Thread: Guitar players out there?

I haven't played much in the past couple years, but you guys are making me nostalgic! Here's a pic of my old friend who has since moved on to another home:

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

I think you just broke my head Stu.

The most recent song i've been learning is 'House of the Rising Sun'. It has a fun solo and the strumming pattern is a good one to learn.

House of the Risin' Sun is a great song. Back in the '60s everyone who owned a guitar played it. It's a great practice song for learning finger picking. Interesting history to the modern version. The Animals stole the arrangement from Dylan who stole it from Dave van Ronk. Leadbelly did a very different version and other songs such as "When I Was a Young Girl" which Odetta did and " Streets of Loredo" have been linked to a common origin.

My girlfriend just bought me an Ibanez 7 string RG for finishing my exams!! Man, I love her so much..!

Pictures to follow soon!

Anyone else out there use a 7 string? I've been using it the last couple of days and you can get some really heavy riffs and cool chord sounds out of that extra low string!

Originally Posted by Stubear

My girlfriend just bought me an Ibanez 7 string RG for finishing my exams!! Man, I love her so much..!

Pictures to follow soon!

Anyone else out there use a 7 string? I've been using it the last couple of days and you can get some really heavy riffs and cool chord sounds out of that extra low string!

I have a few :-)
an RG 7420 ( cosmic purple ) .. Shine 7 & a hand made Giannini 7 string classical

:-) the low string I dropped to a 60 but I'm back on 56's .. I sometimes drop the tuning as well for that extra thunk

I have been playing guitar since 1968, off and on along with the drums and trumpet, which I still have an affinity for. I am posting the Custom Shop Fender Stratocasters I have which are the Violet '97 Robert Cray hardtail, 2 '60 Relics in Sea Foam Green and 3 tone sunburst and the candy apple red Eric Johnson.

I played a lot as a kid but then put it down for about 20 years. somehow just got busy with college then career and whatnot. Then a few years ago I picked it up again and thought it would be fun to do some writing and set up a little home recording rig. Fun stuff with lots to learn. I got about a year into it and just ran out of time. I still have my recording rig and about a half-dozen half-written, half recorded songs. I learned a lot about recording a mixing in that time. Here's a link to a couple things I wrote recorded.

SoundClick artist: Charlie Miller - page with MP3 music downloads

I performed everything on there (but drums are midi so ...that bit doesn't quite count). Happy enough with it... of course it could all be improved upon especially the singing.

"Alive" was my first recording and first song I wrote; the other one was my second and, at least to my ear, you can hear a bit of progress in writing, recording and mixing between the two. Would love to get to number 3, 4, 5, 6, etc... because I figure they'd steadily improve, but will get back to that I suppose once the boy is raised and other responsibilities taken care of. By that time I may be too old to give a damn about rock-n-roll, but I doubt that. I think you want to express yourself at any age....

i started playing iron maiden,ac dc sort of stuff
but since a year or 2 i started to play more folk/pagan metal since i play in a pagan metal band.

i have an tenson strat copy(first guitar) ibanez rg 420 spider black and a santander les paul copy with a spalted maple top (realy beautiful)
a zoom g9.2tt (in my room with hearphones)
randall rh50t(in my band)

I play a little, this is me and my brother. I'm the guy that sings.

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