Haha, I'm loving your playing and the axe!! Your laugh is so adorable at the end....
Keep on playing and posting vids--I want to be kept updated as you progress!

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"If it's planned, it's boring." - Freddie Mercury

Well done, russianracehorse... you've got guts, which I think is the single most important ingredient in a player. Years ago I had a student who had taken the guitar up at a later stage in life, a real blues aficionado. Progress was slow but steady (I'm sure he questioned it all the time), and when I moved on from that teaching position I would have left him at about your stage of development after a couple of years.

A few years after that, I found myself sitting next to him on a commuter train journey, and he had his guitar with him... he was all suited up, but took it in to play during lunch hours (which is now the only time I really get to play myself )... anyway, he wasn't afraid to get it out and play me a note perfect rendition of Clapton's Hideaway right there on the crowded train. I couldn't have been happier, and I'm sure you'll make your teacher proud, too. You have my respect.

Extremely Cool, Russian Horse Race. Love that Tele, I was born in '72, so I've always had a thing for that model. Great to see you not only going for it, but loving it as well.

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"Persistence Is The Father Of Invention"
-Crazy Old Man In Training

I consider myself a pretty good bass player. Not to be egotistic but I consider myself one of the better bass players at my school. I'm in my third year as a bass player and my main influences are Geddy Lee, John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, Adam Clayton, Les Pattinson, John Deacon, and John Paul Jones.

I want to put up a video of me playing Natural Science by Rush on YouTube but I can't seem to get it off my camera on onto the computer. If I do upload it I'm definately posting it. The song is really hard but it's the most enjoyable song for me to play especially during the last part of the song where it gets all crazy!

Thanks, wolfman63, Khashoggi, mondo500 & FirstMeasure. Your encouragement means a lot to me.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

What kinda guitars do you have by the way?

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riley

i would say im competent at playing guitar.

I'm not good. I can play all the chords, major 7, minor, minor 7, whatever. Anybody can if you just learn the E and A forms of barre chords. Power chords I have to learn specific to the song, because usually I don't use them. I play the Blues all the time and on a good day I can feel it and express myself through the music, even if the song is written. I can fake out most songs using Pentatonic Blues scales, giving them what I think is actually a cool Blues sound. I love the guitar. I've played since high school, off and on. If I have time and energy, that's what I do. I've got the bends, the left-hand vibratto, the hammerons and lifts, the whole kit. I enjoy playing Stairway acoustic with all the arpeggios, Cocaine, You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now, Ain't Gonna Worry My Life, and other great songs, imperfectly. I have played out on like open mikes, had people recording CDs say I'm really good, had neighbors come up and say how much they enjoy listening to me when I thought they would complain about the noise. That's right, I am not good. I just read tab. My kids will be better, studying violin and whatnot and really reading music well. I'll switch them to guitar later.

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"Now, bring me that horizon."
-Capt. Jack Sparrow

i have a dean soltero classic, schecter A-10 warthog (i think thats the name), an ovation acoustic idk the model ill have to check but its a pre fender ovation and worth well over $1500, my old squire mini strat, a mainstreet sg signed by AC/DC, and my stang gets in in a week or so


btw, what strat is that in your pic?

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I've always tell people that I consider myself good enough to have fun with the guitar. I've been playing a lot in the last six years, and have found myself to progress a lot every year. Still, I wouldn't brag about myself......because.......well.....I just play good enough to have fun with the guitar.

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"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."-John Wayne

Squier bullet strat I love it. I also have a epiphone SG and some ashton peice of crap that i dont use cause its acouatic, I prefer electric. Post photos of'em

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riley

i will when the mustang completes (well, continues actually) the family..... and i figure out how to lol.... btw, why dont you like acoustic? i prefer mine (had it for 2 years and already some very minor fret wear) and i cant write on my electrics.... EVERYTHING i learn or write starts on the ovation

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I'm in my mid thirties and been trying to teach myself over the past couple of years. Basically, I'm a beginner. I have quite a few friends who (IMO) are very good, when I actually get to play with someone else, I feel more confident and I can tell I'm improving, but when I play by myself, it's just noise... If I could only get someone to practice with more than once every 4 months or so... I know... Practice, Practice Practice!

Good on bass - I could play with a basic blues/classic rock/pop band without too much added work. But also limited - not much of a "note for note by ear" player even back when I played full time in a band. I could however work out most tunes with the music and some time.

Guitar -- fair, with the same comments as above though I am also able to play "leads" (blues style, free form).

Friends rate me higher on guitar than bass but that's because I play recognizable songs for them. Most bass parts by themselves aren't all that recognizable alone. To a musician though, I think I'd get the same rating as I rate myself -- possibly more creative on 6 string but much more technically proficient on bass.

I'm OK. I'm 51 and have been playing since I was a teenager. Have been in 17 or so bands, primarily doing originals for the past 20 years. Never made any money, but have had a lot of fun and once even played bass for a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Bo Diddley, RIP).

I'm uninterested in shredding or highly technical stuff. At this point I'm more of a singer/songwriter who plays guitar versus a guitarslinger type, though I can manage extemporaneous leads in my own limited style. I'm a proficient guitarist and bassist, and have been both or one of those in bands, and have played both instruments in church as well. I'm a beginning mandolinist, but have my first show this weekend with a new band I just joined, my first rock show as a mandolinist ever! Pretty stoked about that.

I'm more a "utility infielder" type player who can handle pretty simple stuff on a number of different instruments.