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Jazz Mav, my friends hate Folsom Prison Blues because I bust it out EVERY TIME I pick up my guitar! Back that up with Mercury Blues (not the Allen Jackson rendition, but some good bluesy rendition), and you'll be a star.
Don't think anyone's mentioned "Friends in Low Places"--you can play that one as poorly as you want because everyone singing will drown out your guitar anyway.
A few we've been doing that go over big are:
Ain't no sunshine--Bill Withers
All my Lovin'--the Beatles
Happy Together--The Turtles
I will Survive
Iris--The GooGoo Dolls
Over the Rainbow
I Think We're Alone Now--Tommy James & the Shondells (what is a Shondell anyway?)
The old April Wine song "Just between you and me" is fun to do unplugged too.
Frank.
This might be bad form, but a friend of mine does it and it helps him quite a bit. He's fine on the major barre chords, but when he tries the minors (specifically the F#m), one of the strings always sounded muted. Instead of having his middle finger just hang there unemployed, he puts it over his index finger--sort of a double-decker barre. That little bit of extra pressure makes the chord ring true.
Excellent point Tim--and something else, our highways are well marked.
Virginia has good rest areas--the first one after get out of West Virginia & get into Vga is nicer than my house. Seriously, it's top shelf all the way. Never wiped my feet on the mat before going into a rest area, but I did for that one.
Not that we're talking about west virginia here but I'm going to anyway, last time driving through on the way to Virgina Beach (where my wife is from), I saw the wildest road kill ever--a black bear. I'm not kidding you, this thing got hit good--it exploded....but a bear....that's pretty cool.
Maybe that could be a new topic--coolest roadkill you ever saw.
Hey, I live in Ohio--and we have many positive attributes like.....um.....
Fresh corn. We have fresh corn here.
And the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, but the corn is the real draw.
And tornado's--if you're into tornado's we got those too.
From what I understand, with drop C you can play one finger power chords---the problem being if you get used to playing drop C you're not becoming a very good guitar player.
The beauty of barre chords, is after you learn a couple of shapes & learn the fret board a little, you can play just about anything without learning a new chord form. A lot of my friends see a flat, or a sharp, and they don't have a clue what to do--knowing barre chords, you just bump the barre up one fret for a sharp, and down one for a flat--it's easy. Stick to it & practice the barre chords more than the open chords--you'll be glad you did!
I almost went with a PRS instead of an Epi Les Paul becuase I heard they were heavy, but after I strapped it on and played at the guitar store for awhile, I didn't think the weight was an issue--I love it. Now, if you're going to be playing 3 hour arena rock shows the weight might be a factor, but for normal sets I don't think it's an issue for most people. And I think you get a sustain out of a couple humbuckers and a 12 pound hunk of wood that you just can't get out of a strat.
It's 87 in San Angelo, Tx right now--isn't a little snow better that 87 degrees, high humidity and blowing sand?
Did that help?
How about this: It's snowing and 10 degrees in Kotzebue, Alaska
And, being in MN, you have that beautiful 3 week summer to look forward too!!
Seriously, MN is a beautiful place, snow and all--
So I started playing with .10's and I've been playing with .12's for a while now, but my intonation is off--I'm sharp particularly on my 6th string. If my guaitar is set up for lights, if I went back to .10's could it take care of my intonation problem?
Good job wanting to practice barre chords Oscar, a lot of people are afraid & run the other way when they see a barre chord!
And if you're looking to practice, what I find helpfull is finding two chords that work together a lot, like a D and a Bm, and just play those two about a million times while you're watching TV, just working on the muscle memory. Then maybe a C and an F, and do that about a million times. I do that dern near every night, last night it was A and C#m while I was watching my Cincinnati Reds loose another ball game.
I love these....
Q: How do you get a bass player out of your living room....
A: Pay him for the pizza
"Loving You" was a good call gitardoc. I'm going to throw in "seasons in the sun" by...um...terry someone? And the song that they play in hell, "send in the clowns"--man I hate that song.
If the song sounds too sparse unplugged, funk up your rhythm a bit instead of playing it by the book--throw in some palm mutes and then it will take on a percussive feel that can really work.
