Thread: How many Guitarists here?

I'll check with my brother. He is the true guitarist in the family, not to mention a huge Mark Knopfler fan.

Originally Posted by MDR

I'll check with my brother. He is the true guitarist in the family, not to mention a huge Mark Knopfler fan.

Thanks, MDR! I'm looking for the piano and guitar transcribed into a one solo piece. Hopefully your brother knows where I can find it. If not, I'll just have to buy his sheet music and learn both parts.

Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

Thanks, MDR! I'm looking for the piano and guitar transcribed into a one solo piece. Hopefully your brother knows where I can find it. If not, I'll just have to buy his sheet music and learn both parts.

He is also the computer geek in the family. I'm sure he'll get right back to me. He always seems to find me great Neil Young stuff for the guitar. Been playing around with fingerpicking lately. Ever seen them live? I saw the Brothers in Arms tour way back when. Expresso love is probably my favorite D.S. tune, but it's hard to say with such a great band. They do such a nice job of combining superlative keyboard work with the brillance of Knopfler's guitar.

Any recommendations on tutorials reading guitar tabs. My 11 yr old sometimes has trouble understanding them. Hes been trying to learn the solo for "highway to hell".

Wholenote.com is where I used to get tabs. I went and got classically trained and read music now, which is what I would recommend. Tabs online are hit and miss. Some of them are just posted by someone earing them out. You could do that too. What kind of guitar are you playing? More importantly why aren't you playing a 7 string? MESHUGGAH!!!

Used to use tabcrawler or mxtabs. Not sure if either of these are very reliable anymore. With any free tab site ur gonna have to sift through to find the good ones.

Originally Posted by bigmoe65

Any recommendations on tutorials reading guitar tabs. My 11 yr old sometimes has trouble understanding them. Hes been trying to learn the solo for "highway to hell".

A loooong time ago I found a program u could use to write ur own tabs... I can't even remember what it was called but I was pretty novice with tabs but after I started playing with it I got better and better at looking at the tabs and playing along. It was fun putting down the simple songs I knew and I inadvertently taught myself to read tabs better.

Originally Posted by withoutrulers

MESHUGGAH!!!

HELL YES!!!!

Originally Posted by bigmoe65

Any recommendations on tutorials reading guitar tabs. My 11 yr old sometimes has trouble understanding them. Hes been trying to learn the solo for "highway to hell".

The solo from Highway to Hell is not the best choice for a total beginner. If you son likes AC/DC there is many other cool solos of Angus's that are much easier to play.
What kind of tablature is he reading? Is it genuine tab or the computer version which is often both incorrect and confusing.

Here's a print of the tablature legend for the genuine music. Let me know if your son wants the genuine tab for the song and I can scan and post it.



I wont bother turning it the right way as you'd need to print it off anyways.

Originally Posted by withoutrulers

Wholenote.com is where I used to get tabs. I went and got classically trained and read music now, which is what I would recommend. Tabs online are hit and miss. Some of them are just posted by someone earing them out. You could do that too. What kind of guitar are you playing? More importantly why aren't you playing a 7 string? MESHUGGAH!!!

Yeah I'm over searching online for tabs. They are usually way off or if they are correct it's to confusing because of the notation.

I play rock/blues but I'd love to learn some classical and I have a good nylon string guitar somewhere.

I haven't got enough music theory under my belt to justify learning how the read music so tab will have to do for now. I've been playing for 14 years and I'm ready for a new challenge

As for seven string guitars, why would I want to play one of them? Can you name one influential guitarist who bothers playing a seven string guitar due to the added benefits? I play a USA made Fender Strat Deluxe, I don't think they even come with seven strings.

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Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

Can you name one influential guitarist who bothers playing a seven string guitar due to the added benefits?

Actually plays an 8 string but, Tosin Abasi..... Maybe not "influential" but fucking amazing none the less. Seen him live a couple times.

Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

Yeah I'm over searching online for tabs. They are usually way off or if they are correct it's to confusing because of the notation.

I play rock/blues but I'd love to learn some classical and I have a good nylon string guitar somewhere.

I haven't got enough music theory under my belt to justify learning how the read music so tab will have to do for now. I've been playing for 14 years and I'm ready for a new challenge

As for seven string guitars, why would I want to play one of them? Can you name one influential guitarist who bothers playing a seven string guitar due to the added benefits? I play a USA made Fender Strat Deluxe, I don't think they even come with seven strings.

