Hobbies

[02RangerXLT]

I want to learn to play guitar, just haven't had the time to learn. I like to tinker with things, mainly lights, off road lights, marker lights, anything like that...

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

i like the remote control car thang. it is sweet. i remember the start in middle school. I still want a nitro car haha. but the truck is my new passion

I did the RC planes for a while. That was a lot of fun! So, you're on Nellis AFB, ever seen anything flying around out there or can you say?

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

For guitar, learn the blues and pentatonic scales, and just improv blues solo until the sun goes down.

I'll look into this and practice, practice, practice! HAHA!

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

Ibanez RG5** series.



Probably the sweetest playing guitar that you can find and once you have one, you WON'T want to let go of it.

Oh, and try out LOTS of different amps. You HAVE to find one that has a GREAT 'clean' setting and a decent variable 'dirty' (distortion) setting.

Picks. You'll want a good selection of the thin ones (.35mm) all the way up to the thick ones (.2mm)

Cords, be sure to get a quality cord that you know isn't going to break easily and cut out on you when you're plugging your guitar in for the 100th time.

Tuners... Can't really go wrong with those. I recommend the Korg CA-30 chromatic one. It's cheap, but LOTS of people (even me) use the hell out of it.


Time. Umm.... Get lots of this. You'll want plenty of it to have to yourself so that you can try stuff out and not have to worry about having to leave right when you're starting to learn something exciting.

Ditch your girlfriend. You'll have time for another one once you're great at guitar (take this how you want... I'm pretty much feeling goofy, so just disregard this one)

Strings. Are. Important! Thin gauges will be easier to play by far, but go out of tune rather quick compared to most of the thicker ones. I moved up in thickness quite a bit at one point and realized that it was putting WAY too much stress on my guitar neck and bridge (floating bridges sound cool, but unless you understand physics... They are going to be your WORST enemy when stringing up and tuning a guitar)


Hmmm..... What else to think of....

Wow, lots of great information! So far, I have a Schecter Diamond Series Gryphon and a Vox 50 watt amp with several different models of other amps, super light strings, Fender tuner, variety of pics, good cords, just need to develop playing skills now. HAHA! Thanks for all the tips.

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

I learned to play bass by just playing along with my favorite albums. My 1st were the songs I learned from the 1st 3 Metallica albums.

I kinda rolled into guitar too. Thats pretty much what I play now. Best advice I can say is learn some of your favorite songs with a book and practice!

I'm also into Mountain Biking and Homebrewing Beer

That sounds like fun!

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

Riding motorcycles. Getting slow in a corner at 50 mph is AWESOME!

I too enjoy riding motorcycles. I have not rode in few years, but it is a lot of fun.

 

[Insanejughead]

Wow! Dude, here's a tip on this forum.


If you click the "Multi quote this message" button at the bottom right corner of every post you want to talk about, and THEN click the "Quote" button next to the last one you're wanting to quote... ALL of the messages you want to comment on will be present in the reply box for you to touch on.


It'll keep me from thinking "Oh wow, this is one hell of an active topic", as well as keeping you from having to click each message to reply, then repeat that as much.



I'm just full of information for you today! You're just too damn lucky!

 

[Will]

My brother plays guitar and he says to think about a guitar as a percussion instrument. I don't play guitar, but I do play drums. And I noticed that on a guitar or a keyboard that if I hit the notes of a chord in a pattern with the same 4 beats/measure as I do on the drums it sounds like something. Just mixing up the notes in the chord in various ways--like if there are 3 notes try:1-1-3-3-1-1-3-3-1-1-3-3-1-2-3-1, and repeat. Mix in a strum once in a while. Just play with it.

I think developing a sense of tempo and rythm is the most important thing. The notes are far less important than the rythm. You can spend a lot of time trying to play something extremely accurately, but if you screw up the rythm it will sound like someone threw a church organ through the front window of Lucas Oil Stadium to anyone listening.

A good song can have only 3 notes. It's the rythm and pattern that makes it a song. It's important to hear what is going on in there and it's very simple. Every rock song in the world, and most other popular music, has 4 beats per measure with the backbeat (the snare drum generally) on the 2 and 4th. Usually the singing or changes occur on the first beat.

ONE...TWO....THREE...FOUR...ONE...TWO...THREE...FOUR.

Throw in half beats...

ONE-and-TWO-and-THREE-and-FOUR-and-ONE-and-TWO-and-THREE-and-FOUR

That's enough beats right there to plink out something that sounds good.

