
>remember there being a 12 string guitar in the song. (-: 

"[Gilmour] performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to
sound like it was playing through an AM radio, and then overdubbed a
fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo." - Wikipedia.

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