Steve Vai, Fredrik Thordendal, Jeff Loomis, Chris Broderick, Pat O'brien, Dino Cazares, Trey Azagthoth, Stephen Carpenter, Rusty Cooley, Tiago Dela Vega, John Petrucci, Peter Tagtgren. Just a few from the metal world. Seven string opens up a whole new world of sound, and surprisingly enough, is easier to play than a six string. A seven string with a Floyd rose Tremolo unit is the creme de la creme.

Try bending your B string at the 8th fret, while simultaneously striking the E string fretted at the 5th fret. While doing this, during your pick attack, slightly graze your picking thumb along with the pick across the strings.This is called a pinched harmonic, but is slightly different. You are essentially doing a pinched harmonic on 2 strings at once. If done correctly, the process I've described will make your guitar sound like it's screaming in agony. Your vocal chords are not exactly in tune so a scream is slightly dissonant causing the sound to be alarming. This can be reproduced by causing two slightly dissonant pitches to sound at once. I've never heard any one else do this before so consider it a freebie. just a discovery I've made.

I sit around a pluck mine to get into an artist state of mind, kind of like Sherlock Homes(RDowney version) plucks the violin while thinking.... I don't know many other peoples music, usually just tap into my own emotions while plucking & strumming...mostly blues, I'd have been a mean bluesman had I put more effort into it....

When I was 14 I did a mean version of Born Under A Bad Sign where I would slap my guitar for emphasis and my friends would be mesmerized by it, thats about one of the only songs by someone else I can play with real emotion...

Oh and if I could sell my soul to the devil I'd do it just to play a 12-string like this:

Originally Posted by MyK 3.0

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This.

It's what I've always used though lately I've been watching a few videos on YouTube.

Me and my wife screwing around.

Tuned the guitar, handed her the lyrics and played the tabs without practicing lol:

Originally Posted by withoutrulers

Steve Vai, Fredrik Thordendal, Jeff Loomis, Chris Broderick, Pat O'brien, Dino Cazares, Trey Azagthoth, Stephen Carpenter, Rusty Cooley, Tiago Dela Vega, John Petrucci, Peter Tagtgren. Just a few from the metal world. Seven string opens up a whole new world of sound, and surprisingly enough, is easier to play than a six string. A seven string with a Floyd rose Tremolo unit is the creme de la creme.

Try bending your B string at the 8th fret, while simultaneously striking the E string fretted at the 5th fret. While doing this, during your pick attack, slightly graze your picking thumb along with the pick across the strings.This is called a pinched harmonic, but is slightly different. You are essentially doing a pinched harmonic on 2 strings at once. If done correctly, the process I've described will make your guitar sound like it's screaming in agony. Your vocal chords are not exactly in tune so a scream is slightly dissonant causing the sound to be alarming. This can be reproduced by causing two slightly dissonant pitches to sound at once. I've never heard any one else do this before so consider it a freebie. just a discovery I've made.

Originally Posted by withoutrulers

Steve Vai, Fredrik Thordendal, Jeff Loomis, Chris Broderick, Pat O'brien, Dino Cazares, Trey Azagthoth, Stephen Carpenter, Rusty Cooley, Tiago Dela Vega, John Petrucci, Peter Tagtgren. Just a few from the metal world. Seven string opens up a whole new world of sound, and surprisingly enough, is easier to play than a six string. A seven string with a Floyd rose Tremolo unit is the creme de la creme..

you talk like you know true guitarist.. steve vai is a demon, but if you forget yngwie malmsteen then you are misguided

Yeah WR certainly does sound like he knows his shit and I'd love to hear him play. I must admit though, I not much of a metal head. I enjoy metal but not enough to invest too much time playing it.
I bought a couple of Steve Vai's albums and despite trying to like them, they became boring very quickly. He's an impressive guitarist in what he is able to do however I find that guys such as him are a dime a dozen and their music lacks spirit and soul.

Feel free to post some examples to change my mind WRulers, maybe I'm ust being biased.

AS for Yngwie Malmsteen, I feel its the same deal. Spiritless, soulless player who plays guitar like its a sport and not an instrument. I have "Rising Force" here and the only part of the entire album I enjoyed was where he broke out into a cover of "Red House" by Jimi Hendrix. That vwas the first and last Yngwie album I could be bothered with.

Its a matter of opinion I suppose. Who influences me may not have any influence on somebody else.

This is my type of playing, just chuggin' along with how your soul feels until the music raises your spirit and you can't help but catch the groove....

I use ultimate-guitar.com. Those official books you get in shops are often wrong aswell. I remember the Pearl Jam official tab book for TEN. 95% Bullshit.

I took my son to guitar center yesterday because he wants an SG. His les paul copy is too heavy. Any reason why he wants the SG that costs 2000.00?