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Post subject: Re: A Favorite Song When Trying Out An Axe?
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:21 pm
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Post subject: Re: A Favorite Song When Trying Out An Axe?
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:26 pm
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Daytripper-Beatles(also some Here Comes The Sun etc.)
All of The Day and All of The Night-and other assorted Kinks songs
House of The Rising Sun-Animals
Maybelline-Chuck Berry
and then just distorted riffs. That way I can get a feel of how the guitar sounds on differing tones!

I probably drive all the Stairway To Heaven players nuts!! :wink:


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Post subject: Re: A Favorite Song When Trying Out An Axe?
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:32 pm
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blues licks, some improv with scales, and my all time favorite song to warm up with, polly. also, ill usually play/write some originals while trying out a guitar.... hell the other day i pulled out my cell phone (which only records 30 seconds per vid) in a GC to record a little riff i came up with :lol:

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Post subject: Re: A Favorite Song When Trying Out An Axe?
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:06 pm
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I usually just play whatever I'm feeling at the time. I know when I bought my Tele the first thing I felt like playing was It's a Long Way to the Top by AC/DC. The Tele seems to be really at home with the crisp overdriven sounds like AC/DC. But once I played some blues on it, I knew it was going home with me.

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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:17 pm
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Electric Blues licks, And maybe some powerchordy Chunky stuff. Acoustics Jeff Buckley Lover you should have come over always jumps to be a good tone test for me......

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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:36 pm
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I usually pick up the guitar and look down the neck for any uneven frets, or to make sure that there is enough relief in the neck. Then I will check intonation. Then I just play through the modes, and maybe throw in a little You Lookin' At Me Lookin' At You from Blizzard of Ozz.


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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:17 pm
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I like to play Over the Hills and Far Away by Zeppelin and sometimes Daytripper by Beatles..

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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:37 am
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:38 am
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Post subject: Re: A Favorite Song When Trying Out An Axe?
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:21 am
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No Stairway? DENIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just blues licks, Blitzkrieg Bop, Polly


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