Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
As some of you might know I have started teaching myself the Electic Guitar by music this was some weeks ago now ,but I have now got to the time it is geting harder,I have already played my way to the end of book one for the Progressive Guitar Method and now on book two,and this book is much harder to pickup,it is about cords and playing Major Scale,but playing music like Londonderry air, Country Gardens ,Banks of the Ohio,Hegot the whole world in his hands,and so on,but I have fat fingers which evens makes it harder to get a clean note,but we are geting there and I find it all great fun even at 70 you are never to old to take it up. Have ago.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Here you go Vic...
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
Thats very good Tom and thank you I have just had it on,but my fingers have been broken more then once and it is also about movment and years ago I played the violin for many years but I had to give it up about ten years ago because of my fingers,but I will not give upagain ,but keep trying and I get great fun out of my music still,thank you for your post,and I will go back to youtube again at times.
Also as a boxer that did not help hiting the bags year in and year out.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#4
Vic, can I suggest two options for you?
First, use your current guitar but learn to play it with a slide, it's a different tuning but you won't be held back by your fingers. And you can play sitting down with the guitar on your lap!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slide-Guitar-Fretboard-Roadmaps-Sokolow/dp/0634001388/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345724732&sr=1-10
Second - trade it in for a ukelele, only four strings!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
Did somebody mention 'ukelele'?
Something to cheer the soul...
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
Yes thank you both, I will have a think about that,I can play the music ,but the cords .But I have not played them alot yet so we see how we get on.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#7
Now where do I sign up to be your backing singer?!
Brian Dixon
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DT1- Location: Dover
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#9
It's all about the size of your nuts.
If you have a wider nut it can make it easier for bigger hands.
Also I wouldn't bother playing some of the chords as most instruction books tell you. Alternative fingering can always be found.
I love my guitars. It really is an amazing instrument.
Keep at it.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Thank you and I will,good thing that I read music,and have done singing,but this is for my own fun at home,I have no wish to play or sing anymore in public. And yes it is a true amazing instrument.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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#11
I've just bought an electric guitar. It's only a cheap SG copy but it's not bad though now I've set it up properly. I used to play in a not very good band when I was a teenager but haven't really played for years. It's all coming back to me though.
I'm also very slowly building an acoustic guitar from a Stewart Macdonald kit, I've always wanted to build a guitar. If it works out ok I might try building a classical one from scratch. I love guitars and guitar music of all sorts.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Well done Mr Bird. I think we should all meet up one night, and have a jam and see how we get on,playing a guitar one one thing, building one I could not do that but there was a chap from the U,S,A, on the Tv daytime,and he made all his own,and he was a great player to.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#13
Even with my fingers,right over the strings They are two big still geting to at the same time,I have done all what you and the pc have told me,but still it is happing.I will have to trim my fingers down with a file.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#14
Perhaps a double bass Vic
Audere est facere.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#15
There maybe only one thing for it Vic...Power Chords!...
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
Mr Martin you are right there I think.As I have already said,I played the Violin for 20years or more and the E,FLAT Clarinet and they do not come any smaller than that,but now with the way my hands have turnout,they would cover all the holes at the same time,it was great playing the E flat in the band you got all the high and solo parts,but the bass is good but most of the time it is plucking away in the back ground with the drum bashing in your ears,and with the size ears I have also, that would not be a good move,then there is the carrying of it,can not get it in the car
or on a bus.To much for a man of my age.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#17
Vic, I'll bring my slide guitar along to the next parish council meeting for you to try. Should liven the meeting up!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
No thank you sir I am not ready for that yet,you can bring one out to my place oneday and take it from there,Tom I have again looked into that video above ,thats great man ,I think that is the right wording,And I will be trying out in the morning. Thank you both for the help ,I need it+
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#19
I'm trying out an electric mouth-organ.
Already received complaints from Howard further down the road...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#20
i will track you down alex, you can run but you cannot hide.
i feel a rush of cliches coming on.
should be fun to watch on the bandstand.