Thread: Guitar Players

Learn Some Chords...just basic ones; find some songs you like to sing....even children's songs which you can find on the internet(with the chords on the song sheets) and then you can start playing right away without a lot of jazzamataz....simple...simple....you don't need to know notes, tableture, only a song and a few chords.-Ron in Tasmania

Ok alright ill consider that... The more the advice the better right?

I have been playing since I was seven. I am now 51. I play in a classic rock and electric blues band Called FKR. Drums, bass, rhythm guitar and lead guitar. I play lead mostly but the second guitar player, who is also our lead singer i a highly motivated player and is learning more every day and has started to play some lead too. I also operate Weird Recording in Glendale az. Totally INDIE. I have all the tech training in music theory and rhythm dictation, something like 11 years total. That's a what i do.

I've been playing guitar for 4 years now, not necessarily well. I just love the instrument! I only really play rhythm, and prefer acoustic (I still have my electric moments though) :)

I have been playing since I was seven and playing for $ since I was about 14 or so. I will start my 49th year playing pretty soon. I love to play and the new still hasn't worn off for me. My favorite genre is blues and I work on fingerstyle stuff as well as slide on a resonator for fun. Electric blues and classic rock to make a living. I have never gotten famous and probably won't although the blues shows promise as I am getting pretty old, fat, and grey and can command some respect now LOL.

Tejas

This thread is kinda old.....but yeah! here I am a good guitar player))))

any ideas for future?

Originally Posted by Susan Mart

This thread is kinda old.....but yeah! here I am a good guitar player))))

any ideas for future?

cool what type of music do you play ?

GUITAR + SHOCKS = POETRY

"Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig down deeper. One would say that the shock of suffering and vision breaks down, one after another, the living sensitive partitions behind which his identity is hiding. He is harassed, he is tracked down, he is destroyed...He dies and is reborn in and with poetry.....He discovers an essentially free, objectless, creativity in poetry. With each poem, the poet creates a world and savours it." Such are Maritain's words and they have a certain resonance with my own thoughts, except I still can sing and do, although not often. -Jacques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, New American Library, NY, 1953, pp.130-177.

I was soaked in music in the ‘60s
and like a wandering minstrel
for twenty-five years
I took that ubiquitous guitar,
moved to sing, to song,
the pioneer singer--traveller.

But the shocks kept coming;
the fires died.
There was nothing left to sing,
except dry bones deep down
on the edges of my tongue,
somewhere in my heart.

In my brain a new music did I find,
a certain verbal sound filled with
thought and meaning deep in the
womb, of some poetic intuition
with tact, subtlety, to express
the inexpressible in common speech,
human voice: close to my heart,
defining what my thoughts are like,
conferring nobility on words.

Still did I sing old songs
for old folks,
last notes dredged-up
for occasions
to try to bring a little joy
to withered faces,
last breaths before death
carried them away.1

1 So it was that once every 2 or 3 months I played the guitar after i had joined a small choir of 4 to 8 people who sang at Ainsley House for senior citizens here in George Town, Australia's oldest town.

Ron Price
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My Uncle has played guitar with Raleigh Retherford here in Oklahoma and that was pretty cool! Good songwriter! I think my uncle might get to do some shows with him so that will be cool! Maybe when I get a little better at playing I can play with them as well!

I Have Played the Guitar From: 1967 to 2010--Ron in tasmania