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I figured I would just see who other than myself plays guitar and if so which type of music do you play. As of right now (I'm not that good) I play a little heavy metal like Iron Man by Black Sabbath or Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple.

I also try to play simple other tunes like sweet dreams by Marilyn Manson (cover)

I play some weird Tokai (off brand) which is like a Strat. I use an Ibanez Bass compressor and an First Act 10watt amp.

Hey!

I play as well! I like to play most anything that's fun or crowd-pleasing. Most of my playing efforts are for playing in kitchen parties or around camp fires. Lots of acoustic stuff like Great Big Sea, and Jack Johnson lately. I also poke around YouTube now and then to see what other fun stuff there is to learn. There's a dude on there who goes by okSamurai who plays silly acoustic covers of chick tunes like Straight up by Paula Abdul. Those ones often get a laugh out of a crowd when I play them!

I have a couple of Yamaha acoustics. One's a FG-410 and the other is an FX-310C, I think. They’re not right beside me right now. I've always thought about plugging in but never got too far with it.

I've also always wanted an acoustic bass and I think my next instrument with be a Mandola or Octave Mandolin.

Thats really cool I bet hanging' out with some friends around a fire and playing woulf be really fun to do.

Sure is man! It's the reason I got into playing in the first place.

You ever visit wholenote.com? It's a cool place with piles of info, lessons tpis and stuff like that. Great place if you're looking to get better and don;t know where to start!

I play StepMania once in a blue moon which is almost semi-comparable to Guitar Hero which has the word Guitar in it :O!

I like how you want to fit in. lol...

I've played at the guitar (to not much avail) for many years, Does that count?

You mean I can't join your club?

If you play any type of guitar with strings then you are a high ranking member, if not but something close you are also in but a low ranking member.

Even if you played in the past, that counts too.

So far, I can play a D chord.

That's a good start! I suggest you try for a G chord next! After that, learn C and you have the basis of hundreds of tunes!

I don't know any chords like D,G or C. I just find tabs and go with it. I probably should try and learn them though.

For sure dude!

Learn the chords, then give Smoke on The Water another try. You'll find it sounds really cool! Plus, the chords for a tune like that are power chords, so they're suer easy to land!

Im learning but I guess at this point you can't really call it "playing" so much as "playing with"

I agree with you


And I cheat on the chords with smoke on the water as I play it like this (Standard tunning)
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-0---3---5-----0--3---6-5-------0--3--5----3----0
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Ive been playing now 10 years :P. Im playing currently a PRS santana model number 2 new for christmas, Vintage V100 les paul type copy, Fender strat first ever guitar :P and it still works like a horse, a hofner acoustic cant remember the model an ovation cant rember that either and a classical guitar my brother made out of slabs of re cycled yogurt pots really good take a look
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...GB229%26sa%3DN

I only play through a peavey 15 watt amp its actualy really loud rage 150 i think.

I then use with that Behringer Acoustic modeler, Overdrive, Distortion, Chorus, Reverb, Blues distortion, Distortion overdrive, digital delay and also their noise reducer to take out the background crap and also thier wah pedal (but not al at once o hasten to add :P).

Finally i have always used Didario guage 10 nickel wound strings because they play and last and clean everything with dunlop guitar care system becasue a clean dirty guitar just wount work for me o ad Gibson extra large triangle picks HEAVY!!!

I play with that Santana mostly with some joe Satriani other rock metal country and especially blues

Just thought you might like to know

Also i would say that unless you learn chords you wont find later you have the melodic awareness to use with your scales to improvise on top and so you may find you will walk yourself into a rut which i have been in were you will feel really bored and as if everything souns the same. Also learn the notes on the fret board as it will help to take you places you wouldnt think will work. Overall learn the main way of playing the Pentotonic scale. ice and easy and great for building up speed and get your self a copy of Power tab free or guitar pro (exensive unless you look on ebay at the right time £4 lol) as thay will teach you all the parts of a song.

Hope that helps people

I've been playing guitar for around 20 years or so now. I currently have 9 guitars, 3 of which are USA Kramer's from the 80's, several rack effects, heads and 4x12 cabinets etc.

Nick, Tokai is NOT a off brand! Some of the vintage stuff are collector's items these days. Hell Stevie Ray Vaughn even had a few Tokai strats!

And....you are running your 6 string through a bass compressor?!? lol

I use both power tab and guitar pro 5 they help a lot.

Thanks for the info. I never thought it was an off brand as it is what my uncle said it was (he is an idiot) as this guitar was my grandfathers and he played in a country band and had a TV show in CT.
As for the bass compressor haha... I like the way it sounds...

And again your definitely right. It IS a good brand.
http://www.jpstingrayguitars.com/JAPAN%20VINTAGE.html
Mine looks exactly like the Tokai Goldstar Sound Vintage 1984 Made In Japan (4th one down) and...84 or 85 it what it seems but I can't seem to find a perfect match ..

You got a really nice guitar there! Definetly a keeper with it being that old and passed down to you. I think if it were mine, I'd route the tremelo cavity out and install a Floyd Rose.