The fastest anything usually goes is quarter beats (if it's called that). That's the speed on along drum fill, or a roll that doesn't bounce the sticks (which I don't).

ONEandthenaTWOandthenaTHREEandthenaFOURandthenaONEandthenaTWOandthenaTHREEandthenaFOUR

Once you get the timing part down you can get access to the groove of the music. You've got to be a slave to the rythm and then all you need is someone to show you which notes to play and you can play with anyone.

 

[hoosier1104]

I too enjoy riding motorcycles. I have not rode in few years, but it is a lot of fun.

It is time to get back on one. Doing 50 through a corner get the adrenaline flowing.

 

[dp88]

My main hobbie is fishing or is it drinking? They go hand in hand. Catch all the beer and drink all the fish. Wait thats not right....

 

[Tiollib]

Riding a motorcycle is my hobby also. Just have a 1200C Sportster, but wouldn't mind a Yamaha R6

 

[strvger]

i have fun being a SKYWARN weather spotter for the National Weather Service.

 

[swansong]

Once you've got decent abilities to play a few songs or some cool riffs, I'd work on all the "little things" that make everything sound cleaner, or have more style and "feeling". Things like palm muting, alternate picking, muting unused strings within a chord, smooth hammer-on/pull-offs, bends, vibrato, etc. You'd be amazed how all the little things make the difference between a string of notes and an actual song with an attitude and groove to it.

Oh and go analog instead of digital A digital or modeling amp can't touch the greasy bite of a good tube amp

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

Wow! Dude, here's a tip on this forum.


If you click the "Multi quote this message" button at the bottom right corner of every post you want to talk about, and THEN click the "Quote" button next to the last one you're wanting to quote... ALL of the messages you want to comment on will be present in the reply box for you to touch on.


It'll keep me from thinking "Oh wow, this is one hell of an active topic", as well as keeping you from having to click each message to reply, then repeat that as much.



I'm just full of information for you today! You're just too damn lucky!

My brother plays guitar and he says to think about a guitar as a percussion instrument. I don't play guitar, but I do play drums. And I noticed that on a guitar or a keyboard that if I hit the notes of a chord in a pattern with the same 4 beats/measure as I do on the drums it sounds like something. Just mixing up the notes in the chord in various ways--like if there are 3 notes try:1-1-3-3-1-1-3-3-1-1-3-3-1-2-3-1, and repeat. Mix in a strum once in a while. Just play with it.

I think developing a sense of tempo and rythm is the most important thing. The notes are far less important than the rythm. You can spend a lot of time trying to play something extremely accurately, but if you screw up the rythm it will sound like someone threw a church organ through the front window of Lucas Oil Stadium to anyone listening.

A good song can have only 3 notes. It's the rythm and pattern that makes it a song. It's important to hear what is going on in there and it's very simple. Every rock song in the world, and most other popular music, has 4 beats per measure with the backbeat (the snare drum generally) on the 2 and 4th. Usually the singing or changes occur on the first beat.

ONE...TWO....THREE...FOUR...ONE...TWO...THREE...FOUR.

Throw in half beats...

ONE-and-TWO-and-THREE-and-FOUR-and-ONE-and-TWO-and-THREE-and-FOUR

That's enough beats right there to plink out something that sounds good.

The fastest anything usually goes is quarter beats (if it's called that). That's the speed on along drum fill, or a roll that doesn't bounce the sticks (which I don't).

ONEandthenaTWOandthenaTHREEandthenaFOURandthenaONEandthenaTWOandthenaTHREEandthenaFOUR

Once you get the timing part down you can get access to the groove of the music. You've got to be a slave to the rythm and then all you need is someone to show you which notes to play and you can play with anyone.

Once you've got decent abilities to play a few songs or some cool riffs, I'd work on all the "little things" that make everything sound cleaner, or have more style and "feeling". Things like palm muting, alternate picking, muting unused strings within a chord, smooth hammer-on/pull-offs, bends, vibrato, etc. You'd be amazed how all the little things make the difference between a string of notes and an actual song with an attitude and groove to it.

Oh and go analog instead of digital A digital or modeling amp can't touch the greasy bite of a good tube amp

Thanks for all the great info!

 

[HOT_ROD_CAR]

It is time to get back on one. Doing 50 through a corner get the adrenaline flowing.

Riding a motorcycle is my hobby also. Just have a 1200C Sportster, but wouldn't mind a Yamaha R6

I enjoy motorcycles and it is quite a rush, but that it what makes it so great!