General Music Discussion

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

my friend let me borrow an old guitar he doesn't use. It's a Jackson Electric. But probably a cheap beginning guitar. I started learning chords. (i play piano and drums already so I understand music to some point)

I'm really enjoying it. Well, trying to. My fingers are a tiny bit to bog for the fret board which is somewhat smaller than most (i think)

i can't play the A Chord. (well, to have it sound good)

i'll probably have to buy my own soon. 

[_Star_Wolf_]

I don't know the names of chords. I just know a bunch of them and how to work with them.
I name them what I feel like naming them.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

i think the A chord is like the second fret with string 234 pressed down.

something like that. but my fingers don't fit to well.

[BackupAlt]

I've been playing guitar for four months.

You should learn some blues scales.

They're pretty fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPRPunBo6Ig

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

I should.

After about a month of practice.

[the_raytownian]

I think the first time I picked up a guitar was around 1997.

I have not made a lot of progress since then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxxG9FDlKU

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

wait, is that you?

[BackupAlt]

I dig it.

Especially the teeth through the pillow case...

Er, I mean wicked mask.

[crapshot2]

don't press down 234 with 3 fingers, bridge it with 1 finger.

[BackupAlt]

BAM!

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php?ch=A&mm=&get=Get

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

does that work?

I'll have to practice bridging.

[BackupAlt]

B*tch I said BAM!

Don't you listen?

[the_raytownian]

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-TheUltamiteSwimGod- wrote:
wait, is that you?

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Yes.

[the_raytownian]

THX, BRO. 8|

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

i looked at it. it was an A chord. and shows that it's possible to bridge.

i said i would practice it.

also, it worked pretty well. xD

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

i always thought you were the dude in your icon.

please tell me that's not an as show.

[the_raytownian]

I am that dude... I just had a pillowcase on my head in the video, so I look different there. Also, I had long hair at the time (only cut it short last year)... you can sorta see that in the video.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

Oh, maybe years have passed. Or i'm hard of seeing.

[the_raytownian]

Oh, yah, maybe.

If you squint really hard at my avatar, u can c my hands r covering my face 2.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

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the_raytownian wrote:

Oh, yah, maybe.

If you squint really hard at my avatar, u can c my hands r covering my face 2.

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i'm not that blind!

you look well kept and kind of 30ish in the icon. where in the video you look like a college metal head.

[the_raytownian]

**noel**.... THIRTY-ISH?!

I am not sure if I am flattered or mortified, but I am a little 23-year-old boy.

I like lots of old extreme Metal, too, BTW... I got fed up with having greay, tangled hair I was too lazy to brush ll the time, though.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

hands can be deceiving!

[Czeschnakovich]

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-TheUltamiteSwimGod- wrote:

my friend let me borrow an old guitar he doesn't use. It's a Jackson Electric. But probably a cheap beginning guitar. I started learning chords. (i play piano and drums already so I understand music to some point)

I'm really enjoying it. Well, trying to. My fingers are a tiny bit to bog for the fret board which is somewhat smaller than most (i think)

i can't play the A Chord. (well, to have it sound good)

i'll probably have to buy my own soon. 

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Look up alternate fingerings. You should be able to find some that aren't so much of a stretch for you.  And remember, you don't really have to play the fifth in a chord.  1-3-7 is good enough.

[the_raytownian]

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-TheUltamiteSwimGod- wrote:
hands can be deceiving!

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"They look like big, good, strong hands. Don't they? I always thought that's what they were.

;_____________; " - Rockbiter

[crapshot2]

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-TheUltamiteSwimGod- wrote:
does that work?

I'll have to practice bridging.

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it does, but it is kind of advanced and some people, no matter how long they have played simply can't do it.

with more advanced stuff (like solo/guitar 1 etc....) you learn that when you can bridge it is best to bridge with 1(usually) index finger simply because the progression demands it.

watch soloists and you will see them do this a lot. they will move up and down the fret board without really moving their index finger.