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No, I'm still messing with it. I'm still working on Oye Como Va, and I picked up the riff from Nirvana's 'Come As You Are' which I'll learn the chords later. Also need to work on my strumming with these newer, heavier picks since the old thin ones I was using was just a little too flimsy. Also starting to study some Jazz Guitar, including arpeggios.

EDIT: I just looked at the chords on Ultimate Guitar, and most of the song is basically F#m and E with B and D during the Chorus (and I swear that I don't have a gun). Shouldn't be too hard.
 
Aaron said:
I need to practice more to play it quicker.
And still playing around with the amp settings to get closer to that sound.
Plus the tabs are telling me to tune down 1/2 step.
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Good thing you have a robot attached to the headstock. :cool:

I was listening to Neil Schon's really stellar solo on Journey's "Lights" today and thinking what a nice, fat humbucker tone he was getting from what had to be his LP. However...

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It's a Strat, which is just more proof that anybody can make anything sound like anything else.

The other day I heard saw a guy playing "Sweet Child o' Mine" on the ukelele with a fuzz pedal or an overdrive or something and you'd never know it wasn't Slash.
 
Played some Chuck Berry last night. O.M.G. fun!

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Casual Fan said:
Okay, because I'm a man of my word--check that. Doctors are fairly certain that I'm biologically a male mammal. At any rate, here is a halfway decent take of me playing the intro to Three Dog Night's "Shambala." Halfway, mind you. I don't claim decency.

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I pulled my acoustic off the wall and started playing this riff again. And over and over again. It comes much easier now, nine months later. Probably because I've been playing a bunch of other riffs in the intervening period. Playing one thing makes another thing easier. Playing bass and ukulele and electric make acoustic guitar playing easier.
 
My son's elementary school had its talent show tonight. My son wasn't in it, because his talents (sarcasm and verbal abuse) don't play well on the stage. Anyway, I was certain that today's youth were a bunch of talentless hacks and the future was doomed until these two got on stage and broke. It. Down.

Guitar and drums are alive amongst the young people. And two young men of color, at that.

There is hope.

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Evil_Ernie said:
Check this shit out!! She's only 15 and can do this!
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Reminds me of some high school parties I went to. :clap2:

Anyway, kids can shred pretty easily (compared to us old folks). Their brains are wired to learn complex things quickly, and their hand-eye coordination is excellent. That's why what kids do early in life has such an impact on what they achieve as adults, and why kids learn foreign languages so quickly.

That being said, it's still pretty cool. Time will tell if she has any creative musical ability or if she's just good at playing Simon.
 
Black dog update: I've pretty much got the actual power chord structure of the 'chorus' down and I'm working on the notes on the scale and the timing and rhythm of the riff. Once I've mastered those I'll work on the solo toward the end.
 
Jon said:
Black dog update: I've pretty much got the actual power chord structure of the 'chorus' down and I'm working on the notes on the scale and the timing and rhythm of the riff. Once I've mastered those I'll work on the solo toward the end.
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There's no timing of the riff in Black Dog. ;)

Really, it's almost impossible to put it into standard notation. It was mostly played by feel amongst Page, Jones and Bonham. Part of the reason it's a little squirrelly to play is that there's no turnaround in the bass line. It just ends and picks up at the beginning right away.
 
Casual Fan said:
There's no timing of the riff in Black Dog. ;)

Really, it's almost impossible to put it into standard notation. It was mostly played by feel amongst Page, Jones and Bonham. Part of the reason it's a little squirrelly to play is that there's no turnaround in the bass line. It just ends and picks up at the beginning right away.
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I mean speeding it up to the pace of the song as fast as Jimmy Page does it. Right now I'm just allowing it down to get the notes right.

I'm also working on Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid and The Ocean. I also bought this gigantic poster of all the scales off Amazon for $8. I'll learn off that.


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Learned (Learning) a new riff. "Iron Man" from Black Sabbath. Marty Schwartz has a nice short little lesson on that one. Fairly easy, just power chords. Just gotta get the changes down.
 
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