http://soundcloud.com/purplefaced/not-so-smooth-eh

Terrible.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

What are you trying to do?
Can you play songs or just do weird sounds?
I'm serious,either you're a guitar player or not,you've mentioned not knowing how to tune to regular tuning,and have your "Own" tuning,yet you made fun of that other kid for not being able to play either.....you give lots of advice,freely....so play a real song and let's hear it,if you can.

Yep...but keep trying

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

so.... how hammered were you when you recorded this one?

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I see you've heard my terrible sound. It's just me experimenting with clean. I normally have a really gainy sound and I've tried moving away from that, but it never works. I need more advice for clean playing than anything because I can't just let loose, as I normally do when playing my normal genre (punk)

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

sticking with a key and melody would have helped in that recording but all kidding aside. clean always reveals your true skill or lack of. all you need is time and practice! there aren't really any quick tips for playing cleanly and accurately. just concentrate on one flaw at a time and eventually the problems will start to go away. just remember slow and precise.

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I've been trying to get decent for a bit. Also, do you want just riffs or a full song or what? I could do a bit of a demo or something.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Just play some riffs or chords or whatever you know,we won't be too harsh,but it's better to be criticized here than in a room with other musicians and if you're trying to make it into a band or something.
I've seen people who thought they could really play put in some embarrassing situations,when it became clearly evident that they were blowing smoke....you want to be honest in what you're able to do,or not able to do...people will respect you more for it and help.

I have a bit of Black Flag coming to you. My line in isn't the best quality, so bare with me. It gets really buzzy.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

http://soundcloud.com/purplefaced/black-flag-cover

That's basically the whole song, other than the solo, which is pretty much improv.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

you definately have the buzz saw tone down I think you should back off on the fuzz gain a wee bit practicing with that much fuzz is going to hide every little mistake you make so start practicing clean and just have fun fuzzy. bzzzzzzzzzzzz

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It doesn't hide the mistakes. I can still hear the missed notes and mess ups. I just want to learn clean. I don't want to "bleach my tone", for lack of better term. I think a balance would be good.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Take all the songs you know and are learning. Play them clean until you figure out how to make them sound good and cool without the effects. I always learn a song clean first (even metal). Once you learn how to make a clean guitar sound sweet or mean, then you are playing the music instead of the effect. You can make a clean guitar sound heavy depending on the intervals and chord voicing you use. Once you have learned this imagine how good it will sound when you add some effects back in. If you do this it will make you better.

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My ability to spell is in direct proportion to the amount of coffee I've had.

I usually play them without being hooked up to an amp first, if that counts.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic