Can Anyone Play Guitar

[Drakkonen]

For £200 I would avoid the Line 6 Spider series. I'd go for a Blackstar HT-1, not as many options but sounds MUCH better at what it does.

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Guitar wise you can't go wrong with pretty much any of the big brands though if you want mostly clean tones, a Stratocaster might be the best choice. The Squier Classic Vibe Stratocaster and the HT-1 would set you back just under £500. Of course you should probably look around at what guitars you like the look of and start from there. A guitar you love the look of will most likely get played a lot more than one you don't like and just got from recommendation.

 

[NickOmega]

I used to play a little, self-taught, not much talent though so it's been a while since my guitar was out of it's bag for more than half an hour. I did have "lessons" for a short time, theory only which all went completely over my head.

It is an extremely time-consuming hobby, painful on the fingers to begin with too, and there are many times over the years that I've been ready to throw the guitar against a wall if I'm struggling to learn/play something.

Anybody can learn, it just takes patience. I'd personally recommend starting with learning the chords and getting used to changing between them, it will be awkward at first but as you do it more and more you'll notice you're able to do it more smoothly, up until you're doing it instinctively.

I've heard a lot of people say that it's better to start with an acoustic, thicker neck and higher string action so when/if you move onto electric it's all a lot easier, how much truth there is in that though I don't know.

As I said it's a long process, guitar players improve every day of their lives if they continue playing, but depending on what you want to get out of it it can be very rewarding as well.

Afraid I don't have a decent picture of my guitar at the moment. Just this blurred, grainy shot a friend took at a band practice

The only other thing I have is a youtube video from my old bands one and only gig, and let's just say I'm in no rush to embarrass myself

 

[ShaunB-91]

I used to play a little, self-taught, not much talent though so it's been a while since my guitar was out of it's bag for more than half an hour. I did have "lessons" for a short time, theory only which all went completely over my head.

It is an extremely time-consuming hobby, painful on the fingers to begin with too, and there are many times over the years that I've been ready to throw the guitar against a wall if I'm struggling to learn/play something.

Anybody can learn, it just takes patience. I'd personally recommend starting with learning the chords and getting used to changing between them, it will be awkward at first but as you do it more and more you'll notice you're able to do it more smoothly, up until you're doing it instinctively.

I've heard a lot of people say that it's better to start with an acoustic, thicker neck and higher string action so when/if you move onto electric it's all a lot easier, how much truth there is in that though I don't know.

As I said it's a long process, guitar players improve every day of their lives if they continue playing, but depending on what you want to get out of it it can be very rewarding as well.

Afraid I don't have a decent picture of my guitar at the moment. Just this blurred, grainy shot a friend took at a band practice

The only other thing I have is a youtube video from my old bands one and only gig, and let's just say I'm in no rush to embarrass myself

Lol at throwing it against a wall. Send us the link to the video.

Has anybody seen the video of the guy who can't learn and he's swearing and breaks his other guitar lol. Think he's a scouser.

 

[NickOmega]

Lol at throwing it against a wall. Send us the link to the video.

Has anybody seen the video of the guy who can't learn and he's swearing and breaks his other guitar lol. Think he's a scouser.

You laugh, I've actually got a dink in the body of the guitar from drunkenly bouncing it off a table at the end of a song at a jam session before.

The video is terrible. Audio is crap because it was recorded on a Blackberry, my guitar was out of tune by the time we played the song the video is for (freshly restrung that day and didn't have time to break the strings in) also, I had to actually SING!!! -_- Like I said, embarrassing

 

[ShaunB-91]

It'll be a good one for Monday morning if you fancy treating us?

But if it was recorded on a BlackBerry, you probably can't see or hear anything anyway, f u BlackBerry!

 

[NickOmega]

It'll be a good one for Monday morning if you fancy treating us?

But if it was recorded on a BlackBerry, you probably can't see or hear anything anyway, f u BlackBerry!

Probably not your kind of music so no harm really..



Such a horrible first gig though. We didn't actually have a vocalist by the time the gig came around so "borrowed" a friend from another band to come and scream. Technical problems (detuning which you can hear on this, volume pot on my guitar cutting out at random times and needing to be "wiggled" haha) and the bassist decided literally an hour before that he didn't want to play :cussing:.

Also, me being forced to sing resulted in me downing a f**kton of alcohol just to get over the nerves so I'm amazed I could even hold the guitar. :alcoholic:

 

[ShaunB-91]

That wasn't too bad, I'm not an expert on it so it might be bad to somebody else. I say good effort and having the guts to do it!