I usually think of an SG as a rock machine, maybe it's just the whole image thing but I don't think of an SG as a blues guitar. The HSS is a good idea--but just from playing them, aren't the necks smaller than the Gibson's?
I love my Epi LP--with the right amp it cleans up nice. PRS has a line out now that go for around $600 that you might want to consider. They get great reviews, they have a "wide fat" neck that might fit your hands nicely. That's what I was going to get, but I just fell in love with my honey-burst epi, and you can't argue with love!
tonydr, I've had that problem for a while now--try ice, or frozen veggies (I prefer corn), after a long practice session And I got a brace at a drug store and wear that a lot--even at night. I wake up a couple times a night with my hand falling asleep--thumb, index finger and that half of my hand, but with the brace, no problems. Good 'ol Tylenol helps too. When it gets real bad, I try to stay away from barre chords for a few days.
I've had one set of D'Addario's and the corroded so bad they were off within two weeks. I'm a DR fan--I play the .12's but that depends on set up & personal preference. Don't mind the Blue Steel and used to play the Martin SP's, but have really settled on the DR's.
That is my Hughes & Kettner--but I have the DFX version...same thing with a chorus & flange
SouthPaw, we have a pretty eclectic set coming together--from If you Could only See, (Tonic) to Every Breath You Take (police), to Linger (Cranberries) to Counting Blue Cars (Dishwalla), Nobody's Home (Avril L.). Doing an unplugged "So happy together" by the turtles that sounds real good on acoustic, and the old April Wine power balad, "Just between you and me". Doing a couple Cure songs unplugged--Lovesong sounds great, and doing Linkin' Park Numb unplugged. I'm going to throw in Workin' at the Carwash Blues, and Fire (the Elmer Fudd version) if I can get away with it---this should be a lot of fun.
Frank.
Herd a joke the other day:
Q: How many guitarists does it take to cover a Stevie Ray Vaughn song?
A: Aparently all of them.
thought it was sort of funny.
I saw some show on other dementions on PBS, and one of the things this theoretical physicist was talking about was "String Theory". One, can you imagine how smart you have to be to be a theoretical physicist?, Two, can you imagine how boring their conventions are, and Three, String Theory isn't a bad band name, and since a physicist said it, it's geeky by definition.
I have a Hartke 60w combo--tube preamp. Pretty good high gain nasty sound--I like it for a good raw sound--does a great Machinehead! Doesn't clean up particularly well--just doesn't have a lot of character & sounds a bit jangly to me. I got it to sound loud and mean, and it does that with my epi LP plugged in. I paid $199 at Sam Ash--I wanted the most power for my buck.
Just got a Hughes & Kettner 15 watt for a cleaner tone and I am amazed at this amp--beautiful chrystal clean tones on the clean channel, but not a thin clean like some amps put out--the clean has depth and character...lot of subtleties to the sound. And it gives some nice clasic rock sounds with the gain cranked on channel 1. I freakin love this amp, and it gets surprisingly loud with the 8" Celestion speaker. Haven't really played around with channel 2 yet so I can't really report. This is the bottom line amp in their catalogue--I can't imagine what the big-boys sound like!
Great post Zurf.
I'm going to go with Pete Townsend smashing a guitar for the first time---I don't know why he did it, but to me, it was like all his angst EXPLODED on stage. No more acting proper and bottling up emotions--the stage became a canvas for what the artist / musicians were feeling.
I loved it at the time, but now everytime I see one of those beautiful insturments being destroyed...heck, I can't even watch it.
I'm having the same kind of issues--I'm used to fretting on my acoustic, and I'm applying the same pressure to my new electric, and it's just not necessarry. I'm playing 90% barre chords on the electric so I'm cramping up pretty good after just a few songs....I guess the answer is like everytihg else, PRACTICE.
And I have a pretty good calous on the inside of my left thumb--down near the joint, is that a sign of too much presure or does everybody get that just from the normal friction?
So my boss, who is a great guy, comes into my office today and asks me if I want to get a couple people together and play at this backyard party thing he's having the end of May. Will be a 40-50 yr old crowd, acoustic set, female vocalist. So, what needs to be on the set list--
Thanx for your help!
Frank.
Man, she is a beauty.....
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